Plumbing scheduling software compared: 10 tools and what they cost at 2, 5 and 10 plumbers

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

• Deepsel publishes this page. We make free estimate, invoice and scheduling software for contractors, so we compete with every tool below. Deepsel isn't in the table, the cost math or the picks. It has its own section near the end, with the things it can't do for a plumbing shop yet.
• Every price and feature comes from the vendor's own pricing page, plumbing page, help center or terms, read on November 10, 2026, and links to it in the numbered sources. I didn't run a plumbing shop on any of these, so this compares what the vendors publish. It isn't a hands-on test.
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Plumbing scheduling software puts your calls on a dispatch board, sends each one to a plumber's phone and turns the finished job into an invoice priced from your book. Ten tools come up most when plumbing owners go looking: ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber, Workiz, Service Fusion, FieldPulse, FieldEdge, Kickserv, QuoteIQ and ServiceM8. Four of them (ServiceTitan, FieldEdge, FieldPulse and Workiz) print no price at all. For five plumbers and a dispatcher, the other six run from $119 to $299 a month on their standard pricing pages. Where they really differ is plumbing work: whether the flat-rate price book is on the plan you'd buy, whether parts on the truck are tracked, and who picks up the phone at 2 a.m.

Most of Google's first page for this search is vendors' own "best plumbing software" lists, and nearly every one puts its own product first. This page doesn't rank anybody. It goes through the jobs plumbers actually run, says what each tool publishes about them, prices each one at three shop sizes, and says which shop it suits.

What a plumbing schedule has to handle

A lawn route repeats every week. A plumbing board gets rebuilt by ten in the morning. Here are the six places plumbing work pushes a scheduler hardest, and what each vendor says it does about them.

A burst pipe and a dripping faucet on the same morning

Both calls come in before eight. One is water coming through a kitchen ceiling; the other can wait until Thursday. The board has to get the emergency to the nearest free plumber, slide the rest of the day, and tell the customers whose times moved. Housecall Pro's plumbing page talks about routing "the closest plumber to burst pipes and drain emergencies." Jobber's says you can "dispatch emergency work orders to the closest technician" and reassign the rest in a few clicks, and FieldPulse sorts emergencies first with a tagging system.^{6, 9, 19}

After hours it's a phone problem. Someone has to answer at 11 p.m., find out whether it's a flood or a slow drain, and book it. QuoteIQ is the one tool here that puts AI call answering on every plan.²⁹ ServiceM8 sells a phone product that diverts after-hours calls "to the team member On Call."³⁰ The rest sell answering as an extra (the table below names each one). Whatever answers, price the night visit as its own line. The plumbing invoice template has an after-hours line in its filled-in example, and the rate sheet in how much a plumber should charge per hour works out an after-hours minimum from your own numbers.

Drain and sewer jobs that run long

A main line that won't clear, a camera run that finds a belly, a dig in the front yard. Book that job for an hour and the 1 p.m. call is late before lunch. Look for three things: a length you can set on each visit, a second visit on the same job when the work carries into tomorrow, and the camera footage and photos kept with the job. Workiz advertises "non-consecutive multi-day scheduling" on its plumbing page, though its plan table puts multi-day jobs on Ultimate only.^{13, 12} Housecall Pro's plumbing page mentions annotated photo reports for "sewer camera inspections and before-and-after multi-day work," and photo reports start on its Essentials plan.^{6, 5}

Water heater installs: permit, install, inspection

A water heater replacement is often three dates (pull the permit, do the install, meet the inspector) and a permit fee you pass on. In software terms, that's one job with more than one visit. None of the ten plumbing pages describes tracking a permit or an inspection date. QuoteIQ's mentions the permit only as part of a water heater price.²⁸ In practice the permit is a line on the quote and the inspection is a second visit you put on the board yourself, so check that the tool lets one job carry several visits. Quoting is where tools help more: Housecall Pro's plumbing page shows good, better and best options on water heaters, and Jobber's shows water heater upgrades and expansion tanks as optional lines on a quote.^{6, 9} The code items and permit questions are in our water heater code requirements checklist, and if a homeowner asks you to pull a permit for their own install, read should you pull a permit for someone else first.

Who can go out alone: apprentice, journeyman, master

Your licence rules decide who can run a call unsupervised, and they vary by state. Colorado requires apprentices to be registered and supervised, with up to three per licensed plumber on a job site. Nebraska wants the supervising master or journeyman on the same job site. Minnesota sets a ratio of apprentices to journeyworkers. (The rule text is on our Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota licence pages.) A board that knows each plumber's licence level can warn the dispatcher before an apprentice gets a solo call.

