Housecall Pro vs FieldPulse
Housecall Pro vs FieldPulse: pricing, contracts and who each fits
Short answer: Pick Housecall Pro if you are a residential crew of up to about 8 that wants a published price, monthly billing with no long-term contract, and marketing and service plans in one app. Pick FieldPulse if you are a growing contractor that wants two-way QuickBooks sync (Online or Desktop), stock tracked by truck, projects and an AI assistant included, and you are fine with a quoted price on a one-year term.
Independent comparison by the Fieldproxy team. Every vendor fact is linked to its source; checked 13 November 2026.
At a glance
The differences that decide it
Both cover scheduling, estimates, invoices, payments, a customer portal and maintenance plans. The real differences are how they price and contract, accounting, offline, inventory and AI.
Housecall Pro
Home service software for residential trades, from solo operators to growing teams.
- Pricing
- $79, $189 or $329/mo ($59, $149 or $299 billed yearly) for 1, 5 or 8 users.[1]
- Contract
- No long-term contract required; monthly or yearly billing. Subscriptions auto-renew and fees are not prorated or refunded. Its help center says cancelling is completed after a team member speaks with the account owner.[1],[4],[5]
- Setup time
- Basic and Essentials are self-serve. MAX comes with a four-week onboarding journey with weekly training calls and a go-live date you set.[1],[6]
- Free trial
- 14 days of MAX, no card.[1]
- Built for
- Home service businesses such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning and landscaping, from solo operators to growing teams.[1]
FieldPulse
Field service software for growing trade contractors, quoted per seat.
- Pricing
- Not published. Seat-based, quoted in a sales call.[18]
- Contract
- One-year initial term unless your order form says otherwise, renewing yearly unless you give written notice at least 60 days before the end. No early termination for convenience; month-to-month needs 30 days' notice.[19]
- Setup time
- By team size: one user is self-serve; two users get up to two sessions within 14 days; 3 to 9 users finish training within 30 days; 10 or more within 60 days.[21]
- Free trial
- None published; the pricing page leads with a demo and a custom quote.[18]
- Built for
- Residential and commercial trades (HVAC, plumbing, electrical and more). FieldPulse says it is built for teams of 3 to 100 employees.[23]
Price and contract
Housecall Pro publishes $79, $189 and $329 a month (1, 5 and 8 users) and doesn't require a long-term contract. FieldPulse publishes no prices: it quotes per seat, and its terms set a one-year term that renews automatically unless you give 60 days' written notice, with no early exit for convenience. Month-to-month FieldPulse costs up to 50% more than its annual rate.
Accounting
FieldPulse syncs customers, items, estimates, invoices and payments both ways with QuickBooks Online and with QuickBooks Desktop 2024 or newer on Windows. Housecall Pro syncs with QuickBooks Online and pushes one way into QuickBooks Desktop. Neither has Xero in the US: FieldPulse's Xero sync is for Australia and New Zealand only, and we found no native Xero integration for Housecall Pro.
Offline and stock
Housecall Pro is view-only offline, for jobs opened earlier. FieldPulse lets technicians edit cached jobs, forms, estimates and invoices offline and clock in and out, though new customers, new jobs and payments wait for signal. FieldPulse tracks stock per truck and warehouse with purchase orders; Housecall Pro has no native stock tracking.
AI
Housecall Pro includes an AI team (marketing, chat, analyst, coach, help) on every plan and sells 24/7 AI call answering separately. FieldPulse includes Maverick, an assistant that drafts customers, jobs, estimates and schedules and saves nothing until you approve, and sells Operator AI and Chat AI as add-ons. Neither has an official ChatGPT or Claude connector to your data.
Pricing
Housecall Pro vs FieldPulse pricing
Published prices only, read off each vendor’s own pricing page on 13 November 2026. Where a vendor does not publish a price we say so rather than repeat third-party guesses.
