Field service software for small business: what 14 tools cost at 1, 3 and 8 users (2026)

Published November 10, 2026 · Every price checked on the vendor's own pages November 10, 2026

• Deepsel makes this page. We sell free estimate, invoice and scheduling software for contractors, so we compete with every tool below. Deepsel isn't in the list, the tables or the picks. It gets a section of its own near the end, with what it's missing.
• Every price, user limit and feature gate comes from the vendor's own pricing page or help center, read on November 10, 2026, and links to it in the sources. I didn't sign up for these tools, so this compares published plans. It isn't a hands-on test.
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Short version: for a home-service shop of 1 to 10 people, the cheapest published plans that schedule a job, quote it, invoice it and take a card cost $20 to $245 a month for one person, $39 to $299 for three people and $50 to $399 for eight, month to month. The spread comes from what each vendor counts. Jobber and Field Ascend charge per user. Housecall Pro, Kickserv and Field Promax sell seats in bands. ServiceM8 counts jobs, Zoho FSM counts appointments and GorillaDesk counts routes, while Service Fusion and FieldVibe's Crews plan don't count anything. Workiz, FieldPulse, ServiceTitan and FieldEdge don't publish a price at all.

So the cheapest tool for a solo plumber is rarely the cheapest once there are eight of you. This page prices each tool at three shop sizes, lists the per-user pricing traps that make a bill jump when you hire, and says which shop each one suits. Free plans have their own page, free field service software compared, and I don't repeat them here.

What a 1-10 person shop actually needs

Most of what ranks for this search is vendor pages and long feature lists. In one check of Google's US results on November 10, the top result was a July 2025 r/smallbusiness thread where five of the replies came from vendor accounts or reps offering demos (Zoho, Simpro, FieldPulse, ServiceEcho and KaamCam).¹⁷ None of that tells a three-truck owner what to pay for. Here's the short list I'd use.

From day one, whatever your trade:

• One schedule everyone sees on their phone, with the address, the gate code and what the customer said on the phone.
• Quotes the customer approves from a link, which turn into the job without retyping.
• An invoice built from the job, paid by card from a link or in the driveway.
• Customer history: every visit, photo and invoice, plus equipment records if you work on furnaces, water heaters or appliances.
• Recurring jobs, if you run routes or maintenance visits.
• A way to export your customer list as a spreadsheet, so you can leave.

Worth paying more for once there are three or more of you: automatic appointment reminders and on-my-way texts, QuickBooks sync if your bookkeeper lives in QuickBooks, checklists and photos so a new tech does the job your way, and online booking from your website or Google profile.

Usually not worth it under 10 people: GPS fleet tracking, warehouse inventory, a built-in phone system or AI receptionist, marketing suites and custom report builders. Those are real needs at 20 trucks. At three trucks they're mostly the reason one plan costs $300 a month and another $80.

What each tool costs at 1, 3 and 8 users

Three shops, all home service, all paying month to month, with the annual price in parentheses where the vendor sells one:

• 1 person: the owner does the work, about 60 jobs a month (three a day).
• 3 people: two techs in trucks, one of them the owner, plus someone in the office. About 120 jobs a month.
• 8 people: six techs and two in the office. About 360 jobs a month.

Each cell is the cheapest published plan that covers that headcount and runs the whole loop, from schedule to paid invoice. Card fees and sales tax aren't included. Tools are in alphabetical order, which isn't a ranking.

Three things stand out. First, adding the second and third person costs nothing on Kickserv, Service Fusion, ServiceM8 or Field Ascend, $58 a month on Jobber Core, $110 on Housecall Pro and $200 on Field Promax. Second, Jobber's two cheapest plans cross over: at eight people, Core with seven added users is $232 a month billed annually, $3 more than Connect's 10-user band at $229, and Connect adds QuickBooks sync, checklists and automatic reminders.¹ (Month to month, Core is still $47 cheaper.) Third, Service Fusion is the most expensive tool here for one person and sits mid-table at eight, below Jobber, Housecall Pro and Field Promax, which is the whole point of unlimited users.

