Housecall Pro is the better pick for residential service calls: booking, invoicing, payments and automatic customer notices when a job moves. Route optimization is on MAX only and reorders one technician’s single day.
Crewtide is the better pick when your week is recurring commercial customers spread across many technicians, because it builds the whole week at once and moves visits between days and people while respecting each customer’s window, usual days and crew size.
At a glance
| What matters for recurring routes | Housecall Pro | Crewtide |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Home service pros (HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning, lawn, pest) that want booking, jobs and payments in one app | Recurring commercial service teams of about 5 to 100 technicians who plan the same customers every week |
| Published price | Basic $59, Essentials $149, MAX $299 a month billed annually ($79, $189, $329 monthly) | Core $49 per technician a month billed annually, or $59 month to month. Pro $79 or $95, coming soon |
| What you pay for | Plan with users included: 1, 5 or 8. Extra MAX users $35/mo | Technicians on a route that month. Office users are free and unlimited. Minimum 3 technicians |
| Free trial | Yes14 days of MAX, no credit card | Yes14 days, no credit card |
| Recurring visits generated from one customer list | YesDaily, weekly, monthly, yearly and custom recurring jobs; Service Plans on MAX | YesCustomer rules hold each visit cycle and usual days, and every week is generated from them |
| Plans a whole week across every technician | PartlyRoutes show in week views and you drag jobs between them; optimization never moves jobs to another day or technician | YesBuilding the week places every due visit on a route, with route optimization on every plan |
| Service windows per customer | PartlyArrival windows on jobs; to protect a time from the optimizer you lock the job | YesService windows and no-go times for each customer |
| Crew size per visit | PartlyRoutes carry default employees; add or remove people per day | YesTime on site set per crew size |
| Shows what a move pushes back or bumps before you commit | UnclearNot found in their help center | YesFind a spot ranks every option and shows what it pushes back or bumps |
| Change log with a reason for every edit | UnclearNot found in their help center | YesEvery edit is logged with a reason, and undo works step by step |
| List of customers to tell when a visit moves | NoNotices go out automatically instead | YesTo notify list with the old time, the new time and the reason |
| Sends customer texts and emails | YesAutomatic text and email when a job’s time or technician changes | Coming soonTexts and emails from the To notify list come with Pro |
| Technician mobile app | YesHousecall Pro mobile app | Coming soonRoute sheets to print or export today; the phone app comes with Pro |
| Invoicing, quotes and payments | YesEstimates, invoices, payments; QuickBooks Online on Essentials and MAX | NoNot the goal: keep your current system for invoicing and customer records |
| Getting your data in | YesImport and export customers and jobs (emailed file) | YesImport customers from a spreadsheet; QuickBooks and Jobber sync are coming with Pro |
Pricing compared
Housecall Pro plans include a set number of users, office and field alike. Route optimization is a MAX feature (“Reorder jobs in one click based on real drive time and live traffic”); Essentials has Routes for grouping and sequencing work.
| Plan | Billed annually | Month to month |
|---|---|---|
| Housecall Pro MAX, 12 users | $439 | $469 |
| Crewtide Core, 10 technicians | $490 | $590 |
Housecall Pro MAX costs a little less and includes estimates, invoicing and payments. If you keep it and plan the week in Crewtide, you pay for both. The case for Crewtide is the planning itself: whole-team weekly building, windows, crews and a record of every change.
The pricing page labels only Basic’s $59 as billed annually; the other annual and monthly figures follow the page’s own “Saving $X/mo” amounts.
Where Housecall Pro is stronger
- Automatic customer notices. Customers get an updated text and email whenever a job’s time or technician changes, as long as their notifications are on.
- Booking to payment. Online booking, estimates, invoices, payments and reviews in one place.
- Live traffic. The day-of optimizer uses real drive times and live traffic, and leaves locked jobs where they are.
- A mobile app your team already knows. Crewtide’s phone app comes with Pro; today you print or export route sheets.
Where Crewtide fits better
- Balancing the week across the team. Housecall Pro’s optimizer “only reorders the jobs within a single tech’s day” and “doesn’t reschedule jobs to different days or change which tech a job is assigned to.” Crewtide builds the whole week and places each visit on the best route and day.
- Windows the optimizer respects. In Crewtide, service windows and no-go times are rules the plan follows, not jobs you lock to protect them.
- More than 15 routes. Housecall Pro’s route views are limited to 15 routes. Crewtide has no route-count limit for larger teams.
- The ripple, shown first. Find a spot shows whether a placement fits, pushes later stops back or bumps another stop, and the change log records why every edit was made.
Using Housecall Pro and Crewtide together
- Export customers.In Housecall Pro: Customers › Actions › Export (admins only; the file is emailed to you).
- Add cycles and windows.Add visit cycle, usual days, service window, time on site and crew size for your recurring customers.
- Plan in Crewtide, record in Housecall Pro.Build and publish the week in Crewtide, then update moved jobs in Housecall Pro from the change list. Housecall Pro will send its own notices for the jobs you change there.
Full steps and column mapping: use Crewtide with Housecall Pro.
Questions
Does Housecall Pro have route optimization?
Yes, on the MAX plan. It reorders one technician’s jobs for one day using real drive time and live traffic. It doesn’t move jobs to other days or technicians.
Is Crewtide a Housecall Pro replacement?
Only for scheduling and routing. Crewtide doesn’t do estimates, invoices or payments, so most teams keep Housecall Pro for those and plan the week in Crewtide.
How much is Housecall Pro for 10 technicians?
At list price, MAX with 12 users (10 technicians and 2 office users) is about $439 a month billed annually or $469 monthly: $299 or $329 for 8 users plus 4 extra users at $35.
Can I move my Housecall Pro customers into Crewtide?
Yes. Export customers from Housecall Pro, add each one’s visit cycle and service window, and import the file into Crewtide’s 14-day free trial.
Sources
Checked October 25, 2026. Plans and prices change; the vendor’s own page is the final word.