Three of the ten say they do some of this. ServiceTitan's plumbing page says dispatchers get reminders "to assure a technician's skills match the job's requirements." FieldEdge's says you can "take the plumber's skill level into account when assigning jobs," and Workiz offers to "dispatch the right tech with the right skills to every job."^{2, 23, 13} The other plumbing pages don't mention it, so ask in the demo. If the company runs on your master licence, our guide to being a plumbing qualifier covers what that can cost you.

Flat-rate prices from a price book

Flat-rate pricing means a set price per job, given before the work starts, and it needs a price book the plumber can open on a phone. Nearly every tool has one somewhere. Which plan it's on is what changes the bill:

• ServiceTitan and FieldEdge put the pricebook (FieldEdge says "Pricebook & Flat Rate Pricing") on every package.^{1, 22}
• QuoteIQ's price book is on every plan.²⁸
• Housecall Pro has a price book on Basic and lists "Flat-rate pricing" from Essentials.⁵
• Workiz has a price book on every plan and "Flat rate" on Ultimate only.¹²
• Service Fusion's flat rate is an integration "powered by Profit Rhino."¹⁷
• FieldPulse lists Pricebook among its add-ons, priced separately.¹⁸
• Jobber works from a products and services list you build, with optional line items on quotes.^{11, 9}

Before paying for a book someone else wrote, know that most owners who flat-rate build their own. When we read two years of plumbing owners on Reddit for our hourly rate guide, twelve said they flat-rate from their own price book, and none who had bought one defended it. What matters is that the tool takes your numbers, with a cost per item the customer never sees.

Parts on the truck

A plumber who drives back to the supply house for a 3/4-inch ball valve has lost the next call. Truck stock is where the ten split hardest:

• ServiceTitan keeps a stock template for each truck and triggers replenishment from stock levels.⁴
• FieldPulse tracks stock "across trucks, warehouses, and job sites."²⁰
• QuoteIQ tracks materials "across trucks & warehouses" from Elite ($299.99 a month) up.^{27, 28}
• Workiz has inventory and purchase orders on Ultimate only.¹²
• Service Fusion includes inventory on Plus and Pro, and sells it as an add-on on Starter.¹⁶
• FieldEdge's warehouse inventory is on Elite, and only for shops on QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise with Advanced Inventory.²²
• Housecall Pro's Plumbing Package adds purchase orders on every tier.⁷
• Jobber, Kickserv and ServiceM8 don't mention truck stock on their pricing or plumbing pages. Jobber's plumbing page points instead to a Home Depot pricing integration for quotes.⁹

Plumbing scheduling software compared

Ten tools, alphabetical. The order isn't a ranking. "Quote only" means the vendor prints no price anywhere on its site. All ten list a mobile app for the plumbers in the field.^{2, 5, 9, 12, 16, 19, 22, 26, 28, 30}

Two things jump out. Truck stock and a flat-rate book are almost never on the cheapest plan: Workiz keeps both on Ultimate, QuoteIQ keeps stock on Elite, Housecall Pro's flat-rate pricing starts on Essentials and FieldPulse sells the pricebook separately. And answering the phone at night is an add-on nearly everywhere, which matters more to plumbers than to any trade that doesn't get flooded basements.

What it costs at 2, 5 and 10 plumbers

Here's the same shop priced at three sizes. Say each plumber runs four calls a day over 21 working days. (Four is about what a service day holds once you count the driving, as the hourly rate guide works out.) That gives:

• 2 plumbers, the owner one of them, nobody in the office: 2 logins and about 170 jobs a month.
• 5 plumbers and a dispatcher: 6 logins and about 420 jobs.
• 10 plumbers and two people in the office: 12 logins and about 840 jobs.

Each tool is priced on its cheapest plan that gives every login access, from its own pricing page. Prices are per month billed annually, with month to month in brackets where the vendor prints both. Card processing and add-ons such as call answering aren't included.

What the table says, plainly. Kickserv is the lowest published price at every size, but neither its pricing page nor its plumbing page lists a price book, truck stock or answering. Service Fusion is the only line that doesn't move as you hire: $208 for two people or twelve. ServiceM8 charges by job count, so two plumbers and five pay the same $149, and the bill jumps only when the jobs do. Jobber's per-user pricing climbs gently, $29 at a time.

