# Housecall Pro

> Scheduling, quotes and payments for home service businesses

Housecall Pro is field service software for home service trades such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning and landscaping. It covers online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates, invoices and card payments, with a mobile app for technicians in English and Spanish. It is sold in three plans that each include a set number of users, and AI call answering, payroll and websites are extra.

- **Category:** Field Service Software
- **Made by:** Housecall Pro (Codefied Inc.) (since 2013)
- **Website:** https://www.housecallpro.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Housecall Pro is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $59 per month for 1 user, billed annually ($79 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of the Max plan, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Basic | $59 per month for 1 user, billed annually ($79 billed monthly) | Online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates, invoicing and payments, a price book, job costing and review management. |
| Essentials | $149 per month for up to 5 users, billed annually ($189 billed monthly) | Adds routes, flat-rate pricing, checklists, photo reports, employee GPS tracking, commissions and QuickBooks Online sync. |
| Max | $299 per month for up to 8 users, billed annually ($329 billed monthly) | Adds route optimization, recurring service plans, the sales proposal tool, the open API and a dedicated onboarding specialist. Extra users $35/mo each. |

Read from https://www.housecallpro.com/pricing/ on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Housecall Pro before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save $20 to $40 a month with annual billing** (Annual discount): Annual billing lowers Basic from $79 to $59 a month, Essentials from $189 to $149 and Max from $329 to $299. Source: https://www.housecallpro.com/pricing/

## Key features

- **Scheduling and dispatch:** Assign technicians to jobs on a shared schedule. Essentials adds routes and phone-based employee GPS tracking; Max reorders a day's jobs by live drive time.
- **Estimates, invoices and payments:** Send estimates by text or email, invoice from the field, take cards and bank payments, deposit checks in the app and offer customers financing.
- **Online booking and reviews:** Customers can book and pay online from Google or the business's own website, and review tools ask for reviews after the job and help share them.
- **Price book and job costing:** A price book keeps service prices current and job costing tracks what each job costs. Essentials adds flat-rate pricing with margins and commission rates.
- **Crew mobile app:** The iOS and Android app works in English and Spanish, with offline viewing, and from Essentials adds job checklists and annotated photo reports.
- **Service plans and add-ons:** Max adds recurring maintenance agreements and visual sales proposals. AI call answering, payroll, bookkeeping, websites and vehicle GPS are sold separately.

## Good for

- Home service trades such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical and cleaning
- Owner-operators who want booking, dispatch and payments in one app
- Teams with Spanish-speaking technicians

## Worth knowing

- Basic includes 1 user, Essentials 5 and Max 8; the pricing page prices extra users only on Max, at $35 a month each.
- Route optimization, recurring service plans, Zapier and the open API are only on Max, the plan sold through a demo.
- Card processing starts at 2.59% a transaction and bank payments carry a 1% fee.
- AI call answering, payroll, bookkeeping, websites and vehicle GPS are add-ons with no price on the pricing page.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Housecall Pro covers the whole home-service day, from online booking and dispatch to invoices and card payments, and techs can use the app in Spanish. The catch for a small crew is that Basic holds just 1 user, so three of you start on Essentials at $149 a month billed yearly.

- **Value for money: C.** Basic is $59 a month but holds 1 user, so a crew of three starts on Essentials: $149 a month billed yearly ($189 monthly) for up to 5 users. That's the middle of what this category charges. Route optimization and service plans wait for Max at $299.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day trial of the Max plan with no card needed, which is the usual deal here. There's no free plan to fall back on afterwards.
- **Features: B.** Online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates, invoices, card and bank payments, a price book, job costing and review requests, with routes, GPS and checklists on Essentials. That's the whole job. AI call answering and payroll cost extra.
- **Ease of use: B.** 4.65 from 31,013 App Store ratings, more ratings than any other app in this category. The crew app runs in English and Spanish and techs can still view jobs offline.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with QuickBooks, Thumbtack, Google Local Services, Gusto, Mailchimp and CompanyCam. Zapier and the open API need Max, and there's no desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Housecall Pro's own pages on 18 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among field service apps

- Housecall Pro's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 9 of the 15 other field service apps we grade, and level with 4.
- It stands best on features (B, above 7 of 15) and worst on value for money (C, above 2).
- Its paid plans start at $59 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 7 of the 10 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.0 out of 4. 2 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/field-service

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** The plain part of Housecall Pro you could make: job scheduling, quotes and estimates, invoicing, appointment booking and review collection. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $708 a year.

- You could make: Job scheduling, quotes and estimates, invoicing, appointment booking and review collection: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, QuickBooks, Thumbtack and Google Local Services among them, and has an API.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.7 out of 5 from 31,013 ratings in the United States, read Oct 18, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id692833651

## Works with

QuickBooks, Thumbtack, Google Local Services, Gusto, Mailchimp, CompanyCam, Wisetack, Zapier

**Tags:** Job scheduling, Quotes and estimates, Invoicing, Appointment booking, Review collection, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Jobber](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jobber): Quotes, scheduling and payments for home service businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/housecall-pro-vs-jobber)
- [ServiceTitan](https://toolgpa.com/tools/servicetitan): Field service platform for residential and commercial trades. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/housecall-pro-vs-servicetitan)
- [Workiz](https://toolgpa.com/tools/workiz): Field service software with a built-in phone system and AI answering. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/housecall-pro-vs-workiz)
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## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://www.housecallpro.com/pricing/
- https://www.housecallpro.com
- https://www.housecallpro.com/about/
- https://www.housecallpro.com/integrations/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/housecall-pro
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