From the phone ringing to the money in the bank

You’re the technician. You’re also the receptionist, the dispatcher, the estimator, the bookkeeper and the collections department — and most of that happens at the kitchen table after the last job. This does those jobs. Not a marketplace of add-ons, not six logins, and no tier that unlocks the useful half.

Find out what you should stop doing

Revenue hides margin. The busiest work in most shops is the worst work, and nothing an owner owns tells him that. Seven boards do, and every figure on them opens the jobs behind it — a number you can’t get behind is a number you can’t act on.

You’re paying five companies to run one business

And none of them know about each other. Here’s the same shop, one bill.

It gets worse as the shop grows, because a bigger shop really is writing five cheques.

Why the phone part matters

Every shop above runs on the same twenty-four hours. This is the arithmetic behind the one feature nobody else has — check it against your own month.

Nobody leaves a voicemail any more. Around 80% of callers won’t — and the urgent ones never do. They ring the next result on Google.

One price. No tiers.

A truck is a technician who ran at least one job this month, so a slow January costs less instead of costing an argument.

Side by side with the other four

First, the things every one of us does

If any of this were missing you would stop reading, so here it is. Nobody in this table is short of the basics.

And then the part nobody else does

In the order of what it is actually worth to a shop.

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	EZCallPro	Jobber	Housecall Pro	QuoteIQ	ServiceTitan
Call recording and transcripts on the customer	Included	No	$ add-on	$ add-on	$ add-on
Two-way texting with customers	Included	$ Grow+	$ add-on	$ tier	$ add-on
Permits and inspections on the job	Included	No	No	No	Partly
Payroll	Sync free	No	$ add-on	No	$ add-on
Inventory and purchase orders	Included	No	$ add-on	$ tier	Included
Several locations, one account	Included	No	$ add-on	$ tier	Included
Park the account instead of cancelling	$9.99	No	No	No	No
QuickBooks sync	Included	$ Connect+	$ add-on	$ Pro+	Included
Timesheets and commissions	Included	$ Grow+	$ add-on	$ tier	Included
Parent accounts, property managers	Included	Partly	Partly	No	Included
Missed-call text-back	Included	$ add-on	Included	Included	$ add-on
Online booking	Included	Included	Included	$ tier	$ add-on
Memberships / service agreements	Included	Partly	$ Max tier	Partly	Included
Job costing	Included	$ Grow+	Included	$ Pro+	Included
Equipment tracked per property	Included	Partly	Partly	Partly	Included
Technician and CSR scorecards	Included	Partly	Partly	Partly	Partly
Roles, permissions, audit log	Included	Partly	Partly	Partly	Included
Export everything, including on the way out	Included	Included	Included	Included	A fight
Contract length	None	None	None	None	12 months
Termination fee	None	None	None	None	$24k–39k
Live GPS truck tracking	$10 a truck	$ add-on	$20 a vehicle	$ add-on	$ add-on

And what it costs

The matched price — what it costs on their plan to get what we include, with office staff counted wherever they bill per seat.

Housecall Pro doesn’t publish add-on prices, so theirs is a floor, not a total. QuoteIQ’s figure holds only while their AI barely runs — at real usage a one-truck shop is nearer $449 and a twenty-truck shop $1,374. And we are not cheapest at ten trucks. We’d rather you saw that here than found it yourself.

Checked against their published pricing and feature pages on 25 September 2026, and re-checked monthly — they ship constantly, and a table that quietly rots is worse than no table. If you catch one wrong, tell us and we’ll fix it.

The terms, in plain words

The angriest complaint in this category isn’t about features. It’s about being trapped.

The questions everybody asks

Is that per person?

Per truck. Office staff, dispatchers and the bookkeeper are free, unlimited. Everywhere else they’re $29–35 a seat.

I’m slow in winter.

A truck is a tech who ran a job that month. Six in July and three in January means you pay for three.

What happens to my number?

Keep it where it is and forward the calls you miss, or move it to us. Either way it stays yours, and you can switch the forwarding off at your own carrier without asking us.

My guys won’t use an app.

They’ll use one with three buttons that keeps working in a basement with no signal.

What if the AI books it wrong?

It fills the form; a person confirms. Nothing books without a tap unless you turn on full auto, and that’s your switch.

I already have Housecall Pro.

Bring your customers, jobs and price book — the import is free and self-serve, and there’s an undo button for seven days.

I don’t want to be recorded.

Storing the audio is off unless you turn it on. The call is always transcribed — that’s how the form fills itself — and the greeting always says so, in every state. That disclosure isn’t a setting, because the law covering recording covers transcription too.

What’s it really going to cost?

$79 a truck, or $59 if you’re in the first 200. Past your included minutes you pay what it costs us, shown in the app, with an alert at 80% — or set a hard cap instead.