Housecall Pro has two price lists, and plumbers see the bigger one. Its plumbing page sells a Plumbing Package at $79, $299 and $649 a month for Basic, Essentials and Max, with extra users at $100 on Essentials and $75 on Max. The standard pricing page lists the same three tiers at $59, $149 and $299 billed annually.^{5, 6} The package adds a plumbing KPI dashboard, purchase orders and fee-free card surcharging on every tier.⁷ If a rep quotes you, ask which list the number comes from.

The four quote-only tools are a different kind of purchase. You get a number after a demo, usually tied to a term (FieldPulse's first term is a year, FieldEdge's renews in 12-month blocks, and Workiz plans are annual contracts).^{21, 24, 14} What owners and analysts report paying is collected, with sources, in our ServiceTitan, FieldEdge, FieldPulse and Workiz pricing breakdowns.

The ten tools, one at a time

ServiceTitan

ServiceTitan has the most plumbing depth here and no number anywhere on its site. It sells three per-technician packages (Starter, Essentials and The Works), each with a Request Pricing button, and the pricebook is in all three.¹ The plumbing page covers the things smaller tools skip: dispatcher reminders when a tech's skills don't match the job, truck stock and purchase orders, and project management with AIA-style progress billing for construction plumbing.² Its inventory page describes a stock template for each truck and replenishment triggered by stock levels.⁴ The extras are sold as Pro add-ons, among them Pricebook Pro, Dispatch Pro, and Contact Center Pro, whose AI agents "book jobs using your real-time capacity."³

It suits a shop with a dispatcher and an office, big enough that a per-tech fee is a small slice of each truck's revenue. The reported quotes, setup fees and contract terms are in the ServiceTitan pricing breakdown, and ServiceTitan vs FieldEdge puts the two quote-only heavyweights side by side.

Housecall Pro

Housecall Pro's standard plans are Basic at $59 a month billed annually ($79 month to month) for one user, Essentials at $149 ($189) for five, and Max at $299 ($329) for eight, with extra users on Max at $35. It has a 14-day trial with no card and no long-term contract.⁵ The plumbing page leans on emergency work: route the closest plumber to a burst pipe, prioritize emergencies, schedule repipes, and show good, better and best options on water heaters.⁶ Flat-rate pricing, routes, checklists and QuickBooks Online sync start on Essentials.⁵

The catch is the second price list described above, and that membership plans sit on Essentials and up in the Plumbing Package.⁷ Get the quote in writing with the plan name on it. Housecall Pro suits a residential shop of one to eight plumbers that sells water heater replacements and memberships. Every tier and fee is in the Housecall Pro pricing breakdown.

Jobber

Jobber prices by team size. Core is $29 a month billed annually ($49 with no commitment) for one user. Connect, which adds automated client reminders, checklists and QuickBooks Online sync, starts at $99 for one user, $149 for five and $229 for ten, billed annually, and every plan adds users at $29 a month.⁸ The plumbing page is written for days that go sideways: reassign and reschedule after an emergency call in a few clicks, and offer water heater upgrades, expansion tanks and drain pans as optional lines on a quote.⁹ Receptionist, the AI that answers calls and texts day or night, is an add-on with 100 conversations a month, and the help article that lists it prints no price.^{9, 10}

Job costing and two-way texting start on Grow, $149 a month for one user.⁸ You build your own products and services list, and nothing on the pricing or plumbing page tracks truck stock.¹¹ Jobber suits a residential crew of one to ten that wants the board and the invoices to be easy. More in the Jobber pricing breakdown and Jobber vs Housecall Pro.

Workiz

Workiz lists Standard, Pro and Ultimate with "Request pricing" on each, and its billing FAQ says "All Workiz plans are purchased on annual contracts," paid monthly or annually.^{12, 14} The price book is on every plan. Flat rate, multi-day jobs, inventory, purchase orders and checklists are on Ultimate only.¹² Its plumbing page promises skills-based dispatch and multi-day scheduling, and Genius Phone and Genius Answering (24/7, in English, Spanish and French) are sold separately.^{13, 12}

The last time Workiz printed prices, in May 2025, Standard was $275 a month and Pro $325 for up to five members, and Ultimate already said "Let's talk."¹⁵ So the plan a plumbing shop needs for flat rate and long jobs has never had a public price. Workiz suits a shop that wants its phones, answering and dispatch from one vendor. History and fees are in the Workiz pricing breakdown.