Annual billing takes roughly 15 to 40% off where it's offered: Jobber Core drops from $49 to $29, Kickserv and Field Promax take 20% off, Service Fusion 15%.^{1, 4, 6, 9} Read the refund terms below before you take it.

Per-user pricing traps to check before you sign

None of these is hidden. They're all on the pricing pages. They're just easy to miss when you're comparing headline prices for one person.

"User" means anyone who logs in

Jobber counts as a user "anyone who accesses your account at the office or in the field to view or manage the team's schedule."¹ Kickserv counts "anyone that you add to your Kickserv account as an employee, to view or work on customers or jobs."⁴ So the office manager counts, and so do the part-time helper and the spouse who does the books. GorillaDesk is the exception: only techs who run their own route schedule need a paid seat, and admin, manager, sales and crew users are free.⁵

The second hire can cost more than the first

Housecall Pro's Basic plan includes one user, and the pricing page lists no extra-seat price for it, so person two means Essentials: $79 a month becomes $189.² Field Promax Light is one user at $99; a second person moves you to Standard at $299 month to month.⁹ Jobber Core's $29 per added user is the gentlest step of the per-user tools.¹ If you plan to hire within a year, price the plan at next year's headcount.

Add-on seats can cost more than the next plan

The Jobber crossover above is the clearest case: at eight people, Core plus seats costs more than Connect's 10-user band, which has more in it.¹ On Housecall Pro the seats get cheap once you're on Max: 8 users are included at $299 billed annually and each one after that is $35 a month, so a 10-person shop pays $369.² Our Housecall Pro pricing breakdown has the full seat math, and Jobber pricing has every band.

Minimums and bands you don't fill

Field Ascend bills a 3-user minimum, $39 a month, and its own FAQ tells solo operators to pick a simpler tool.¹⁰ Kickserv's cheapest plan is for 5 users at $75, which is good value for three to five people and poor value for one.⁴ Field Promax charges the same $299 for two people as for five.⁹

Annual and commitment terms

Jobber offers three ways to pay. No commitment is the full price. A "1 year commitment" is billed monthly, and if you cancel during the year, "you'll continue to be billed monthly until the end of the 12-month term." Annual is paid up front, and "your initial payment is non-refundable."¹ Kickserv's annual subscriptions "are not pro-rated or refundable."⁴ Service Fusion's annual price is "charged as one annual payment at sign-up."⁶ Field Promax's 20% annual discount is for the first year only.⁹ Run a tool month to month until you're sure, then switch to annual.

The meter that isn't users

ServiceM8 counts new jobs. Go past your plan's limit and you get 7 more days of normal work before it asks you to upgrade; only Premium Plus has a per-job overage, at 20 cents a job.³ Zoho FSM counts appointments, and an appointment covers one business day, so a three-day job uses three. Unused appointments don't carry over to next month.⁷ GorillaDesk counts routes, and texting is extra: $5 a month plus credits at $50 per 1,000 texts.⁵ Busy seasons matter for job-based plans. A shop at 120 jobs most months that hits 160 in July needs ServiceM8's $149 plan, not the $79 one, for that month.

The feature you need is a tier up

• QuickBooks Online sync is on Jobber Connect ($99 a month billed annually) and up, not Core; on Housecall Pro Essentials ($149) and up; on GorillaDesk Pro ($99); and on Field Promax Standard. Kickserv includes it on Start.^{1, 2, 4, 5, 9}
• Maintenance agreements are on Housecall Pro Max, Field Promax Premium and Zoho FSM Professional only.^{2, 7, 9}
• Job photos are an add-on on Service Fusion Starter, and Field Promax Light has no photo documentation.^{6, 9}
• Two-way texting with customers starts on Jobber Grow, $149 a month billed annually.¹

Card fees are often the bigger bill

Jobber charges 2.9% + 30¢ on online card payments on every plan.¹ Housecall Pro's card rates start at 2.59%, with 1% on bank payments.² Kickserv charges 2.9% + 30¢ with Tap to Pay in its app, 3.9% + 30¢ for other online payments, and 1% + 30¢ for ACH.⁴ On $15,000 a month in card payments, each percentage point is $150 a month, more than most plans in the table. Ask for the rate in writing for keyed-in, online and in-person payments before you move your billing over.

