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Housecall Pro

Field service management (FSM) SaaS for home service trades (US and Canada only) · HQ Denver, CO, United States

✕ Xero✕ MYOB✓ QuickBooks
✕ Not sold in NZ✕ Not sold in Australia✕ Not sold in UK
Official Housecall Pro site

Pricing

From ≈ NZD 143/mo(listed as USD 79/mo)

USD per company/month: Basic 1 user $79 monthly / $59 annually; Essentials 5 users $189 / $149 annually; MAX 8 users $329 / $299 annually, plus $35/mo per additional user on MAX. Introductory discounts shown. 14-day trial

Full pricing as published by the vendor when we last checked. The starting price is converted to your chosen currency as a guide (≈). Confirm on their site before you buy.

What it does

Home service CRM and field operations: online booking, scheduling/dispatching, invoicing and payments, quotes/proposals, review management, team/HR and commission tracking, mobile apps, AI admin support

Integrations

Intuit QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop (import of customers, invoices, products, services). Gusto, Zapier, Stripe. No native Xero or MYOB

Public ratings: the good and the bad

Public ratings as shown on each site when checked (2026-11-09). We link to them; we don't copy reviews.

What people like

  • +A step up from previous CRMs
  • +lots of useful features
  • +Great for one-person companies
  • +smooth all-in-one flow

What people don't like

  • –Glitches and time-tracking problems
  • –cumbersome to navigate
  • –expensive with patchy support
  • –Hard to reach support

What tradies say

Housecall ProAccounting sync failure (QuickBooks)
“Overall we don’t have many complaints about Housecall pro. But we did have to disable quickbooks. It completely messed us up last year”

Not stated (r/smallbusiness)

Source: Reddit · 2025-09-16

Housecall ProAccounting sync / customer list migration nightmare
“What killed us was our multi level hierarchical setup. Literally thousands of individual jobs came through as unidentifiable “customers “. This means we no longer have client histories in one place... Attempting to preserve our old system was a terrible mistake but nobody was…”

Not stated (established business; QuickBooks history decades per adjacent comments)

Source: Reddit · 2025-09-16

Housecall ProJobberRegretted switch HCP←Jobber / product fit
“Yeah I started with Jobber then switched to HCP, regretted it deeply and switched back after a couple months. Jobber now has added more features and I’m loving it more than ever”

Not stated (r/smallbusiness)

Source: Reddit · 2025-09-16

Housecall ProBilling / cancellation / unwanted charges
“Cancelled, refunded — but still owed the $50 they promised: I joined Housecall Pro on October 22, 2026, for my cleaning business and paid $26 for one month. When I decided to cancel, the process was difficult: I was hung up on by a cancellation rep on October 27 after being put…”

Not stated (Trustpilot; country=US)

Source: Trustpilot · 2026-11-07

Housecall ProTerrible customer support
“Housecall Pro is terrible with regards…: Housecall Pro is terrible with regards to onboarding. Their so called specialist never show up for meetings. If you have a problem, you can’t call them. In fact, their own team members can’t even call each other. Maybe this CRM is good…”

Not stated (Trustpilot; country=US)

Source: Trustpilot · 2026-11-06

Housecall ProBilling / cancellation / unwanted charges
“Over charged: Over charged, never got taken care of. Horrible experience with Housecall Pro. After wanting to cancel, it took 2 months and over 5 phone calls, 6 emails and 2 times chatting in to get somebody to talk to me. Finally, somebody did call me back after the first month…”

Not stated (Trustpilot; country=CA)

Source: Trustpilot · 2026-11-05

Housecall ProBilling / cancellation / unwanted charges
“Do not work with them They are lie…: Do not work with them They are lie about everything Promise website but on on set up you have to pay extra , cancel account is mission impassible Calling them three times cold not get to department to cancel”

Not stated (Trustpilot; country=US)

Source: Trustpilot · 2026-11-03

Housecall ProTerrible customer support
“They completely destroyed Housecall Pro in less than a year: It has gone downhill over the last year. Every recent update has completely ruined this product. The most recent change is the worst one of them all. They moved the location of the ribbon/menu. It either takes up a…”