Service Fusion

Service Fusion charges one price per shop. Starter is $208 a month billed annually ($245 month to month), Plus $325 ($382) and Pro $533 ($627), with unlimited users on every plan and no contract.¹⁶ Plus adds inventory and job costing, which are add-ons on Starter. GPS fleet tracking and ServiceCall.ai, its phone and AI answering product, are add-ons on every plan, and it syncs with QuickBooks Online and Desktop.¹⁶ Flat rate comes through an integration "powered by Profit Rhino."¹⁷ You get a demo, not a self-serve trial.

For a plumbing shop that's hiring, this is the one price on the page that doesn't change with headcount. It suits a crew growing from three plumbers toward ten that doesn't want each hire to add a seat. The full plan list is in the Service Fusion pricing breakdown.

FieldPulse

FieldPulse is seat-based and quote-only. On free trials, its pricing FAQ says: "No, and we're not going to pretend otherwise." You get a demo instead.¹⁸ The same FAQ lists Pricebook among the add-ons, next to Operator AI (which captures leads and books jobs), Fleet Tracking and Engage VoIP, with pricing that "varies."¹⁸ On the plumbing side it has emergency tagging, project management and inventory across trucks, warehouses and job sites.^{19, 20} Its terms set a one-year first term, and cancelling at the end of a term takes written notice at least 60 days ahead.²¹

It suits a shop that mixes service calls with project work, wants truck stock, and is fine signing for a year. Reported per-seat estimates are collected in the FieldPulse pricing breakdown.

FieldEdge

FieldEdge's three plans, Select, Premier and Elite, all say "Request Pricing," and they include 2, 4 and 6 mobile app licences. The pricebook with flat-rate pricing is on all three. Premier adds advanced dispatching and multi-option quotes, and Elite adds warehouse inventory, which works only with QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise with Advanced Inventory.²² The plumbing page says you can assign plumbers by "skills, location, and availability."²³ Its terms renew for 12-month periods unless you give written notice 60 days before the end.²⁴

FieldEdge suits an established shop that already runs on QuickBooks and prices flat rate. The reported per-user costs are in the FieldEdge pricing breakdown.

Kickserv

Kickserv is the cheapest published price here. Start is $60 a month billed annually ($75 monthly) for 5 users, Run is $119 ($149) for 10 users with dispatch mapping and GPS check-ins, and Scale is $199 ($249) for 20. Each plan has a 30-day trial.²⁵ Kickserv's plumbing page says its founders "were originally plumbers."²⁶

What you give up: neither page lists a price book, truck stock or call answering, so plan on using it to schedule, estimate and invoice. QuickBooks Desktop sync costs $50 a month on Run.²⁵ Kickserv suits a small shop that prices time and materials or from memory and wants the bill low. The card fees and a 3-truck total are in the Kickserv pricing breakdown.

QuoteIQ

QuoteIQ has five plans by user count: Essentials $29.99 a month for 1 user, Beginner $99.99 for 2, Pro $199.99 for 4, Elite $299.99 for 10 and Max $699.99 for 20, with extra users at $25 and two months free on yearly billing. Each has a 14-day trial.²⁷ Its plumbing page is the most plumbing-specific of the ten: "Answer the burst-pipe call after hours, price repairs from one flat-rate price book, quote water heaters as options on site, keep the right parts on every truck."²⁸ The price book and the AI Virtual Call Team are on every plan, and inventory is on Elite and up.^{27, 29}

Two things to weigh. QuoteIQ says payment processing and "optional services" are billed separately from the plan, and it doesn't print what call minutes cost.²⁷ And when you read its own "best dispatch software for plumbing" list, know that it puts QuoteIQ first, like every vendor list does.³¹ QuoteIQ suits a residential shop of one to ten plumbers that misses calls while everyone's under a sink.

ServiceM8

ServiceM8 charges by new jobs a month, with unlimited users on every paid plan: Free is one user and 30 jobs, Starter $29 for 50, Growing $79 for 150, Premium $149 for 500 and Premium Plus $349 for 1,500, then 20 cents a job. If you go over, you get seven more days before it asks you to upgrade.³⁰ It has iOS and Android apps, online booking where customers get a price and pick a time, bundles, and imports of supplier price list updates. ServiceM8 Phone, sold at its own monthly price, can divert after-hours calls to whoever is on call.³⁰

Job-count pricing is kind to a one-plumber shop (four calls a day is about 84 jobs a month, inside Growing) and less kind once a second plumber pushes you to Premium. It suits owner-operators and small crews. Tier math and the per-job fees are in the ServiceM8 pricing breakdown.

