FieldEdge publishes no price list — a 5-person solar install team (1 office, 4 field) runs roughly $600/month before add-ons, plus a mandatory 5-week onboarding and a $500–$2,000+ setup fee. Add AI call answering and reputation management and you’re near $978–$1,298+/month. QuoteIQ Elite is $299/month. Satellite roof measurement, AI photo estimating, and customer self-scheduling included — none of which FieldEdge offers at any price.
FieldEdge’s own history page says it plainly: “In 1980, we invented field service management software to help contractors run their HVAC businesses.” Forty-plus years later, the trades it lists are still HVAC, plumbing, electrical, locksmith, and appliance repair. Solar isn’t on that list — and it shows the moment a solar installation business tries to use it for what solar actually requires: measuring roof pitch and usable panel area before a site visit, building financed proposals for $15,000–$40,000 systems, tracking permit and utility interconnection status, and quoting new construction versus retrofit versus battery-storage add-ons differently.
None of that is native to FieldEdge. There’s no published price list — every plan is sales-quoted — but third-party research puts a typical 5-person team (1 office, 4 field techs) at roughly $600/month base, plus a mandatory five-week onboarding process and a $500–$2,000+ one-time setup fee before you ever send a quote. FieldEdge states outright that it “does not offer a free trial” because it wants its team walking you through onboarding first. Add AI call answering (Goodcall, $79–$249/mo) and reputation management (Birdeye, $299–$449/mo per location) — both handled through partner integrations, not natively — and the true monthly cost climbs to $978–$1,298+.
This guide doesn’t claim FieldEdge is a bad product — G2 reviewers praise its dispatch board and QuickBooks sync. It shows what a solar installer actually pays to run FieldEdge, and what QuoteIQ Elite includes natively at a fraction of the cost, with satellite roof measurement and AI photo estimating built in from day one.
FieldEdge publishes no price list — every figure below is third-party or user-reported, verified September 2026. A 5-person team (1 office, 4 field techs) is the baseline used here.
+ $500–$2,000+ one-time setup & onboarding
Two capabilities not found in FieldEdge’s published features at any price: satellite roof/property measurement and customer self-quoting (a homeowner building and pricing their own system). Both are core to how solar leads convert in 2026. QuoteIQ Elite includes MapMeasure Pro and InstaQuote natively.
A 5-person FieldEdge solar team pays roughly $978–$1,298+/month once AI call answering and reputation management are added — plus an $500–$2,000+ one-time setup fee and a mandatory five-week onboarding before go-live — and still has no satellite roof measurement or customer self-quoting at any price. QuoteIQ Elite is $299/month. Everything included. One login. Start today.
FieldEdge has no published price list, so figures below are third-party or user-reported and re-verified September 2026. ⚠️ = available through a partner integration at extra cost. ❌ = not found in FieldEdge’s published features, pricing, or partner directory as of this writing.
