Running two or three service companies under one roof shouldn’t mean two or three separate logins. Here’s how contractors run every business line — and every crew — from a single QuoteIQ account.
QuoteIQ is a field service CRM that lets a contractor run multiple service companies — say a pressure washing operation and a holiday lighting business — from one login, one customer database, and one set of financial reports. There’s no per-business subscription and no separate account to manage: you switch service catalogs and branding inside the same dashboard, while EmployeeHub tracks crews across every business line at once.
TL;DR: QuoteIQ is a CRM for multiple businesses with 1 login — one account covers unlimited service lines with a shared customer database, unified invoicing, and one analytics dashboard. Plans run $29.99–$699/month depending on user count and feature tier; every plan includes a 14-day free trial. Multi-business contractors typically need Scheduling, EmployeeHub, and Pipelines & Deals together, which land on the Elite plan. Common pairings — pressure washing plus holiday lighting, or lawn care plus snow removal — are seasonal complements, a strategy the Small Business Administration specifically recommends for smoothing revenue across the year. Legally, one EIN can cover every trade name a sole proprietor operates, per IRS Form SS-4 instructions.
Finding the right CRM for multiple businesses with 1 login is one of the more practical challenges facing contractors in 2026. When you run a pressure washing company, a lawn care division, and maybe a holiday lighting business — all under different brand names — you need software that keeps everything organized without forcing you into multiple accounts, separate logins, or disconnected customer data.
QuoteIQ was built around exactly this problem. As a CRM for multiple businesses with 1 login, it was created by contractors Mike Vidan and Justin Rogers, Co-Founders who ran into these exact frustrations firsthand. The result is a platform where you manage unlimited service lines, a shared customer database, employee scheduling, and financial tracking from a single dashboard — no account switching required.
Below, you’ll find exactly how QuoteIQ functions as a multi-business CRM, what it actually includes at each pricing tier, how the legal and tax side of running multiple trade names works, and which QuoteIQ tier fits which combination of businesses.
The home service industry rewards diversification. A pressure washer adds holiday light installation for winter revenue. A landscaper adds snow removal. A painter adds handyman work to fill gaps between big jobs. This isn’t a niche pattern — it’s one of the most common growth paths in the trades, and it’s one the Small Business Administration actively recommends: its own guidance on seasonal businesses points to exactly this move, noting that a lawn care business can add snow removal for the winter months to keep revenue flowing when the primary trade goes quiet.
But most CRM software wasn’t built with that in mind. Multi-business contractors typically get stuck between two bad options:
Neither works well at scale. QuoteIQ was designed from the ground up as a true CRM for multiple businesses with 1 login, so the platform’s architecture matches how contractors actually operate rather than fighting against it.
2,875,590 — the number of nonemployer construction-sector establishments the U.S. Census Bureau counted in 2022, a reminder of how common small, owner-operated service businesses are in this industry — and how often those owners eventually run more than one.
Using a different CRM for each business line costs more than the subscription fees stacking up. The hidden costs show up in daily operations:
A unified analytics dashboard and a shared customer database solve this directly — every job, invoice, and customer touchpoint lands in the same place regardless of which brand did the work.
No — and this mirrors how the IRS and most state governments already treat multi-business owners. According to the IRS’s own instructions for Form SS-4, a sole proprietor generally needs only one EIN regardless of how many businesses or trade names they operate under. If the tax authority treats your pressure washing brand and your holiday lighting brand as one entity for filing purposes, there’s a strong case your day-to-day software should work the same way.
That doesn’t mean skip a lawyer or accountant on entity structure — liability separation, licensing, and insurance requirements vary by trade and state, and the SBA’s own guidance on managing a business covers the bookkeeping, tax, and employee-management obligations that apply once you’re running more than one line of work under the same roof. What it does mean is that the operational side — quoting, scheduling, invoicing, and reporting — doesn’t need to be split into separate silos just because the legal paperwork lists more than one trade name.
5.2% — the multiple-jobholding rate the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported for 2024, covering workers holding more than one job at once. Contractors running two service brands under one roof are a business-owner version of the same instinct: diversify income rather than depend on a single revenue source.
QuoteIQ’s approach to multi-business management is straightforward: one account, one login, and every business line lives inside it as its own set of services, pricing, and branding. Here’s exactly how that plays out.
Every customer lives in the same Client Database, regardless of which of your businesses they first hired. That means:
QuoteIQ’s estimating system supports four estimate types — Standard, Quick, Options (Good/Better/Best), and Package — and none of them are limited to a single industry. As your CRM for multiple businesses with 1 login, QuoteIQ lets you:
If you’re pricing jobs across trades, QuoteIQ’s Business Calculators and National Average Guide give a same-account reference point — useful when a pressure washing quote and a lawn care quote need to sit side by side in the same pipeline. For lawn care specifically, the Lawn Care Cost Calculator and Pressure Washing Cost Calculator are free tools you can use before you even build the estimate.
