maid.co vs Housecall Pro
Housecall Pro serves the trades. maid.co was set up for cleaning.
Housecall Pro is a capable platform used across plumbing, HVAC, electrical and cleaning. Its native apps and in-person payments are good. If your business is recurring cleans, access codes and cleaner turnover, here is where a cleaning-first ERP fits better, and where it doesn't.
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New caller · 2:14
Hi, how much for a deep clean? Three bedrooms, two baths, and we have a cat.
A deep clean for a 3 bed, 2 bath home starts at $290. I have Thursday at 10:30 or Friday at 1:00. Which works better?
Thursday, please.
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ServiceDeep clean
Home3 bed · 2 bath
PetsCat
BookedThu 10:30
Quote$290
Recurring cleans first
Weekly, biweekly and monthly schedules with per-visit or periodic billing, autopay and one-click update of every future visit.
Checklists clients can see
Required items, photos and signatures, with a PDF emailed after each clean. Fewer 'did they do the baseboards?' calls.
Back office included
Accounting ledger, payroll prep, hiring, training and e-signatures on the same login as your schedule.
What Housecall Pro does well
Housecall Pro has native mobile apps, in-person card payments, consumer financing for bigger tickets and a good set of marketing tools. For a trades business selling a water heater or an HVAC system, financing and a flat-rate pricebook matter a lot, and Housecall Pro is strong there.
We don't offer consumer financing, and our field app is an installable web app rather than a native one. If those are must-haves, Housecall Pro is worth a serious look.
- Native iOS and Android apps
- Consumer financing on larger jobs
- Pricebook built for trades work
- Broad home services user base
Where cleaning companies feel the gap
Cleaning is a different business than a repair call. Your revenue is a recurring biweekly client, not a one-time install. Your risk is a lockout, a missed alarm code or a dog that gets out, not a wrong part. maid.co keeps gate and alarm codes, key tracking, pets and parking on the property record and puts them in front of the cleaner on the day sheet.
Quotes price by bedrooms, bathrooms and square footage, with add-ons the client picks. Online booking respects buffers, lead time, service area and maximum drive time, and a walkthrough can be booked instead of a clean for commercial or move-out work.
- Key and alarm-code tracking on each property
- Quotes by beds, baths and square feet with optional add-ons
- Required checklist items before a visit can close
- Supplies stock at the office and in each car
Visit · 10:30–1:00
Alvarez residence
Standard clean
4 of 6- Kitchen counters & backsplash
- Stovetop degreased
- Inside microwave
- Bathrooms: tub, tile, grout
- Baseboards, all rooms
- Floors vacuumed & mopped
The rest of the company on one login
Housecall Pro connects to accounting and other tools through integrations. maid.co includes a general ledger where invoices, payments, refunds, payroll journals and supply purchases post automatically, plus payroll prep with overtime rules and meal and rest premiums, exported to your payroll provider.
Cleaner turnover is the growth limit for most maid companies. Our ATS runs postings and the applicant pipeline, Courses delivers onboarding and chemical safety training with completion tracking, and Sign collects the new hire's paperwork.
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Side by side
maid.co vs Housecall Pro
| Capability | Housecall Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Designed around cleaning companies | Yes | Many home service trades |
| Online booking | Yes | Yes |
| Recurring visits with autopay | Yes | Yes |
| Quotes priced by beds, baths and square feet | Yes | Configurable |
| Key, gate and alarm-code tracking per property | Yes | Via notes / custom fields |
| Checklists with required items and photo PDFs | Yes | Checklists |
| Native iOS and Android apps | Installable web app, works offline | Yes |
| In-person card payment | Payment link, QR or card entry | Card reader and tap to pay |
| Consumer financing | No | Yes |
| AI call answering | Yes | Offered |
| Built-in general ledger | Yes | Via QuickBooks integration |
| Payroll prep with overtime rules | Prep and export to provider | Varies by plan |
| Supplies inventory by location and vehicle | Yes | Varies by plan |
| Hiring pipeline (ATS) and training courses | Yes | Not a focus |
Based on publicly available information as of 2026. Features and plans change; check each vendor for current details.
A day with maid.co
Two calls on a Friday
Say a property manager calls about cleaning six vacant units before new tenants arrive. Phony answers, captures the addresses and books a walkthrough for Monday. Meanwhile the AI sales developer has been working a list of local property managers and just booked two more walkthroughs from a follow-up sequence.
Monday afternoon you send one quote per unit from the walkthrough notes, the manager signs the service agreement in Sign, and the jobs land on the schedule. When the cleans are done, the checklist PDFs with before and after photos go to the manager automatically, and the invoices post to the ledger.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Why would a cleaning company pick maid.co over Housecall Pro?
If most of your revenue is recurring residential or commercial cleans, the details add up: property access notes, key tracking, required checklist items, photo PDFs to clients, supplies by vehicle and payroll prep with overtime. Add the accounting ledger, hiring and training on the same login, and you replace several tools, not just one.
Does maid.co offer financing like Housecall Pro?
No. We don't offer consumer financing, loans or capital. For most cleaning jobs that is rarely a factor, since tickets are smaller and recurring. For larger commercial contracts we support deposits, progress invoicing and payment terms by client type, which covers most of what cleaning companies need.
Is the field app as good as a native app?
It is different. The installable web app runs offline, sends push notifications, captures photos with markup, collects signatures and runs timers, and it works in Spanish and in dark mode. What it can't do is anything that requires a native app, like Tap to Pay on iPhone. Many teams don't notice the difference day to day; some do.
Can Phony really book cleans on its own?
Yes. Phony reads your real availability, service area and bookable services, so it can book a standard clean, answer pricing and coverage questions, reschedule or cancel for existing clients, and warm-transfer to a person when needed. Every call's transcript and recording lands on the client's CRM record.
Can I bring my Housecall Pro data over?
Yes. Clients, properties and open work can be imported by CSV, and our onboarding team helps map fields. Our dedicated automated importer is built for Jobber today, so a Housecall Pro move involves more hands-on mapping. You can run both systems during the transition until you're confident the schedule is right.
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