The 14 tools, one at a time

Alphabetical, published prices first. Each one has a shop it suits, and I've tried to say which.

Field Ascend: $13 a user, three-user minimum

Field Ascend is one price, $13 per user a month, with a 3-user minimum ($39) and nothing split into feature tiers: scheduling, dispatch, work orders, quotes, invoices, preventive maintenance, a customer portal and both a technician app and an office app on iPhone and Android. It bills monthly with no annual contract and no setup fee. The 30-day trial needs a card at signup.¹⁰ At eight people it's $104, among the cheapest here. It says itself that it's built for multi-user office and field teams, not solo operators, and its small-business page is written for commercial contractors.¹⁹ Suits: a 3-10 person shop that wants every feature without picking a tier.

Field Promax: priced by bands of seats

Field Promax has three plans: Light at $99 a month for one user, Standard for 2-5 users at $299 month to month ($239 billed annually in the first year) and Premium for 6-8 users at $399 ($319), with $40 per user after that. No contract is required.⁹ The feature table is where to look closely. Light has scheduling, work orders, invoicing, the mobile app and estimates, but not Stripe payments, recurring orders, checklists, photo documentation or QuickBooks Online. Daily dispatch, team management, mobile estimates, service agreements and job costing are on Premium only.⁹ The Reddit thread mentioned above ended with the owner choosing it.¹⁷ Suits: a 6-8 person shop that wants service agreements and job costing in one package.

FieldVibe: free for one, $50 for a crew

FieldVibe is built for solo pros and small crews, up to 10 team members by its own FAQ. Solo is free for one user with unlimited jobs and clients, but quotes and invoices start on Solo Pro at $20 a month. Crews is $50 a month with unlimited staff, roles and permissions, and 1,000 automated reminders a month in the US and Canada. Yearly billing takes 25% off, and it runs on iPhone, Android and the web.¹¹ FieldVibe's own comparison lists its limits plainly: no route optimization, no GPS tracking and no integrations such as QuickBooks, Xero or Zapier.¹⁸ Suits: a small crew that wants the lowest bill and keeps its books outside the software.

GorillaDesk: priced per route, office users free

GorillaDesk charges per route, meaning per tech with their own schedule. Basic is $49 for the first route, $50 each for routes 2 and 3, and $30 each after that. Pro is $99 plus $50 a route, and Growth is $149.⁵ Crews that ride together share a route, and office users are free on every plan. Basic covers invoices, estimates, work orders, routing up to 25 stops, Square and Stripe payments, automated reminders and chemical use records. The customer portal, online booking, autopay subscriptions, QuickBooks Online sync and GPS tracking are on Pro. It's month to month, with a 14-day trial and no card.⁵ Suits: pest control, lawn and other route businesses with more office people than trucks. More in our GorillaDesk pricing and GorillaDesk vs Jobber pages.

Housecall Pro: 1, 5 or 8 users included

Housecall Pro has three plans: Basic at $79 a month ($59 billed annually) for 1 user, Essentials at $189 ($149) for 5, and Max at $329 ($299) for 8, with $35 per user after that on Max.² Basic already has online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates, invoicing, payments and consumer financing, a price book, job costing and review management. Essentials adds routes, checklists, photo reports, GPS tracking and QuickBooks Online sync. Max adds recurring service plans, route optimization and API access. Every plan includes live phone and chat support and the iPhone and Android app, and there's no long-term contract.² Suits: a residential HVAC, plumbing or electrical shop of one person, or of six to eight where Max's included seats pay off. The cost cliff is between one person and two. See Jobber vs Housecall Pro for the two side by side.

Jobber: per user on Core, bands from Connect up

Jobber's Core plan is $49 a month, $39 with a one-year commitment, or $29 billed annually, for one user, plus $29 a month per added user. Connect, Grow and Plus are priced by team size (1, 5, 10 or 15 users): Connect runs $99 to $299 a month billed annually and Grow $149 to $399.¹ Core covers online booking, quotes, invoices with online payments, a website and reporting. Connect adds automated reminders, automatic payments, checklists, quote and invoice follow-ups, QuickBooks Online sync and time tracking. Grow adds two-way texting, job costing and optional line items on quotes. The 14-day trial runs on Grow with no card.¹ Suits: an owner who'll add people one at a time, or a 3-5 person shop on Connect's 5-user band. Every band is in our Jobber pricing breakdown.