One of the most useful parts of running multiple businesses through a single QuoteIQ account is what it does for your numbers. The Business Analytics dashboard reports revenue by service, customer, and employee, alongside sales conversion and completion-rate data — all pulled from the same account, so you can see at a glance which business line is actually carrying the company. On the Pro plan and above, Job Costing breaks profit down job-by-job (price minus labor minus expenses), which matters even more when labor is being split across two or three service lines.
EmployeeHub (Elite plan and above) is where multi-business management really shows its value. It provides:
On the Max plan, this extends further with Crew Creation, Crew Tracking, and Crew Scheduling — useful once you’re running dedicated teams per business line rather than a single crew doing double duty.
These are the features multi-business QuoteIQ users lean on most, spanning several plan tiers:
Customer self-quoting on your site (Elite+). Build your service library, share the link, and customers get an instant quote — useful for keeping lead flow moving across multiple business lines without you touching every request.
24/7 customer self-booking against your real calendar availability (Elite+), live-synced so customers see accurate openings no matter which business line they’re booking.
In-app photo capture, before/after comparisons, and custom inspection forms (Beginner+), with unlimited 4K cloud storage — documentation for every business line lives in one archive.
Satellite property measurement inside estimate creation (Beginner+) — square footage, roof dimensions, and drawing tools for irregular shapes, useful across pressure washing, lawn care, and roofing quotes alike.
A dedicated business phone number with two-way calling and texting (Pro+), synced across devices, with every conversation saved to the customer profile regardless of which business initiated it.
Sequences the day’s stops for minimal drive time (Elite+), cutting drive time by an estimated 15–30% — useful when one crew is bouncing between two different business lines’ job sites in the same day.
Revenue by service, customer, and employee; sales conversion and pipeline value; completion rates — filterable so you can see how each business line performs individually or combined.
A Kanban-style CRM (Elite+, up to 5 pipelines; unlimited on Max) with probability-weighted forecasting — run a separate pipeline per business line while reporting rolls up to one dashboard.
QuoteIQ doesn’t charge per business — a single subscription covers however many service lines you run. Which plan fits depends on how many users and which features (EmployeeHub, Pipelines, InstaQuote) your combined operations need:
| Plan | Monthly | Users | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $29.99 | 1 | A single owner-operator testing a second service line before hiring help |
| Beginner | $74.99 | 2 | Adds MapMeasure Pro, QuoteIQ Cam, and Expense Tracking — useful once a second business line needs its own documentation |
| Pro | $149.99 | 4 | Adds ClientHub, Job Costing, and Client Portal — the point where separate financial tracking per business line starts to matter |
| Elite | $299 | 10 | Most common pick for multi-business contractors — adds EmployeeHub, InstaQuote, InstaSchedule, Pipelines & Deals, and Route Optimization |
| Max | $699 | Unlimited | Adds unlimited seats, Crew Creation/Scheduling, Sales Team Tracker, and the AI Website Builder at no extra cost — built for contractors running several businesses with larger combined headcounts |
Annual billing on any plan is 10 months’ cost for 12 months of service. All five plans include the full AI suite — AI Autopilot, AI Estimator, Virtual Call Team, and AI text tools — with IQ Credits scaled to the tier (500 on Essentials up to 8,000 on Max).
The Elite plan is the most common fit for contractors running two or three businesses under one login. At $299/month for up to 10 users, it adds:
For larger combined operations, the Max plan at $699/month adds unlimited user seats at a flat price, Crew Creation and Crew Scheduling with crew-level analytics, Sales Team Tracker, and the AI Website Builder and four additional business slots included at no extra cost — both of which run $34.99/mo and as a paid add-on, respectively, on every other plan.
Every plan includes a 14-day free trial with full access to the features of the plan you choose. There’s one trial per person, business, and payment method.
