Housecall Pro pricing (2026): every plan, and what a crew really pays

Disclosure: Bloombilt builds Dispatch, a scheduling and crew app for service companies, so we compete with part of what Housecall Pro does. Every price below comes from Housecall Pro’s pricing page, checked October 30, 2026. They change it, so check before you sign.

The short answer

Housecall Pro costs $59 to $299 a month on annual billing, or $79 to $329 month to month. Basic includes one user, Essentials five and Max eight. Past eight, Max charges $35 a month for each extra user. Card payments start at 2.59%, and most of the add-ons don’t have a public price.

The plan grid is the easy part. What you’ll actually pay depends mostly on headcount, and the page goes quiet right where most crews feel it: the sixth person.

Every plan and price

When we checked, the page also ran intro offers: $26 for the first month on Basic or Essentials, and $99 a month for three months on Max. Budget on the regular price. That’s what you pay from month two (or four) on.

There’s a 14-day free trial with no card required, and Housecall Pro’s FAQ says the trial runs on Max, the top plan. Keep that in mind when you pick a plan afterward. Whatever you got used to in the trial might not be on the plan you buy.

What each plan includes

Basic has the core of the product: online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates, invoices and payments, consumer financing, a price book, job costing and review management.

Essentials adds routes, flat-rate pricing, checklist automations, photo reports, employee GPS tracking (from the 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.

Two things worth knowing. QuickBooks Online sync starts on Essentials, so a solo operator who wants it pays $149, not $59. And recurring service plans are Max only. If your business runs on maintenance agreements, that’s the plan you’re pricing.

The add-ons

The page lists eleven add-ons and prices none of them: CSR AI, the Sales Proposal Tool, Pipeline, Payroll, Accounting, Business Coaching, Voice, Campaigns, vehicle GPS and dashcams, Tap to Pay, and Websites. Payroll and vehicle GPS are the two crews ask about most. Ask for those prices in writing before the trial ends.

Where the real number comes from

The sixth person. Essentials covers five users. The page shows an extra-user price only on Max. If Housecall Pro won’t sell you a sixth seat on Essentials, your sixth hire moves you from $149 to $299 a month on annual billing, or $189 to $329 month to month. That’s a $140 to $150 jump for one person. Ask your sales rep directly whether Essentials can take extra seats, and at what price, because the page doesn’t say.

Card processing. Card payments are “as low as 2.59%,” and bank payments carry a 1% fee. That’s the floor, not a promise. A shop that runs $30,000 a month through cards pays at least $777 a month in processing, more than any plan on the page. Compare it with what your current processor charges before you move payments over.

Downgrades wait. Housecall Pro has no long-term contract, and you can cancel any time. But downgrades take effect at the end of your current billing period. On annual billing, that’s the end of the year. If you take the annual price to save $20 to $40 a month, you’re on that plan until it renews.

What a crew actually pays

Regular prices, no intro offers. Jobber’s prices are from its pricing page, checked the same day, on the cheapest plan that fits the team.

At five people the two are the same price on annual billing. Above five, Housecall Pro gets more expensive fast, because Max is the only plan that publishes a way to add seats. Max does include more than Jobber Connect, like route optimization and recurring service plans, so it isn’t a straight swap. We ran the full side by side in Jobber vs Housecall Pro.

The ten-person row assumes the $35 seat price applies on annual billing too. The page doesn’t say.

Is Housecall Pro worth it?

For a lot of trade shops, yes. If you sell from a price book, offer financing on the spot and want reviews to come in on their own, Basic and Essentials put all of that on the lower plans. Jobber’s pricing page doesn’t list a price book or consumer financing at all.

It’s a worse deal if you’re at six or seven people and don’t need what Max adds. You’d be paying top-tier prices for the seats, not the features. Same if most of what you use is the schedule and the crew app. Then you’re paying suite prices for a dispatch board.

If the price doesn’t fit

• Comparing all-in-one suites: Jobber is cheaper solo and at eight to ten people. See Jobber vs Housecall Pro and our Jobber pricing breakdown.
• Looking at the wider field: GorillaDesk prices by route, Workiz builds around the phones, and ServiceTitan is the bigger-shop option. They’re all in Jobber alternatives, and we wrote up what ServiceTitan costs separately.
• The schedule is the problem, and QuickBooks already runs the money: that’s what Dispatch is for. A schedule board, an offline crew app, timestamped proof photos and invoices sent through your QuickBooks Online. It’s priced flat per company, so the sixth hire doesn’t change the bill. It doesn’t quote, take payments or run payroll, and if you need those in one system, Housecall Pro is the better fit.

What to do this week

Write down your headcount today and what it’ll be next summer. Then get three things from Housecall Pro in writing: the price of a sixth user on Essentials, the add-ons you’d actually turn on, and your card rate at your real monthly volume. With those three numbers you can price the year. Without them you’re only pricing the first month.

If the schedule is the part that’s broken, book fifteen minutes and we’ll tell you honestly whether Dispatch fits or Housecall Pro does.