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Tillage

Housecall Pro

Monthly price

$0, unlimited users, quotes and invoices

$59–$299/mo billed yearly, or $79–$329 monthly. No free plan; 14-day trial

Online payment fees

Your client can cover them

Cards 2.59% in person, 2.99% online, 3.49% keyed, on file or Amex; ACH 1%, no cap found

Margin on quotes

Variance buffer and profit margin on every line

Material markup tiers in the price book and job costing; no variance buffer found

The short answer

Housecall Pro is field service software for home service businesses: scheduling, dispatch, routing, a crew app, online booking and marketing, with estimates and invoices built in. Plans start at $59 a month billed yearly for one user. Tillage is free quote-to-cash software with no scheduling or dispatch, but quotes with margin on every line, contracts from approved quotes, payment schedules that issue each invoice, and lower fees on large bank payments. If you run crews and trucks, Housecall Pro does far more. If you need to quote, sign and get paid, Tillage costs nothing.

Choose Tillage if

  • YesYou quote larger jobs and want to pay $0 a month for the whole team
  • YesYou take big payments by bank transfer and want ACH fees capped
  • YesYou need deposits and milestone invoices issued on a schedule, not by hand

Choose Housecall Pro if

  • YesYou schedule, dispatch and route crews every day
  • YesYour techs need a field app with GPS, checklists and photos
  • YesYou want online booking, review management and marketing in the same tool

Tillage vs Housecall Pro, feature by feature

Feature comparison of Tillage and Housecall Pro
FeatureTillageHousecall Pro
Monthly priceYes$0, unlimited users, quotes and invoicesPartly$59–$299/mo billed yearly, or $79–$329 monthly. No free plan; 14-day trial
Online payment feesYesStripe 2.9% + 30¢ (cards) or 0.8% capped at $5 (ACH), plus 1% capped at $50 per invoicePartlyCards 2.59% in person, 2.99% online, 3.49% keyed, on file or Amex; ACH 1%, no cap found
Pass fees to clientsYesBoth Stripe and platform fees, set team-widePartlyCredit card surcharge up to 3%, with a 0.5% Housecall Pro fee; not ACH or debit, not in CT, ME, MA or NY
Quotes and estimatesYesHours × rate, or itemized with units and sectionsYesEstimates with options, price book and flat-rate pricing; sales proposal tool on Max
Variance and profit margin on quotesYesVariance buffer and profit margin on every linePartlyMaterial markup tiers in the price book and job costing; no variance buffer found
Contracts with e-signaturesYesGenerated from approved quotesPartlyE-signatures on estimates with your terms; no separate contracts found
Deposits and milestone payment schedulesYesPercentages triggered by signing, dates or milestonesPartlyDeposits on estimates; progress invoices created by hand
Recurring invoices and retainersYesWeekly, monthly, quarterly, every six months or yearlyPartlyService plans billed to a card on the Max plan; ACH autopay not found
Client pages with no loginYesSecure links to approve, sign and payYesCustomer portal by magic link, no password
Time trackingNoNot a time trackerYesClock in and out, job and travel time, timesheets
Full accounting and bookkeepingNoUse alongside your accounting softwarePartlyHCP Accounting bookkeeping service, priced on a sales call
QuickBooks or Xero syncNoComing soon: QuickBooks Online, Xero, Mercury and PuzzlePartlyQuickBooks Online on Essentials and Max; no native Xero found
AI quote draftingYesDrafts line items, hours and rates with your OpenAI or Claude keyPartlyAI team for calls, chat, reports and marketing copy; no AI estimate drafting found
Claude and ChatGPT through MCPYesQuotes, contracts and invoicesNoNo official MCP server found; public API on Max
Scheduling, dispatch and routingNoNot a scheduling or dispatch toolYesScheduling and dispatch on all plans; routes and GPS on Essentials; route optimization on Max

Housecall Pro pricing

Prices exclude sales tax. On November 3, 2026 the pricing page also showed first-month and three-month intro discounts. Add-ons such as CSR AI call answering, Payroll, Accounting, Campaigns, Voice, Websites and dashcams are sold separately, mostly without published prices. Tap to Pay costs $5 per active device a month.