Housecall Pro
Three published plans with a user count included; extra users priced on MAX.[1]
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly |
|---|---|---|
| Basic1 user | $79 | $59 |
| Essentials5 users | $189 | $149 |
| MAX8 users; $35/mo per extra user | $329 | $299 |
- Add-ons (CSR AI call answering, Pipeline, Voice, GPS and dashcams, Websites, Payroll and more) are sold separately; prices are not published.[1],[2]
- Card payments 2.59% (reader or Tap to Pay) to 3.49% (keyed, Amex), online card 2.99%, ACH 1%. Tap to Pay adds $5 per active device a month.[3]
- Introductory promos run on the page and change often, so we list the standing prices.[1]
FieldPulse
Seat-based custom quote: fees depend on the number of users and the add-ons you take. No plan names or prices on the page.[18],[19]
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly |
|---|---|---|
| Core platform + seatsMaverick AI assistant included on all plans | Quote | Quote |
| Premium productsEngage phones, Operator AI, Chat AI, Pricebook, Payments, Financing, Fleet Tracking, Custom Forms | Quote | Quote |
- Month-to-month subscriptions cost up to 50% more than the annual rate for the same users and products.[19]
- Seats rise automatically when you add a user past your count; billed seats don't fall when you remove users.[19]
- Self-import and accounting integrations are included; data migration by FieldPulse's team is a paid service.[20]
There is no like-for-like worked example, because FieldPulse doesn't publish a price. Get FieldPulse's written quote for the same headcount and add-ons, then compare it with Housecall Pro's published plan (for 8 users, MAX is $329 a month monthly or $299 billed yearly). Ask FieldPulse for both the annual and the month-to-month price.
Commitment
Contracts, minimums and implementation time
As each vendor states it. These decide your real switching cost more than the monthly price does.
| Housecall Pro | FieldPulse | |
|---|---|---|
| Contract | No long-term contract required; monthly or yearly billing. Subscriptions auto-renew and fees are not prorated or refunded. Its help center says cancelling is completed after a team member speaks with the account owner.[1],[4],[5] | One-year initial term unless your order form says otherwise, renewing yearly unless you give written notice at least 60 days before the end. No early termination for convenience; month-to-month needs 30 days' notice.[19] |
| Minimums | None stated. Downgrades take effect at the end of the billing period.[1] | The term on your order form (one year by default) and the seat count you signed for, which can't drop during the term.[19] |
| Implementation | Basic and Essentials are self-serve. MAX comes with a four-week onboarding journey with weekly training calls and a go-live date you set.[1],[6] | By team size: one user is self-serve; two users get up to two sessions within 14 days; 3 to 9 users finish training within 30 days; 10 or more within 60 days.[21] |
| Onboarding included | Dedicated onboarding specialist on MAX only; MAX customers can also work with the data import team.[1],[7] | Dedicated implementation specialist from 3 full users; accounting sync is switched on by request, and QuickBooks Desktop starts with a scheduled call.[21],[22] |
| Free trial | 14 days of MAX, no card.[1] | None published; the pricing page leads with a demo and a custom quote.[18] |
Features
Housecall Pro vs FieldPulse (and Fieldproxy), feature by feature
What each product does, with the plan it needs where the vendor says. Anything we could not confirm on the vendor's own pages is left out. The Fieldproxy column is our own product, so you can see a third option; each cell links to the page that shows it.
