Contruvavs Housecall Pro:what you really pay.

In a Contruva vs Housecall Pro comparison, the core difference is how you pay for growth. Housecall Pro starts at $59 USD a month and caps users by plan, with AI call answering, websites and a sales pipeline sold as add-ons whose prices aren’t published. Contruva is $249.99 CAD a month for everything, with no per-seat fees.

Housecall Pro is the stronger choice if you need consumer financing, a Spanish-language app or an open API. Contruva is the stronger choice if you want calls answered, leads followed up and marketing done without negotiating add-ons.

Contruva vs Housecall Pro at a glance

Pricing compared

Housecall Pro lists three plans on housecallpro.com/pricing, in USD and excluding sales tax (checked November 2026):

• Basic: $59/month billed annually, $79 billed monthly, 1 user.
• Essentials: $149/month billed annually, $189 billed monthly, 5 users.
• Max: $299/month billed annually, $329 billed monthly, 8 users, plus $35/month per additional user.

The page lists add-ons including CSR AI, Sales Proposal Tool, Pipeline, Payroll, Accounting, Business Coaching, Voice, Campaigns, vehicle GPS and dashcams, Tap to Pay and Websites, without prices. Card processing is listed from 2.59%, and bank payments carry a 1% fee. Housecall Pro’s FAQ says there are no long-term contracts.

Contruva is one plan, Contruva Pro, at $249.99 CAD per month. Everything is included from day one: website, AI receptionist, inbox, quotes, scheduling, crew app, job costing, invoices, payments, reviews and marketing. Customers pay by card through Stripe and Contruva adds no fee on top; standard card processing fees apply. Details on the pricing page.

Answering calls with AI

Missed calls are where most trades businesses lose the most work, so this is worth a closer look. Our guide to speed to lead explains why the first contractor to answer usually wins.

Housecall Pro markets CSR AI as answering calls and booking jobs 24/7. It’s an add-on, and the pricing page doesn’t show what it costs. Housecall Pro also lists “AI team members” as included in every plan, which its site describes as automating work, but call answering is the paid CSR AI.

Contruva’s AI receptionist is part of the plan. It answers in your business name with the voice you pick, 24/7 or only after hours, books real open crew slots, transfers urgent calls to you and texts every caller a confirmation. Every call lands in your inbox with a transcript and summary. It also replies to texts and Facebook and Instagram messages.

Whichever you choose, set it up the same way: decide which hours it answers, which calls get transferred to your cell (a burst pipe, a no-heat call in January), and what it should never promise, like a price over the phone. Then test it yourself from a number it doesn’t know, at 9 p.m. on a Sunday, because that’s when the calls you’re losing actually come in.

Features side by side

Housecall Pro items reflect its pricing page in November 2026.

Where Housecall Pro wins

There are good reasons to pick Housecall Pro, and you should know them.

• Consumer financing. Listed on every plan. If you sell big-ticket installs like furnaces or water heaters, financing closes jobs.
• Spanish. The app is available in English and Spanish, with Spanish-speaking support per its FAQ.
• Routing and GPS. Route planning and employee GPS from Essentials, route optimization on Max. Good for route-based work like cleaning or pest control.
• Integrations. QuickBooks Online sync from Essentials; Zapier and an open API on Max.
• Low entry price and longer trial. $59 USD/month on annual Basic, and a 14-day trial against Contruva’s 7 days.

Where Contruva wins

• You know the price up front. One published number, no add-ons to request quotes for.
• No seat math. Hire your sixth, ninth or fifteenth person without a plan change.
• Getting found is included. An AI-built website that adds service and area pages every week, review requests after every job, and social posts, ads and newsletters made from your job photos.
• An AI that does the work. Text Contruva AI to follow up on quotes, chase invoices or post a finished job, and approve before anything reaches a customer.
• Priced in Canadian dollars by a Canadian company, if that’s where you do business.

Contruva works across trades, from plumbing and electrical to roofing and landscaping.

What reviewers say about Housecall Pro

Housecall Pro has a large base of reviews on sites like Capterra, and most are positive about scheduling, invoicing and the mobile app. The recurring complaints we saw in search results were about cost as a business grows: add-ons on top of the plan price and steep jumps once a team passes five users. Some reviewers also mention lag when managing many jobs at once, and opinions on support are mixed. None of that makes it a bad product. It means you should price your real setup, with your real crew size, before committing.

Moving from Housecall Pro to Contruva

Since Housecall Pro has no long-term contract, switching is mostly about timing and data. Here’s a simple order of operations.

• Export customers and your price book. Your services and prices become the catalog Contruva uses to build quotes.
• Finish open invoices where they started. Customers shouldn’t get two bills from two systems.
• Rebook recurring work. Maintenance visits and service plans go onto the new calendar.
• Connect Stripe and send a test invoice to yourself before you send one to a customer.
• Switch the phones last. Turn on the receptionist once the calendar is right, so it books real open slots.
• Time the cancellation to your billing date. On annual billing especially, check when your current period ends.

Tell the Contruva team what you use today and they’ll help you work out which tools and data can move into the platform.

How to decide in a week

Don’t decide from a feature grid. Run a real week of work through the tool you’re leaning towards and measure it.

Want more options first? See our Housecall Pro alternatives roundup and the Jobber vs Housecall Pro comparison.