Housecall Pro Pricing for a Small Home Service Business

Every Housecall Pro and Jobber price below was read from each company's own pricing page on 2026-11-02. Both vendors change prices and run introductory offers, so check the live page before you buy. This article shows how to add the numbers up for your own business, which is the part the pricing pages leave to you.

What do Housecall Pro's plans cost today?

Housecall Pro sells three plans: Basic, Essentials, and MAX. Each has an annual price and a monthly price, per month.

Plan	Users included	Annual, per month	Monthly, per month	Cost for 12 months (annual / monthly)
Basic	1	$59	$79	$708 / $948
Essentials	5	$149	$189	$1,788 / $2,268
MAX	8	$299	$329	$3,588 / $3,948

Paying annually saves $20 a month on Basic, $40 on Essentials, and $30 on MAX. The page also showed introductory offers on my visit, including a discounted first month on Basic and Essentials and a discounted first quarter on MAX. Those change, so treat them as a bonus and plan around the table.

What each step adds, according to Housecall Pro's page:

• Basic includes online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates and invoicing, payments and consumer financing, a price book, job costing, and review management.
• Essentials adds routes, flat-rate pricing, checklist automations, photo reports, employee GPS tracking using a phone, commissions, and QuickBooks Online sync.
• MAX adds a sales proposal tool, recurring service plans, route optimization, open API access, a dedicated onboarding specialist, and escalated phone support.

The plan names are also a hint about who the tool is built for. Job costing and a price book arrive in the cheapest plan, which suits a plumber or HVAC technician pricing parts on every job. QuickBooks sync, though, sits one tier up, so if you hand your books to an accountant who works in QuickBooks Online, you are choosing Essentials at $149 a month rather than Basic.

Is there a free Housecall Pro plan?

No. The pricing page offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, and the trial runs on the MAX plan, so you see every feature before you pick a smaller plan. If your trial ends, the page says your data is kept and you can pick up again by adding billing details. The page also says there are no long-term contracts, and that you can upgrade at any time or downgrade with the change taking effect at the end of your current billing period.

Which add-ons change the monthly bill?

This is the part where Housecall Pro's page is least helpful. It lists optional products you can add on top of a plan: a customer service rep AI that answers calls and chats, a sales proposal tool, a pipeline for follow-ups, payroll, accounting, business coaching, a voice phone system, campaigns, vehicle GPS and dashcams, Tap to Pay, and a managed website.

The page does not print a monthly price next to most of them. The sales proposal tool is described as a $40 a month value that is included in MAX, which is the only add-on price on the page I could attach to a number. For everything else, the honest answer to "what do the add-ons cost" is that you get a quote from Housecall Pro, and a price you were not shown is not a price to budget around.

So do this before you sign up:

1. Write down which of those products you would use in your first 90 days. For most solo operators the list is short: probably online booking and invoicing, which are already in Basic, and maybe Tap to Pay.
2. Ask for the monthly price of each one in writing, including whether it needs a specific plan.
3. Add the answers to the plan cost. If the total passes the price of the next plan up, compare the two properly, because moving up a plan sometimes folds an add-on in.

The cheapest path is to ignore the add-ons until a real job tells you that you need one.

How do per-user costs scale from one tech to three?

Housecall Pro prices by tier, not by seat, until the top of the range. Basic includes one user, Essentials includes five, and MAX includes eight. A user, in this case, is someone who logs in to see or manage the schedule.

That has an odd effect on a small crew. A solo operator on Basic pays $59 a month annual. The day a second person needs a login, the plan I can verify from the page is Essentials, at $149 a month annual. That is $90 a month more for the first extra person, and then the next three people cost nothing more because Essentials already includes five users. The pricing page prints no per-user price for extra logins on Basic or Essentials, so do not assume you can buy one extra seat on Basic. Ask before you plan around it.

MAX is where a per-user figure appears: $35 a month for each additional user beyond the eight included. You will not reach it with a crew of three.

