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VuseDesk vs Housecall Pro, _the honest version._

Housecall Pro is a strong pick for high-volume residential dispatch, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. Here is where they are genuinely stronger, where we are, and a calculator that runs on your numbers instead of ours.

The structural differences.

VuseDesk's side of this table is exact and checkable today. Housecall Pro's side sends you to their own sheet on purpose: their numbers change, and a comparison that quotes a competitor's stale price is a comparison you should not trust.

A percentage of your jobs

VuseDesk$0.00, structurally. Client payments run as direct charges into your own Stripe account. VuseDesk cannot take a cut because the money never passes through us.

Housecall ProCheck how payments route and what the processing markup is on their current sheet.

What the software costs

VuseDeskTwo flat plans, public and complete: $39.99/mo (Contractor) and $99.99/mo (General Contractor). Five seats included on both, then blocks of five at $15/mo.

Housecall ProTheir pricing changes by tier, seats and promotions. Read their current price sheet, then type the total into the ledger below.

Client logins

VuseDeskFree and unlimited, wearing your logo and color, with nothing for the client to install.

Housecall ProVaries by plan. Check whether client access is gated by tier.

Subcontractor logins

VuseDeskFree, never counted as seats, scoped to the jobs you assign, on the GC plan.

Housecall ProCheck whether subs count as paid users.

The crew and money

VuseDeskNo money on any employee screen, ever. Not a rate, not a total, not an invoice. Structural, not a setting.

Housecall ProCheck what a field tech can see on their plan tiers.

If you leave

VuseDeskCancel and the workspace turns read-only, with no countdown. Clients and payments export as CSV, any job’s documents as a zip. Nothing is deleted unless you ask.

Housecall ProCheck the export surface and what happens to your data after cancellation.

What we refuse to claim

VuseDeskThe security page lists what we do NOT claim yet, and the pricing page names what does not export. On purpose.

Housecall ProMarketing pages rarely volunteer their limits. Read the fine print with that in mind.

Where Housecall Pro is genuinely stronger.

Said here, above the fold of our own argument, because a comparison page that concedes nothing is an ad.

A booking marketplace

Housecall Pro can put you in front of homeowners through its own booking surfaces. VuseDesk brings you no leads: it captures the ones your own phone, website and QR codes already produce, and refuses to take credit for demand you generated.

Consumer financing and card readers

They run deeper into consumer payments hardware and financing. VuseDesk keeps to card and ACH through your own account, or record-only mode when you prefer checks and Zelle.

A bigger app ecosystem

More integrations exist for them today. Our position is narrower on purpose: one system that runs the job end to end, exported as CSVs you own.

Where we are.

Housecall Pro prices per user on most plans; growing a crew grows the bill seat by seat. VuseDesk includes five seats on both plans, then adds them in blocks of five at $15, and client and subcontractor logins are free forever and never counted.
VuseDesk shows your crew no money, ever: no rates, no totals, no invoices on any employee screen. That separation is structural, not a setting somebody has to remember.

Do the arithmetic yourself.

We are not going to quote Housecall Pro's numbers, because they change and this page should not pretend to track them. Open their price sheet, put their numbers in, and read the year side by side.

Their monthly price, dollars

Their cut of payments, percent

Your card volume a year, dollars

Your VuseDesk plan

Their year, on your numbers$1,788.00

VuseDesk's year$479.88

Card processing is charged by the processor either way and is left out of both sides. Your numbers, our arithmetic; nothing leaves this page.