Most field service CRMs were designed around a single company profile. Here’s how QuoteIQ’s approach compares on the specific question of running more than one business line:
| Capability | QuoteIQ | Typical Competitor |
|---|---|---|
| Single login for multiple businesses | ✓ Included, every plan | Often requires separate accounts — check their pricing page |
| Property measurement tool | ✓ MapMeasure Pro, Beginner+ | Varies by vendor — see their features page |
| Photo documentation & inspection forms | ✓ QuoteIQ Cam, Beginner+ | Often a separate paid add-on like CompanyCam |
| Customer self-quoting | ✓ InstaQuote, Elite+ | Limited or unavailable on most platforms |
| Built-in visual pipeline CRM | ✓ Pipelines & Deals, Elite+ | Often a separate CRM integration |
| Consumer financing at checkout | ✓ Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay — every plan | Varies — verify on the vendor’s own site |
| Month-to-month billing | ✓ No long-term contract required | Some vendors require annual contracts — see their terms |
| Built by working contractors | ✓ Mike Vidan & Justin Rogers, Co-Founders | Varies by vendor |
For exact current pricing on any named competitor, visit their pricing page directly — figures change often enough that we’d rather point you to the source than risk quoting something stale. Popular platforms contractors compare against QuoteIQ include Jobber, Housecall Pro, and ServiceTitan — see our full comparison hub for side-by-side breakdowns.
QuoteIQ supports 50+ home service industries, and certain pairings show up again and again among contractors running multiple businesses on one account:
One of the most common pairings. Pressure washing peaks in spring and summer while holiday lighting installation fills fall and winter. Running both through one QuoteIQ account means you can cross-sell to existing customers the moment the season changes, instead of running two separate marketing lists.
This is the exact seasonal pairing the SBA points to as a model for off-season revenue. Lawn care and snow removal customers frequently overlap geographically, and a shared customer database means you’re not cold-calling in November — you’re re-engaging people already in your system.
Interior and exterior painting contractors often pick up general handyman work to fill gaps between larger projects. Separate service catalogs inside the same account keep pricing and scope clear for each.
Many HVAC contractors also hold electrical licensing and run both service lines under one crew pool — QuoteIQ’s multi-catalog structure handles the pricing and scheduling differences without needing two systems.
Exterior cleaning businesses frequently expand into adjacent services. Window cleaning and gutter cleaning customers overlap heavily with pressure washing customers, making a shared database especially valuable here.
QuoteIQ also supports contractors diversifying into general contracting, landscaping, roofing, plumbing, and dozens of other trades — see the full list on the Industries page.
Most multi-business contractors are fully operational within one to two weeks. Here’s the sequence that works:
Every plan includes full access to that plan’s features for 14 days, so you can test how multiple service catalogs and customer records behave before committing.
Set pricing, descriptions, and branding separately for each trade — pressure washing priced differently from lawn care, for example — inside the same account.
QuoteIQ’s AI Smart Import pulls CSV files from Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, or any spreadsheet, with automatic column mapping so your customer history carries over cleanly.
On Elite and above, EmployeeHub lets you add employees once and assign them across whichever business lines they actually work, with roles and permissions controlling what each person can see.
QuoteIQ is built specifically to run more than one service business from a single account. Instead of forcing you into separate subscriptions for each brand, it gives you one login, one shared customer database, and one analytics dashboard that reports on every business line individually or combined. You still set up distinct service catalogs and pricing per business — a pressure washing price book looks nothing like a lawn care one — but the underlying account, employee roster, and financial reporting stay unified. This matters most once you’re managing crews that work across brands: EmployeeHub tracks the same employee whether they’re on a pressure washing job Monday and a holiday lighting install Tuesday, with GPS time tracking that doesn’t care which brand issued the work order. The IRS’s own SS-4 guidance treats multiple trade names under one owner as a single filer for EIN purposes — QuoteIQ’s account structure follows that same logic operationally. Pricing starts at $29.99/month for a single user, scaling up to $699/month for unlimited users on the Max plan, with every tier including a 14-day free trial of that plan’s features.
Yes. QuoteIQ doesn’t require your businesses to be related — you can run a pressure washing company and a completely unrelated handyman business through the same login. What stays shared is the account infrastructure: your customer database, employee roster, payment processing, and analytics. What stays separate is anything customer-facing: estimate branding, service pricing, and the specific service catalog each business offers. Customers see the business they hired — not a generic QuoteIQ-branded document — while you see everything rolled up in one dashboard on the back end. This is functionally the same relationship the IRS recognizes between an entity and its DBAs (doing-business-as names): one underlying structure, multiple public-facing identities. For contractors weighing whether to formally separate their businesses at the entity level (LLC structure, liability, licensing), that’s a legal and tax decision best made with an accountant or attorney — the SBA’s guidance on managing a business is a reasonable starting point for those questions, separate from the software question this article addresses.