| Feature | FieldEdge (sales-quoted, ~$600/mo for 5 users) | QuoteIQ Elite ($299/mo) |
|---|---|---|
| Satellite Roof / Property Measurement | ✗ Not found in published features or partner directory | ✓ MapMeasure Pro — roof pitch, segments, panel area — Beginner+ |
| AI Photo-Based Estimating | ✗ Not found in FieldEdge’s published features (Sept 2026 search) | ✓ AI Estimator — all plans via IQ Credits |
| Customer Self-Quoting | ✗ Not found on features, pricing, or Consumer Management Portal pages | ✓ InstaQuote — built in natively, Elite and above |
| Customer Self-Scheduling (24/7) | ⚠ Schedule Engine online-booking partner — no published price found | ✓ InstaSchedule — live calendar booking, Elite and above |
| AI Call Answering / Receptionist | ⚠ Goodcall integration — $79–$249/mo, capped by unique callers, $0.50 overage | ✓ Virtual Call Team — all plans, IQ Credits, no separate subscription |
| Reviews & Reputation Management | ⚠ Birdeye integration — $299–$449/mo per location, annual upfront | ✓ Review Multiplier — dashboard all plans, automated requests Elite and above |
| Consumer Financing (BNPL) for $15K–$40K Systems | ✗ Not found in FieldEdge’s published features or partner directory | ✓ Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay — every plan, no upcharge |
| Vehicle / Crew GPS Tracking | ⚠ FleetSharp or ArgoTrak — hardware required, no published price | ✓ Phone-based live GPS, entire crew — Elite and above, no hardware |
| 2-Way SMS Texting | ✓ Native — confirmed on FieldEdge’s future-features page; included in MarketingEdge on Elite tier, add-on below | ✓ ClientHub two-way texting — Pro and above |
| QuickBooks Sync | ✓ Online AND Desktop — native, per third-party review | ✓ QuickBooks Online — Pro and above |
| Flat-Rate Price Book | ✓ Coolfront price book — native, per third-party review | ✓ Custom-built price book — every plan |
| Free Trial | ✗ None. FieldEdge states it does not offer a free trial by design | ✓ 14 days, full plan access |
| Setup / Onboarding | ✗ $500–$2,000+ one-time, mandatory ~5-week onboarding | ✓ Start same day. Optional $299.99 Done-For-You setup available |
| Plan for 5-Person Team (Monthly) | ~$600/mo base (user-reported estimate) | Elite — $299/mo, up to 10 users, all features included |
| ⚠ = available via third-party integration at additional cost. All FieldEdge dollar figures are third-party or user-reported — FieldEdge publishes no full price list; re-verify by October 25, 2026. Note: FieldEdge’s dispatch board, technician-facing tools, and QuickBooks Desktop sync are genuine, well-reviewed strengths per G2 (4.0/5, 87 reviews). | ||
QuoteIQ Elite wins on three capabilities not found in FieldEdge’s published features at any price — satellite roof measurement, AI photo estimating, and customer self-quoting — plus built-in consumer financing for high-ticket solar systems. The features FieldEdge fills through partners — AI answering, reputation management, GPS — add $378–$698+/mo on top of its ~$600/mo base. QuoteIQ Elite includes all of it for $299/month with no setup fee and no onboarding wait.
Being transparent: here is the complete, honest case for FieldEdge. Two points, and one genuine product advantage worth naming directly.
Forty-plus years in the field service space is a real dispatch advantage. FieldEdge says it built the industry’s first dispatch board over 20 years ago, and G2 reviewers consistently praise the dispatch board and technician-facing tools. If your solar business dispatches large field crews daily and QuickBooks Desktop sync is a hard requirement, FieldEdge’s dispatch tooling is mature and well-reviewed — that’s a genuine product strength, not just marketing.
QuickBooks Desktop AND Online support, per third-party review. QuoteIQ currently syncs with QuickBooks Online only. If your accountant is committed to QuickBooks Desktop and won’t migrate, that is a legitimate reason FieldEdge might fit your books better.
You’ve likely heard the name from HVAC and plumbing peers — not because it’s solar-specific. FieldEdge has 40,000+ users built primarily in HVAC, plumbing, electrical, locksmith, and appliance repair over four decades. That’s real market presence in those trades. It is not evidence the platform was built with solar’s permit tracking, financed-proposal, or roof-measurement workflows in mind — because it wasn’t.
Upload a roof or property photo. AI analyzes usable area and shading, then generates a market-accurate system estimate for your local area. What used to take 20–30 minutes now takes under 5. Built-in upsell recommendations included.
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A full walkthrough of the platform built for home service contractors — by contractors who ran businesses like yours.
No mandatory five-week onboarding. Most solar contractors complete the switch in an afternoon.
Go to admin-quoteiq.web.app/register and pick the plan that fits your crew size. All plans include 14 days of full access to every feature on that tier — no sales call required to start.