Basic
$59/mo billed yearly, or $79 monthly1 user. Scheduling and dispatch, estimates and invoicing, online booking, price book, job costing, review management
Essentials
$149/mo billed yearly, or $189 monthly5 users. Adds routes, flat-rate pricing, checklists, photo reports, employee GPS, commissions and QuickBooks Online sync
Max
$299/mo billed yearly, or $329 monthly8 users, then $35/mo per extra user. Adds the sales proposal tool, recurring service plans, route optimization and API access
Tillage, for comparison
$0/month with unlimited users1% when paid online, capped at $50 per invoice. Your client can cover it. See pricing

Where Housecall Pro is better

No tool is right for everyone. Here is where it may suit you better.

Scheduling, dispatch and routing

Scheduling and dispatch on every plan, routes and employee GPS tracking on Essentials, and route optimization on Max. Tillage does none of this.

A field app for crews

Free iOS and Android apps in English and Spanish, with offline viewing, checklists, photo reports and in-person payments by card reader or Tap to Pay.

Booking and marketing

Online booking, a customer portal for booking and rescheduling, review management, and add-ons for campaigns, websites and an AI that answers calls.

Crew and back-office tools

Time tracking with timesheets, commissions, a Payroll add-on, job costing and a price book with flat-rate pricing and material markups.

Financing for customers

Consumer financing on every plan, so homeowners can spread the cost of a large job.

Where Tillage is better for contractors

$0 for the whole crew

Housecall Pro starts at $59 a month for one user, $149 for five and $299 for eight, with $35 a month for each extra user on Max. Tillage is free with unlimited users, quotes and invoices.

Lower fees on big bank payments

Housecall Pro charges 1% on bank payments, and we found no cap, so a $20,000 payment costs $200. In Tillage, ACH costs 0.8% capped at $5, plus a 1% platform fee capped at $50, so the same payment costs at most $55.

Clients can cover every fee

Housecall Pro surcharges credit cards only, up to 3%, and charges you 0.5% on each surcharged payment. It is not available in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts or New York. Tillage lets clients cover card, ACH and platform fees.

Payment schedules that run themselves

Housecall Pro takes a deposit on the estimate, then you create each progress invoice by hand. In Tillage, one schedule issues each deposit and milestone invoice on signing, a date or a milestone.

Contracts and margin on every quote

Housecall Pro estimates collect e-signatures with your terms and mark up materials by cost range. Tillage adds a variance buffer and profit margin to every line, and turns approved quotes into signed contracts.

Switching from Housecall Pro

  1. 1

    Put your customer list and price book items into CSV files and import them into Tillage as clients and items.

  2. 2

    Recreate your usual deposit and progress split as a Tillage payment schedule template.

  3. 3

    Connect Stripe in Tillage, set which clients cover the fees, and import any Stripe subscriptions as recurring invoices.

  4. 4

    Keep Housecall Pro for scheduling and dispatch if your crews rely on it, and quote, sign and bill larger jobs in Tillage.

Related guides and tools

Sources

Checked Nov 3, 2026. Pricing and features change, so if something here is out of date, email support@tillage.ai and we will fix it.

Tillage vs Housecall Pro questions

Does Tillage do scheduling or dispatch?

No. Tillage has no scheduling, dispatch, routing or crew app. If you need those, Housecall Pro is the better fit, and some contractors keep it for the schedule and use Tillage for quotes, contracts and payments.

Can Housecall Pro pass card fees to customers?

Yes, for credit cards. Its surcharge is capped at 3%, Housecall Pro charges 0.5% on each surcharged payment, and it doesn’t apply to debit cards, ACH, Apple Pay or Google Pay, or in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York and Canada. Tillage lets clients cover card, ACH and platform fees.

How much does Housecall Pro cost?

On November 3, 2026, plans were $59, $149 and $299 a month billed yearly, or $79, $189 and $329 monthly, for 1, 5 and 8 users. Card fees run 2.59% to 3.49% and bank payments 1%. Tillage is $0 a month, with fees only on online payments.

Can I import my Housecall Pro data into Tillage?

There’s no direct Housecall Pro import. Tillage imports clients and items from CSV files, and subscriptions from Stripe.

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