Housecall Pro vs FieldEdge: What HVAC, Plumbing and Electrical Firms Can Price Before a Demo

Housecall Pro vs FieldEdge comes down to seeing a price before a demo: Housecall Pro lists one for every plan, while FieldEdge quotes each plan in a sales call. Housecall Pro shows HVAC, plumbing and electrical businesses trade prices, starting at $79 a month for 1 user, billing term not stated (published price), while FieldEdge’s pricing page has a “Request Pricing” button on each of its three plans.

FieldEdge publishes no price for 10 users; Housecall Pro's is $9,588 a year, billing term not stated (published price). With no FieldEdge figure, this page cannot say which of the two costs less for any team. It sets out instead how each one charges, what each plan includes, the contract each one asks you to sign and what to ask FieldEdge to quote, from both vendors’ public pages as checked on November 10, 2026. We have not used either product.

FieldEdge sells to HVAC, plumbing and electrical contractors, according to its home page, which are the three trades Housecall Pro prices separately on its HVAC, plumbing and electrical pages. So the trade prices are the ones most readers of this page will be offered. Both vendors are in our HVAC software price comparison.

Housecall Pro and FieldEdge side by side

The columns follow the ordering rule in our methodology, which is the published yearly cost for a team of ten. The order is not a judgment of either product.

Each plan by billing term

Housecall Pro’s general plans have annual and month-to-month prices; its trade packages carry no billing term, so they sit in a column of their own. FieldEdge’s plans have no price on any term.

Where their features differ

From each vendor's own plan pages, checked on November 10, 2026. 'Not listed' means the vendor's pages don't mention it on that plan, not that the product can't do it. We have not used these products.

Housecall Pro and FieldEdge: the features where they differ, the lowest plan that includes each

Feature	Housecall Pro	FieldEdge
Route optimization	✓ On Max 1 22	Not listed (Feature page does not say which plans) 33 28
GPS tracking	✓ From Essentials; add-on on Basic 22 17 6	Not listed (Feature page does not say which plans) 33 29
Online booking	✓ All plans 22	✓ On Elite; add-on on Select and Premier 33 25
Multi-option estimates	✓ On Max; add-on on Basic and Essentials (general plans) 15 22	✓ From Premier; add-on on Select 33
Online card payments	✓ All plans 22	✓ On Elite; add-on on Select and Premier 33 25 26
Service agreements and memberships	✓ On Max; add-on on Basic and Essentials (general plans) 22 6 21	✓ All plans 33
Flat-rate pricebook	✓ From Essentials 22	✓ All plans 33
Equipment tracking	Not listed (general plans) 22 19	Not listed (Feature page does not say which plans) 33 27
Inventory	Not listed 22	✓ On Elite 33
QuickBooks Online sync	✓ From Essentials 8 22	✓ All plans 33
QuickBooks Desktop sync	Not listed (Feature page does not say which plans) 22 16	✓ All plans 33
Customer portal	Not listed 22	✓ On Elite; add-on on Select and Premier 33 25
Two-way texting	✓ All plans 14	✓ On Elite; add-on on Select and Premier 33 31
Email and text marketing	✓ All plans 11	✓ On Elite; add-on on Select and Premier 33 31
Phone system or call tracking	Add-on 10 22	✓ On Elite 33
Timesheets	Not listed 22	✓ All plans 33
Job costing	✓ All plans (general plans) 22	Not listed 33
Open API	✓ On Max 13 22	Not listed 33 32

• Both Housecall Pro and FieldEdge include these on every plan: scheduling and dispatch; estimates and quotes; invoicing. 22 15 33

Each cell names the lowest plan, in the vendor's own order, whose page lists the feature ("From"), or the plans that list it ("On") when only the vendor's last plan does or a higher plan does not. The cells come from each vendor's own plan pages. "(general plans)" means one of the vendor's trade-specific plans lists that feature differently.