Kickserv: five users on the cheapest plan

Kickserv's Start plan is $75 a month ($60 billed annually) for 5 users, Run is $149 ($119) for 10, and Scale is $249 ($199) for 20.⁴ Start includes automated email and text reminders, 20-plus reports, time and expense tracking and QuickBooks Online. Dispatch mapping and GPS check-ins are on Run, and QuickBooks Desktop costs $50 a month extra. There's a 30-day trial, no contract, and a 5% discount ("Kickback") if you process at least $1,000 a month in online payments on Start.⁴ One roundup on Google's first page says Kickserv has a free tier for solo operators;¹⁸ its pricing page lists none. Suits: a 2-5 person shop on QuickBooks Online that wants a low flat bill. See Kickserv pricing and Kickserv vs Jobber.

Service Fusion: one price, unlimited users

Service Fusion's Starter is $245 a month ($208 billed annually), Plus is $382 ($325) and Pro is $627 ($533). Every plan has unlimited users: "Whether you have one technician and one dispatcher or 20 technicians and a full office, your Service Fusion pricing will be the same." Plans are month to month, with 15% off for annual.⁶ Starter covers customers, estimates, jobs, scheduling and dispatch, payments, invoicing, QuickBooks integration and text alerts. Job photo uploads, inventory, job costing, eSign, the customer portal and recurring invoicing are add-ons on Starter; Plus or Pro include some of them.⁶ Suits: a shop of six to ten with office staff that expects to keep hiring. For one to three people it's the most expensive published option here. See Service Fusion pricing.

ServiceM8: priced by jobs, unlimited users

ServiceM8's paid plans all have unlimited users and differ by jobs a month: Starter $29 for 50, Growing $79 for 150, Premium $149 for 500 and Premium Plus $349 for 1,500-plus. Free is 1 user and 30 jobs.³ Recurring jobs are on every plan, Free included. Asset management and forms and certificates start on Growing, and job costing on Premium. Texts are free on paid plans, and ServiceM8 says its Android app is "almost identical" to the iPhone one.³ Suits: a crew with several people and a steady job count, who quote and invoice from the phone. The per-job against per-user math is in ServiceM8 vs Jobber.

Zoho FSM: priced by appointments, up to 200 users

Zoho FSM charges by appointments a month. Standard starts at $30 for 60 appointments ($300 a year) and allows up to 200 users; 150 appointments is $75 and 400 is $160. Invoices match the appointment count.⁸ Free gives 20 users, 30 appointments and 30 invoices a month. Multi-day appointments, asset management and maintenance plans are on Professional, from $45 a month.^{7, 8} The mobile app is on every plan, Free included. Suits: a shop with many people and short jobs, where seats would be the expensive part elsewhere.

Tools that don't publish a price

Four well-known names make you talk to sales first. That isn't a reason to skip them, but it does mean you can't compare them on this page.

• Workiz. Standard, Pro and Ultimate all say "Request pricing." There's a 7-day trial with no card, and Workiz says annual billing saves "$400+."¹² The last rates it published are in our Workiz pricing page.
• FieldPulse. Seat-based, quoted from your headcount, with no free trial: "No, and we're not going to pretend otherwise." FieldPulse also says the prices on third-party review sites aren't accurate.¹³ See FieldPulse pricing.
• ServiceTitan. Per-technician packages called Starter, Essentials and The Works, all "Request Pricing."¹⁴ It's built for larger shops, and reported prices are in ServiceTitan pricing.
• FieldEdge. Select, Premier and Elite, priced by "how many technicians or employees are on your team, and which add-ons you might need." No free trial, and a downgrade waits for the end of your contract period.¹⁵ See FieldEdge pricing.

Which tool fits which shop

These are fits, not a ranking. Find the line that sounds like your shop.