Which one fits your shop

Three shop shapes, competitors only. Deepsel is described in the next section and isn't a pick.

One or two plumbers, mostly residential service

Kickserv if the bill matters most and you price from memory or T&M. QuoteIQ if you miss calls while you're working, since its call answering and price book come with every plan, at $99.99 for two users. Housecall Pro Essentials at $149 billed annually if you want flat-rate pricing and five seats to grow into. A one-plumber shop doing under 150 calls a month should price ServiceM8 Growing at $79.

Three to eight plumbers and a dispatcher

Service Fusion if you're hiring, because the $208 doesn't change. Jobber Connect if you want the simplest board, at $178 a month for six logins. Housecall Pro Max if you sell memberships and want eight seats in the base price. QuoteIQ Elite or Workiz Ultimate if truck stock is the problem you're buying software to fix; get Workiz's number in writing first.

Ten or more plumbers, or construction and commercial work

This is where ServiceTitan and FieldEdge earn their quotes: skills-aware dispatch, a pricebook on every package, and inventory (ServiceTitan per truck, FieldEdge in the warehouse with QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise). ServiceTitan's plumbing page also covers construction projects with progress billing. FieldPulse belongs on the list if your work mixes service and projects. Expect a demo before any number, and with FieldEdge or FieldPulse, a contract term after it.

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

We build Deepsel, so it sits here instead of in the table or the picks. A comparison that picks its writer's product isn't worth much. Deepsel is free estimate, invoice and scheduling software for home-service contractors, plumbers among them. Here's what it does for a plumbing shop today:

• A dispatch board with a column for each plumber and one for unassigned work. Drag a visit to another plumber or another time; when the time changes, it asks whether to email the customer. Jobs waiting for a date sit in a side panel.
• One job holds as many visits as it needs, each with its own date, length (up to 24 hours), arrival window and plumbers. The second day of a sewer repair, or the inspection after a water heater install, goes on the same job.
• A plumbing starter price book you add in one step: 42 items with example prices to replace, from a $210 service call and a $315 after-hours call to main line clearing, a sewer camera run, hydro jetting and water heaters marked "Permit extra." Each item carries a price, a member price and a cost the customer never sees.
• Quotes with good, better and best options, invoices built from the job, and card payments at 3.3% + 30¢ online (bank payments 1%, capped at $15).
• Equipment records for plumbing: tank, tankless and heat pump water heaters, softeners, sump and ejector pumps and backflow preventers, with fuel, capacity and venting fields and a photo of the nameplate.
• Emails to the customer when a visit is booked, when the plumber is on the way and when it's done, plus a reminder the day before. Texting is on Max.

At all three sizes on this page, Deepsel is Pro: $29 a month, or $290 a year, for the whole shop, because users are unlimited and Pro has no cap on estimates or invoices. Free also has unlimited users, but it stops at 30 estimates and 30 invoices sent a month, which two plumbers at four calls a day pass inside a week. Max, at $59, adds two-way texting with 1,000 texts a month. Pro also adds online booking and the service plans module for maintenance agreements. Everything is on the pricing page, and customer import takes exports from Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Service Fusion and FieldEdge.

What a plumbing shop won't find in it yet, plainly:

• No truck stock or inventory, and no purchase orders.
• No skills or licence levels on a plumber's profile, so the board won't warn you before an apprentice goes out alone.
• No call answering or on-call rotation. The after-hours call is a price book line, not a phone system.
• No permit or inspection tracking. A permit is a line on the quote, and the inspection is a visit you add.
• No route optimization.
• No iPhone or Android app yet. They're coming to Max, so plumbers use the phone's browser for now.
• No QuickBooks sync yet (also coming to Max), and texting only on Max.
• It's newer than every tool above, so there are no years of plumber forum threads about it.

If one of those is the blocker, tell us.

How I checked

On November 10, 2026 I pulled Google's US top 10 for "plumbing scheduling software," "plumber apps," "plumbing service app," "plumbing dispatch software" and "plumbing software," and read the pages ranking. Most were vendors' own lists, each putting its own product first, plus review-site category pages and a few Facebook groups where owners name what they use. The ten tools here are the ones those results name most for residential plumbing shops. Commercial-only platforms and general appointment-booking apps came up too, and I left them out, because a residential service shop isn't who they're built for.

