QuoteIQ

Landscaping Software Comparison · 2026

QuoteIQ vs Aspire

Aspire is business management software for commercial landscape and commercial cleaning contractors, part of the ServiceTitan family since 2021, and built around real-time job costing and production-based estimating. QuoteIQ is a field service CRM built for the solo operator through the 15-person landscaping and lawn care crew. Before comparing features, it is worth being honest about who each platform is actually built for, so you do not spend a sales cycle evaluating the wrong category of tool.

$29.99QuoteIQ starting price, published
14 daysFree trial on every QuoteIQ plan
5 plansEvery price listed, $29.99 to $699
40,000+Contractors trust QuoteIQ
4.7★Average rating
4,103Reviews across platforms
50+Trades on one account
Quick Answer

Aspire is serious enterprise software for commercial landscape and cleaning contractors: production-factor estimating templates and kits, real-time job costing and custom reporting, a sales pipeline, and QuickBooks or Acumatica accounting sync, sold through a personalized demo. QuoteIQ is built for 1 to 15 person landscaping and lawn care operations: five plans published on the QuoteIQ pricing page from $29.99 to $699 per month, a 14-day free trial of the plan you choose, AI tools on every plan, and a self-serve setup you can start the day you sign up. If you run a multi-branch commercial landscape company with a dedicated office team, Aspire is very likely the right fit and this page says so plainly. If you are a solo operator or a crew of up to 15 people, the two platforms were not built for the same buyer, and QuoteIQ is the one built for you.

TL;DR: Aspire, a ServiceTitan company, is deep commercial landscape software sold through demos. QuoteIQ fits 1 to 15 person crews: five published plans from $29.99, a 14-day trial, AI Estimator, Virtual Call Team, MapMeasure Pro, QuoteIQ Cam, Job Costing on Pro and Route Optimization on Elite. The BLS notes grounds work is seasonal and many crews add snow removal or holiday decor, and the SBA treats landscaping firms under $9.5M in receipts as small. Pick Aspire at multi-branch commercial scale with an office team; pick QuoteIQ when the owner still quotes, schedules and collects, and needs software running this week instead of next quarter.

Two Products, Two Different Buyers

Before any feature comparison matters, it is worth being direct about something most comparison pages skip: Aspire and QuoteIQ were not designed for the same customer. Aspire’s own product pages speak to commercial landscape and commercial cleaning contractors who want enterprise-grade financial visibility. QuoteIQ’s plans, pricing and setup are designed for the owner who still quotes jobs from the truck. Here is the split, using only what each company says about its own product.

Aspire’s Buyer
Commercial contractors
landscape maintenance, snow, enhancements and cleaning
  • Commercial landscape and commercial cleaning companies, per Aspire’s own product pages
  • Operations that want real-time job costing, custom reports and dashboards
  • Estimators working from templates and kits based on production factors
  • Finance teams syncing to QuickBooks or Acumatica
  • Companies comfortable evaluating software through a personalized sales demo
  • Part of the ServiceTitan family of products since 2021
QuoteIQ’s Buyer
1 to 15 people
landscaping, lawn care and multi-service crews
  • Solo operator through a growing crew, at any revenue stage
  • 1 user on Essentials, 2 on Beginner, 4 on Pro, 10 on Elite, unlimited on Max
  • Every price published: $29.99, $74.99, $149.99, $299 and $699 per month
  • Annual billing gives two months free on every plan
  • 50+ trades on one account, not landscape-only
  • 14-day free trial with full access to the plan you choose

Read that gap honestly: a large commercial landscape company with multiple branches, an estimating department and a controller is not usually choosing between Aspire and QuoteIQ Max at $699 per month with unlimited users. If your business already looks like Aspire’s buyer, Aspire is very likely the right tool, and the next section explains why. If it does not, keep reading, because the rest of this page is about what a smaller crew actually needs.

What Aspire Genuinely Does Better

Aspire’s core strength is not marketing spin. Its product pages center on job costing, estimating and reporting, and its own reviewers describe a real operational change once the system is fully in place.

“This has absolutely revolutionized our business management, we can see where we’re at financially at any given time, just through running a couple reports, as opposed to having to wait 30-45 days after closing a month.”