• One person, under 50 jobs a month: ServiceM8 (Free to 30 jobs, Starter at $29 to 50) or FieldVibe Solo Pro at $20.^{3, 11}
• One person who'll hire this year: Jobber Core, because each added person is $29 and you're never pushed into a band you don't fill.¹
• Two to five people on a budget: Kickserv Start ($75 for 5 users, QuickBooks Online included) or Field Ascend ($13 a user).^{4, 10}
• Lots of people, steady job count: ServiceM8 or Zoho FSM, where the bill follows jobs, not logins.^{3, 8}
• Route work (pest, lawn, pool): GorillaDesk, priced per route with office users free.⁵
• Six to ten people with office staff: Housecall Pro Max (8 users included) or Service Fusion (unlimited users at one price).^{2, 6}
• You only need a schedule and bill from QuickBooks: Connecteam, free for up to 10 users (next section).¹⁶
• You want to pay nothing: nine free plans are compared on our free field service software page.

Technician scheduler: when a schedule is all you need

A technician scheduler is the part of these tools that assigns jobs to techs, shows who's free, pushes the job to the tech's phone and lets the customer know when to expect them. Every tool above has one. What differs is which scheduling features sit on the cheap plan:

• Kickserv puts dispatch mapping and GPS check-ins on Run ($149), not Start.⁴
• Housecall Pro has routes on Essentials and route optimization on Max.²
• GorillaDesk's Basic routing stops at 25 stops; drive-time routing is on Pro, and "Best Available Time" suggestions on Growth.⁵
• Field Promax has a map and calendar view from Standard, with daily dispatch and team management on Premium only.⁹

If the schedule is the only problem, and invoices already go out from QuickBooks or Square, a scheduling app can be enough. Connecteam's Small Business Plan is free for life for up to 10 users and includes job scheduling, a time clock, and forms and checklists; its pricing page lists nothing for estimates or invoices.¹⁶ The catch is two systems: the job lives in one and the bill in the other, and someone retypes between them.

By trade

The shortlist changes by trade, mostly because of what gets counted. Route trades run many short visits, which hurts job-based plans and suits per-route pricing: see pest control software, pool service software and free lawn care software. HVAC and plumbing shops mix service calls with installs and need equipment records and maintenance agreements: see HVAC scheduling software, plumbing scheduling software and the HVAC maintenance agreement software comparison. Handymen are usually one person with many small jobs; free handyman apps covers that shop.

Questions to ask any vendor before you sign

1. Who counts as a user, and does the office person count?
2. What does my plan cost at next year's headcount, not today's?
3. Which plan has the one feature I need (QuickBooks sync, recurring jobs, maintenance agreements)?
4. What's the card rate for online, keyed-in and in-person payments, in writing?
5. If I pay annually and leave in month four, what do I get back?
6. Can I export my customers, jobs and invoices as a spreadsheet when I leave?

Deepsel, our own software, and why it isn't in the list

We build Deepsel, so it sits here instead of in the tables. A list that picks its writer's own product isn't worth much. Deepsel is free estimate, invoice and scheduling software for home-service contractors: a drag-and-drop dispatch board with a column per tech, recurring jobs, quotes, invoices, card and bank payments, and customer and equipment records with visit photos and checklists.

The Free plan is $0 with unlimited users, 30 estimates and 30 invoices sent a month, and no card. Pro is $29 a month for the whole shop ($290 a year) with no cap on estimates or invoices, and adds the service plans module for maintenance agreements, Google review requests, online booking, contract templates, change orders and progress billing. Max, at $59, adds two-way texting from your own business number with 1,000 texts a month included. Every plan has unlimited users. All of it is on the pricing page.

In the three shops above, each one sends more than 30 invoices a month, so each would be on Pro: $29 a month at 1, 3 or 8 people, or $24 a month billed yearly. A shop under 30 invoices a month stays on Free.

What it's missing today. No iPhone or Android app yet; they're coming to Max, so techs use the phone's browser for now. No QuickBooks sync yet, also coming to Max. Texting with customers is on Max only. There's no route optimization, GPS tracking, time clock, inventory, job costing or payroll, and no phone system. Card payments are 3.3% + 30¢ online on every plan, above Jobber's 2.9% + 30¢ and below Kickserv's 3.9% + 30¢. Against Jobber, on $15,000 a month in card payments, that's about $60 a month more, which cancels most of the saving at three people ($29 against Jobber Core's $107). It's also newer than everything on this page, so there are fewer forum threads about it. If one of those is the blocker, tell us.

