Pricing
Housecall Pro pricing: $59 buys one login, and the second one costs $90
Basic is $59/mo, Essentials $149/mo and Max $299/mo on annual billing, with 1, 5 and 8 users included. Only Max sells extra seats, so the second login and the sixth are where the bill jumps. The cost at every headcount, and what to do about it.
One login: Basic, $59/mo annual. Two to five: Essentials, $149/mo — the second user costs $90 because Basic sells no extra seats. Six to eight: Max, $299/mo. Past eight, $35 a seat. The cheapest price per login is at exactly five users ($29.80) or exactly eight ($37.38); anywhere else you are paying for empty seats.
Housecall Pro publishes its prices, which already puts it ahead of half the category. Most pages that cover it treat $59 as the price and assume you can add people to it. The pricing page does not sell seats that way. Each tier carries a fixed allowance — one user on Basic, five on Essentials, eight on Max — and an extra-seat price is listed on Max only. That turns the ladder into two cliffs rather than a slope, and the cliffs are where a growing shop overpays.
Every figure below was read on housecallpro.com/pricing on 24 October 2026.
The three plans
| Plan | Annual billing | Month-to-month | Users included | Extra users |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $59/mo | $79/mo | 1 | Not listed |
| Essentials | $149/mo | $189/mo | 5 | Not listed |
| Max | $299/mo | $329/mo | 8 | $35/mo each |
Three things in that table do the work.
Seats come with the tier, not with the hire. The page and its plan data list “Additional users ($35/mo each)” under Max and nowhere else. On Basic and Essentials the allowance is the ceiling, so the way to add a person is to change plan. A shop that asks may be offered something else; this page prints what is published.
The annual discount is not uniform. Basic is 25% cheaper on annual billing, Essentials 21%, Max 9%. The bigger the plan, the smaller the reward for committing to a year — the opposite of what most buyers assume.
Each tier adds a defined set of features. Basic already includes online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates, invoicing, payments and consumer financing, a price book, job costing and review management. Essentials adds routes, flat-rate pricing, checklist automations, photo reports, employee GPS tracking, commissions and QuickBooks Online sync. Max adds a sales proposal tool, recurring service plans, route optimisation, open API access, a dedicated onboarding specialist and escalated phone support.
On 24 October the page was also running introductory offers: Basic and Essentials at $26 for the first month, and Max at $99 a month for three months.
What a shop actually pays
The cheapest published plan at each headcount:
| Users | Plan | Annual billing | Month-to-month | Per login, annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basic | $59/mo | $79/mo | $59.00 |
| 2 | Essentials | $149/mo | $189/mo | $74.50 |
| 3 | Essentials | $149/mo | $189/mo | $49.67 |
| 5 | Essentials | $149/mo | $189/mo | $29.80 |
| 6 | Max | $299/mo | $329/mo | $49.83 |
| 8 | Max | $299/mo | $329/mo | $37.38 |
| 10 | Max + 2 seats | $369/mo | $399/mo | $36.90 |
| 15 | Max + 7 seats | $544/mo | $574/mo | $36.27 |
Read the second and sixth rows twice. The second login costs $90 a month on annual billing ($110 month-to-month). The sixth costs $150 ($140 month-to-month). Between those two points headcount is free, and past eight it is $35 a person.
Two practical consequences follow.
Five and eight are the efficient sizes. At five users Essentials works out at $29.80 per login, the lowest anywhere on the ladder. At two it is $74.50. If you are buying Essentials for two people, the three spare seats are already paid for — give logins to the field lead, the bookkeeper and the part-timer, because they cost nothing more.
The sixth hire is a software decision. Going from five people to six adds $1,800 a year to the software bill on annual billing. That is worth knowing before the hire, and it is exactly where a band-priced competitor pulls ahead: Jobber adds a sixth user to its five-user band for $29 a month (see Jobber pricing). The Jobber vs Housecall Pro comparison has the full table.