Export your customer and job records from FieldEdge. You only need names, addresses, phones, and emails to get started — job history can be added incrementally.
Upload your CSV to QuoteIQ’s AI Smart Import. The AI reads your column headers and maps every customer field automatically — no manual matching. A $299.99 Done-For-You migration is also available.
Add per-watt system pricing, permit and interconnection fees, battery storage add-ons, roof-type surcharges (tile vs. shingle vs. metal), and financing tiers. The price book feeds directly into MapMeasure Pro and AI Estimator proposals.
Open MapMeasure Pro, enter any property address, trace the roof segments on the satellite image, and QuoteIQ builds the system proposal from your price book automatically — including financing options at checkout.
Verified reviews from G2 and Capterra — about the limitations that push contractors to look for alternatives. G2 rates FieldEdge 4.0/5 across 87 reviews.
“Everything is an additional charge.”
Verified G2 Review Pain point: Add-on fees“Lack of capabilities within one single dashboard, integrations are poorly connected and come at higher costs than competitors with little in house benefits.”
Verified G2 Review Pain point: Integration costs & fragmentation“We got almost no support from field edge while using their software.”
Verified Capterra Review Pain point: Support qualityQuotes verified verbatim against live G2 and Capterra review pages, September 25, 2026. FieldEdge publishes no full price list; all FieldEdge dollar figures in this article are third-party or user-reported and should be re-verified after October 25, 2026.
4.7 stars across 4,100+ verified reviews on the App Store and Google Play.
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“Once I started using QuoteIQ, my closing rate went way up; Clients love how clear the estimates are.”
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QuoteIQ was co-founded by Mike Vidan and Justin Rogers — both of whom ran home service businesses before building software to solve the problems they faced firsthand.
Mike grew and sold a pressure washing business before co-founding QuoteIQ. He knows firsthand the friction of quoting properties remotely and chasing reviews across scattered platforms — the same friction a solar installer feels quoting a roof without MapMeasure Pro. He now shares contractor growth strategies with a large YouTube audience.
Justin is a serial entrepreneur who has built, grown, and exited multiple service businesses. He co-founded QuoteIQ out of frustration with platforms that forced contractors to stitch together separate tools — the same fragmentation FieldEdge users describe when Goodcall, Birdeye, and FleetSharp all run as separate subscriptions. His ForeverSelfEmployed YouTube channel covers business building for independent operators.
In the interest of full transparency — here is the complete case for staying, including one genuine product advantage.
FieldEdge’s dispatch board is mature and well-reviewed. It says it built the industry’s first dispatch board over 20 years ago, and per third-party review it supports QuickBooks Online AND Desktop sync. If your accountant is committed to QuickBooks Desktop and your business runs heavy day-to-day dispatch across large field crews, that combination is a legitimate reason to consider FieldEdge.
You recognize the name from HVAC and plumbing — not because it was built for solar. FieldEdge has 40,000+ users and four decades of history, almost entirely in HVAC, plumbing, electrical, locksmith, and appliance repair. That’s real market presence in those trades. It is not evidence the platform understands permit tracking, financed proposals, or roof measurement — the workflows a solar installer actually needs daily.
The honest bottom line: If QuickBooks Desktop sync is a hard requirement and your business is dispatch-heavy rather than measurement-and-financing-heavy, FieldEdge’s dispatch tooling has a real edge. For a typical solar installer — where satellite roof measurement, AI photo estimating, customer self-quoting, and built-in financing decide whether a lead closes — there is no FieldEdge configuration, at any price found in this research, that matches what QuoteIQ Elite includes for $299/month with no setup fee and no five-week wait.
For solar specifically, yes. FieldEdge was built in 1980 for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, locksmith, and appliance repair — solar isn’t in its trade list, and satellite roof measurement, AI photo-based estimating, and customer self-quoting were not found anywhere in its published features, pricing, or partner directory as of September 2026. QuoteIQ Elite includes MapMeasure Pro (satellite roof measurement), AI Estimator (photo-based system pricing), and InstaQuote (customer self-quoting) natively for $299/month.
