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Scheduling & Booking
Book jobs with drag-and-drop tools and live updates
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Track every job’s status, cost, and tasks in one system
Inventory Management
Monitor and reorder stock across vans and sites
Timesheets
Log hours by GPS or tap and sync to jobs and payroll fast
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Generate invoices and accept payments instantly
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Sync with QuickBooks Online or Xero in real time
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Push timesheets and leave to payroll automatically
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Electricians
Power your business with our field service management software designed specifically for electricians.
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Manage schedules, track expenses, and streamline communication with Ascora for plumbers.
Painting & Drywall
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HVAC
Optimize every aspect of your heating, ventilation and air conditioning business.
Roofing
Track roofing inspections, quotes, and jobs to keep everything on schedule and organized.
Building & Construction
Small Jobs to large scale projects with scheduling, tasks and project templates to build out your processes
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Discover how Ascora is the perfect field service management tool for your trade business
ASCORA VS HOUSECALL PRO
Housecall Pro runs the visit. Ascora runs the project.
Housecall Pro is built for residential one-visit work and sells seat bundles by tier. Ascora is for growing contractors whose jobs turned into projects, phases, progress billing across phases, change orders, without jumping to ServiceTitan. Every figure below is theirs, with the date we read it.
Published pricing
Month to month
No lock-in
Trusted by trade businesses across HVAC, plumbing, electrical & construction since 2009
One map for your entire trade business.
Every Ascora capability that runs your business, from first lead to final invoice. Follow the line, tap any stop, and see exactly what it does.
Select a feature to learn more
Click any stop on the map above to see what it does and watch it in action.
Capture leads from your website, Facebook and phone calls - and track every opportunity from first contact through to a quote sent and a job booked.
Build accurate quotes using item libraries and price books, then send them with branded templates that get approved on the spot.
Track every job from booking to completion - assigned teams, checklists, photos, attachments, materials and live status, all on one record.
Track stock levels, reorder items and manage purchase orders across multiple warehouses, vans and job sites - every movement linked back to the job that used it.
Raise invoices in the office or on site, accept payment on the spot, and let automated reminders chase the rest. Cash flow, sorted.
Customers, invoices, payments and supplier bills stay aligned with QuickBooks Online and Xero - automatically, in both directions.
Live dashboards for jobs, team performance, materials and money - so you can make decisions on today's numbers, not last month's.
The Ascora mobile app puts quotes, jobs, schedules, timesheets and payments in the field worker's hand - on iOS and Android, with full offline access.
Plan, assign and track multi-phase projects on one connected timeline - with Gantt scheduling, per-phase cost tracking, and built-in RFI and variation logging.
A visual scheduler the whole team understands at a glance - perfect for one-off jobs, projects with phases, and recurring service work.
Track every piece of equipment, schedule maintenance automatically, and pull a full service history with one tap - perfect for HVAC, fire, electrical and any service trade.
Build JHAs, JSAs, safety checklists, inspections and job reports as digital forms - complete with photos, signatures, dropdowns and comments. Filed straight against the job or quote.
Log time with geo-fencing or manual entry from the field, and feed hours straight into job costing and payroll - no paperwork, no end-of-week guessing.
Drop a PDF or CSV into Ascora and the AI captures the supplier, items, costs and taxes - no more manual data entry, no more typos.
Invoice each phase by percentage complete, handle change orders cleanly, track every claim live, and push it all to your accounting system.
Push approved timesheets and leave straight to your payroll platform - Xero or Deputy - for fast, accurate pay runs every time.
Customers, invoices, payments and supplier bills stay aligned with QuickBooks Online and Xero - automatically, in both directions.
Six reasons contractors switch from Housecall Pro.
The second truck changed the job
One-visit work fits a one-visit system. Repipes, change-outs and commercial fit-outs do not - they need phases, progress billing across phases, and a change order when the scope moves.
You are buying seats, not software
Housecall Pro packages a tier with a bundle of included users and charges for the ones after that. Ascora prices per full user on a published list, so the ninth technician does not change the shape of the bill.
MAX is where the growth features live
Recurring service plans, route optimization and the open API sit on their top plan. On Ascora, inventory and equipment history are on both Essentials and Elite - there is no tier to climb for them.
Your books should not be a one-way street
Their Help Center documents the sync as typically one-way, Housecall Pro to QuickBooks. Ascora's QuickBooks Online sync is two-way. AI supplier invoice importing is a separate capability and a different claim.