Max is a feature purchase that some shops are forced into
From six people up, you are on Max whether you want its features or not. Max is good value if you will use them — recurring service plans and route optimisation in particular earn their keep in a maintenance-heavy residential business, and the dedicated onboarding specialist matters more than it sounds when you are moving five years of customer history.
If you only need the seats, Max is $150 a month for three more logins and a feature set you did not ask for. That is the case where Housecall Pro stops being the obvious buy, and it is worth pricing an alternative before you sign.
The line that dwarfs all of this
None of the numbers above are the largest software-related cost for a shop that takes cards.
Housecall Pro says its card processing is “as low as 2.59%”, with 1% on bank payments. On $30,000 a month of card volume, 2.59% is $777 in processing against a $149 subscription for two to five users. The processing line is more than five times the software line, and it scales with revenue instead of headcount — so a good month costs you more than a quiet one.
Two cautions. “As low as 2.59%” is a floor, not a schedule; the rate that applies to your volume is a conversation, and you should get it in writing before you sign. And compare it against your current effective rate, including terminal rental and any gateway fee, because the headline percentage is rarely the whole cost.
The seat arithmetic in this article decides a few hundred dollars a year. The processing rate decides several thousand. Both matter, but only one of them is on the pricing page in bold.
Contracts and the renewal clause
Housecall Pro sells monthly or annual. The annual discount is real, and so is the commitment.
The terms say subscriptions renew automatically “if not terminated prior to such auto-renewal for a period equal to the subscription period.” A twelve-month contract signed in April renews in April whether or not anyone remembered, and missing the notice window costs you another year at whatever the price has become by then.
Two habits fix this. Put the renewal date in a calendar at signing with a 30-day reminder. And take monthly billing for the first three months even though it costs more — $60 more than annual on Basic, $120 on Essentials. Software that demos well and fails in week three is common; you are buying the right to change your mind, which at this scale is the correct trade.
Move to annual once the product has survived a busy season and the only open question is price. That is usually the second year.
Where Housecall Pro is the wrong buy
- You are one person with fewer than ten jobs a week. At $708 a year for one seat, the software costs more than the admin time it saves. A shared calendar and an invoicing app will do.
- You have six or seven people and no use for Max’s extras. You will pay $299 a month for seats that cost $178–$207 on Jobber’s annual Connect plan.
- You mainly do commercial contract work. The product is built around residential service calls and the marketing that generates them. Recurring commercial maintenance is a different shape of business, and the automation is aimed past it.
How to buy it
- Count the people who log in during a normal week, including the owner who checks the schedule from a phone and the bookkeeper who appears at month end.
- Find your row in the table. If you are at two, you are buying Essentials — use all five seats. If you are at five, price the sixth hire now.
- Start monthly, switch to annual after a busy season. Check the discount on the tier you are actually buying — it ranges from 25% to 9%.
- Get the processing rate in writing before you sign, and compare it against what you pay today.
- Ask what export looks like. Customer records, job history, photos and attachments: what format, what cost, and does the photo history survive. Ask before you import four years of it.
Prices in this article were read from housecallpro.com/pricing on 24 October 2026 and are re-checked monthly. Seat allowances and plan contents change more often than headline prices; confirm the specific feature on the vendor’s page before you buy. All published pricing is in the pricing index. Some links on this site are affiliate links — see the disclosure.
Correction, 24 October 2026: an earlier version priced extra seats at $35 on every tier and concluded that Essentials becomes cheaper than adding seats to Basic at four users. Housecall Pro’s page lists add-on seats on Max only, so the headcount table now uses each tier’s allowance.
Pricing on file
| Vendor | Entry price | Basis | Vendor site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housecall Pro | $59/mo | Basic, 1 user, billed annually | Current price → |
Sources: vendor pricing pages read on 24 October 2026; vendor documentation and help-centre articles where cited. Figures are reproduced as published by the vendor — no estimates are substituted for a missing price. Some outbound links are affiliate links; see the disclosure.