Yearly cost for a team of three, ten or thirty

How each cost is worked out: 12 times the monthly price of the cheapest plan that allows that many users (a small team is 2 technicians and 1 office user, a mid-size team 8 and 2, a large team 25 and 5), on that plan's cheapest published billing term. That plan may not include every feature you need. One-off fees are listed separately and are not included.

Yearly cost at three team sizes

Vendor	3 users Small team: 2 technicians, 1 office	10 users Mid-size team: 8 technicians, 2 office	30 users Large team: 25 technicians, 5 office
Housecall Pro, general pricing	$1,788 a year Published Essentials, billed annually	$4,428 a year Published Max, billed annually	$12,828 a year Published Max, billed annually
Housecall Pro, HVAC, plumbing and electrical pricing	$3,588 a year Published Essentials, billing term not stated	$9,588 a year Published Essentials or Max (same cost), billing term not stated	$27,588 a year Published Max, billing term not stated
FieldEdge	Not published	Not published	Not published

Plus one-off fees, not published: Housecall Pro, general pricing and Housecall Pro, HVAC, plumbing and electrical pricing.

On the trade price list that HVAC, plumbing and electrical businesses see, a team of three is $3,588 a year on Essentials, billing term not stated (published price) and a team of thirty is $27,588 a year on Max, billing term not stated (published price). Each Housecall Pro figure is twelve times the monthly price of the cheapest plan that allows that many users, before add-ons and card fees. FieldEdge’s row is Not published at every size, and no reported range for it has met the standard on our page about how we label and estimate prices, so there is nothing to put beside Housecall Pro’s figures.

The differences that change the decision

Users against licenses

Housecall Pro counts users. On its general pricing page, Basic covers one user, Essentials five and Max eight, and its billing help article says only Max can add more, at a charge for each. Its trade packages sell Essentials and Max either for one user or as a bundle of users, each with its own charge per extra user, on the HVAC page.

FieldEdge counts licenses of two kinds. Its plumbing software page says office licenses give managers and dispatchers the dispatch board and reporting, while the mobile app serves staff in the field. Its pricing page lists two mobile app licenses on Select, four on Premier and six on Elite, and Premier mentions additional mobile app licenses, but it gives no office license count and no price for an extra license of either kind. The same page says the price depends on how many technicians or employees you have and which add-ons you choose.

Contract and leaving

The contract terms row above quotes both vendors. They differ in what you commit to at the start.

Housecall Pro sells month to month or annually in advance with no long-term contract, according to its pricing page; under its Terms of Service, plans renew automatically and fees are not prorated or refunded except as the terms state. To cancel, those Terms say to email Housecall Pro, and its billing help article says a cancellation is not processed until the billing team has spoken with the account owner by phone.

FieldEdge plans are sold on an Order Form under Xplor’s standard US software terms, which the “Service Agreement” link on FieldEdge’s legal page opens. Under those terms, the first term is whatever the Order Form says, renewal is automatic unless written notice arrives before a deadline, and ending early means paying the monthly fees left on the term. The Order Form overrides the standard terms where they differ. FieldEdge’s pricing page adds that moving up a plan can happen at any time, but moving down waits for the end of the contract period.

Trying before buying

Housecall Pro’s trial terms: 14-day free trial with full access to Max plan features and no credit card needed to start. A trial with no payment method closes on its own after 14 days. 22 6 Basic and Essentials can be bought from the pricing page, while Max is sold through a demo. FieldEdge offers no free trial, and the FAQ on its pricing page gives the reason as its onboarding team moving your data and training your staff. Every FieldEdge plan includes an onboarding specialist, but Xplor’s terms allow for implementation fees agreed in the Order Form, with no amount given.

FieldEdge does publish prices for training bought after go-live. Its training options article lists a basic virtual group class at $399 one-off (published price) and a private half-day virtual session at $750 one-off (published price). The same article says each customer gets some free sessions with a trainer before these apply.

Extras on the lower plans

FieldEdge’s pricing page shows “Call for Pricing” for Proposal Pro, MarketingEdge and the Consumer Management Portal on Select and Premier, and Elite includes all three. Its FAQ says a product expert gives those prices after a demo.

