Comparison

Looking for a Housecall Pro alternative

The usual reasons people look are cost as the crew grows, payment terms they did not expect, or a trade the software keeps trying to turn into a home services call.

Is Pinstripe Fleet a Housecall Pro alternative?

Yes, for a business that dispatches crews, documents work on site, and bills customers. It covers customers, jobs, scheduling and dispatch, crew time tracking, vehicles and equipment, invoices, card payments, and a customer portal. Where another company's prices appear below, they are copied from that company's own pricing page and stamped with the date we read it. Follow the link before you decide, because prices move and ours is the only one we control.

What is worth comparing?

How payments are handled

Card payments run through your own Stripe account and land in your bank. We do not add a fee on top of your customers' payments. You can also authorize a card before the job and capture it after the work is done.

  • Stripe Connect
  • Authorize then capture

What happens when the crew grows

Five seats are included on Professional and more are priced per seat up to a cap, so the cost of adding your sixth person is on the pricing page rather than in a sales call.

  • Transparent pricing

How much of your trade it models

Recurring routes, per event work, per account monthly billing, and multi location customers are all supported, which covers cleaning, landscaping, snow, and property portfolios as well as classic dispatch trades.

  • Recurring jobs
  • Multi location customers

What your crew sees

Field screens are short on purpose, money is hidden from anyone not allowed to see it at the source rather than on the screen, and the iPhone app keeps working with no signal.

  • Role based access
  • iPhone app

What does each one cost?

Housecall Pro prices below are copied from their own pricing pages, read on August 13, 2026. Prices move, so check the source before you decide.

Housecall Pro
PlanBilled annuallyBilled monthlySeats included
Basic$59$79Not published
Essentials$149$189Not published
Max$299$329Not published
One more seat
Not published on the pricing page
Payment processing
Card rates advertised as low as 2.59 percent, and 1 percent on bank payments.

Source: Housecall Pro pricing, read August 13, 2026.

Pinstripe Fleet
PlanBilled annuallyBilled monthlySeats included
Free$0$01
Professional$65.83 (billed $790 a year)$795
EnterpriseTalk to usTalk to usTalk to us
One more seat
$12 a month, up to a 15 seat cap
Payment processing
Your own Stripe account at Stripe's published rates, billed by Stripe. We add no platform fee.

Where Housecall Pro is the better buy

Their advertised card rate starts below the standard Stripe rate you would pay here, so a company running high card volume could pay less per transaction with them even though we add no platform fee of our own. They also sell consumer financing, a marketing suite, and a large app marketplace, none of which we have. Their seat counts are not printed on the pricing page, so ask before you compare plan prices to ours.

What is not built yet?

Route optimization with live GPS, parts inventory, accounting sync, and consumer lead generation are not part of this product. If your buying decision turns on one of those, it is better to know now.

Questions buyers ask us

Do you take a percentage of my card payments?

No. Stripe's own processing fees apply and are billed by Stripe. Pinstripe Fleet does not add a platform fee to card payments from your customers.

Can I hold a card and charge it after the job?

Yes. You can authorize the card before the work and capture it once the job is complete, within the window the card networks allow. That commits the money without billing for unfinished work.

Is there a free plan to try it?

Yes. The free plan covers one user with a monthly job limit, a customer limit, invoices, card payments, and the customer portal, so you can run real work through it before paying anything.

Does it send my company leads?

No. This is software for running the work you already have. There is no consumer marketplace and no lead selling.

See Pinstripe Fleet against your real work

Bring three jobs you ran last week. We will build them live and you will know inside twenty minutes whether it fits.

Pinstripe Fleet Management is built and supported by Pinstripe Business Services.