Chris H., verified Aspire reviewer on Capterra

Real-time job costing, with the ability to track the performance of any job or contract while work is still in progress, is the reason commercial companies buy Aspire. Its estimating approach, built on templates and kits tied to your actual production factors rather than guesses or copied past jobs, is designed to make every estimator on a large team price the same way. Aspire also includes a CRM view of the sales pipeline for bids and proposals, integrates with ServiceTitan’s Marketing Pro for email and direct mail campaigns, and syncs with accounting systems like QuickBooks or Acumatica. Its customers describe running maintenance, snow and enhancement work in one system. For a multi-branch commercial operation, Aspire is deeper than QuoteIQ in several places QuoteIQ does not try to compete.

QuoteIQ has no equivalent to: Acumatica integration, enterprise multi-branch financial consolidation, or native payroll. QuoteIQ has no automatic overtime calculation and no native payroll; hours from Time Tracker Pro export to your existing payroll system. Job costing in QuoteIQ is real-time per job, but it is not built to roll margins up by property portfolio, contract and branch the way an enterprise commercial platform is.

How Each Company Handles Pricing

Pricing transparency is the first practical difference most small crews run into. Aspire’s product pages invite you to sign up for a free, personalized demo. For Aspire’s current pricing, contract terms and trial options, check with Aspire directly on its website; this page does not quote competitor figures that we have not verified against the vendor’s own pricing page on the day of publication, and third-party estimates for enterprise software are frequently out of date or describe different modules.

A tip if you are researching this category: ServiceTitan sells more than one product to the green industry, including a lighter-weight option called Crew Control that it markets to smaller field service businesses. Make sure any price you see quoted online belongs to the product you are actually evaluating. Mixing up an entry-level product’s pricing with an enterprise platform’s pricing sends a budget conversation in the wrong direction from the first call.

QuoteIQ publishes every tier on the public pricing page, with no sales call required to learn what it costs. Annual billing gives two months free. IQ Credits, the in-app currency for AI features, are included every month and reset each billing cycle, and every AI action shows its credit cost before it runs.

QuoteIQ PlanMonthlyAnnualUsersIQ Credits / mo
Essentials$29.99$299.991500
Beginner$74.99$749.9921,500
Pro (recommended)$149.99$1,499.9943,000
Elite$299$2,990105,000
Max$699$6,990Unlimited8,000

The math on annual billing: Pro at $149.99 per month costs $1,799.88 over twelve months, while the annual Pro plan is $1,499.99, a saving of $299.89. On Elite, $299 per month is $3,588 a year against $2,990 annual, a $598 difference. See each tier in detail on the Pro plan page and the Elite plan page.

Learning Curve: What Even Happy Aspire Customers Say

One theme shows up across Aspire’s reviews regardless of star rating: the system is comprehensive, and comprehensive systems take time to learn. Five-star and one-star reviewers describe the same thing, which makes it a structural characteristic of enterprise software rather than a complaint from a bad fit.

“You will not get any real value out of it for several years.”

Tim G., President, 1-star Aspire review on Capterra

And here is the same theme from reviewers who otherwise like the product:

“It’s a relatively high learning curve to ‘master’ the system. Be prepared to invest in a resident ‘expert’ who can manage accurate data.”

Roxanne S., Director of Admin Services, 4-star Aspire review. A 5-star reviewer, John P., added: “because it is such a comprehensive system it does take some time to learn all that you need to know.”

When happy and unhappy customers agree on the same structural fact, it deserves weight. For a commercial operation with dedicated administrative staff, a longer implementation to unlock deep job costing across a large team is a reasonable trade. For a landscaping crew of 1 to 15 people, where the owner is also the estimator, the dispatcher and the bookkeeper, every week spent configuring software is a week of quotes not sent. QuoteIQ is self-serve: you import your customer list with AI Smart Import, build your first standard estimate, and use the 14-day trial to run real jobs before committing. If you would rather hand setup off, QuoteIQ also offers paid Done-For-You setup in two tiers, $299.99 and $999.99, covering contact import, price book setup and a one-on-one onboarding session.

The Field App: Where Aspire’s Reviewers Push Back

On Aspire’s Capterra profile at our July 2026 check, Mobile Access was the lowest-scoring feature area at 3.8 out of 5, against 4.5 for Job Costing. That pattern matters for a small crew, because the field app is the part of the software your crew leaders touch most.

“Extremely laggy upon opening and going to tickets screen. We’ve tried to have our guys use it but there are too many complaints. We really hope you can fix this before Crew Mobile is retired because the slowness really cuts into production time.”