Scheduling and dispatch
Housecall Pro
Scheduling and dispatch on every plan; routes and employee GPS tracking on Essentials; route optimisation with live traffic on MAX.[1]
Jobs and work orders
Housecall Pro
Jobs with job costing and photo reports; custom checklists and checklist automations from Essentials.[1]
Quotes and estimates
Housecall Pro
Estimates on every plan, including multi-option (good, better, best) estimates; a sales proposal tool on MAX.[1],[8]
Invoicing and payments
Housecall Pro
Invoicing, payments and consumer financing on every plan; flat-rate pricing and commissions from Essentials.[1]
Maintenance agreements
Housecall Pro
Recurring Service Plans (maintenance agreements and memberships, billed monthly or yearly) on MAX.[1],[9]
FieldPulse
Maintenance agreements with scheduled routines, recurring billing, renewal reminders and a contract to sign.[31]
Inventory and purchasing
Housecall Pro
No native stock tracking; its help center points users to QuickBooks Online Plus inventory.[10]
FieldPulse
Stock per truck, van or warehouse with replenishment levels, serial numbers and purchase orders.[32]
Customer portal
Housecall Pro
Customer portal: view bookings, approve or decline estimates, pay and view invoices, book online, manage a card on file.[11]
FieldPulse
A link per customer to see jobs, estimates, invoices, payments and assets and request work, with an optional password.[33]
Mobile app and offline
Housecall Pro
iOS and Android, in English and Spanish. Offline is view-only and limited to jobs opened earlier; editing without signal isn't supported.[1],[12]
Reporting
Housecall Pro
Job costing and reporting; Analyst AI, included on every plan, answers questions about your numbers.[1],[2]
QuickBooks Online
Housecall Pro
Yes, on Essentials and MAX.[1]
FieldPulse
Yes, two-way (customers, items, estimates, invoices, payments) in the US, Canada and Australia; enabled on request.[38]
Fieldproxy
QuickBooks Desktop
Housecall Pro
Yes, US versions no more than three years old, on Windows 10 or later. After a one-time import, data syncs from Housecall Pro to QuickBooks.[13]
FieldPulse
Yes, mostly two-way, for QuickBooks Desktop 2024 or newer on Windows (no Mac), through the Web Connector; enabled on request.[22]
Fieldproxy
Xero and other accounting
Housecall Pro
No native Xero integration found. Zapier, on MAX, is the documented route to other tools.[1]
FieldPulse
Xero two-way, for businesses in Australia and New Zealand only. No Sage integration listed.[39]
API
Housecall Pro
Open API on MAX only; admins create keys, and Housecall Pro does not build custom integrations for you.[14],[1]
FieldPulse
REST API and webhooks; support switches it on, only the founding user can use it, 50 requests a second and 600,000 a month.[40]
Fieldproxy
AI features
Housecall Pro
AI Team on every plan: Marketing AI, CSR AI (chat), Analyst AI, Coach AI and Help AI. CSR AI 24/7 call answering is a paid add-on.[2]
ChatGPT / Claude (MCP)
Housecall Pro
No official ChatGPT or Claude connector found. Third-party routes (community MCP servers, Zapier MCP) run over the API, which needs MAX.[15],[14]
FieldPulse
No ChatGPT or Claude connector to account data found. The help centre's MCP server only searches help articles.[42]
Fit
Which trades and company sizes each one suits
Both serve residential trades. The split is team size and growth, accounting, stock, and how much commitment you want.
Pick Housecall Pro if…
- You are a residential HVAC, plumbing, electrical or cleaning crew of 1 to 8 and want a published price you can sign up for today.
- You want to stay month to month without a one-year term.
- Reviews, online booking and marketing drive your work, and you want those tools in the same app.
- Your technicians mostly work where there is signal.
Pick FieldPulse if…
- You are a growing contractor (FieldPulse names teams of 3 to 100) with service work, installs run as projects, and stock on trucks.
- Your books are in QuickBooks Desktop or Online and you want customers, estimates, invoices and payments to sync both ways.
- You want an AI assistant included in the base price that drafts records and waits for approval.
- You're comfortable with a quoted price and a one-year term in return for a hands-on onboarding.
Reviews
What users complain about
Recurring themes in G2 and Capterra reviews, paraphrased. Both products are well rated overall; these are the patterns in the critical reviews, not the average experience.
