Published April 2026 · Updated September 2026
FieldPulse keeps its pricing behind a sales call and gates communication and vehicle tracking behind paid add-ons. QuoteIQ Elite gives cleaning businesses satellite measurement, route optimization, automated review requests, customer self-scheduling and a dedicated business phone line — all for $299/month flat, with 10 user seats included. One login. Published pricing. No add-on maze.
QuoteIQ is the best FieldPulse alternative for cleaning businesses in 2026. QuoteIQ publishes every price — Essentials $29.99, Beginner $74.99, Pro $149.99, Elite $299 and Max $699 per month — while FieldPulse requires a sales call before you learn what the software costs. Elite includes 10 user seats, satellite measurement, route optimization, GPS crew tracking, automated review requests, customer self-quoting and self-booking, and a dedicated business phone number, with no per-technician pricing and no third-party subscriptions bolted on to reach feature parity.
TL;DR: Cleaning companies switch from FieldPulse because the real bill only becomes visible after the sales call. QuoteIQ Elite is $299/month for 10 users and bundles MapMeasure Pro, Route Optimization, Review Multiplier, ClientHub, InstaSchedule, InstaQuote and QuoteIQ Cam into one login. Price your work with the house cleaning cost calculator, then see the full cleaning business platform. Industry context: BLS and ISSA.
When you ran two or three recurring house cleans a day, almost any scheduler was fine. Jobs went on a calendar. Invoices went out. You could live without tools you did not know existed. Now you manage a crew — maybe two. You run deep cleans, move-out cleans, post-construction cleans, recurring maid service routes and the occasional commercial contract. You need route sequencing, review requests that fire on their own after every visit, customer self-booking so clients stop calling to reschedule, and a business phone line so your personal number is not on every fridge magnet in town. That is a different software problem than the one you solved three years ago.
The friction most owners hit first is pricing opacity. FieldPulse does not publish plan pricing on its website, so you cannot compare it against anything until you have sat through a discovery call. Communication tooling and vehicle tracking are sold as add-ons rather than included capability, and photo documentation and review automation are typically solved with additional third-party subscriptions. None of that is visible from the outside, which is exactly the complaint. If you are still building quotes by hand, start with the house cleaning cost calculator and the free house cleaning invoice template before you commit to any platform — knowing your real per-job numbers changes which software features actually matter.
QuoteIQ was built by contractors who ran cleaning and home service crews, not by a venture-backed sales team. If you run house cleaning, maid service, janitorial or commercial cleaning work, the cleaning business software hub and the commercial cleaning platform show every feature mapped to your workflow, and the home service business calculators cover the pricing math behind it. Keep reading for the honest cost comparison, the feature-by-feature breakdown, and the two situations where staying on FieldPulse is genuinely the right call.
QuoteIQ Elite costs $299/month and includes 10 user seats. That is a flat platform price, not a per-technician rate — adding your fourth, seventh or tenth cleaner changes nothing on the invoice. Annual billing is $2,990, which is two months free. See the full ladder on the Elite plan page.
FieldPulse does not publish plan pricing, add-on pricing or integration pricing, so no honest dollar figure can be placed in the left column. What can be stated is the shape of the bill: a base plan, a per-user component, paid add-ons for communications and vehicle tracking, and separate third-party subscriptions for photo documentation and review automation. Confirm current figures directly with FieldPulse before you sign anything.
FieldPulse does not publish rates. Verify on their site.
The capabilities no add-on closes: satellite property measurement inside the estimate, a customer-facing package builder that returns live pricing, and true 24/7 booking against a synced calendar. Those three change how a cleaning company quotes and fills its week, and they are not features you can buy your way to on a platform that does not ship them.
