Housecall Pro alternatives

Invoice Fly

Good fit for: Contractors and freelancers who set their own prices and want simple estimates and invoices plus time and expense tracking

Price: $8.99 a week or $98.99 a year; 3-day free trial

A phone-first estimate and invoice app with a web app. Estimates come from your saved items and markups, clients e-sign from a link, and estimates convert to invoices. Its e-signature page says its AI can generate an estimate. Payments run through your own Stripe or PayPal account. It adds automatic follow-ups and overdue reminders, recurring invoices, time tracking, an expense tracker with receipt scanning and reports. ^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Compared with Housecall Pro: Invoice Fly is a narrower tool: estimates and invoices from your saved items, client e-signatures and online payments through Stripe or PayPal, at $8.99 a week or $98.99 a year with every feature. Housecall Pro adds booking, scheduling and dispatch, and its own built-in payments. ^{[4][6][7][8][2][11]}

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Contractor+

Good fit for: Contractors who want to start free and grow into CRM, scheduling and project management

Price: Free plan; Pro $49 a month, or $29 a month on the annual plan

A contractor business platform with a free plan of up to 5 estimates or invoices a month. From Pro, Estimatic AI drafts estimates from a description, photos, blueprints or another quote, priced from your cost book, supplier prices and a labor-rate index, using AI credits. Contracts and e-signatures also start on Pro. ^{[12][13][14][15]}

Compared with Housecall Pro: Contractor+ starts on a free plan, with up to 5 estimates or invoices a month, where Housecall Pro offers a 14-day free trial. From Pro at $49 a month billed monthly, Contractor+ lists scheduling, automated contracts and Estimatic AI, which it says drafts estimates priced from your cost book, supplier prices and a labor-rate index. Housecall Pro prices from your price book and lists scheduling and dispatch on every plan. ^{[12][13][14][15][2][3]}

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Jobber

Good fit for: Home-service businesses running crews and recurring work

Price: From $49 a month with no commitment, less on a one-year commitment or billed annually; 14-day free trial

Field service software for scheduling, quotes, invoices and payments, with QuickBooks Online and Xero sync on Connect and higher plans. Clients approve quotes in a client hub, can draw or type a signature and pay a deposit as they approve. Progress invoicing is on every plan. Card payments are 2.9% + 30¢ and ACH is 1%. ^{[16][17][18][19]}

Compared with Housecall Pro: Jobber is the closest in kind: field service software for home-service businesses, with scheduling, quotes, invoices and payments. Its pricing page lists plans from $49 a month with no commitment for one user, QuickBooks Online and Xero sync from its Connect plan, and online cards at 2.9% + 30¢. Housecall Pro’s plans include 1, 5 or 8 users, and its help center lists 2.99% for online invoice payments. ^{[17][16][2][11]}

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Joist

Good fit for: Small home-service contractors who want low-cost estimates and invoices with room to grow

Price: From $10 a month billed monthly; 14-day free trial

An estimate and invoice app on iOS, Android and web. AI Estimate drafts an estimate from a typed or spoken description for you to review, and e-signatures are on every plan. Upper plans add reports, change orders and job scheduling, and it syncs with QuickBooks. Card payments are 3.49% + 49¢ in the US. ^{[20][21][22][23]}

Compared with Housecall Pro: Joist is an estimate and invoice app from $10 a month billed monthly, with AI that drafts an estimate from a typed or spoken description and in-app e-signatures on every plan. Its pricing page lists QuickBooks sync from the Pro plan and job scheduling on the Run plan. Joist lists a US card rate of 3.49% + 49¢; Housecall Pro lists 2.99% for online invoice payments. ^{[20][21][24][22][11]}

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Square Invoices

Good fit for: Service businesses that start free and also take cards in person

Price: Free plan; Plus $49 and Premium $149 a month per location; 30-day trial of paid plans

Invoicing inside Square’s payments platform: estimates clients accept, plus e-signed contracts and deposits on every plan, with milestone payment schedules on Plus and Premium. Online card payments are 3.3% + 30¢ on Free and 2.9% + 30¢ on paid plans; ACH is 1% with a $1 minimum, capped at $10 on paid plans. ^{[25][26][27][28]}

Compared with Housecall Pro: Square Invoices has a free plan and sits inside Square’s payments platform, with contracts and deposits on every plan and milestone payment schedules on Plus and Premium, from $49 a month per location. Online cards are 3.3% + 30¢ on Free and 2.9% + 30¢ on paid plans. Its pricing page also lists appointment scheduling and an online booking website on every plan and team shift scheduling on paid plans; Housecall Pro adds dispatch. ^{[25][27][28][2]}

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BuildWell

Good fit for: Contractors who want each estimate priced from local store prices and wages, then signed and paid

Price: $7.99 a week or $79.99 a year; 3-day free trial

Describe a job by voice, text, photos or a floor plan; the AI picks the work and quantities, and prices come from stores near the job and BLS wages plus your overhead and markup. Clients sign on their phone, estimates become invoices with deposits and progress payments, and card or bank payments go through Stripe at cost. iPhone, Android and web; English or Spanish. Not a scheduling, CRM, time-tracking or accounting tool. ^{[29][30][31][32][33][34]}

Compared with Housecall Pro: BuildWell covers the estimate-to-payment part of Housecall Pro’s work, not the rest: it has no scheduling, dispatch, CRM, payroll, GPS or QuickBooks sync, and no free plan. What it adds is pricing: the AI plans the work, and each price comes from stores near the job and local wages. It’s $7.99 a week or $79.99 a year, with Stripe’s fee passed through at cost. ^{[29][30][33][2]}