Deepsel is now free estimate, invoice and scheduling software for contractors: what changed, what seven other platforms charge, and what you pay

Published October 9, 2026 · Updated November 10, 2026

Deepsel, the publisher of this page, sells the software described on it. The signup links are for that product.
Every fact about another vendor below has a numbered source: that vendor's own pricing page, terms of service or help center, with the date I read it.

Updated November 10, 2026: the Free plan now has unlimited users, 30 estimates and 30 invoices a month and no customer limit (at launch it was 2 users and 100 customers, and from November 8 it was 2 users with 10 estimates and 10 invoices a month). Pro added state contract templates, signed change orders and progress billing, and every plan can take bank payments. Checklists now go on visits too, where the tech fills them in on the phone, and a reading outside its range is flagged. The plans and prices below are the current ones.

Deepsel launched in August 2026 as maintenance agreement software that ran next to a shop's scheduling tool. As of today, October 9, 2026, it is a field service platform: scheduling and dispatch, quotes, invoices, card payments, customer and equipment records, and the agreements, with unlimited users on every paid plan. Today every plan has unlimited users, Free included, with 30 estimates and 30 invoices a month on Free. $29 a month for unlimited estimates and invoices and the service plans module. No contracts, no setup fee, no per-user charge, no per-job charge.

What changed, and why

The first version of Deepsel ran next to Jobber or Housecall Pro. It kept the maintenance agreement, the one record those products handle badly, and left the rest to them. That worked. It also meant two bills, and the first one grew the way these bills grow: by the seat, by the tier, by the add-on.

I spent August and September writing this site's pricing pages, every number checked on the vendor's own site. The seven I compared for this article are in the table below. The pattern was plain. Four of the seven publish no price. Three sell on an annual contract by their own terms; the fourth does by every analysis I found. Six of the seven charge by the seat in some form. The feature a small shop came for often sits on the top tier. Four will not tell you the card rate until you are on a call. I would call that predatory. Most owners who have sat through a demo would pick a stronger word.

So we built the first product instead of a second one. Deepsel is now a field service platform for home-service contractors: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping, pest control, pool service, garage door and appliance repair. It replaces Jobber, Housecall Pro and the rest, priced the way I would want to buy it: one number on the page, covering everyone in the company.

What I found on seven pricing pages

Every cell comes from the vendor's own pricing page, terms or help center, read on the date in the source. Competitor card-rate numbers stay off this page on purpose, since they change; the column records whether the vendor prints one. Deepsel's is 3.3% + 30¢ online on every plan.

Platform	Price on its own site	Contract	Per-user charge	Card rate on its site
Jobber	Yes. $29 to $529 a month by plan and team-size band, read September 2, 2026¹	Month to month or annual¹	Yes. $29 a month per extra user on every plan¹	Yes¹
Housecall Pro	Yes. $59, $149 or $299 a month billed annually, with 1, 5 or 8 users included, read September 24, 2026²	Monthly with no contract; annual commits the year²	Yes. Seats above the tier cost extra ($35 a month each on Max)²	Yes. Three different rates for a standard card depending on how it is taken³
ServiceTitan	No. "Request Pricing" on all three packages⁴	12-month minimum, per three 2026 analyses^{6, 7, 8}	Yes. Priced per technician, in its own words⁴	No. "Competitive, custom pricing" by email⁵
FieldEdge	No. "Request Pricing" on all three plans⁹	Initial term, then automatic 12-month renewals; early termination fee¹⁰	Yes. 2, 4 or 6 mobile licenses included by tier, more sold on top⁹	No. "Rates tailored to your transaction volume"¹¹
Workiz	No, since 2026. Last published: $225 to $325 a month for up to 5 users, May 2025^{12, 13}	Annual contract on every plan¹⁴	Yes. Extra users were $55 to $65 a month at last publication¹³	No¹²
FieldPulse	No. Seat-based quote, no dollar figure anywhere on the site¹⁵	One-year term, auto-renews; every customer since November 2023 is on an annual contract^{16, 17}	Yes. Priced per seat, full-access or field-only¹⁵	No. A processing fee plus a monthly cost, "chat with our team"¹⁸
Service Fusion	Yes. $208, $325 or $533 a month billed annually, read September 7, 2026¹⁹	Month to month available; the term auto-renews on 30 days' notice and fees are non-refundable^{19, 21}	No. Unlimited users on every plan¹⁹	Yes²⁰

What the table cannot hold. Housecall Pro puts Recurring Service Plans, its maintenance-agreement module, on Max only: $299 a month billed annually, 8 seats.² Its payment-processing help page lists three rates for a standard card: tapped on a reader, typed into an invoice by the customer, or keyed in by staff or kept on file.³ Deepsel's service plans module is on the $29 plan, with unlimited users. The three 2026 analyses I found put ServiceTitan's implementation at $5,000 to $50,000 on top of the subscription.^{6, 7, 8}

Service Fusion is the exception on seats: a flat price, unlimited users, printed on the page.¹⁹ Credit where due. Its cheapest plan is $208 a month billed annually, seven times Deepsel's Pro price, and its subscription agreement calls all fees non-refundable.^{19, 21}

How Deepsel is priced instead

Three plans, and the pricing page says what they cost. Core means scheduling and dispatch, quotes, invoicing, card payments, customer and equipment records and imports.