Matching QuoteIQ Elite means a base plan, a per-user component, at least two paid add-ons and at least two outside subscriptions — and you still cannot replicate InstaSchedule, InstaQuote or MapMeasure Pro. QuoteIQ Elite is $299/month, 10 users, everything above included, one login. Compare it against the rest of the market on the competitor comparison hub.
| Feature | FieldPulse | QuoteIQ |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Not published Sales call required for a quote |
All five plans published $29.99 · $74.99 · $149.99 · $299 · $699 per month |
| Seat model | Per-technician component Cost rises as the crew grows |
Flat plan price Elite includes 10 seats; Max is unlimited users |
| Recurring job scheduling | Native Scheduling and assignment included |
Native, all plans Drag-and-drop calendar with recurring series |
| Route optimization | Not part of the core platform Telematics add-on tracks location, does not sequence the day |
Included on Elite Auto-sequenced stops, cuts drive time 15–30% |
| GPS crew tracking | Add-on, per vehicle Requires hardware in each vehicle |
Included on Elite Phone-based live map, no hardware, no per-vehicle fee |
| Satellite property measurement | Not included No measurement layer inside estimating |
MapMeasure Pro, Beginner and above Measure from aerial imagery plus historical imagery |
| Customer self-scheduling | Booking requests only Not direct booking against live availability |
InstaSchedule, Elite 24/7 booking on your real calendar |
| Customer self-quoting | Not included No customer-facing package builder |
InstaQuote, Elite Clients build a clean and see live pricing |
| Dedicated business phone | Paid add-on Pricing not published |
ClientHub, Pro and above Two-way calling and texting logged to the profile |
| Automated review requests | Not part of the core platform Typically a separate reputation subscription |
Review Multiplier, native Post-payment redirect plus email/SMS automation |
| Before/after photo documentation | Third-party integration Billed per user, outside the platform |
QuoteIQ Cam, Beginner and above Before & After Photo Editor, unlimited 4K storage |
| AI control of the CRM | Not available AI is scoped to call answering |
AI Autopilot, all plans 55 integrated tools across 13 categories, voice or text |
| Email & text automation | Native Reminders and follow-ups |
Pro and above Multi-step event-triggered sequences and on-the-way texts |
| Inventory management | Native Asset and equipment tracking |
Elite Products, locations, suppliers, orders, transactions |
| QuickBooks integration | On higher plans Also integrates with Xero and MYOB |
Pro and above QuickBooks Online — invoices, payments, customers, expenses |
| Employee management | Native Roles, permissions, time tracking |
EmployeeHub, Elite GPS, time tracking, team messaging; Sales Team Tracker on Max |
| Consumer financing | Native integrations Wisetack and Acorn Finance |
Every plan, including the trial Affirm, Klarna and Afterpay at checkout |
| FieldPulse does not publish plan, add-on or integration pricing, so this table describes capability shape rather than dollar figures — confirm current plans and costs directly with FieldPulse. Genuine FieldPulse strengths for some operators: Xero and MYOB accounting support, a configurable multi-stage workflow builder, and supplier/parts integrations built for parts-heavy trades. | ||
Route Optimization cuts drive time by 15–30%. On a maid service route of 6–12 stops a day, that is most of an hour back per crew — time you can sell instead of burn. Route Density tells you where your work clusters so you can sell the zones you already drive, and the carpet cleaning cost calculator helps you price the add-on services that fill the gaps.
Honesty builds trust. Here is what FieldPulse does better than QuoteIQ — genuine product differences, not marketing spin.
Xero and MYOB accounting support. If your books run on Xero or MYOB rather than QuickBooks, FieldPulse supports both. QuoteIQ integrates with QuickBooks Online only. For a cleaning company whose accountant will not move off Xero, that is a real reason to stay.
Configurable multi-stage workflow builder. FieldPulse lets you model a bespoke process — inspection, deep clean, quality check, invoicing — as explicit stages. QuoteIQ handles the same sequence through inspection forms, reminders and tasks and Pipelines & Deals, which is more opinionated. If your operation genuinely needs custom stage logic, that flexibility counts.
Supplier and parts integrations. FieldPulse connects to trade suppliers for parts ordering and pricing. Cleaning companies rarely need that, but if you also run plumbing or restoration work out of the same office, supplier catalogs can matter more than route sequencing.