For each tool I read its pricing page and plumbing page, and its help center or terms where a plan detail or contract term was missing, and saved what each said. Housecall Pro's plumbing page hides its billing toggle, so I loaded it in a browser to read the plan cards. Every price, feature and quote above links to its page in the sources. Where a page was silent (a call-minute rate, a Receptionist price), I say so instead of guessing. I build Deepsel, a competitor, which is why it has its own section and no row. If you also run HVAC, the HVAC scheduling software comparison covers the furnace side, and the field service software for small business guide covers every trade. Prices change; if one here is wrong, email me and I'll fix it.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best plumbing scheduling software?

It depends on how many plumbers you run and which plumbing work fills your board, which is why this page doesn't rank. For one or two residential plumbers, Kickserv has the lowest published price and QuoteIQ includes a price book and AI call answering on every plan. For a crew with a dispatcher, Housecall Pro, Jobber and Service Fusion publish prices, and Service Fusion's doesn't rise as you hire. For ten or more plumbers and a dispatch office, ServiceTitan and FieldEdge have skills-aware dispatch, a pricebook on every package and inventory tools, and both quote instead of publishing prices. Our own product is described separately and isn't one of the picks.

How much does plumbing scheduling software cost?

For five plumbers and a dispatcher, the published prices on November 10, 2026 ran from $119 a month (Kickserv Run, billed annually) to $299 (Housecall Pro Max, billed annually). Housecall Pro's plumbing page lists $399 for the same shop. Service Fusion was $208 at any team size, Jobber Connect $178, ServiceM8 $149 by job count and QuoteIQ $249.99. ServiceTitan, FieldEdge, FieldPulse and Workiz don't publish prices.

Which plumbing software has a flat-rate price book?

ServiceTitan and FieldEdge include a pricebook on every package, and QuoteIQ has one on every plan. Housecall Pro has a price book on Basic and flat-rate pricing from Essentials. Workiz has a price book on every plan and flat rate on Ultimate only. Service Fusion offers flat rate through an integration powered by Profit Rhino, and FieldPulse sells Pricebook as an add-on. Jobber works from a products and services list you fill in yourself.

Which plumber apps track parts on the truck?

ServiceTitan keeps a stock template per truck and triggers replenishment from stock levels. FieldPulse tracks stock across trucks, warehouses and job sites. QuoteIQ tracks it from the Elite plan up, Workiz on Ultimate, Service Fusion on Plus and Pro, and FieldEdge on Elite with QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise. Housecall Pro's Plumbing Package adds purchase orders. Jobber, Kickserv and ServiceM8 don't list truck stock on their pricing or plumbing pages.

How should plumbing software handle after-hours emergency calls?

Someone has to answer, and the board has to move the day's calls around the emergency. QuoteIQ includes an AI call agent on every plan. Housecall Pro (CSR AI), Jobber (Receptionist), Workiz (Genius Answering), Service Fusion (ServiceCall.ai), FieldPulse (Operator AI) and ServiceTitan (Contact Center Pro) sell answering separately, and ServiceM8's phone product can route night calls to whoever is on call. Price the night visit as its own line in your book, too.

Can scheduling software stop an apprentice from being sent out alone?

Some of it can help. ServiceTitan's plumbing page says dispatchers get reminders to match a technician's skills to the job, FieldEdge lets you take a plumber's skill level into account when assigning work, and Workiz dispatches by skills. The other plumbing pages don't mention it. Your state sets who may work unsupervised, so ask in the demo how the tool would handle your state's rule.

Is there free plumbing scheduling software?

Of these ten, only ServiceM8 has a free plan: one user and 30 new jobs a month. Housecall Pro, QuoteIQ and ServiceM8 offer 14-day trials, Kickserv 30 days, and FieldPulse a demo instead of a trial. Nine free plans from other vendors are compared in our free field service software guide.

Starting out? You got your master plumber license. Now what? covers the first year, and the plumbing maintenance agreement template is the contract for members you'll schedule every year. For free plans from vendors not on this page, see free field service software compared.

