Housecall Pro vs Service Puffin

The Housecall Pro alternative sized for a cleaner.

Housecall Pro is a serious platform for home-service companies — HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and cleaning too. It starts at $79 a month for one user, and the next step up is $189. If you clean houses yourself, you are paying platform prices for a crew you do not have.

$59/month · 14 days free, no credit card · Bring your client list with you

Should you actually switch?

We would rather you read this bit than start a trial you were always going to cancel.

Stay with Housecall Pro if…

You are running a home-services company.

  • You run crews, possibly in more than one trade
  • You want a platform your office staff live in all day
  • You want native iOS and Android apps
  • You are big enough that $189–$329 a month is a rounding error
See Housecall Pro's pricing

Switch to Service Puffin if…

You are the whole business, and it cleans houses.

  • You clean the houses yourself, or with a small team
  • You would rather pay $59 than $79 for one login
  • You want a booking page that prices a clean from bedrooms and bathrooms
  • You want reminder texts included, at any volume
  • You want your payments in your own Stripe account
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The entry price, honestly

$79 buys one login on a platform built for crews.

Housecall Pro Basic is $79 a month for a single user ($59 if you pay the year up front). The plan most of its platform features point at is Essentials, at $189 for five users — and past five, every extra person is $100 a month. None of that is a trick; it is what running crews costs to support. It is just not your business. Ours is $59 flat for a solo cleaner, month to month, reminder texts included.

$79
Housecall Pro Basic, month to month, one user
$189
their next step — Essentials, five users
$59
Service Puffin, flat, texts included

What each one costs

Service Puffin Solo
$59/mo

Unlimited jobs, reminder texts included. Month to month.

Housecall Pro Basic
$79/mo

One user. $59/mo if billed annually.

Housecall Pro Essentials
$189/mo

Five users. Extra users $100/mo each.

Housecall Pro Max
$329/mo

Eight users. Extra users $75/mo each.

Side by side

Including the rows we lose.

Service Puffin compared with Housecall Pro
FeatureService PuffinHousecall Pro
What it costs
Price, month to month$59/month$79/month on Basic
Users includedJust you on Solo; 6 logins on Team at $991 on Basic; 5 on Essentials ($189)
Adding a person past the planMove up a band at your next renewal — never mid-month$100/month each on Essentials; $75 on Max
Reminder texts included, any volumeIncludedNot stated on their pricing page
Built for
Trades coveredResidential cleaning, onlyHVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning and more
Booking page that prices the job itselfBedrooms, bathrooms and square footage set the quoteGeneral-purpose booking
Crew dispatchAssign or offer jobs to a small teamBuilt for it
MobileWeb app, any phoneNative iOS and Android apps
Getting paid
Invoices with line items and taxIncludedIncluded
Card paymentsIncludedIncluded
Whose payment account it isYour own Stripe account — yours if you leaveHousecall Pro’s in-platform processing

Housecall Pro plan details taken from their published pricing page, checked 25 August 2026. Annual-billing rates ($59/$149/$299 by plan) are lower than the month-to-month prices shown above. Prices change — check theirs before you decide. Housecall Pro is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with Service Puffin.

Moving over takes an evening.

Step 1

Export your clients

Download your client list from Housecall Pro as a CSV. If your plan will not let you export it, send us whatever you can get — a spreadsheet, a screenshot, a list — and we will sort it out.

Step 2

Drop the file in

Service Puffin reads the column headings and matches them up for you — names, phone numbers, emails, addresses. You check the preview and confirm. Nothing is imported twice.

Step 3

Rebuild the week, not the year

Add your recurring jobs once and they generate forward on their own. Most solo cleaners have fewer than a dozen. It is an evening, not a project.

Would rather not do it yourself? Email your client list to hello@servicepuffin.com and we will import it for you before your trial starts.

Switching questions

Platform prices are for platforms.
You clean houses.

Run both for a week. Import your clients, book a few jobs, send a reminder. Cancel whichever one loses.

14 days free, no credit card · We'll import your client list · Cancel anytime