Field Service
Scheduling, dispatch, invoicing and job management software for plumbing, electrical, HVAC and other trades that send people to sites.
What it really costs to switch field service software in month seven
The subscription you leave behind is usually the smallest line. Here is the arithmetic on stranded annual prepay, overlapping months, seat jumps and card fees, using only prices the three vendors publish.
Electrical contractor software: $720 a year vs $2,496, and what you can skip
Buy the shared calendar and the invoice button now; leave estimating in a spreadsheet a while longer. Kickserv Start runs $60/mo for five users. Service Fusion Starter is $208/mo billed annually.
Card rates vs Stripe: what 2.59% and 2.9% + 30¢ cost you on $50,000 a month
Housecall Pro publishes card processing "as low as 2.59%" and 1% on bank payments. Stripe publishes 2.9% + 30¢ online and 2.7% + 5¢ in person. Jobber's pricing page publishes no processing rate at all.
Only one of these field service apps is genuinely free for a one-van shop
One free plan in this group is real: ServiceM8's, for a single user doing up to 30 jobs a month. The others hand you a trial. Here is what the free tier costs you the week work picks up.
Jobber vs Housecall Pro at two, three and six users: the seat math
Jobber charges $29/mo per extra seat. Housecall Pro's published add-on seats are $100/mo on Essentials and $75/mo on Max, and Basic has no add-user price at all. Here is what that does to your bill from one user to six.
Five HVAC seats, priced: $1,260 to $7,524 in year one
A five-tech HVAC crew pays anywhere from $1,260 to $7,524 in the first year, and the gap is mostly billing terms, not features. Here is every published price, the annual discount, and the revert.
Field Service Software for a Four-Person Plumbing Business: What It Actually Costs
Every vendor advertises a headline price for one user. Almost nobody runs a plumbing business with one user. A complete guide to what four systems really cost a four-person shop — including the largest cost, which none of them publish.