Sources

1. ServiceTitan pricing page: "Our per-technician pricing is designed to fit your business and goals, at any size"; three packages, Starter, Essentials and The Works, each with "Request Pricing" and no price; Pricebook listed in all three. servicetitan.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
2. ServiceTitan plumbing software page: "Dispatchers receive reminders to assure a technician's skills match the job's requirements"; "Plumbing Inventory Software... ensures trucks remain stocked, and generates accurate purchase orders"; plumbing project management with WIP reports and AIA billing; a mobile app for plumbing techs with "an up-to-date pricebook." servicetitan.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
3. ServiceTitan Pro Products page: Marketing Pro, Contact Center Pro ("AI Virtual Agents that book jobs using your real-time capacity"), Scheduling Pro, Dispatch Pro, Fleet Pro, Field Pro and Pricebook Pro. The plumbing page calls Marketing Pro "an add-on feature." servicetitan.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
4. ServiceTitan inventory management page: "Organize items in trucks and warehouses"; "Automatically trigger replenishment based on stock levels"; "Create templates to keep track of what inventory needs to be in each truck or warehouse." servicetitan.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
5. Housecall Pro pricing page: Basic $59 a month billed annually ($79 monthly), 1 user, with online booking, scheduling and dispatch, price book and job costing; Essentials $149 ($189), 5 users, adding routes, "Flat-rate pricing," checklist automations, photo reports, GPS tracking, commissions and QuickBooks Online sync; Max $299 ($329), 8 users, "$35/mo per additional user"; FAQ: 14-day trial on Max with no card, no long-term contract, mobile app with a Spanish option. housecallpro.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
6. Housecall Pro plumbing software page: "Route the closest plumber to burst pipes and drain emergencies"; "Prioritize emergency jobs, schedule repipes"; "Present good, better, best options on water heaters and repipes"; photo reports for "sewer camera inspections and before-and-after multi-day work"; FAQ: "never miss calls with CSR AI or dedicated call answering." Plan cards (billing toggle hidden, read in a browser): Basic $79 a month, 1 user; Essentials $299, 5 users, "$100/mo per additional user"; Max $649, 8 users, "$75/mo per additional user." housecallpro.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
7. Housecall Pro help center, "Plumbing Package Overview" (updated September 1, 2026): Plumbing KPI Dashboard, Purchase Orders and "Surcharging (no fee)" on Basic, Essentials and MAX; Sales Proposal Tool, Membership Plans and Price Book Commissions on Essentials and MAX; Pipeline and Pricing Insights on MAX. help.housecallpro.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
8. Jobber pricing page: Core 1 user, $29 a month billed annually, $39 on a one-year commitment, $49 with no commitment; Connect $99 (1 user), $149 (5), $229 (10), $299 (15) billed annually, or $139, $199, $299 and $399 with no commitment, adding automated client reminders, checklists and QuickBooks Online sync; Grow from $149 billed annually, adding job costing and two-way SMS; "Add users for $29/mo each"; "No credit card required." getjobber.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
9. Jobber plumbing software page: "When emergency calls come in, you can reassign and reschedule jobs with just a few clicks"; "Dispatch emergency work orders to the closest technician"; optional line items "like water heater upgrades, expansion tanks, drain pans"; Receptionist answers calls and texts "day or night"; "Build fast, accurate quotes with up-to-date Home Depot pricing and local inventory"; mobile app. getjobber.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
10. Jobber help center, "Add-on Features to your Jobber Plan Subscription" (updated August 13, 2026): "Receptionist: An AI-powered virtual receptionist that handles client calls and messages when you're unavailable. Includes 100 conversations per month"; no add-on prices listed. help.getjobber.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
11. Jobber features page: material cost tracking, "Select items from your products and services saved in Jobber, or add new line items as needed." getjobber.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
12. Workiz pricing page: Standard, Pro and Ultimate, each "Request pricing"; plan table: Price book and Mobile application on every plan; Flat rate, Multi-day jobs, Inventory management, Purchase orders, Checklists and Service plans on Ultimate only; "Genius Phone (sold separately)" and "Genius Answering (sold separately)," which answers calls and inbox messages in English, Spanish and French. workiz.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
13. Workiz plumbing software page: "Dispatch the right tech with the right skills to every job"; "non-consecutive multi-day scheduling"; Genius AI Answering "captures every lead 24/7." workiz.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
14. Workiz help center, "Billing FAQ": "All Workiz plans are purchased on annual contracts, but payments may be made monthly or annually." help.workiz.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
15. Workiz pricing page, Wayback Machine snapshot of May 23, 2025: Lite free for up to 2 members; Kickstart $225 a month billed monthly ($187 billed annually) for 1-3 members; Standard $275 ($229) and Pro $325 ($270) for 1-5 members; Ultimate "Let's talk," with inventory management, flat rate, multi-day jobs and purchase orders. web.archive.org, retrieved November 10, 2026.
