Housecall Pro's Add-Ons Add Up Fast. Here's the Math.

What Does Housecall Pro Actually Cost for a Real Team?

Let's be honest — that $79/mo headline looks great in a Google ad. But here's the thing: it covers exactly one person. You. Nobody else. If you've got a dispatcher, a couple of techs, and maybe an office admin, the Basic plan is completely useless.

So what happens when you need your team on the platform? You jump to Essentials at $189/mo. That gets you up to 5 users and unlocks features like recurring services that should've been in the base plan. But even Essentials has limits — advanced reporting and some workflow features push you toward MAX, which is custom-priced. And "custom-priced" in SaaS usually means "more than you'd like to pay."

Here's a quick breakdown for a 10-person service team:

That's roughly $240/year you save with Opsler — and that's before you factor in the features you're not getting with Housecall Pro. There's no GBB estimates (which boost average tickets 30-50%), no invoice approval workflow, no free branded website, no per-van inventory tracking. So you're paying more and getting less.

And here's what really stings: if you started on the Basic plan thinking you'd save money, you wasted time setting things up for a single user — only to redo your workflow when you inevitably upgrade. That's not just a cost in dollars. It's a cost in hours your team doesn't have.

The Features You Won't Get at Any Housecall Pro Price

Even on Essentials or MAX, there are things Housecall Pro simply doesn't offer. No amount of upgrading unlocks these:

The Fee That Quietly Eats Your Margins

Housecall Pro has its own payment processing baked in — and it's not cheap. The rates depend on how the payment comes in: 2.59% for card reader transactions, 2.99% for online payments, and 3.49% for manual card entry. And if you use Instapay (their instant deposit feature)? That's an extra 1% on top. ACH is 1%.

Most service businesses collect the majority of payments through online invoices — that's the 2.99% rate. Let's run the numbers on that.

Average ticket: $350. Twenty jobs a week, 52 weeks a year. That's $364,000 in revenue. At 2.99%, you're handing over $10,883 per year in processing fees. Use the card reader instead? Still $9,428/year. Manual entry? A brutal $12,704/year. And if you turn on Instapay to get your money faster, add another $3,640 on top of whatever rate you're already paying.

That's money that never hits your bank account. Every single invoice, every single payment — Housecall Pro takes a slice before you see a dime.

Opsler doesn't touch your payments. Your technicians display Venmo or CashApp QR codes on-site — they're admin-locked, so only you control where the money goes — and customers pay you directly. Zero processing fees. For card payments, Opsler generates payment links that work with any processor you choose. Your bank, your rates. Opsler doesn't sit in the middle.

At the 2.99% online rate, switching to Opsler's approach saves you $10,883 every year. That's real money. Over three years, it's $32,649 — enough to fund a new hire's first six months. And you're supposed to just quietly accept that as the cost of doing business?