App Store review of Aspire Mobile, Aspire’s current field app, written before the legacy Crew Mobile app was retired

Mobile app quality changes release to release, so check the current App Store and Google Play listings for any platform you are considering, and put the app in a crew leader’s hands during evaluation rather than judging it from the office. QuoteIQ runs with full parity on iOS, Android and the web through its mobile and web access, so the estimate you start on your phone in a customer’s driveway is the same estimate your office sees on a laptop.

By the numbers: QuoteIQ holds a 4.7-star average across 4,103 reviews, and is used by 40,000+ contractors. The QuoteIQ Cam documentation tool on Beginner and above includes unlimited 4K photo and video cloud storage, organized by job and date, which is where most landscape disputes about “what the property looked like before” get settled.

What a 1 to 15 Person Landscaping Crew Actually Needs

Software decisions go wrong when a small company buys for the business it hopes to be in five years instead of the one it runs today. The data on the green industry points to a clear profile. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics notes that many grounds maintenance jobs are seasonal, busiest in spring, summer and fall, and that many workers also provide other seasonal services such as snow removal and the installation and removal of holiday decor. The BLS reports a median annual wage of $36,790 in May 2024 across building and grounds cleaning occupations, with about 788,700 openings projected each year from 2024 to 2034, largely to replace workers who leave. That combination of seasonal demand, add-on services and constant hiring is the environment small landscaping software has to survive in.

It also explains why the size of the business matters so much. The U.S. Small Business Administration sets small business size standards by industry code, and landscaping services (NAICS 561730) carries a $9.5 million average annual receipts standard in SBA’s current table, with an August 2025 proposed rule that would raise it. In other words, almost every landscaping company in the country is a small business by the federal definition, and most of them are far smaller than the commercial operators enterprise platforms are designed around.

Speed to quote

Price the job before you leave the curb

Satellite measurement, reusable services and good-better-best options turn a site visit into a sent estimate. Start with the free lawn care cost calculator to sanity-check your per-visit pricing.

Speed to cash

Invoice from the driveway

One-tap conversion from estimate to invoice, card and ACH payments, and recurring subscriptions for maintenance contracts. The free landscaping invoice template shows the line items clients expect.

Seasonal range

One account for every season

Add snow removal, holiday lighting or irrigation without switching platforms, matching the seasonal pattern the BLS describes.

Safety and records go together: the OSHA landscape and horticultural services page lists hazards from chemicals, noise, machinery, lifting and weather across the industry. Dated job photos, inspection forms and crew time records in one system give a 5-person company the same paper trail a 500-person company keeps, without a compliance department. QuoteIQ’s inspection forms and job gallery are built for exactly that.

Where QuoteIQ Wins for a Smaller Operation

Aspire is deeper on enterprise financial operations. QuoteIQ is deeper on the things a 1 to 15 person landscaping or lawn care crew touches every day: quoting fast, getting paid, filling the schedule, answering the phone and building a review profile, without hiring an administrator to run the software.

Published pricing, real trial

All five QuoteIQ tiers are published from $29.99 to $699 per month, and every plan includes a 14-day free trial with full access to the features of the plan you choose.

AI on every plan

AI Autopilot runs the CRM by voice or text with 55 tools across 13 categories, the AI Estimator turns property photos into line-item quotes, and the AI Text Generator writes customer messages.

Satellite measurement

MapMeasure Pro measures lawns, beds, driveways and fence lines inside estimate creation on Beginner ($74.99) and above, with Property Street View and Zillow Quick Access alongside.

Review generation

Review Multiplier sends customers to your review page right after they pay and runs an email and text review-request automation, pointing to Google Business Profile, Facebook, Yelp or Angi.

Customers quote and book themselves

InstaQuote and InstaSchedule on Elite let customers price services and book real open time on your calendar, alongside drag-and-drop scheduling.

50+ trades, one account

Add tree care, pressure washing or gutter cleaning to a landscaping business and QuoteIQ absorbs it across 50+ industries.

Quoting Landscape Work: Measure, Price, Send

Estimating is where Aspire earns its reputation, so it is the fairest place to describe how QuoteIQ approaches the same job for a smaller company. Aspire’s model is an estimating department working from production-factor kits. QuoteIQ’s model is an owner or crew leader who needs an accurate, professional quote in front of the customer before a competitor calls back.