The practical rule: a two-person business and a five-person business pay the same Essentials price, so if you are about to grow from three to five, the software does not get more expensive.

How does a year compare with Jobber at the same size?

To compare the two fairly, use the same two businesses and the same assumptions, and show the working.

Solo operator: $96,000 a year, average invoice $200 (480 invoices), 60% of revenue paid by card, 20% by bank transfer, 20% by cash or check, which carries no processing fee.

Three-person team: $180,000 a year, the same $200 average invoice (900 invoices), same 60, 20, 20 split.

Payment processing is the biggest line, and the two vendors publish it differently. Jobber's pricing page lists credit card processing at 2.9% plus 30 cents and bank payments at 1%. Housecall Pro's page says card processing starts at 2.59% and bank payments carry a 1% fee, with no fixed per-payment fee shown. "Starts at" means 2.59% is the floor for the cheapest payment type, so I used it as the floor for Housecall Pro, and the real figure for your mix of in-person, online, and keyed-in cards may be higher.

• Solo, Jobber: card $57,600 at 2.9% is $1,670.40, plus 288 payments at 30 cents is $86.40, plus bank $19,200 at 1% is $192.00. Total $1,948.80.
• Solo, Housecall Pro at the 2.59% floor: card $57,600 at 2.59% is $1,491.84, plus bank $192.00. Total $1,683.84.
• Team, Jobber: card $108,000 at 2.9% is $3,132.00, plus 540 payments at 30 cents is $162.00, plus bank $36,000 at 1% is $360.00. Total $3,654.00.
• Team, Housecall Pro at the 2.59% floor: card $108,000 at 2.59% is $2,797.20, plus bank $360.00. Total $3,157.20.

Now the plan prices, from the two pricing pages, with processing added:

Business	Setup	Plan, 12 months	Processing	Year total
Solo	Housecall Pro Basic, annual	$708	$1,683.84 or more	$2,391.84 or more
Solo	Housecall Pro Basic, monthly	$948	$1,683.84 or more	$2,631.84 or more
Solo	Jobber Core, annual	$348	$1,948.80	$2,296.80
Solo	Jobber Core, no commitment	$588	$1,948.80	$2,536.80
Solo	Jobber Connect, annual	$1,188	$1,948.80	$3,136.80
Team of 3	Housecall Pro Essentials, annual	$1,788	$3,157.20 or more	$4,945.20 or more
Team of 3	Housecall Pro Essentials, monthly	$2,268	$3,157.20 or more	$5,425.20 or more
Team of 3	Jobber Connect (5 users), annual	$1,788	$3,654.00	$5,442.00
Team of 3	Jobber Core plus 2 added users, annual	$1,044	$3,654.00	$4,698.00

Three things stand out.

First, for a solo operator the plans are close in the end. Housecall Pro's Basic costs $360 more a year in plan fees than Jobber's Core, and its lower card rate gives most of that back if you really do get 2.59%. The two land within a hundred dollars or so of each other, and the plan you choose matters less than how you are paid.

Second, at three people the plan prices converge. Housecall Pro Essentials and Jobber Connect's five-user tier are both $1,788 a year billed annually. Jobber's page also shows a cheaper route of Core at $29 with extra users at $29 a month each, which is how the $1,044 row is built. That route leaves out the automations and QuickBooks sync that Connect adds, so it is cheaper because it is smaller. Check which features a second and third person actually need before you pick it.

Third, the processing line is bigger than the plan line in nearly every row. If you already take cards through another processor, the real software cost is only the plan column, and the question to ask is what your current card rate is. Compare it with 2.59% and 2.9% plus 30 cents before you assume either vendor is cheaper.

For a closer comparison, the Jobber pricing breakdown for one or two person crews works through that vendor's plans and add-ons in the same format. Jobber's page has shifted since that article was written, so the figures in this post's table are the current ones.

What does a solo operator actually use it for?