How I checked

On November 10, 2026, I pulled Google's live US results for "field service software for small business," "field service management software for small business," "home service software," "home services business software" and "technician scheduler," and read the pages ranking there. The list here is the tools those pages name that sell to home-service shops, plus Field Ascend and FieldVibe, which rank for the search themselves. Then I read each vendor's pricing page, plus its help center where the pricing page left something out, and saved what it said. Every price and limit above links to its source. The cost table uses the cheapest published plan that covers each headcount; where a vendor prices by jobs, appointments or routes, I used the job and truck counts stated above it. I didn't sign up for any of these tools or run a job through them. I build Deepsel, a competitor, which is why it has a section and no row. Prices change, so if one here is wrong, email me and I'll fix it.

Frequently asked questions

What's the best field service software for a small business?

The one whose pricing meter you'll hit last, which is why this page doesn't rank them. A solo owner who'll hire one person at a time: Jobber Core ($49 a month, $29 billed annually, plus $29 per added user). Two to five people on a budget: Kickserv Start ($75 for 5 users) or Field Ascend ($13 a user, 3-user minimum). Lots of people and a steady job count: ServiceM8 or Zoho FSM, which price by jobs and appointments. Route work like pest or lawn: GorillaDesk, priced per route with office users free. Six to ten people with office staff: Housecall Pro Max (8 users) or Service Fusion (unlimited users at one price). Our own product is described separately and isn't one of the picks.

How much does field service software cost for a small business?

From the vendors' own pricing pages on November 10, 2026, the cheapest plan that schedules, quotes, invoices and takes cards runs $20 to $245 a month for one person, $39 to $299 for three people and $50 to $399 for eight, month to month. Annual billing takes roughly 15 to 40% off where it's offered. Card processing comes on top and is often the bigger bill: Jobber charges 2.9% + 30 cents on online payments and Kickserv 3.9% + 30 cents.

Which field service software doesn't charge per user?

Service Fusion has unlimited users on every plan ($245 a month on Starter, $208 billed annually). ServiceM8's paid plans have unlimited users and charge by jobs a month ($29 for 50, $79 for 150). GorillaDesk charges per route and doesn't charge for office users. Zoho FSM charges by appointments, with up to 200 users on Standard. FieldVibe's Crews plan is $50 a month with unlimited staff. Kickserv sells bands of 5, 10 and 20 users, so the first five cost the same as one.

What's the cheapest field service software for a small team?

For three people, Field Ascend at $39 a month (its 3-user minimum at $13 each) and FieldVibe Crews at $50 with unlimited staff are the lowest published prices I found. Kickserv Start is $75 a month, or $60 billed annually, for up to 5 users. If you'd rather pay nothing, our free field service software page compares nine free plans and their limits.

What is home service software?

Home service software is field service software built for residential trades: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, lawn care, pest control, cleaning, pool service and the like. It puts jobs on a schedule your techs see on their phones, sends quotes and invoices, takes card payments and keeps each customer's history. Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceM8, Kickserv and GorillaDesk all sell to this market.

What is a technician scheduler?

A technician scheduler assigns jobs to techs on a calendar or dispatch board, shows who's free, sends the job to the tech's phone and tells the customer when to expect them. Every field service tool on this page has one. If scheduling is all you need and you bill from QuickBooks, Connecteam's Small Business Plan is free for up to 10 users and includes job scheduling, with no invoicing.

When does a small shop need field service software?

Usually around the first hire. One person can run on a calendar app and invoice templates. Once a second person needs to see tomorrow's jobs, or you're retyping quotes into invoices, the software pays for itself in office time. Check the pricing meter before you pick, because the cheapest plan for one person is rarely the cheapest at three.