These matter for specific businesses. For the majority of cleaning companies running recurring maid service, deep cleans, move-out cleans and light commercial work on QuickBooks Online, they do not outweigh published pricing, flat seats and an all-in-one feature set at $299/month. One note on an old objection: consumer financing is no longer a reason to stay — QuoteIQ offers Affirm, Klarna and Afterpay on every plan, including the trial.
Cleaning is a recurring-revenue, high-frequency, low-ticket trade. That combination punishes software that was designed for one-off installs and rewards software that automates the same twenty small things every single day.
Weekly, biweekly and monthly series where one occurrence can move without breaking the rest. Scheduling handles multi-day jobs, Schedule Later and per-occurrence drag.
Windows, exteriors and lot area measured from imagery instead of a drive-out. MapMeasure Pro, Property Street View and Zillow Quick Access.
Good/better/best is how cleaners raise average ticket. Options Estimates, Package Estimates, Standard and Quick types.
Move-out and post-construction disputes end with photos. QuoteIQ Cam, inspection forms and a customer-facing gallery.
Cleaning is chosen on reputation. Review Multiplier fires a request the moment an invoice is paid and follows up by email and SMS.
Cards, ACH, Apple Pay and Google Pay, plus cash and check recorded in app. Invoicing, Online Payments, recurring invoices.
Labor is the entire margin story in cleaning. BLS counts about 2.4 million janitors and building cleaners in the workforce, and payroll is the dominant line item for almost every operator. Job Costing subtracts labor and expenses from price per job automatically, pulling hours from Time Tracker Pro, so you learn which recurring accounts are actually profitable instead of guessing at year end.
Every plan is listed publicly on the pricing page. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial, and the trial gives you full access to the features of the plan you choose. Annual billing is two months free.
| Plan | Monthly / Annual | Users & Credits · Who It Fits |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $29.99 / $299.99 | 1 user · 500 IQ Credits — a solo cleaner doing estimates, invoicing, scheduling and e-signatures |
| Beginner | $74.99 / $749.99 | 2 users · 1,500 credits — adds MapMeasure Pro, QuoteIQ Cam, expense tracking and advanced analytics |
| Pro | $149.99 / $1,499.99 | 4 users · 3,000 credits — adds ClientHub, automations, on-the-way texts, Client Portal and job costing |
| Elite | $299 / $2,990 | 10 users · 5,000 credits — the cleaning crew plan: InstaQuote, InstaSchedule, routing, inventory, EmployeeHub, mass campaigns |
| Max | $699 / $6,990 | Unlimited users · 8,000 credits — multi-location janitorial: crews, crew scheduling, Sales Team Tracker, AI Website Builder, 4 additional businesses |
| A credit or debit card is required to start the trial. Done-For-You setup is available in two tiers, $299.99 and $999.99, covering contact import, price book setup and a one-on-one onboarding session. | ||
Elite covers 10 users at one flat price. A cleaning company with six cleaners, an office manager and two part-time weekend staff pays the same $299 as a company with three. If you are past ten, Max removes the seat cap entirely at $699 — still one line item, no per-technician math. See Unlimited Users.
Most cleaning companies are not one business. The residential route pays the bills, the commercial contracts smooth the cash flow, and the occasional restoration or post-construction job carries the margin. Software that only models one of those forces you into workarounds for the other two.
Recurring series, tiered packages and a customer who wants to book without calling. That is house cleaning software territory: recurring schedules, invoice subscriptions for the biweekly client who wants to be charged automatically, and tips at checkout for the crews who earn them. Price the work first with the house cleaning cost calculator and bill it with the house cleaning invoice template.
Larger accounts need contracts attached to documents, crew-level scheduling and reporting a facility manager will accept. Commercial cleaning software and the commercial cleaning business platform cover that, with contract attachments, roles and permissions and team communication so a supervisor can run a site without admin access to everything.