Housecall Pro publishes prices for several of its extras. Its sales proposal tool is $40 a month, billing term not stated (published price) on Basic and Essentials and comes with Max, according to its estimating page, and vehicle GPS tracking is $20 per vehicle a month, billing term not stated (published price), according to its GPS page. Its AI answering service, Pipeline, Payroll and Accounting have no published price, according to its AI Team and Accounting help articles and its billing help article.

Card processing

Housecall Pro’s rates are in the payment processing row above and vary with how the card is taken, according to its payment processing help article. FieldEdge Payments runs on Xplor Pay, and its payments page says rates are tailored to your transaction volume without listing any. A FieldEdge buyer should have the rate for its expected card volume written into the quote.

Features and support

FieldEdge includes QuickBooks Desktop sync on every plan; Housecall Pro's plan pages do not list it (Feature page does not say which plans). Housecall Pro’s QuickBooks page does say it integrates with the desktop edition, so a business on QuickBooks Desktop should ask Housecall Pro which plan includes it. FieldEdge includes service agreements and memberships on every plan; on its general plans, Housecall Pro includes them on Max (an add-on on Basic and Essentials). Housecall Pro’s HVAC, plumbing and electrical packages include membership plans from Essentials, according to its HVAC and plumbing pages and its electrical package overview. FieldEdge's plan pages do not list route optimization (Feature page does not say which plans); Housecall Pro includes it on Max.

FieldEdge ties support to the plan: chat on Select, email and phone on Premier, and a dedicated customer success representative on Elite, according to its pricing page. The grid of features where they differ, under the plan grid, has the rest, such as multi-option estimates and two-way texting.

What to get in writing

From FieldEdge, every figure comes from the quote, so ask for these in the Order Form:

• Licenses. How many mobile app and office licenses the plan includes, and the price of each extra one (plumbing software page).
• Extras on Select or Premier. A price for each of Proposal Pro, MarketingEdge and the Consumer Management Portal you want, next to a quote for Elite, which includes them (pricing page).
• Term and renewal. The length of the first term and the date notice must arrive to stop renewal (Xplor’s terms).
• Implementation. Whether any implementation fee applies, as an amount (Xplor’s terms).
• Card rates. The FieldEdge Payments rate for your volume (payments page).

From Housecall Pro, the plan price is published, so the questions are narrower:

• Which price list. Whether your account will be billed on the trade list or the general one, and on what billing term, since the trade pages state none (HVAC page).
• Unpriced extras. The price of any add-on without a published figure that you plan to use, such as the AI answering service or Payroll (billing help article).

Who should pick which

There is no overall winner here. Four questions decide it: do you need a price before a sales call, how do your staff split between office and field, how much contract commitment you accept, and which accounting and maintenance tools you depend on.

A price up front. Housecall Pro lets a business compare its trade or general price list with its budget and buy Basic or Essentials without a demo. FieldEdge suits a buyer who is prepared to go through a demo and a quote to get a figure.

Office and field staff. Housecall Pro counts every user, so a business can work out its cost from headcount, using Max’s per-user charge beyond eight users on the general list. FieldEdge’s quote depends on mobile and office licenses, so a business with a large office should ask how many office licenses each plan includes.

Commitment. Housecall Pro sells month to month or annually in advance with no long-term contract; its plans renew automatically and fees are not refunded. A FieldEdge buyer signs an Order Form with a set first term and an early-exit charge, and should read both before signing.

Accounting and maintenance work. FieldEdge’s home page puts QuickBooks syncing up front and describes itself as built for small and mid-market contractors running several trucks, and its field service software page describes tracking service agreements due for renewal. Housecall Pro’s HVAC package help article describes that package as set up for residential and light-commercial work.

For the full price lists, see the FieldEdge pricing page and the Housecall Pro pricing page. For two vendors that both publish, the Housecall Pro vs Jobber comparison sets their costs side by side, and the field service software price index lists every plan we track. Other head-to-heads: FieldEdge vs ServiceTitan and Housecall Pro vs ServiceTitan.