QuoteIQ gives you four estimate types on every plan. A Standard estimate is a line-item quote with photos, notes, terms and your license number on the PDF. A Quick estimate handles simple one-line jobs like a spring cleanup. An Options estimate presents good, better and best tiers, which is how many lawn care companies sell weekly versus biweekly service or basic versus premium bed maintenance. A Package estimate bundles services, such as mowing, edging, blowing and seasonal aeration, into one price. Estimates support deposits, markup and discount controls, sub-items, hidden line prices, templates, expiration dates, and a Materials section that can link to products.

On Beginner and above, MapMeasure Pro measures square footage, lawn area, driveways, decks and fence lines from satellite imagery inside the estimate, saves the measurement to the customer profile, and attaches a screenshot to the estimate as visual proof of the measured scope. Since August 2026, a historical aerial imagery timeline lets you scroll back through years of photos of a property, which helps when a customer insists a bed or a tree line has always been where it is. For quick checks on specialty work, the free artificial turf cost calculator, French drain cost calculator, fence cost calculator and land clearing cost calculator give you a starting point, and the full home service calculator library covers more trades.

Financing for bigger installs: patios, retaining walls and full landscape renovations stall on price. QuoteIQ’s Consumer Financing is available on every plan, with Affirm up to $30,000 per job over 3 to 36 months, plus Klarna and Afterpay pay-in-4 options. The customer applies at checkout in about 30 seconds, you are paid in full upfront, and the provider carries collections and default risk.

Once a customer says yes, e-signatures on every plan let them sign on their phone, contract attachments on Beginner and above add your service agreement, and the estimate converts to an invoice in one tap. Maintenance customers can move straight onto recurring invoice subscriptions, and online payments accept cards, ACH bank transfer, Apple Pay and Google Pay, with cash and checks recorded in the app.

Job Costing and Profit Visibility, Sized for a Crew

Aspire’s job costing is its flagship, and it is deeper than QuoteIQ’s for portfolio-level commercial reporting. What most small crews need is a narrower answer: did this job make money, and which jobs should I stop taking? QuoteIQ Job Costing on Pro and above answers that on every job with a simple formula: Total Price minus Labor minus Expenses equals Profit, shown with a profit-margin bar. Labor pulls automatically from time tracking as hourly rate multiplied by clocked hours, and expenses link to the job.

A worked example: a $1,200 bed renovation with two crew members clocked for 6 hours each at $22 per hour carries $264 in labor. Add $410 in mulch, plants and edging logged through Expense Tracking, and the job shows $526 in profit, a 43.8% margin, before you ever open a spreadsheet.

Business analytics cover revenue by service, customer and employee, outstanding versus collected, quotes sent, conversion rate, average ticket and repeat rate, with advanced analytics on Beginner and above. QuickBooks Online integration on Pro syncs invoices, payments, customers and expense categories, and Business Calculators, including a Mulch calculator and a National Average Guide for pricing reference, are included on every plan. Everything exports through Export Data, and you own your data on every plan.

Drive time belongs in the same equation. Maintenance routes rack up miles fast, and the IRS standard mileage rate for business use is 76 cents per mile from July 1, 2026. A crew truck covering 60 route miles a day for 150 working days logs 9,000 miles a season, worth $6,840 at that rate. Whether you deduct actual costs or use the standard rate, tracking the miles tied to each route tells you which neighborhoods are worth serving weekly and which belong on a less frequent visit. Pairing that with per-job profit in Job Costing is how a small lawn care company finds the accounts that are quietly losing money every week.

Routes, Crews and Field Operations

Maintenance routes are where a lawn care company’s margin is won or lost. QuoteIQ splits the problem in two on Elite. Route Density shows where your work clusters so you can plan which zone each crew covers on which day. Route Optimization then sequences the day’s stops in that zone for minimal drive time, accounts for appointment times and durations, and recalculates when a late job is added.

Drive time is payroll: Route Optimization cuts drive time by 15 to 30%. For a two-person crew driving 2 hours a day, a 20% cut returns roughly 24 minutes a day per truck, which is often one more mowing stop.

Elite also adds EmployeeHub, with GPS location tracking that shows your team only while they are clocked in and stops at clock-out, Time Tracker Pro for GPS clock in and out with per-job hours, and Team Communication for one-on-one and group chats. Growing past ten people? Max adds unlimited users at a flat price, crew creation, tracking and scheduling, a Sales Team Tracker with commission percentages per rep, the AI Website Builder included, and four additional businesses under one plan.