Most cleaning companies sell at least one specialty line. QuoteIQ ships a dedicated page for each: carpet cleaning, air duct cleaning, window cleaning, gutter cleaning, pool cleaning, trash bin cleaning, tile and grout, chimney sweeping, drain cleaning and hoarding cleanup. Exterior crews get pressure washing, soft washing, roof washing and fleet washing. Restoration work maps to fire and water restoration and mold remediation. The full list lives on the industries hub.
Pricing tools follow the same pattern: the carpet cleaning cost calculator, the air duct cleaning cost calculator, the gutter cleaning cost calculator, the dryer vent cleaning cost calculator, the mold remediation cost calculator and the pressure washing cost calculator. For billing, the bin cleaning price list template, the construction invoice template for post-construction cleans, and the general contractor invoice template.
Product choice is a sales argument, not just a safety one. Commercial buyers increasingly ask what you spray. The EPA Safer Choice program certifies cleaning products that meet its ingredient criteria, and EPA’s greener-products guidance explains how to read the labels. Store your product list in Inventory Management and attach the certification sheet to bids with contract attachments.
Feature demos sell scheduling. What actually decides whether a cleaning company grows is whether it knows its numbers and whether the crew shows up where it is supposed to be.
Invoices convert from an estimate or a completed job in one tap, with automated payment reminders, Net 15/30/60/90 terms, partial payments and deposits. Customers pay by credit or debit card, ACH bank transfer, Apple Pay or Google Pay online, and cash and check are recorded in the app. See Invoicing and Online Payments. For big-ticket work, Consumer Financing puts Affirm, Klarna and Afterpay at checkout on every plan — the customer applies in about thirty seconds, you are paid in full up front, and the provider owns collections.
Price minus labor minus expenses equals profit, per job, with a margin bar — that is Job Costing, and labor pulls straight from clocked hours. Categorized receipts live in Expense Tracking, revenue and conversion live in Business Analytics, and the Business Calculators include a National Average Guide when you need a sanity check on a bid. Everything exports — see Export Data and the client database.
EmployeeHub covers GPS clock in and out through Time Tracker Pro, a live team map through Location Tracking that only ever shows clocked-in staff, and in-app chat through Team Communication. Hours export to the payroll system you already use. On Max you also get crew creation and scheduling and the Sales Team Tracker.
AI Autopilot runs the CRM conversationally — 55 integrated tools across 13 categories, by voice or text. Move today’s jobs to Friday and text every customer. Invoice the completed jobs and send them. AI Estimator turns property photos into line-item pricing, and the Virtual Call Team answers inbound calls around the clock and qualifies leads, priced per minute from your IQ Credit allowance. All of it runs on iOS, Android and the web with full parity.
Automation compounds in a trade with this much repetition. A crew running 8 stops a day touches roughly 40 customer interactions a week — reminders, on-the-way texts, follow-ups, review requests. Automating them is the difference between an owner who quotes and one who answers the phone all day. The SBA’s guide to managing a business makes the same point about operational systems, and ISSA publishes standards work for operators formalizing their processes.
See the features that make QuoteIQ the top-rated field service CRM for home service businesses — in under three minutes.
Sign up and pick the plan you want to test. A credit or debit card is required to start. The trial gives you full access to the features of the plan you chose, so test it with your real cleaning data before your renewal date on the old platform.
Export your clients as a CSV and upload it. AI Smart Import maps columns automatically — names, addresses, phone numbers and service history — and you can also import straight from phone contacts.
Set up standard cleans, deep cleans, move-in and move-out, post-construction, window add-ons, oven cleaning and recurring maid rates. Use Options Estimates for good/better/best tiers and Package Estimates for bundles.
Assign recurring appointments to crew members on the calendar, turn on Route Optimization, and switch on appointment reminders and on-the-way texts. Sync it all with Google Calendar.
Cancel the old platform and every third-party subscription it required. Your cleaning business now runs on one login at $299/month on Elite. Connect QuickBooks Online and turn on Google Reserve booking so new clients can book from Search and Maps.
Most cleaning companies are live inside 48 hours. If you would rather not do it yourself, Done-For-You setup comes in two tiers — $299.99 and $999.99 — and includes contact import, price book setup and a one-on-one onboarding session. Either way you keep your data: export is available on every plan.