Sources

1. Jobber pricing: Core $49 a month with no commitment, $39 on a 1-year commitment, $29 billed annually, 1 user; Connect 1, 5, 10 and 15 users at $139, $199, $299 and $399 with no commitment ($99, $149, $229 and $299 billed annually); Grow $199 to $499 ($149 to $399 billed annually); "A user is anyone who accesses your account at the office or in the field to view or manage the team's schedule. Add users for $29/mo each." Connect adds automated client reminders, automatic payments, checklists, quote and invoice follow-ups, QuickBooks Online sync and time and expense tracking; Grow adds two-way SMS and job costing. Credit card processing 2.9% + 30¢ on every plan. FAQ: the 1-year commitment "has a 12-month minimum term, billed monthly"; annual "initial payment is non-refundable"; "For 14 days you get full access to all of Jobber's features on the Grow plan," with no credit card required. getjobber.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
2. Housecall Pro pricing: Basic $59 a month billed annually or $79 monthly, 1 user included; Essentials $149 or $189, 5 users; Max $299 or $329, 8 users, "$35/mo per additional user." Basic lists online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates and invoicing, payments and consumer financing, price book, job costing and review management; Essentials adds routes, checklist automations, photo reports, employee GPS tracking and QuickBooks Online sync; Max adds Recurring Service Plans, route optimization and open API access. Every plan: live phone and chat support, mobile app for iOS and Android. FAQ: no long-term contracts; "card processing fees start at 2.59%," 1% on bank payments; 14-day free trial on Max, no card. housecallpro.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
3. ServiceM8 pricing (US): Free $0, 1 user, 30 jobs a month; Starter $29, 50 jobs; Growing $79, 150 jobs; Premium $149, 500 jobs; Premium Plus $349, 1,500+ jobs, additional jobs 20¢ each; unlimited users on every paid plan; texts 10¢ each on Free and free on paid plans; Recurring Jobs on every plan; Asset Management and Forms & Certificates from Growing; Job Costing from Premium. FAQ: past the limit "you'll still be able to create new jobs and work as normal for another 7 days"; Android app "almost identical to the ServiceM8 iOS app"; 14-day free trial. servicem8.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
4. Kickserv pricing: Start 5 users, $60 a month billed annually or $75 monthly; Run 10 users, $119 or $149; Scale 20 users, $199 or $249; Start includes automated email and text reminders, 20+ reports, time and expense tracking and QuickBooks Online; Run adds dispatch mapping, GPS check-ins, custom fields and reports, QuickBooks Desktop at $50 a month; 30-day free trial; Kickback 5% off with $1,000 a month in online payments on Start. FAQ: a user is "anyone that you add to your Kickserv account as an employee, to view or work on customers or jobs"; annual subscriptions "are not pro-rated or refundable"; Tap to Pay 2.9% + $0.30, card-not-present 3.9% + $0.30, ACH 1% + $0.30. kickserv.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
5. GorillaDesk pricing: "priced per route, not per user. Unlimited users on every plan. 14-day free trial, no credit card, no contracts"; Basic $49 for the first route, routes 2-3 +$50 a month each, route 4+ +$30 each; Pro $99, +$50 per added route; Growth $149; Basic includes invoices, estimates and work orders, basic routing limited to 25 stops, Square and Stripe integration, automated emails and SMS, material tracking; Pro adds the customer portal, online booking, Stripe and Square subscriptions, Drive Matrix routing, QuickBooks Online sync and GPS device tracking; Growth adds Best Available Time; "only users who are assigned to a specific schedule need a paid seat"; SMS $5 a month plus credits, $50 for 1,000 texts; yearly "Get one month free!" gorilladesk.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
6. Service Fusion pricing: Starter $208, Plus $325, Pro $533 a month billed annually ("Charged as one annual payment at sign-up," save 15%); $245, $382 and $627 monthly; unlimited users on every plan, "Whether you have one technician and one dispatcher or 20 technicians and a full office, your Service Fusion pricing will be the same"; month to month, no contract; Starter add-ons include job photo uploads, inventory management, job costing, eSign documents, customer web portal, and progressive billing and recurring invoicing; "Get a Free Demo." servicefusion.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
7. Zoho FSM pricing page: Free, 30 appointments, with workflow automation and the mobile app; Standard adds webforms, maps and location tracking, trips and crew; Professional adds multi-day appointments, asset management and maintenance plans; FAQ: up to 20 users on Free and 200 on Standard; "You cannot carry appointments over to the next month"; "One appointment can span one business day"; free trial, after which the account moves to the free plan. zoho.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