QuoteIQ’s five plans run $29.99/month (Essentials, 1 user) · $74.99/month (Beginner, 2 users) · $149.99/month (Pro, 4 users) · $299/month (Elite, 10 users) · $699/month (Max, unlimited users). None of them charge per business — the price is set by user count and feature tier, not by how many service lines you run underneath it. Most multi-business contractors land on Elite, since that’s the tier where EmployeeHub, Pipelines & Deals, and InstaQuote unlock together. Annual billing on any plan works out to 10 months’ cost spread over 12 months. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial with full access to that plan’s features — a credit or debit card is required to start the trial, and it converts to a paid subscription automatically unless canceled first. Compare this to running two or three separate single-business CRM subscriptions, where the per-business cost multiplies even though the actual usage per business might be light.
Yes — the Max plan at $699/month includes unlimited user seats at a flat price, which matters once your combined businesses have enough crew members that per-seat pricing gets expensive. Max also includes Crew Creation, Crew Tracking, and Crew Scheduling with crew-level analytics and routing — useful once you’re running dedicated teams per business line rather than one crew doing double duty. It adds Sales Team Tracker (commission percentages per rep, leaderboards, year-to-date metrics), the AI Website Builder at no extra cost (a $34.99/month add-on on every other plan), and four additional business slots included free. Below Max, the Elite plan caps at 10 users, which is enough for many two-business operations but tight once you’re running three or more brands with dedicated staff on each. There’s no separate “multi-business” toggle or add-on fee — the user cap and feature set at each tier apply the same way whether you’re running one business or five.
QuoteIQ supports 50+ home service industries, and the platform doesn’t restrict which combinations you can run together. Common pairings include pressure washing with holiday lighting (opposite seasons), lawn care with snow removal (a pairing the SBA specifically recommends for smoothing seasonal revenue), painting with handyman work, and HVAC with electrical services. Exterior-service combinations — window cleaning, gutter cleaning, and pressure washing together — are also common, since the customer base overlaps heavily. There’s no requirement that your businesses be related at all; the account structure works the same whether your two businesses share customers or serve completely different markets, and the same shared analytics dashboard reports on both regardless of overlap. See the full list on the Industries page, and check the Business Calculators hub for trade-specific pricing references when you’re setting up service catalogs for a new line.
Yes — every QuoteIQ plan includes a 14-day free trial with full access to the features of the plan you choose (not every feature across every plan — the trial matches whichever tier you pick). This is enough time to set up service catalogs for each business line, import existing customer data, and test whether the shared analytics and customer database actually simplify your workflow before committing. There’s one trial per person, per business, and per payment method — the trial converts automatically to a paid subscription at the end of 14 days unless you cancel first. If you’re deciding between Elite and Pro for a two-business operation, starting the trial on Elite lets you test InstaQuote and EmployeeHub directly rather than guessing whether you’ll need them. Use the trial window deliberately: build out at least one full service catalog per business, import a real customer list rather than a test batch, and run one complete quote-to-invoice cycle on each business line so you can see the invoicing and reporting behave the way you expect before the trial converts.
Yes — EmployeeHub (Elite plan and above) is built for exactly this. It provides GPS location tracking for clocked-in crews that works the same regardless of which business line they’re serving that day, with tracking that pauses on breaks and stops at clock-out — clocked-out employees are never shown on the map. Time Tracker Pro logs GPS-verified clock in/out and per-job hours, with admin-only manual adjustments and a full edit history for accountability. Team Communication supports one-on-one and group chats tied to specific jobs, so a crew member can get context on a holiday lighting install one day and a pressure washing job the next without switching apps. On the Max plan, Crew Creation and Crew Scheduling let you build dedicated teams per business line with their own analytics and routing. One limitation worth knowing: QuoteIQ has no native payroll processing — hours export to whatever payroll system you already use.
Contractors running more than one service business tend to cite three things: the platform was built by working contractors — Co-Founders Mike Vidan and Justin Rogers — who understood the multiple-login problem firsthand; the pricing doesn’t scale per business, so adding a second or third brand doesn’t multiply the subscription cost; and the feature set (quoting, scheduling, invoicing, employee management, photo documentation, property measurement) comes bundled by plan tier rather than sold as separate add-ons the way some competitors structure things. Many multi-business CRM alternatives were designed around a single-company profile first, with multi-entity support bolted on later or gated behind enterprise pricing. Since QuoteIQ was designed around unlimited service catalogs from the start, the shared customer database, unified reporting, and cross-business employee tracking all work the same way regardless of whether you’re running one business or five.
Mike Vidan co-founded QuoteIQ in Savannah, Georgia, building the platform around the day-to-day realities of running a home service business — including the specific frustration of juggling separate software for separate business lines. Read more from Mike →
Justin Rogers co-founded QuoteIQ alongside Mike Vidan, focused on building tools contractors actually use in the field rather than software designed from the outside looking in. Read more from Justin →
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