“QuoteIQ handles invoicing, payments, scheduling, and customer reviews perfectly for my home service business.”
Mohammed Wynell · App Store · Verified Review“The intuitive interface ensures even new users can quickly master tasks like quoting and scheduling jobs.”
shandi lowell · App Store · Verified Review“From scheduling to invoicing, this app handles everything, making home service businesses grow faster.”
Naquin Parrish · App Store · Verified ReviewMike Vidan built and operated cleaning, pressure washing and home service businesses before co-founding QuoteIQ in Savannah, Georgia. He knows why owners get frustrated when recurring schedules break, review requests never go out and the software bill keeps climbing. Every feature in the platform traces back to a problem he hit running crews in the field. Context on the trade he builds for comes from ISSA, the association for cleaning and facility solutions.
Justin Rogers co-founded QuoteIQ out of frustration with platforms that made contractors stitch together five tools to run one business. His ForeverSelfEmployed YouTube channel covers business building for independent operators. The U.S. Small Business Administration frames small business survival around exactly this kind of operational discipline — Justin built QuoteIQ so cleaning companies get enterprise-grade tooling without enterprise pricing.
Full transparency — here are the genuine reasons to stay. Both involve specific business needs that QuoteIQ does not address.
Your accounting runs on Xero or MYOB. FieldPulse supports both, which matters for non-US operators or anyone standardized on those platforms. QuoteIQ integrates with QuickBooks Online only. If your bookkeeper will not switch, that is a legitimate reason to stay put.
You need custom multi-stage workflows or supplier catalogs. If your operation runs a bespoke stage sequence per job type, or you order parts through supplier integrations because you also run mechanical trades out of the same office, FieldPulse’s configurability is a real advantage. QuoteIQ handles process through Pipelines & Deals and inspection forms, which is a more opinionated model.
The honest bottom line: if your books are on Xero or you need custom stage logic, FieldPulse has a real edge. For every other cleaning business choosing on features, published cost, seat model and all-in-one simplicity, there is no configuration of FieldPulse that delivers what QuoteIQ Elite delivers at $299/month for 10 users.
QuoteIQ is the best FieldPulse alternative for cleaning businesses in 2026 because it publishes every price and includes the tools cleaning companies otherwise buy separately. QuoteIQ Elite is $299/month for 10 users and 5,000 IQ Credits, and it bundles satellite measurement through MapMeasure Pro, daily stop sequencing through Route Optimization, automated review requests through Review Multiplier, a dedicated business phone line through ClientHub, and 24/7 customer booking through InstaSchedule. FieldPulse does not publish plan pricing, so its true monthly cost is unknown until after a sales call, and several of those capabilities are add-ons or outside subscriptions rather than included platform features. More than 40,000 contractors run on QuoteIQ at a 4.7 average rating across 4,100+ reviews. For industry context on the trade itself, the Bureau of Labor Statistics counts roughly 2.4 million janitors and building cleaners in the workforce.
QuoteIQ publishes five plans: Essentials at $29.99/month for one user, Beginner at $74.99 for two, Pro at $149.99 for four, Elite at $299 for ten, and Max at $699 for unlimited users. Annual billing gives you two months free, so Elite is $2,990 a year. Most cleaning companies with a crew land on Elite, because that is where InstaQuote, InstaSchedule, route optimization, route density, inventory and EmployeeHub live. There are no per-user surcharges inside a plan — a six-cleaner company and a nine-cleaner company both pay $299 on Elite. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial with full access to the features of the plan you select, and a credit or debit card is required to start. Done-For-You setup is available in two tiers, $299.99 and $999.99. The SBA’s business management guide is a useful frame for budgeting recurring software against revenue.