Housecall Pro
- Invoicing is called cumbersome and inflexible; it is the top con in Capterra's review summary.[17]
- Permissions are broad: reviewers want to stop technicians seeing revenue or moving appointments.[17]
- Costs add up with add-ons and extra users, and some find card fees high.[17]
- Some tasks only work on desktop, reports and QuickBooks sync can frustrate, and buttons move after updates without notice.[17]
FieldPulse
- Setup takes time, and some reviewers describe a learning curve before the team is comfortable.[44],[45]
- Cost adds up once extra users and add-ons are included, and some find payment processing fees high.[46]
- Occasional bugs and glitches that need workarounds.[44]
- Some want more customisation and easier API access for third-party tools.[44]
Switching
Switching between Housecall Pro and FieldPulse
Customer lists move by CSV in both directions. FieldPulse's contract term, memberships, open jobs and saved cards are what need planning.
Housecall Pro to FieldPulse
- An admin exports customers and jobs from Housecall Pro (Actions, then Export); the CSV is emailed.[7]
- FieldPulse imports with its own templates, not a direct Housecall Pro connection, and has a migration guide mapping Service Plans to Maintenance Agreements and the Price Book to its Item List.[47]
- Self-import is included; having FieldPulse's data engineers migrate the data for you is a paid service.[20]
- Read the order form before you sign: FieldPulse's default term is one year, renewing automatically unless you give 60 days' written notice.[19]
FieldPulse to Housecall Pro
- Send written notice of non-renewal to cancellations@fieldpulse.com at least 60 days before your term ends; you can't leave early for convenience.[19]
- An admin exports customers from FieldPulse's Customers page (the CSV arrives by email) and exports estimates and invoices as a spreadsheet. You have 60 days after the subscription ends to export.[48],[20],[19]
- Housecall Pro's import wizard takes CSV, XLS/XLSX and more; MAX customers can work with its data import team.[7]
- Rebuild maintenance agreements as Housecall Pro Service Plans, which are on MAX.[9]
What usually breaks in a switch, whichever way you go
- Recurring agreements. The agreement record usually exports; the schedule of future visits, visits used and renewal dates often have to be rebuilt. Ask who does that work.
- Price book. Items and prices export; good-better-best option packages, images and member pricing rules usually need rebuilding.
- Job history, photos and attachments. Ask how much history comes across and in what form. Photos and PDFs are usually the hardest part to move.
- Equipment records. Make, model, serial and install date per customer drive replacement sales, so move them properly rather than as a notes field.
- Stored cards. Saved cards are held by the payment processor, not the field service app, so they rarely move. Plan for customers to re-enter cards.
- Open work and timing. Pick a cut-over date for open estimates, unpaid invoices and booked jobs, and switch in a quiet season, not your busiest week.
Before you sign
Questions to ask both vendors in the demo
- FieldPulse: what is the price per seat on an annual term and on month-to-month, and which premium products are in that number?
- FieldPulse: what does the order form say about the term, renewal and notice, and can we reduce seats at renewal?
- Who moves our data across, what exactly comes over (agreements, price book, photos, equipment), and what do we rebuild ourselves?
- Show a tech building a good, better, best quote on the phone with no signal.
- Show a maintenance agreement with our real terms: visits per year, member pricing, renewal reminder.
- Can we change forms, job stages and checklists ourselves later, and how long does a change take?
A third option
Where Fieldproxy fits
When it is worth a look
Fieldproxy is AI-native field service software that is set up around your own workflow: your job types, stages, forms and approval steps, live within a day. It is one price per company with unlimited users, and you can run it from ChatGPT or Claude through its MCP server. It replaces Housecall Pro or FieldPulse; it does not sit on top of either.
It is worth a look when neither template fits your process: commercial accounts with their own visit rules, approvals before a quote goes out, contracts with not-to-exceed amounts, or many office and part-time users where per-seat pricing hurts. It is one price per company with unlimited users, migration is free, and Claude or ChatGPT can create jobs and invoices for you with a confirm step.