Free: $0. Unlimited users, 30 estimates and 30 invoices a month. All core features.
Pro: $29 a month. Everything in Free, no caps: unlimited estimates and invoices. Plus the service plans module, live today: maintenance agreements and memberships, with the plan ledger of visits owed against visits delivered per covered unit (the member sees it too), renewals billed to the card on file or by scheduled invoice, with retries, an automatic card updater, and an email to the member plus a flag to the office when a card still fails, booking reminders by email on wording and a schedule you approve, a self-serve booking link, visit-expiry warnings to the office and the member, and membership discounts. Pro has since added estimate templates, Google review requests after every job, and online booking, where customers pick a service and a free time on your own booking page.
Max: $59 a month, on sale now. Everything in Pro plus texting with your customers (1,000 texts a month included, then $20 per extra 1,000). The iPhone and Android apps with Tap to Pay and QuickBooks sync are coming soon to Max. Missing something? Request a feature.

No contracts. No setup fee. No per-user charge. No per-job charge. Card payments are 3.3% + 30¢ online on every plan, keyed or on file, and 3.1% + 15¢ in person with Tap to Pay, coming soon with the apps on Max. The Free plan replaces the timed trial we ran at launch: no end date, no card.

What the product covers today, and how to move your customers over

Scheduling and dispatch, with recurring job series for route-style repeating work. Quotes and estimates. Invoicing. Card payments at 3.3% + 30¢. Customer and equipment records. Checklists filled in at each visit, with readings flagged when out of range, kept on the job with the visit's photos. Customer import from five systems. And on Pro, the service plans module: maintenance agreements and memberships, the visits-owed ledger per covered unit that the member can see too, renewal by card on file or scheduled invoice with retries, a card updater and a failed-payment email to the member and flag to the office, booking reminders by email that you approve, a self-serve booking link, visit-expiry warnings and membership discounts, and a service plan can carry a visit checklist, so every plan visit comes with it. Also on Pro: estimate templates, Google review requests and online booking. On Max: texting with your customers. That is the list. If a feature is missing from that list, we do not have it yet. Better you read that here than find out after an import.

Moving over is an export from your current system and an import into Deepsel. Step-by-step pages cover five systems: Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Service Fusion and FieldEdge. If your platform is not on that list, email me and I will write the page.

Frequently asked questions

Is Deepsel available now, or is this a waitlist?

It is live. Open a Free account at app.usedeepsel.com/signup; no card, no trial clock. The service plans module is live on Pro, and Max with texting is live too; only the iPhone and Android apps with Tap to Pay and QuickBooks sync are marked coming soon.

What happens when my Free account needs a 31st estimate or invoice in a month?

You move to Pro: $29 a month with no cap on estimates or invoices, the same price at 31 invoices a month or 1,000, and the service plans module comes with it. Users were never the limit: every plan has unlimited users.

Is there a contract, a setup fee or a per-user charge?

No to all three. Pro bills monthly at $29; adding a tech, a dispatcher or a bookkeeper costs nothing.

What is the card rate?

3.3% + 30 cents per card payment online, keyed in or charged on file, and it does not change by plan. Tap to Pay in person, coming soon with the apps on Max, works out to 3.1% + 15 cents, and bank payments are 1%, capped at $15.

What is in Max, and can I buy it now?

Max is $59 a month, and yes, it is on sale now. On top of Pro it adds texting with your customers (1,000 texts a month included, then $20 per extra 1,000). The iPhone and Android apps with Tap to Pay and QuickBooks sync are coming soon to Max. Upgrade from Settings > Subscription in the app any time. Missing something? Request a feature.