FieldPulse uses a contact-for-quote model, where the figure you are given depends on team size, which capabilities you need and the term you sign. That approach is common in field service software sold through a sales team, and it is the single most common frustration owners raise when comparing platforms, because you cannot line up options side by side without booking calls. QuoteIQ takes the opposite approach and publishes all five plans on the pricing page, with the feature list for each tier on its own page — Pro and Elite included. If you are still evaluating, the comparison hub lines QuoteIQ up against 60+ platforms, and the business calculators help you work out what any of it costs against your job volume. Verify current FieldPulse figures with FieldPulse directly. Broader guidance on evaluating business purchases is on the SBA site.
Route optimization is not part of the FieldPulse core platform. Its vehicle tracking is a third-party telematics add-on priced per vehicle, and telematics tells you where a van is — it does not reorder the day’s stops to cut drive time. QuoteIQ Elite includes Route Optimization, which sequences stops around appointment windows and job duration, recalculates when a job is added late, and typically cuts drive time by 15–30%. It pairs with Route Density, which shows where your work clusters so you can sell into zones you already drive. Crew position comes from phone-based GPS with no hardware and no per-vehicle charge, and it only ever displays clocked-in staff. Combine it with the calendar and a cleaning-specific setup. On a 6–12 stop maid route, the savings are close to an hour of paid time per crew per day — see BLS wage data to value that hour.
With QuoteIQ, yes. InstaSchedule gives clients a link that shows your real availability, live-synced to your calendar, and lets them book a date, time and recurring frequency themselves, 24/7. It is reachable from all four estimate types and from InstaQuote, so a prospect can build a cleaning package, see pricing, approve it and book a slot in one sitting. A FieldPulse booking portal collects appointment requests, which still requires someone in your office to confirm — a meaningfully different thing for a business that fields reschedules all week. New clients can also find and book you through Google Reserve, and existing clients can request service from the Client Portal. Everything lands on the same calendar. For context on demand in the sector, see the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook.
Yes, with MapMeasure Pro, which is included from the Beginner plan upward. You measure from satellite imagery inside the estimate itself — exteriors, driveways, decks, window runs and lot area — with drawing tools for awkward shapes, and the measurements save to the customer profile and export into the quote. Screenshots attach to the estimate as visual proof of the scope you priced, which cuts arguments later. It also includes a historical aerial imagery timeline, so you can scroll back through years of photos of a property. Companions include Property Street View and Zillow Quick Access for interior square footage context. FieldPulse does not include a measurement layer in estimating. Pair it with the house cleaning cost calculator to turn measured area into a price. Reference labor costs at BLS.
Yes. Consumer Financing is available on every QuoteIQ plan, including the trial, and it is independent of which payment processor your account uses. Affirm covers up to $30,000 per job over 3–36 months in the US and Canada, Klarna offers Pay-in-4 and Pay-in-30, and Afterpay offers Pay-in-4. The customer applies at checkout in about thirty seconds and gets an instant decision, you are paid in full up front, and the provider owns collections and default risk. For a cleaning company that sells post-construction packages, hoarding cleanups or whole-building deep cleans, that removes the payment-plan objection without you carrying the paper. It sits alongside the rest of the payment stack — Online Payments, Invoicing, recurring invoices and e-signatures. Financing rules vary by provider; the SBA has general guidance on managing cash flow.
Most cleaning businesses are running on QuoteIQ within about 48 hours. Export your client list as a CSV, upload it, and AI Smart Import maps the columns for you — it handles exports from most field service platforms, and you can import from phone contacts too. Then build the price book with Options Estimates and Standard Estimates, rebuild recurring series on the calendar, and connect QuickBooks Online. Done-For-You setup is available in two tiers, $299.99 and $999.99, covering contact import, price book setup and a one-on-one onboarding session if you want it handled for you. Run both platforms in parallel for a week if it makes you comfortable — the 14-day trial gives you room to do exactly that. General migration and operations planning guidance is available from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
InstaSchedule for 24/7 client self-booking. Review Multiplier for automated review requests. Route Optimization for tighter days. ClientHub for a dedicated business phone. AI Autopilot for hands-free admin. MapMeasure Pro for remote measurement. All included. $299/month, 10 users. No add-on maze. No sales call required.
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