Strip away the product list and a one-person home service business uses the same four things from any field service app:

1. Booking and quotes. A customer asks for a price, you send one, they say yes.
2. A schedule. Where you are tomorrow, with the address and the job notes.
3. An invoice and a way to pay it. Often from the customer's driveway, on a phone.
4. A customer record. Name, address, what you did last time, when they are due again.

Everything else on the pricing page is built for a larger operation: routes, flat-rate pricing, commissions, GPS tracking for employees, recurring service plans, and an open API. A cleaner or handyman working alone will feel those as extra weight, and a three-person HVAC team will start to feel the schedule and the dispatch pieces.

If you want to know which of the four you spend the most time on before you spend anything, a month of notes answers it faster than a features page. The numbers that fall out of that record are the ones in the home service KPI guide and, for cleaners, the cleaning business KPIs post: jobs per week, revenue per hour, how many quotes turn into work, and who still owes you money.

Keeping that record also does a boring job that matters later. The IRS recordkeeping guidance for small businesses explains why a small business keeps dated records of income and expenses, and IRS Publication 583 goes into the details. A dated invoice per job and a log of what you were paid cover the practical side. For anything about your own filing, ask an accountant.

When is it worth the subscription?

Housecall Pro earns $59 to $79 a month when at least one of these is true:

• You lose time to admin. Quote, schedule, invoice, and chase payment each take minutes, and they add up. If you spend even three hours a month on them, and your time is worth $50 an hour, the saving covers the monthly Basic price.
• Customers want to book and pay online. Online booking from your website or Google and card payment in the field are in Basic.
• You have a second person. A shared schedule stops arguments about what was booked, and Essentials covers up to five people.
• You forget follow-ups. If jobs die in the gap between a quote and a reply, a tool that sends reminders is worth more than a prettier invoice.

It is probably too much, for now, when you do ten to fifteen jobs a month, everyone pays by check or transfer, and a phone calendar plus a customer list already tells you what to do tomorrow. In that case a spreadsheet and a payment link cost you nothing and lose you nothing, and you can come back when the paperwork starts to hurt.

The free dashboard on this site keeps your customers, money entries, tasks, and appointments on one screen, and your data stays in your browser unless you turn on Pro sync. It does not send quotes or take card payments, so it is a record and not a replacement for a payments tool. Run a month of jobs and payments through it first, and you will know which features you would pay for. Open the dashboard and use sample data to try it, or log real jobs if you are ready.

A fair way to decide on Housecall Pro itself: use the 14-day trial on real customers, not demo data. Quote, schedule, and invoice actual jobs inside it. At the end, count the hours it saved and the follow-ups it sent that you would have forgotten. If that adds up to more than the plan costs, buy the smallest plan that has the feature you used.

FAQ

How much does Housecall Pro cost per month?

Basic, for one user, is $59 a month billed annually or $79 month to month. Essentials, for up to five users, is $149 annual or $189 monthly. MAX, for eight users, is $299 annual or $329 monthly. Card processing starts at 2.59% and bank payments carry a 1% fee. Prices are from Housecall Pro's pricing page as of 2026-11-02, and add-ons are priced separately.

Does Housecall Pro charge per user?

Mostly by tier. Basic includes one user, Essentials includes five, and MAX includes eight, with $35 a month for each additional user beyond that. The pricing page does not print a price for an extra login on Basic or Essentials, so ask before you plan around buying a single seat.

Does Housecall Pro have a free plan?

No. There is a 14-day free trial that gives access to the MAX plan with no credit card required. After the trial you choose a paid plan, and the page says your data is kept if you pause.

Housecall Pro or Jobber for a small business?

For one person the yearly cost is close, and the deciding factor is the features you will use and the card rate you can get. For a team of three, Housecall Pro Essentials and Jobber Connect's five-user tier are both $1,788 a year billed annually, so the choice comes down to the tools and how each one feels on a job. Run the free trial of each on real work before you commit to a year.