Not stated (Trustpilot; country=US)

Source: Trustpilot · 2026-10-23

Housecall ProSudden price hikes / paywalled features
“They make to many changes and not…: They make to many changes and not always good . They’ve raised their prices 300 percent in the last couple months . We will be moving to a different platform”

Not stated (Trustpilot; country=US)

Source: Trustpilot · 2026-10-19

Housecall ProBilling / cancellation / unwanted charges
“Confusing, Not Transparent, and Difficult to Cancel: Confusing, Not Transparent, and Difficult to Cancel My experience with Housecall Pro was frustrating from start to finish. The CRM was confusing to navigate, with too many pages and sections that seemed to serve the same…”

Not stated (Trustpilot; country=US)

Source: Trustpilot · 2026-10-16

Housecall ProTerrible customer support
“Replaced real human support with AI bots offering fake empathy while your business suffers: I have been a loyal Housecall Pro customer since September 2022, but the platform has gone completely downhill. It feels like actual human support has been eliminated entirely, leaving…”

Not stated (Trustpilot; country=US)

Source: Trustpilot · 2026-10-16

Housecall ProTerrible customer support
“TERRIBLE...Not surprised to see a 2.9…: TERRIBLE...Not surprised to see a 2.9 rating! The worst customer service. I have reached out 6 times to have OUR business phone number ported. They keep saying they have or will send the paperwork and then NOTHING! We have now been without…”

Not stated (Trustpilot; country=US)

Source: Trustpilot · 2026-10-12

Housecall ProTerrible customer support
“Do not use they are scammers who keeps…: Do not use they are scammers who keeps calling and harassing businesses”

Not stated (Trustpilot; country=US)

Source: Trustpilot · 2026-10-07

Housecall ProBilling / cancellation / unwanted charges
“Seek another solution. This is not it.: We moved Live Free Mobile RV to Housecall Pro in early 2026 and used its field-service software, bookkeeping, and tax services. Our experience ultimately led us to cancel the accounting services and move our business to another platform.…”

Not stated (Trustpilot; country=US)

Source: Trustpilot · 2026-10-04

Housecall ProTerrible customer support
“You cannot manually sort reviews lowest to highest : You cannot manually change the default 4-review pagination limit per click inside the contractor's Housecall Pro internal Review Dashboard. Plus, you can't sort lower to highest. I used a contractor on this platform, and had a…”

Not stated (Trustpilot; country=US)

Source: Trustpilot · 2026-10-02

Housecall ProFrequent unannounced changes to legacy features
“The only issue I have with it is they release new updates so often, and sometimes don't tell you which legacy things it replaces or they change to accommodate the new thing”

Small construction company (commenter works with them); country not stated

Source: Reddit · 2025-10-29

Housecall ProCannot cancel after sign-up
“Run!!!! Housecall Pro sucks if you want to cancel. I looked at their website, got bombed with phone calls, signed up, changed my mind after looking into it, and have not been able to cancel”

Contractor (posted in r/Contractor); trade and country not stated

Source: Reddit · 2025-12-09

Housecall ProBilled on wrong plan; cancellation refused
“They lied and put me on what they call the essential mechanical plan for $299 per month and said they couldn’t change it”

Not stated (r/Contractor; username suggests plumbing, not stated); country not stated

Source: Reddit · 2026-08-14

Housecall ProTerrible support
“Run away from HCP. Absolutely terrible support and that company is the worst to work with”

Contractor (posted in r/Contractor); trade and country not stated

Source: Reddit · 2026-07-16

Housecall ProReview requests don't produce Google reviews
“What caused me to dump Housecall pro was the fact that when it asks a client for a review, it only gets a Google review if the client has a Gmail account”

Contractor (posted in r/Contractor); trade and country not stated

Source: Reddit · 2025-10-19

BuildbookHousecall ProSales redirected to unsuitable product
“I went out on my own so I called and they kept directing me to housecall pro which doesn't suit my needs whatsoever. The dude who ran the demo for me didn't care that I was a homebuilder”

Homebuilder (sole operator); country not stated

Source: Reddit · 2025-05-05