On the phone side, ClientHub on Pro gives you a dedicated business number with two-way calling and texting inside QuoteIQ, and routes incoming calls by time of day or availability to team members or to the Virtual Call Team. The Virtual Call Team answers inbound calls 24/7, qualifies leads, filters spam, and records and transcribes every call, priced through IQ Credits at 125 credits per minute, so call minutes are limited on lower tiers by each plan’s credit allocation.

InstaQuote + InstaSchedule: Not a Booking Form

A basic booking form captures an unpriced service request that you still have to quote, confirm and chase. InstaQuote and InstaSchedule are two separate Elite features that remove those steps.

Customer self-quoting
  • You build the service library with your own pricing
  • Share the InstaQuote link on your website, by email or on social media
  • Customers select services and see a real-time total
  • The quote is delivered instantly by email and SMS
  • Customers can approve and book, and you are notified right away
Customer self-scheduling
  • 24/7 customer self-booking against your real calendar availability
  • Availability is live-synced, so booked time disappears for everyone else
  • Reachable from all four estimate types and from InstaQuote forms
  • Pairs with Google Calendar two-way sync and automated appointment reminders
  • Completes the loop from priced quote to booked visit without a phone call

For lead follow-up, Email and Text Automations on Pro run event-triggered, multi-step sequences with personalization tags, and since June 2026 you can describe an automation in plain language and have it built for you. On Elite, Mass Campaigns send segmented SMS and email blasts through your own Twilio and SendGrid gateways, useful for spring aeration pushes and fall cleanup reminders. The Client Portal on Pro gives each customer a branded link to approve estimates, pay invoices and request service.

Feature-for-Feature Comparison

QuoteIQ entries come from QuoteIQ’s live plan pages. Aspire entries describe capabilities Aspire presents on its own product pages; where we have not verified an Aspire detail today, the row points you to Aspire directly rather than guessing. See every head-to-head on the QuoteIQ comparison hub.

CapabilityQuoteIQAspire
Built for1 to 15 person crews, 50+ tradesCommercial landscape and cleaning contractors
Published pricingYes, 5 tiers from $29.99 to $699Check with Aspire
Free trial14 days, plan of your choicePersonalized demo offered; ask Aspire about trial terms
BillingMonthly, or annual with 2 months freeCheck with Aspire
SetupSelf-serve; optional Done-For-You at $299.99 or $999.99Guided implementation
Users included1, 2, 4, 10 or unlimited by planCheck with Aspire
Estimating4 estimate types plus AI EstimatorTemplates and kits based on production factors
Job costingPer job, real-time, Pro and aboveReal-time by job or contract with custom reporting
Satellite measurementMapMeasure Pro, Beginner and aboveCheck with Aspire
AI toolsAI Autopilot, AI Estimator, Virtual Call Team on every planCheck with Aspire
Review requestsReview Multiplier: post-payment redirect plus automationCheck with Aspire
Customer self-quoting and bookingInstaQuote and InstaSchedule, Elite and aboveCheck with Aspire
Sales pipelinePipelines and Deals, Elite (5 pipelines) and Max (unlimited)CRM pipeline for bids and proposals
Marketing campaignsAutomations on Pro, Mass Campaigns on EliteServiceTitan Marketing Pro integration
AccountingQuickBooks Online, Pro and aboveQuickBooks or Acumatica
PayrollNo native payroll; hours exportCheck with Aspire
Multi-branch financial consolidationNot built for it; Max includes 4 additional businessesDesigned for larger commercial operations
Field appiOS, Android and web with full parityAspire Mobile; Mobile Access 3.8 on Capterra at our July 2026 check
Overall rating4.7 stars across 4,103 reviews4.5 stars on Capterra at our July 2026 check

QuoteIQ Plans: Published, No Sales Call Required

Five plans, every price on the public pricing page, and a 14-day free trial on each. AI is included on every plan through monthly IQ Credits, scaling from 500 on Essentials to 8,000 on Max, and the AI Website Builder is a $34.99 per month add-on on every plan except Max, where it is included.