Nothing to pay before you start
Self-serve on ascora.io, published plans, no implementation fee, and a trial you start yourself.
Sized for the middle
5 to 50 technicians: past residential field service, short of a ServiceTitan rollout.
Trade businesses who made the move and grew.
tradesmen, with no extra admin headcount
"What you pay for it, you save your money 10-fold. Ascora has been the engine behind our growth."
"Brilliant for all facets of our business, from the easy-to-use app to high-level reporting that maximises efficiency and profitability."
"All of a sudden, we are not losing money on our jobs. I'd tried every software on the market, I wanted a full package that could do it all."
"This software is simply amazing, it has made running the business a breeze."
"We finally have visibility to critical information in just a few clicks, compared to the hours we spent on manual reports."
Side by side with Housecall Pro.
Everything a growing contractor compares before switching. Housecall Pro figures are from their own pricing page and Help Center, accessed 15 September 2026.
| Feature | Ascora Essentialsfrom $45/user |
Most popular Ascora Elitefrom $59/user |
Housecall Profrom $79/user |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | from $45 / user | from $59 / user | Tier + seat bundle: Basic 1 user, Essentials 5, MAX 8 |
| Free trial | 14 days on MAX, no credit card | ||
| Contract | Month to month | Month to month | No long-term contract required |
| Native iOS and Android app | |||
| Dispatch scheduling | |||
| Large projects with sections | Progress invoicing; sections not found | ||
| Progress billing across phases | Progressive invoicing marketed | ||
| Change orders on a live job | Not verified | ||
| Recurring service plans | MAX only | ||
| Route optimization and open API | MAX only | ||
| Inventory and equipment history | Not verified | ||
| Two-way QuickBooks Online | Typically one-way, per their Help Center |
Comparison data last reviewed September 2026 and reflects publicly available information; verify current Housecall Pro pricing and features independently. Housecall Pro is a trademark of its owner. Ascora is not affiliated with or endorsed by Housecall Pro.
One platform, office to field, enquiry to payment.
Quotes, change orders & e-sign approvals
Scheduler, Gantt charts & whiteboards
Invoicing & on-site payments
Full inventory & purchase orders
Timesheets, payroll & job costing
Custom safety forms on site
GPS tracking, maps & on-approach SMS
Works offline, syncs when you're back
Bring your Housecall Pro data with you.
We can import your customers, your price book, open jobs and scheduled jobs, so you are not starting from an empty system. We will tell you exactly what comes across before you commit.
High-volume residential, done well.
Published dollars, a self-serve trial, and a tight booking, payments and reviews stack built around the residential customer experience, plus Spanish support in the app. For a shop doing high volumes of one-visit work, those are real strengths and Ascora does not try to out-do them. The question is what happens when the work stops being one visit.
Ascora vs Housecall Pro questions.
Is Ascora cheaper than Housecall Pro?
That is the wrong question to open with. At crew scale the list math usually lands in the same neighborhood - what differs is packaging. Price the seats you actually need on both, add whatever sits behind their MAX plan, and then compare project depth.
Does Housecall Pro do project billing?
Progressive invoicing is documented in their Help Center and marketed for commercial work, so this is not a claim that they cannot invoice in stages. Ascora's argument is multi-section projects, progress billing across phases and change orders as a first-class workflow rather than an add-on to a service call.
How does the QuickBooks Online sync compare?
Housecall Pro's Help Center documents the sync as typically one-way, Housecall Pro to QuickBooks, with estimates not pushing (accessed 15 September 2026). Ascora's QuickBooks Online sync is two-way. AI supplier invoice importing is a separate Ascora capability and a different claim.
Can I try Ascora without a sales call?
Yes. Both plan prices are published, you can start a trial from the signup page, and there is no implementation fee on ascora.io.
Who is Ascora for if I outgrow Housecall Pro?
Growing contractors with roughly 5 to 50 technicians who need project operations without a ServiceTitan-scale buying motion.
Can I migrate from Housecall Pro to Ascora?
Yes. We can import customers, your price book, open jobs and scheduled jobs, and we will tell you what comes across before you switch.
See Ascora in action.
Pick a time that suits you. A 30-minute walkthrough of Ascora tailored to your trade business - scheduling, projects, quoting, invoicing and the lot.