8. Zoho FSM help center, "Editions and Pricing": Standard 30 USD billed monthly or 300 USD annually for 60 appointments, Professional 45 USD or 420 USD, Premium 55 USD or 480 USD; volume pricing for Standard at 150 appointments 75 USD a month (720 USD a year) and 400 appointments 160 USD (1,560 USD); "The number of invoices available will be equal to the number of appointments." help.zoho.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
9. Field Promax pricing: Light $99 a month, 1 user; Standard $239 a month billed annually, 2-5 users; Premium $319 a month billed annually, 6-8 users, "+$40/user after"; "20% off Standard and Premium for your first year"; "Prefer month-to-month? Standard is $299 and Premium $399 a month, cancel anytime"; feature table: Light has scheduling, work orders, invoicing, mobile app access and estimates; Stripe payment, recurrent orders, checklists, photo documentation, online approvals and QuickBooks Online integration from Standard; daily dispatch, team management, mobile estimates, service agreements and job costing on Premium only; "Request a Demo." fieldpromax.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
10. Field Ascend pricing (US): Pro plan "$13 per user / month, Minimum 3 users (from $39/month)"; scheduling, dispatch and work orders, technician app and Admin office app on iOS and Android, preventive maintenance, customer portal, quotes and invoices; "No setup fee or required annual contract"; 30-day free trial, "Card required at sign-up"; FAQ: "designed for multi-user office and field teams... If you're a solo operator, we'd recommend a simpler tool purpose-built for your scale." field-ascend.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
11. FieldVibe pricing: Solo free, 1 user, unlimited jobs and clients, manual reminders; Solo Pro $20 a month, 1 user, adds quotes, invoices, get paid and 400 automated reminders a month (US and Canada); Crews $50 a month, unlimited staff members, roles and permissions, 1,000 reminders; yearly 25% off; FAQ: "built for solo professionals, owner-operators, and small service crews (up to 10 team members)"; iOS, Android and web. fieldvibe.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
12. Workiz pricing: Standard, Pro and Ultimate, "Request pricing"; FAQ: "Workiz offers a 7 days free trial... No credit card is required for the trial period"; annual plans "save $400+." workiz.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
13. FieldPulse pricing: "FieldPulse is seat-based and pricing is built around what your team needs. Get a custom quote in one conversation." FAQ, free trial: "No, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. What we offer instead is a real demo." Third-party pricing: "Several sites publish estimated FieldPulse pricing that hasn't been verified by us." fieldpulse.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
14. ServiceTitan pricing: "Our per-technician pricing is designed to fit your business and goals, at any size"; packages Starter, Essentials and The Works, each "Request Pricing." servicetitan.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
15. FieldEdge pricing: Select, Premier and Elite, "Request Pricing"; "Our FieldEdge pricing plans can vary based on several factors, such as how many technicians or employees are on your team, and which add-ons you might need"; "FieldEdge does not offer a free trial"; downgrades "at the end of your current contract period." fieldedge.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
16. Connecteam pricing: Small Business Plan, "all hubs and all features*, entirely free for up to 10 users," "Free for life"; the Operations Hub includes time clock, job scheduling, forms and quick tasks; no estimates or invoices listed. connecteam.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
17. r/smallbusiness, "Field Service management software anyone?", July 8, 2025: replies from ZohoCares, SimproGroup, a rep offering a FieldPulse demo, a ServiceEcho address and "We suggest KaamCam"; the poster's update: "He went with Field Promax." reddit.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
18. FieldVibe, "Top 10 Field Service Software for Solo & Small Teams (2026)," FieldVibe's own entry: "Key Limitation: No route optimization, GPS tracking or integrations (QuickBooks, Xero, Zapier)"; Kickserv entry: "Free tier available for solo operators with some limitations." fieldvibe.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
19. Field Ascend, "Field Service Software for Small Business": sections "Why the commercial angle matters" and "What small commercial contractors usually need by the time they hit 5+ techs." field-ascend.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.