Housecall Pro is a home service platform: booking, scheduling, estimates, invoices, payments and marketing, with time tracking for the team. FieldTimesheet does one job for electrical shops: clean hours from your crew, a line about what got done, and invoices your customers don't fight.
Housecall Pro runs the service call for home service businesses. Every plan covers online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates, invoices, payments and review management. Its time tracking lets employees clock in and out in the mobile app and log travel and job time, and hours can sync to Housecall Pro Payroll on select plans. Plans include a set number of users: Basic includes 1, Essentials 5 and Max 8, at $79, $189 and $329 per month billed monthly.
Many electrical shops already quote and invoice in QuickBooks or another system and do not want to move that. What they need from the field is narrower: clean hours on the right job, and a record the customer can follow when they ask what three electricians did for two days. Hours alone do not answer that. Hours with a line about the work do: Thu 7:02a to 3:48p, pulled and terminated circuits 12 to 18, second-floor east wing.
FieldTimesheet is built around that line. At clock-out the electrician writes one sentence about the work, and that note goes onto a customer billing packet with the date, who worked, hours, your bill rate and the amount. What you pay your electricians never appears on it.
Below is a straight comparison using Housecall Pro's own pricing, time tracking and QuickBooks pages, checked October 20, 2026. Where Housecall Pro does more, the table says so.
| Feature | FieldTimesheet | Housecall Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Crew Work Notes | Clock-out asks what got done. Recent notes can be reused when a job carries over. | Checklists and photo reports with markup and notes on Essentials and up. Its time tracking page does not describe a note on each time entry. |
| Customer Billing Packet | Printable packet per job: date, who, what was done, hours, bill rate, amount. Cost rates never appear. | Estimates and invoices sent to the customer. Its time tracking page describes timesheets for payroll and job costing, not a per-entry labor record for the customer. |
| Booking, Scheduling and Invoicing | Not included. FieldTimesheet is time tracking and billing backup only; keep quoting and invoicing where you do it now. | Online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates, invoices, payments and consumer financing on every plan. |
| QuickBooks | Connect QuickBooks Online and click Sync to send completed entries as time activities. One way, from FieldTimesheet to QuickBooks. | Syncs invoices, customers and services with QuickBooks Online or Desktop. The pricing page lists QuickBooks Online sync from the Essentials plan up. |
| Time Tracking | Clock in and out on a job from the phone's browser, with a note at clock-out. Same on every plan. | Clock in and out in the mobile app, with travel and job time (On my way, Start job, Pause, Finish job). Hours sync to Housecall Pro Payroll on select plans. |
| GPS | GPS recorded with the clock-in and clock-out punches only. Nothing in between. | Timesheets show locations, and employee GPS tracking on Essentials and up shows techs on a map from their phones. |
| Setup | The clock page opens in the phone's browser on iPhone or Android, nothing to install. | iOS and Android app in English and Spanish, with a dedicated onboarding specialist on Max. |
| Pricing Model | Starter $39/mo for up to 3 workers. Crew $99/mo for up to 10, then $8 per extra worker. Same features on both. | Plans include a set number of users: Basic 1, Essentials 5, Max 8, then $35/mo per additional user on Max. |
FieldTimesheet
Clock-out asks what got done. Recent notes can be reused when a job carries over.Housecall Pro
Checklists and photo reports with markup and notes on Essentials and up. Its time tracking page does not describe a note on each time entry.FieldTimesheet
Printable packet per job: date, who, what was done, hours, bill rate, amount. Cost rates never appear.Housecall Pro
Estimates and invoices sent to the customer. Its time tracking page describes timesheets for payroll and job costing, not a per-entry labor record for the customer.FieldTimesheet
Not included. FieldTimesheet is time tracking and billing backup only; keep quoting and invoicing where you do it now.Housecall Pro
Online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates, invoices, payments and consumer financing on every plan.FieldTimesheet
Connect QuickBooks Online and click Sync to send completed entries as time activities. One way, from FieldTimesheet to QuickBooks.Housecall Pro
Syncs invoices, customers and services with QuickBooks Online or Desktop. The pricing page lists QuickBooks Online sync from the Essentials plan up.FieldTimesheet
Clock in and out on a job from the phone's browser, with a note at clock-out. Same on every plan.Housecall Pro
Clock in and out in the mobile app, with travel and job time (On my way, Start job, Pause, Finish job). Hours sync to Housecall Pro Payroll on select plans.FieldTimesheet
GPS recorded with the clock-in and clock-out punches only. Nothing in between.Housecall Pro
Timesheets show locations, and employee GPS tracking on Essentials and up shows techs on a map from their phones.FieldTimesheet
The clock page opens in the phone's browser on iPhone or Android, nothing to install.Housecall Pro
iOS and Android app in English and Spanish, with a dedicated onboarding specialist on Max.FieldTimesheet
Starter $39/mo for up to 3 workers. Crew $99/mo for up to 10, then $8 per extra worker. Same features on both.Housecall Pro
Plans include a set number of users: Basic 1, Essentials 5, Max 8, then $35/mo per additional user on Max.$99/mo for a 10-person crew, month to month
Essentials: $189/mo with 5 users, billed monthly
Housecall Pro is the bigger tool. If you want to run the whole service call in one place, from online booking and estimates to dispatch, invoicing and payments, it is built for that, and FieldTimesheet is not.
FieldTimesheet is narrower and costs less for a crew. It gets the hours and a line about the work from each electrician, then turns that into a billing packet a customer can read, with your bill rate and never your cost rate. For a 10-person crew it is $99 per month, against $189 per month billed monthly for Housecall Pro's Essentials plan with 5 users included.
If your problem is T&M invoices that get questioned, and you are happy quoting and invoicing where you do now, run a real week on the free trial, print the packet for one job, and decide whether it saves you an invoice argument.
It is if what you need from software is clean hours and invoice backup a customer can follow. Each clock-out carries a short note about the work, and the billing packet shows date, who worked, what was done, hours, your bill rate and the amount. It is not a replacement if you use Housecall Pro for booking, scheduling, estimates, invoicing or payments, which FieldTimesheet does not have.
Housecall Pro's pricing page, checked October 20, 2026, lists Basic at $79 per month billed monthly or $59 billed annually with 1 user included, Essentials at $189 monthly or $149 annually with 5 users, and Max at $329 monthly or $299 annually with 8 users, plus $35 per month for each additional user on Max. Prices exclude sales tax. Confirm current prices with Housecall Pro. FieldTimesheet's Crew plan is $99 per month for up to 10 workers, and Starter is $39 per month for up to 3, both month to month.
You can, but there is no connection between the two. FieldTimesheet sends hours to QuickBooks Online only. If Housecall Pro is where you estimate and invoice, you would print the FieldTimesheet billing packet and attach it as backup for a T&M invoice.
There is no import tool. You add your active jobs and invite your electricians by email, which takes a few minutes for a small shop. Each electrician opens the invite, sets a password and can clock in the same day.
FieldTimesheet connects to QuickBooks Online only. You click Sync on the Time page to send completed entries as time activities, one way, from FieldTimesheet to QuickBooks. If you are on QuickBooks Desktop, use the CSV export and printed reports instead.
No. GPS is recorded with the clock-in and clock-out punches only. There is no live location view. The point is to document the work, not to watch the crew.