Essentials
$29.99/mo
$299.99 billed annually
1 user · 500 IQ Credits
  • 4 estimate types + e-signatures
  • Invoicing, payments + financing
  • Scheduling and calendar
  • AI Autopilot + AI Estimator
  • Virtual Call Team (limited minutes)
Beginner
$74.99/mo
$749.99 billed annually
2 users · 1,500 IQ Credits
  • Everything in Essentials
  • MapMeasure Pro satellite
  • QuoteIQ Cam, 4K storage
  • Contract attachments
  • Expense tracking + analytics
Elite
$299/mo
$2,990 billed annually
10 users · 5,000 IQ Credits
  • Everything in Pro
  • InstaQuote + InstaSchedule
  • Route Optimization + Density
  • EmployeeHub + GPS tracking
  • Pipelines, Inventory, Campaigns
Max
$699/mo
$6,990 billed annually
Unlimited users · 8,000 IQ Credits
  • Everything in Elite
  • Crew creation + scheduling
  • Sales Team Tracker
  • AI Website Builder included
  • 4 extra businesses + priority support

Seven Questions to Ask Before You Sign Anything

The most expensive software is the one your crew quietly stops using by midsummer. Small companies rarely fail a software rollout because a feature was missing; they fail because the system asked for more time than the owner had in peak season. Frame every demo and every trial around your busiest week of the year, not your slowest, and judge each platform by how it performs when three trucks are out, the phone is ringing and a customer wants a quote before dinner.

Whichever platform you evaluate, these questions separate software that will get used from software that will be abandoned by July. Ask them of Aspire’s sales team, ask them of QuoteIQ, and write the answers down.

  • What will I pay in year one, all in? Include setup, onboarding, per-user seats, add-ons and payment processing. QuoteIQ’s answer is on the Essentials plan page and the other plan pages; for any vendor, get it in writing.
  • Can I run a real job before I commit? A demo shows you a curated account. A trial shows you your own customers, your own services and your own crew’s patience with the app.
  • Who runs this system day to day? If the honest answer is “a person we have not hired yet,” budget for that salary as part of the software cost.
  • How do my crews use it in the field? Hand the app to your least technical crew leader and ask them to clock in, open today’s jobs and take a photo.
  • Does it cover every service I will sell in the next two years? Mowing today, stump grinding and pet waste removal next spring is a common path for lawn companies.
  • How do I get my data out? Export should be standard, not a support ticket.
  • What happens to my price when I add people? Know the seat count at each tier before your next hire, not after.

The honest boundary: none of this makes QuoteIQ a replacement for Aspire at enterprise scale. If you need native payroll, enterprise multi-branch consolidation or Acumatica accounting, QuoteIQ does not offer those. The argument here is fit, not superiority, and for a crew under 15 people, fit decides whether software gets used. Read our full lawn care software FAQ for more buying guidance.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does Aspire landscaping software cost in 2026?+

Aspire handles pricing through a sales conversation: its product pages invite prospects to sign up for a free, personalized demo, so the only reliable number is the written quote Aspire gives your company for your size and modules. We do not repeat third-party Aspire price estimates, because they are often out of date or describe a different ServiceTitan product such as Crew Control, so check Aspire’s own site for current pricing. When you get a quote, total year one: implementation, onboarding, seats and payment processing. For contrast, QuoteIQ publishes every plan on its pricing page: Essentials at $29.99, Beginner at $74.99, Pro at $149.99, Elite at $299 and Max at $699 per month, with annual billing giving two months free. Keep scale in mind too: the SBA treats landscaping companies under $9.5 million in average annual receipts as small businesses, and most crews are far below that line.

Does Aspire software offer a free trial?+

Aspire’s product pages lead with a free, personalized demo rather than a self-serve trial, so ask Aspire directly about current trial or pilot options before assuming either way. A demo and a trial answer different questions: a demo shows a prepared account, while a trial lets you quote your own customers and hand the app to your own crew. QuoteIQ offers a 14-day free trial with full access to the features of the plan you choose, one trial per person, business and payment method, a credit or debit card is required to start. Use those 14 days to build an Options estimate with three service tiers, collect e-signatures, convert it with invoicing, and load a week of real visits into scheduling. Compare what each tier unlocks on the pricing page first. The BLS notes that grounds work peaks in spring, summer and fall, so the best time to trial any platform is a few weeks before your busy season starts.

