Housecall Pro schedules, dispatches, and collects payment for home-service jobs, the kind of work you book by the call: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning. Evalation runs the whole contracting company for one flat price, and for deck, pergola, concrete, and fence contractors, that includes a live 3D design tool that shows the homeowner the finished job before you leave the driveway. That's the honest difference: Housecall Pro manages the job, Evalation helps you win it and then run the whole business around it.
Both of these are real tools solving real problems for different businesses. Here's the plain version of who each one actually fits.
CORR (Company, Operations, Relations, and Revenue) is a category of business platform that runs a contractor's entire company in one system, replacing the separate CRM, estimating, project management, and accounting tools contractors traditionally stitch together. Evalation is built as a CORR platform. Housecall Pro is not; it's home-service field management software, a solid one, built for scheduling and dispatch rather than construction-style estimating and design. Read the full definition at /what-is-corr.
Every outcome that actually matters on a jobsite, priced and sourced side by side.
| Outcome | Evalation | Housecall Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Design & blueprints | For decks, pergolas, concrete, and fencing, Evalation Lab designs the job on an iPad live in front of the homeowner, builds the 3D model in real time, and auto-generates the blueprint on the spot. For every other trade, Evalation turns around a 5-minute AI estimate instead. | No native 3D design or blueprint generation tool. Housecall Pro's own pricing page describes scheduling, dispatch, and payments, not project drawings or a design module (housecallpro.com/pricing, accessed July 2026). |
| Estimating speed | 5-minute AI estimates across every trade, plus a live, in-person 3D estimate for supported trades while you're still standing in the yard. | Generates estimates and proposals, but a fuller proposal tool (Sales Proposals) is sold as a separate add-on at roughly $40/month on top of the base plan (secondary sources, directional, not confirmed on Housecall Pro's own pricing page). |
| Marketing engine | Client communication, quotes, and follow-up live inside the same flat-priced system as your estimates and blueprints, so there's no separate marketing software bill to track. | Housecall Pro's own pricing page centers on scheduling, dispatch, and payments. It doesn't list a dedicated marketing or follow-up engine as part of the core plans. |
| Payments | Payments run on Stripe, included in your subscription at either founding rate. Card processing from 3.1%, bank transfer (ACH) for less, with no monthly payment fees and no separate payments module to pay for. | Card processing is cited at roughly 2.9% + 30 cents per transaction in third-party breakdowns of Housecall Pro's plans (secondary sources, directional, not confirmed on Housecall Pro's own pricing page). |
| Migration | Four clicks moves your data in, and if Housecall Pro has also been hosting your website, your search rankings don't reset to zero. Covered by the Moving Truck Guarantee. | No named migration path off Housecall Pro exists in its public materials. Exporting your data and rebuilding your setup elsewhere is on you. |
| Price | $297/month flat for the first 50 founding members, locked for life. $416/month flat, locked for life, for the next 500 members after that. No per-user fees, no seat tiers, whether you've got 2 people or 20. | Tiered by seats: Basic $79/month (1 user), Essentials $189/month (5 users included), Max $329/month (8 users included), plus $35/month for each additional user. A 15-person crew on Max runs about $574/month (housecallpro.com/pricing, accessed July 2026). |
Evalation costs $297 per month for the first 50 founding members, locked for life, with no per-user fees. That's the whole pricing page for the first 50 people who join. The price you join at is the price you pay for life. Once those spots fill, the next 500 members lock in at $416/month for life, same flat structure. There's no seat count to manage and no tier to upgrade into as your crew grows, at either rate.
For a small crew, Housecall Pro's sticker price is genuinely lower today. Essentials at $189/month covers a 5-person crew, and Housecall Pro's own published add-on rate of $35/month per extra user keeps you under Evalation's $297 founding rate through 8 total users, landing at $294/month. Add a 9th person and that same math puts Housecall Pro at $329/month, already above the founding rate. Max, Housecall Pro's top plan, starts at $329/month for 8 users included, already higher than Evalation's founding rate before you've hired a single extra person. Once Evalation's founding 50 spots fill and the price moves to $416/month for the next 500 members, the comparison shifts again: an 11-person crew on Max then works out to about $434/month (329 plus 35 for each of the 3 seats past the 8 included), the point where Housecall Pro crosses above that rate too, and keeps climbing with every hire after that. Housecall Pro also doesn't publish a firm number for every add-on above; where the fact sheet marks a figure as third-party and unconfirmed, we've marked it the same way here rather than stating it as settled fact.
Switching software is usually the reason contractors stay on a tool they've outgrown. You've got jobs in flight, a customer list you built call by call, and a website that ranks for your name and your city. That's the actual cost of switching, and it's usually higher than the subscription fee itself.
Moving your data from Housecall Pro into Evalation takes four clicks. If Housecall Pro has also been powering your public website, that site's SEO carries over instead of resetting to zero the way a full rebuild normally would.
You built the customer list one call at a time. It should move with you, not stay locked in someone else's dashboard.
Every migration is covered by the Moving Truck Guarantee, Evalation's promise to remove the cost and risk of switching software instead of leaving you to sort it out alone. If it doesn't win you more jobs in 90 days, you get every dollar back and we'll move you anywhere you want to go. Free.
We don't have a Housecall Pro-to-Evalation migration story with a named customer's numbers to put on this page yet. What we can tell you instead: the four-click move and the SEO carryover above are real, verifiable mechanics, not a placeholder promise, and they're backed by the same Moving Truck Guarantee stated above. The founder built and exited a $5.3M construction company, then built Evalation around the same live 3D visual-selling method that earned him a 73% close rate at double the market price. Read that story at /founder.
Yes. Moving your data over takes four clicks inside Evalation's onboarding flow.
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No, not yet. Evalation Lab, the live 3D design and auto-blueprint tool, currently covers decks, pergolas, concrete, and fencing. If you work in a different trade, Evalation still gives you a 5-minute AI estimate along with the CRM and invoicing side of the platform, but the live 3D build is specific to those four project types today. If you build decks, pergolas, concrete pads, or fences, see how it applies to your trade at /for/deck-builders.
Evalation is $297/month flat for the first 50 founding members, or $416/month flat for the next 500 after that, no matter your crew size either way. Housecall Pro for a 15-person crew runs about $574/month on the Max plan, which is Max's $329 plus $35/month for each of the 7 seats past the 8 included (housecallpro.com/pricing, accessed July 2026). At that crew size Evalation is already the cheaper flat rate at either price, and the gap only grows as you keep hiring.
Not on Evalation. Whichever rate you lock in at, $297/month for the first 50 founding members or $416/month for the next 500, that price is fixed for life and doesn't change with headcount. On Housecall Pro, adding people beyond your plan's included seats adds $35/month per person, and moving from the 1-user Basic plan to a multi-user tier is a large jump in a single step.
Yes, honestly. If you're a solo operator or small crew, generally under about 8 people, in a home-service trade like HVAC, plumbing, or electrical, and you mainly need scheduling, dispatch, and payment collection rather than construction-style estimating or design, Housecall Pro's Basic plan at $79/month (or $59/month billed annually) for one user is a lower entry cost. Evalation is built for contractors who want the estimating, design, and sales side to carry more weight.
It's Evalation's guarantee covering your migration off any other software, built to remove the cost and risk of switching so that isn't the reason you stay somewhere that isn't working for you. If it doesn't win you more jobs in 90 days, you get every dollar back and we'll move you anywhere you want to go. Free.
One flat price, one system, and for deck, pergola, concrete, and fence contractors, a live 3D model that does the selling for you.