Sources

Jobber pricing page: Core $29/mo billed annually ($49 month to month); Connect, Grow and Plus by team-size band up to $529/mo annual; "Add users for $29/mo each" on every plan card; "Save up to 25% with annual billing"; card processing rate shown in all four plan columns. getjobber.com/pricing, read September 2, 2026.
Housecall Pro pricing page: Basic $59/mo billed annually with one user included; Essentials $149/mo, 5 users; Max $299/mo, 8 users, "$35/mo per additional user"; Max lists "Recurring Service Plans" and "Open API access"; "No contracts. No credit card required. Cancel anytime."; "Card processing rates as low as 2.59%." housecallpro.com/pricing, read September 24, 2026.
Housecall Pro help center, "Housecall Pro Payment Processing Options": one rate for "Standard cards swiped, tapped, or chipped with a card reader or Tap to Pay on Mobile," a second for "Standard cards entered online by the customer via an invoice sent digitally," a third for "Standard cards entered manually by staff, scanned in the mobile app, or saved as a card on file." help.housecallpro.com, read October 8, 2026.
ServiceTitan pricing page: three packages (Starter, Essentials, The Works), each with a "Request Pricing" button and no price; "Our per-technician pricing is designed to fit your business and goals, at any size"; Customizable Memberships marked included on The Works only. servicetitan.com/pricing, read September 2, 2026.
ServiceTitan help center, "Payments - FAQ": "What are your rates? We offer competitive, custom pricing for our merchants," followed by an email address. help.servicetitan.com, read September 2, 2026.
Projul, "ServiceTitan Pricing 2026: Full Cost Breakdown": $245 to $500 per technician per month across the three packages; implementation $5,000 to $50,000; 12-month minimum contract. Third-party estimate compiled from user reports. projul.com, read September 2, 2026.
Tooled Up Pro, "ServiceTitan Pricing 2026: What It Actually Costs": small-company implementation $5,000 to $15,000 over 3 to 6 months; 12-month minimum, no month-to-month option. Third-party estimate. tooleduppro.com, read September 2, 2026.
FieldCamp, "ServiceTitan Review 2026: Pricing, Pros & Cons": implementation $5,000 to $50,000 or more; 6 to 12 month onboarding. Third-party estimate. fieldcamp.ai, read September 2, 2026.
FieldEdge pricing page: Select, Premier and Elite all "Request Pricing"; 2, 4 and 6 mobile app licenses included by plan; "Additional Mobile App Licenses" listed as a line item; downgrades "at the end of your current contract period." fieldedge.com/pricing, read September 2, 2026.
FieldEdge (Xplor Technologies) Software Terms of Service, last updated October 2023: Initial License Period set on the order form; "This Agreement will automatically renew for successive periods of 12 months... unless either party provides written notice of termination to the other party at least 60 days prior to the expiration"; Early Termination Fee equal to "the relevant monthly Fees multiplied by the number of months remaining." fieldedge.com/legal, read September 2, 2026.
FieldEdge Payments page: "powered by Xplor Pay," "rates tailored to your transaction volume," no published rate. fieldedge.com/fe-payments, read September 2, 2026.
Workiz pricing page: Standard, Pro and Ultimate all "Request pricing"; "Service plans" listed under Ultimate's "Everything in Pro, plus"; Genius Phone, Genius Answering and Genius Marketing "sold separately"; "Card readers are sold separately"; no card processing rate shown. workiz.com/pricing-plans, read September 2, 2026.
Workiz pricing page, Wayback Machine snapshot of May 23, 2025: Kickstart $225/month (1 to 3 members); Standard $275/month, $229 annual (1 to 5 members); Pro $325/month, $270 annual (1 to 5 members); Ultimate "Let's talk"; extra members $55/month on Standard and $65/month on Pro at monthly payment. web.archive.org, read September 2, 2026.
Workiz help center, "Billing FAQ": "All Workiz plans are purchased on annual contracts, but payments may be made monthly or annually"; "Removing users does not reduce the number of seats on your account or lower your price during your contract term." help.workiz.com, read September 2, 2026.
FieldPulse pricing page: "FieldPulse is seat-based and pricing is built around what your team needs"; Essentials, Professional and Enterprise each with a Request Pricing button; full-access and field-only seats; no dollar figure on the page. fieldpulse.com/pricing, read September 2, 2026.
FieldPulse Terms of Service: one-year initial term, automatic one-year renewals unless 60 days' written notice; "A customer is obligated to pay the contract value for the entire term of the contract"; "Additional users above what is listed on your order form will be charged for the one-year term upfront through Stripe at the time the user is added." fieldpulse.com/terms-of-service, read September 2, 2026.
FieldPulse help center, "Cancellation Policy": "all customers who signed up after November 2023 are on an annual contract. Please note that we have not offered subscription-based models since that time." help.fieldpulse.com, read September 2, 2026.
FieldPulse help center, "FieldPulse Payments": "There is a processing fee for debit/credit cards and ACH payments, as well as a monthly cost. Chat with our team to learn more." help.fieldpulse.com, read September 2, 2026.
Service Fusion pricing page: Starter "$208 Per Month (billed annually)" or "$245 Per Month"; Plus $325 / $382; Pro $533 / $627; "Unlimited Users" on every plan; "Service Fusion offers all plans on a month-to-month basis"; the only button is "Get a Free Demo." servicefusion.com/pricing, read September 7, 2026.
Service Fusion Payments page: a published "as low as" credit card processing rate with a per-transaction fee; Stripe mobile card reader; ACH and check capture. servicefusion.com/fusionpay, read September 7, 2026.
Service Fusion Software as a Service Subscription Agreement, last modified March 23, 2026: the term "will automatically renew for successive periods equal to the initial term"; termination on "30 days' written notice prior to the end of the then current term"; "All Fees are payable in United States Dollars, and non-refundable." servicefusion.com/subscription-agreement, read September 2, 2026.