Is Aspire worth it for a small landscaping company?+

For most crews under 15 people, probably not, and that is a statement about fit rather than quality. Aspire’s product pages speak to commercial landscape and cleaning contractors that want real-time job costing, production-factor estimating kits and accounting sync, and its own reviewers advise investing in a resident expert to run the system. A small company usually needs speed to quote and speed to cash first. QuoteIQ covers that from $29.99 per month on its landscaping software and lawn care software pages, with MapMeasure Pro on Beginner, per-job Job Costing on Pro and Route Optimization on Elite, which cuts drive time 15 to 30%. Labor economics point the same way: the BLS reports a $36,790 median wage in May 2024 across building and grounds occupations, so adding an administrator just to operate software is a large fixed cost for a small crew. If you do not employ a full-time office manager today, start with software you can run yourself.

What is the best Aspire alternative for small landscaping businesses?+

For a solo operator through a 15-person crew, QuoteIQ is the strongest Aspire alternative because it is priced, packaged and set up for that size of business. It starts at $29.99 per month with a 14-day trial and runs AI on every plan: the AI Estimator turns property photos into line-item quotes, the Virtual Call Team answers calls 24/7 at 125 IQ Credits per minute, and Review Multiplier requests reviews after payment. It also covers 50+ trades on one account, so a company that adds snow removal or holiday lighting stays on one system. ServiceTitan also sells a lighter product, Crew Control, aimed at smaller field service businesses; if you are considering it, check its current pricing on the vendor’s own site. Whatever you shortlist, ask three questions: can you see the price before a sales call, can you test it on a real job, and does it cover every service you plan to sell. The OSHA landscaping hazards list is also a useful reminder to confirm the app handles photos, inspection forms and time records.

Is Aspire owned by ServiceTitan?+

Yes. Aspire announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by ServiceTitan in June 2021 and now describes itself as part of the ServiceTitan family of solutions. ServiceTitan began trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker TTAN on December 12, 2024, according to CNBC’s coverage of the IPO. Aspire sits alongside other ServiceTitan products for the trades, including the lighter Crew Control product for smaller businesses. That ownership brings financial backing and a real roadmap, and it also means several platforms a landscaping company may be pitched share one parent, so a second quote may be less independent than it looks. If you want a genuinely different option, review the QuoteIQ comparison hub, the landscaping software page, the lawn care software page, the free ServiceTitan pricing calculator and QuoteIQ’s five published plans on the pricing page, from $29.99 to $699 per month. QuoteIQ is built by contractors, for contractors, co-founded by Mike Vidan and Justin Rogers.

How long does it take to implement Aspire software?+

Plan on a guided implementation measured in weeks to months rather than days, and confirm the timeline with Aspire in writing. Its own reviewers are consistent across star ratings: a 1-star reviewer wrote that you will not get real value for several years, a 4-star reviewer described a high learning curve and advised investing in a resident expert, and a 5-star reviewer said the comprehensive system takes time to learn. Crew turnover makes this harder for small companies; the BLS projects about 788,700 openings a year in building and grounds occupations through 2034, so the tool must be learnable by new hires on the job. QuoteIQ is self-serve: bring your list over with AI Smart Import, send a Standard estimate or a Quick estimate, and move maintenance customers onto invoice subscriptions. If you want hands-on help, Done-For-You setup comes in two tiers, $299.99 and $999.99, covering contact import, price book setup and a one-on-one onboarding session; compare every plan on the pricing page.

What is the difference between Aspire and Crew Control?+

Both are ServiceTitan products, but they target opposite ends of the market. Aspire is business management software for commercial landscape and cleaning contractors, built around production-factor estimating, real-time job costing, custom reporting and QuickBooks or Acumatica sync. ServiceTitan markets Crew Control as a flexible, lightweight option for smaller field service businesses that may later move up to ServiceTitan. Pricing, trial terms and user limits for both change, so verify them on each vendor’s own site the day you compare. If you are a small operator, the more useful comparison is Crew Control against small-business tools like QuoteIQ, which publishes five plans from $29.99 to $699 per month with 1, 2, 4, 10 or unlimited users by tier. QuoteIQ adds satellite measurement with MapMeasure Pro, customer self-quoting with InstaQuote, self-booking with InstaSchedule, Consumer Financing up to $30,000 per job through Affirm, and a branded Client Portal. For context on firm size, the SBA size standards define small landscaping companies by average annual receipts.

