Written by us, so read it with that in mind. We've included the things they do better, because you'll find them anyway and we'd rather you heard it here.
Per year. $149/month against their $399 — because they charge $35 for every tech past eight, and we don't charge per tech at all.
Recurring maintenance agreements — the reason most HVAC and pest shops buy software — sit on their top plan. Included on ours at $149.
Press Plan the day and it assigns every unassigned job by skill, customer time window and drive time. On a 14-stop day across three techs that's about three hours of windscreen time back.
Published monthly rates, no annual prepay, no add-ons on either side. Housecall Pro caps Basic at one user, Essentials at five and MAX at eight, then adds $35 per tech.
| Crew size | Everglow | Housecall Pro | Difference / year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 tech | $49 | $79 | $360 |
| 3 techs | $149 | $189 | $480 |
| 5 techs | $149 | $189 | $480 |
| 8 techs | $149 | $329 | $2,160 |
| 10 techs | $149 | $399 | $3,000 |
| 15 techs | $149 | $574 | $5,100 |
| 25 techs | $149 | $924 | $9,300 |
From published 2026 rates. If we're out of date, tell us and we'll fix it — an out-of-date comparison table is worse than none.
This is where the sticker price and the real price separate. Everything below is on every Everglow plan, including the $49 one.
| Feature | Everglow | Housecall Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited users | Every plan | $35/tech past the cap |
| Recurring service plans | Every plan | MAX tier — $299/mo |
| Flat-rate price book | Every plan | $149/mo add-on |
| Quotes accepted online | Every plan | Yes |
| Card payments in the field | Your own Stripe | Their processing |
| Callback & rework tracking | With cost and fault | Not modelled |
| Sales pipeline | Every plan | Not included |
| Connect your own AI | Every plan | No |
| QuickBooks Online sync | Every plan | Essentials and up |
| Works with no signal | Yes | Yes |
| Trades supported | 58 | Similar breadth |
| Multi-day project defaults | Carpentry, roofing, remodel & more | Visit-shaped |
| Customer signature on site | Every plan | Yes |
| Native iOS / Android apps | Installs to home screen | Yes |
| Automated review requests | Not yet | Yes |
| Auto-assign & route the day | Crew and up | Higher tiers |
| Live GPS vehicle tracking | No | Yes |
| Online booking widget | Not yet | Yes |
| Phone support | Email only | Yes |
| Years in business | New | Since 2013 |
This is the difference that matters most and gets the least attention.
With Everglow, payments run through your own Stripe account. In your name, deposited to your bank, on standard rates we don't mark up. Your customer's statement shows your business. We never hold your funds, and we can't — the account is yours, not a sub-account of ours.
With a platform that processes on your behalf, your money sits in their account until they release it. That's fine right up until a payout is held for review, and then it's your payroll.
If you leave us, there's nothing to move. The Stripe account was always yours.
Ask your current software. It can't tell you, because callbacks are logged as new jobs and disappear into the same bucket as everything else.
Everglow models rework as its own object, traced back to the visit that caused it, with a cost and an honest answer to "was this on us?" After three months you can see which tech, which part, and which job type keeps coming back. That's the number that changes how a shop trains people — and it's the one thing here you genuinely can't get anywhere else.
You need two-way QuickBooks Desktop sync. We push to QuickBooks Online — clients, invoices and payments — and that covers most shops. If your bookkeeper lives in QuickBooks Desktop and needs data flowing both ways, buy theirs.
Automated review requests are core to how you grow. They do it well and we don't do it at all yet.
You want to phone someone. We answer email, usually same day, and the person answering can change the software. But it isn't a phone line, and for some shops that's the whole decision.
You're twenty-five trucks and growing fast. At that size the things we haven't built yet start to matter more than the price difference.
We'd rather tell you this now than take a year of your money and disappoint you in month two. If the list above doesn't describe you, the $3,000 a year probably matters more than any of it.
Export your customer list as CSV from their settings, then drop it into Settings → Import clients. Our importer reads your column headings and matches them itself, and shows you exactly what it will bring in before anything saves. Don't tidy the file first.
Honestly: it mostly doesn't come. Neither platform exports job history in a form the other can read, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling. What most shops do is run both for a month — new work in Everglow, existing work finished where it started — then stop paying for the old one.
You rebuild them, and it's an afternoon for most shops. Set up the job, tick Repeats, choose the interval. A twenty-agreement shop takes about an hour.
You connect a Stripe account in about five minutes. If you already have one for something else, use it. Nothing about your existing processing has to end before you start.
Export everything as CSV whenever you want, no support ticket. Your Stripe account was always yours. We'd rather you leave easily than stay because it's painful to go — and if you do leave, tell us why.
Import your customer list and put one real job on the board. You'll know within a day.