FieldEdge publishes no price list — every plan (Select, Premier, Elite) is sales-quoted. Third-party estimates put it at roughly $100/office user + $125/field tech per month, so a 5-person team (1 office, 4 field) runs approximately $600/month. On top of that, FieldEdge requires a mandatory ~5-week onboarding process and charges a $500–$2,000+ one-time setup fee. Add Goodcall AI call answering ($79–$249/mo) and Birdeye reputation management ($299–$449/mo per location), and the true monthly cost runs $978–$1,298+. QuoteIQ Elite is $299/month flat, with a 14-day free trial and no setup fee.
No. FieldEdge states directly on its pricing page that it does not offer a free trial, because it believes new members succeed best when its team walks them through onboarding first. QuoteIQ offers a 14-day free trial with full access to whichever plan you choose — no sales call required to start.
Not found. A September 2026 search of FieldEdge’s features, pricing, and partner pages turned up no satellite or aerial property measurement tool. QuoteIQ’s MapMeasure Pro measures roof segments, calculates pitch, and identifies usable panel area from satellite imagery — built into Beginner plans and above at no additional cost.
FieldEdge integrates with Goodcall for AI call answering: Starter $79/mo, Growth $129/mo, Scale $249/mo, each capped by unique callers with a $0.50 overage fee per additional unique caller. QuoteIQ’s Virtual Call Team is included on every plan through IQ Credits — no separate subscription, no caller cap, starting at $29.99/month.
No AI photo-based estimating was found in FieldEdge’s published features in either an April 2026 or September 2026 review. QuoteIQ’s AI Estimator analyzes a roof photo and generates a market-accurate system estimate in minutes — included on every plan via IQ Credits.
Not found. FieldEdge’s Consumer Management Portal lets customers view and pay invoices, submit service requests, view quotes, and take action on quotes — but it does not state that customers can generate or price their own quote. QuoteIQ’s InstaQuote lets homeowners configure and price a system themselves, built in natively on Elite plans and above.
FieldEdge integrates with Birdeye for reviews: Starter $299/mo, Growth $349/mo, Dominate $449/mo per location, billed annually upfront. QuoteIQ’s Review Multiplier dashboard is included on every plan; automated post-payment review requests to Google, Facebook, Yelp, and Angi are included from Elite and above at no extra cost.
Not found in FieldEdge’s published features or partner directory. QuoteIQ includes Affirm, Klarna, and Afterpay consumer financing on every plan — letting homeowners finance a $15,000–$40,000 solar system directly at checkout, with the contractor paid in full upfront.
No. FieldEdge is owned by Xplor Technologies (“FieldEdge by Xplor”), confirmed on FieldEdge’s own company and news pages. It is not owned by or backed by ServiceTitan — any page claiming otherwise is out of date.
Yes. Two-way SMS texting is a native FieldEdge feature per its own future-features page, included within MarketingEdge on the Elite tier (available as a call-for-pricing add-on on lower tiers). QuoteIQ’s ClientHub includes two-way texting from Pro plans and above.
Export your customer and job records from FieldEdge, then upload the file to QuoteIQ’s AI Smart Import. The AI reads your column headers and maps name, address, phone, and email fields automatically — no manual matching required. A Done-For-You migration service is also available for $299.99.
One genuine scenario: if your accountant requires QuickBooks Desktop sync and your business is dispatch-heavy across large field crews, FieldEdge’s dispatch board is mature and well-reviewed (G2: 4.0/5, 87 reviews). For a typical solar installer prioritizing roof measurement, AI estimating, self-quoting, and built-in financing, QuoteIQ Elite outperforms FieldEdge at a fraction of the cost with no setup fee.
Satellite roof measurement, AI photo estimating, customer self-quoting, built-in financing, automated review requests — all in one platform, starting at $29.99/month.
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