How much does QuoteIQ cost for a landscaping business?+

QuoteIQ costs $29.99 to $699 per month depending on plan, or two months free when billed annually. Essentials at $29.99 covers one user with 500 IQ Credits, estimates, invoicing and scheduling. Beginner at $74.99 adds a second user, 1,500 credits, MapMeasure Pro and QuoteIQ Cam. Pro at $149.99, the recommended tier, covers four users with 3,000 credits, ClientHub, Job Costing and QuickBooks Online. Elite at $299 covers ten users with 5,000 credits, Route Optimization, EmployeeHub and InstaQuote. Max at $699 adds unlimited users, 8,000 credits, crews and the AI Website Builder, which is a $34.99 monthly add-on on other plans. As a rule of thumb, a solo mower fits Essentials or Beginner, a two-truck crew fits Pro, and a company running multiple crews fits Elite. Check your per-visit math with the free lawn care cost calculator, and track mileage against the IRS standard mileage rate, 76 cents per mile from July 1, 2026, when pricing route-heavy work.

Key Takeaways

  • Aspire is serious commercial landscape and cleaning software, strongest in production-factor estimating, real-time job costing and accounting sync, and it is part of ServiceTitan.
  • QuoteIQ is built for 1 to 15 person crews, with five published plans from $29.99 to $699 per month and a 14-day free trial of the plan you choose.
  • For Aspire’s pricing, trial and contract terms, check with Aspire directly; this page does not quote unverified competitor figures.
  • Aspire reviewers across star ratings describe a real learning curve; QuoteIQ is self-serve, with optional Done-For-You setup at $299.99 or $999.99.
  • QuoteIQ’s small-crew advantages are AI on every plan, satellite measurement from $74.99, review generation, customer self-booking on Elite and 50+ trades on one account.
  • Choose Aspire at multi-branch commercial scale with an office team; choose QuoteIQ when the owner still quotes, schedules and collects.

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How to Get Started with QuoteIQ

A self-serve setup, not a months-long implementation.

1

Start Your Free Trial

Pick the plan that fits your crew and start its 14-day free trial at admin-quoteiq.web.app/register.

2

Import Your Customers

Bring your customer list over from a CSV, another CRM or your phone contacts with AI Smart Import, which maps the columns for you.

3

Set Up Services and Payments

Build your price book and estimate templates, turn on online payments, and set recurring schedules for maintenance customers.

4

Run Your First Week

Quote, schedule and invoice real jobs during your trial. If it fits, you are already live, with no migration project required.

Built by Contractors, for Contractors
Mike Vidan
Co-Founder, QuoteIQ

Mike co-founded QuoteIQ with Justin Rogers to give home service contractors an all-in-one CRM priced for how small crews actually operate. He publishes business education for contractors on YouTube and at mikevidan.com, and writes for contractors on the QuoteIQ insights hub.

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Justin Rogers
Co-Founder, QuoteIQ

Justin co-founded QuoteIQ in Savannah, Georgia, in 2022 alongside Mike Vidan, with the same goal of helping home service owners quote, schedule and get paid from one app. His articles for owners of growing service companies live on the QuoteIQ insights hub.

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What Landscape and Lawn Pros Say · 4.7 Stars · 4,103 Reviews
★★★★★

“I have a lawncare business, was unorganized, but QuoteIQ changed everything. Estimates, scheduling, billing and invoicing are seamless. Tax prep easier. Best CRM by functionality and price.”

Elke Staton
App Store · Verified Review
★★★★★

“Amazing UI and easy to use! I use this for my landscaping company and it makes it very easy to track projects and payments for projects. The built in picture protection is also fantastic. I would highly recommend this to anyone who is thinking about it!”

Camden Nagg
Google Play · Verified Review
★★★★★

“Recently started a lawn care and pressure washing service. After doing my first couple of gigs, I realized I needed to be more efficient with my time. Equipment is still slowing me down, however, the my bottom line grew from 300 to 4K in less than 15 days. How I did it?
Quote IQ. QIQ makes me more efficient with estimating, payments, P/L tracking etc. What’s cost me? Less than my weekly coffee expense.”

Catulus Property
App Store · Verified Review

Aspire is genuinely strong software for the company it is built for: commercial landscape and cleaning operations with an office team and multiple crews. If that is your business, this page is not trying to talk you out of it. If you run a smaller crew, the QuoteIQ 14-day free trial shows you what software built for your size of business looks like on your own jobs.

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