16. Service Fusion pricing page: Starter $208 a month billed annually ($245 monthly), Plus $325 ($382), Pro $533 ($627), "Unlimited Users" on every plan; inventory management and job costing included on Plus and Pro, add-ons on Starter; ServiceCall.ai and GPS Fleet Tracking add-ons on every plan; "All plans come with no contract requirements"; QuickBooks Online and Desktop; technician mobile app; "Get a Free Demo." servicefusion.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
17. Service Fusion flat rate page: "Service Fusion's Flat Rate integration powered by Profit Rhino." servicefusion.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
18. FieldPulse pricing page and FAQ: "FieldPulse is seat-based and pricing is built around what your team needs"; "Does FieldPulse offer a free trial? No, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. What we offer instead is a real demo"; "add-ons include Operator AI, Chat AI, Engage VoIP, Fleet Tracking, Pricebook, Dynamic Proposals, and Custom Forms. Pricing for add-ons varies." fieldpulse.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
19. FieldPulse plumbing page: "Emergency Job Prioritization: Manage emergency plumbing requests by prioritizing them our tagging system"; pricebook, inventory management, project management and a mobile app in the feature list. fieldpulse.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
20. FieldPulse inventory management page: "Track stock in real time across trucks, warehouses, and job sites." fieldpulse.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
21. FieldPulse terms of service, sections 8.1 and 8.4: "The initial term of a subscription is one year unless otherwise stated in your order form"; termination at the end of a term needs written notice "at least sixty (60) days before the end of the applicable term." fieldpulse.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
22. FieldEdge pricing page: Select, Premier and Elite, each "Request Pricing"; mobile app licences included 2, 4 and 6; "Pricebook & Flat Rate Pricing" on every plan; Premier adds advanced dispatching and multi-option quotes; Elite adds "Warehouse Inventory Management," which "is only available to those who use QB Desktop Enterprise with Advanced Inventory," and outbound call recording. fieldedge.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
23. FieldEdge plumbing software page: "Assign the right plumbers for the right job based on skills, location, and availability"; "You can even take the plumber's skill level into account when assigning jobs." fieldedge.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
24. FieldEdge legal page, linking Xplor Technologies Software Terms of Service (last update October 2023), section 2.2: the agreement "will automatically renew for successive periods of 12 months" unless either party gives written notice "at least 60 days prior to the expiration." fieldedge.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
25. Kickserv pricing page: Start 5 users, $60 a month billed annually, $75 monthly; Run 10 users, $119 ($149), adding dispatch mapping, GPS check-ins and "Accounting integration (QuickBooks Desktop $50/m)"; Scale 20 users, $199 ($249); "TRY Start free for 30 days." No price book, inventory or call answering listed. kickserv.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
26. Kickserv plumbing service software page: "Kickserv's founders were originally plumbers"; employees can send estimates and invoices and get estimates signed "in-person through our app." kickserv.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
27. QuoteIQ pricing page: Essentials $29.99 a month (1 user), Beginner $99.99 (2), Pro $199.99 (4), Elite $299.99 (10, adds "Pipelines & Inventory"), Max $699.99 (20); "Extra users: $25/per-additional-user/mo on every plan"; "Yearly billing saves two months"; 14-day free trial; "Payment processing fees and optional services are separate from the subscription price"; AI Virtual Call Team on every plan. myquoteiq.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
28. QuoteIQ plumbing software page: "Answer the burst-pipe call after hours, price repairs from one flat-rate price book, quote water heaters as options on site, keep the right parts on every truck"; "The price book (every plan) holds your repairs, drain clearing and water heater packages"; a water heater price that covers "the permit where one is needed"; the app on "iPhone, Android and the web"; inventory "across trucks & warehouses." myquoteiq.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
29. QuoteIQ AI Virtual Call Team page: "an AI receptionist for contractors that answers your business calls 24/7, and it is on every plan." No per-minute rate printed. myquoteiq.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
30. ServiceM8 pricing page (US): Free $0, 1 user, 30 new jobs a month; Starter $29 (50 jobs), Growing $79 (150), Premium $149 (500), Premium Plus $349 (1,500+, additional jobs 20¢ each), unlimited users on paid plans; over the limit you can "work as normal for another 7 days"; iOS and Android apps; online bookings where clients "get a price, select a time"; bundles and "Automated Supplier Import" of price list updates; ServiceM8 Phone, "After Hours Call Routing: Automatically divert calls after hours to the team member On Call," at "a single, affordable monthly price"; 14-day trial. servicem8.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.
31. QuoteIQ, "Top 8 Best Dispatch Software for Plumbing Contractors" (last updated November 4, 2026): QuoteIQ listed first, "Best overall for plumbers." myquoteiq.com, retrieved November 10, 2026.