When it is not
If you are a small residential crew running a standard estimate, job, invoice flow, Housecall Pro will serve you well and is quicker to start, and Fieldproxy is more system than you need.
Fieldproxy has no free trial or card sign-up; pricing is quoted on a call. If you want to start today on your own, Housecall Pro offers a 14-day trial of MAX with no card. FieldPulse starts with a demo.
FAQ
Housecall Pro vs FieldPulse: common questions
Is Housecall Pro or FieldPulse cheaper?
Does FieldPulse or Housecall Pro have a long-term contract?
Which works better with QuickBooks?
Do FieldPulse and Housecall Pro work offline?
Which has inventory tracking?
Which handles maintenance agreements better?
Which has better AI features?
Can I use Housecall Pro or FieldPulse from ChatGPT or Claude?
How hard is it to switch between them?
Which is better for a growing HVAC company?
Go deeper
Sources
Each vendor fact on this page links to one of these. All checked 13 November 2026. Vendors change plans often; if you spot something out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
- [1] Housecall Pro pricing page (plans, FAQ)
- [2] Housecall Pro AI Team
- [3] Housecall Pro Help: payment processing options
- [4] Housecall Pro terms of service
- [5] Housecall Pro Help: billing and account management
- [6] Housecall Pro Help: MAX onboarding support overview
- [7] Housecall Pro Help: import and export jobs and customers
- [8] Housecall Pro Help: what's new in estimates (multi-option)
- [9] Housecall Pro Help: service plans starter kit
- [10] Housecall Pro Help: how do I keep track of inventory?
- [11] Housecall Pro Help: using the customer portal
- [12] Housecall Pro Help: mobile FAQ (offline)
- [13] Housecall Pro Help: QuickBooks Desktop integration overview
- [14] Housecall Pro Help: API overview
- [15] Zapier: Housecall Pro MCP (third-party)
- [16] Housecall Pro Help: custom fields
- [17] Capterra: Housecall Pro reviews
- [18] FieldPulse pricing page (seat-based, premium products)
- [19] FieldPulse terms of service (sections 8 and 24)
- [20] FieldPulse Help: data import and export overview
- [21] FieldPulse Customer Success Agreement (onboarding by team size)
- [22] FieldPulse Help: QuickBooks Desktop overview
- [23] FieldPulse: FieldPulse vs Housecall Pro (FieldPulse's own page)
- [24] FieldPulse Help: dispatch and map view (route optimisation, trip tracking)
- [25] FieldPulse Help: Chat AI overview (add-on)
- [26] FieldPulse Help: project management overview
- [27] FieldPulse Help: custom status workflows
- [28] FieldPulse Help: estimate options and add-ons (good, better, best)
- [29] FieldPulse Help: Pricebook overview (add-on)
- [30] FieldPulse Help: payment provider options (Tap to Pay)
- [31] FieldPulse Help: maintenance agreements overview
- [32] FieldPulse Help: inventory hubs
- [33] FieldPulse Help: customer portal overview
- [34] FieldPulse Help: Service Agent mobile app overview (iOS and Android)
- [35] FieldPulse Help: offline mode overview
- [36] FieldPulse Help: reporting and analytics
- [37] FieldPulse Help: Maverick overview
- [38] FieldPulse Help: QuickBooks Online overview
- [39] FieldPulse Help: Xero overview (Australia and New Zealand)
- [40] FieldPulse Help: API overview (access, limits, webhooks)
- [41] FieldPulse Help: Operator AI overview (add-on)
- [42] FieldPulse help centre MCP server (documentation search tools only)
- [43] FieldPulse Help: custom forms overview
- [44] G2: FieldPulse reviews
- [45] Capterra: FieldPulse reviews
- [46] GetApp: FieldPulse reviews and summary
- [47] FieldPulse Help: migrate from Housecall Pro to FieldPulse
- [48] FieldPulse Help: how to export customers
Process doesn’t fit either template?
See Fieldproxy set up around your own job types, forms and approvals, live within a day.