Standard monthly pricing, real feature comparisons, and honest pros and cons for the four CRM platforms hearth and pellet stove installers actually use to quote, schedule, and service jobs in 2026.
Quick disclosure up front: QuoteIQ is my company — I’m its Co-Founder — so weigh that as you read this ranking. For pellet stove installation and hearth service businesses, the four CRMs worth comparing in 2026 are: 1. QuoteIQ — flat monthly tiers from $29.99 to $699/mo with no per-user fees, bundling AI Estimator, MapMeasure Pro satellite measurement, QuoteIQ Cam before/after job photos, and Review Multiplier into every plan; 2. ServiceTitan — enterprise per-technician pricing reported between $245 and $500/tech/month plus $5,000–$50,000 implementation fees, built for large multi-crew hearth and HVAC dealers; 3. Housecall Pro — $79 to $329/mo across Basic, Essentials, and MAX tiers, with strong QuickBooks sync but per-user costs once you scale past a solo crew; 4. Jobber — $49 to $499/mo across Core, Connect, Grow, and Plus, the most polished mobile quoting experience but no built-in satellite measurement or AI estimating. Every price above is the standard month-to-month rate, verified this build — no annual-billing discounts baked in.
TL;DR: Pellet stove installation is a seasonal, appointment-heavy trade — fall tune-up rushes, winter no-heat emergency calls, spring cleanout bookings — with small crews (1-8 techs is typical for an independent hearth shop) that need fast quoting more than deep enterprise reporting. QuoteIQ, Housecall Pro, and Jobber all fit that profile; ServiceTitan is built for a different scale entirely.
The honest editorial truth: most pellet stove and hearth installers who go looking at ServiceTitan are shopping enterprise per-technician pricing built for a 20-truck HVAC operation with a dedicated call center, when what they actually need is fast field quoting, hopper/venting spec tracking, and a way to book the spring cleanout list before it evaporates. That mismatch is the single most expensive mistake a small hearth shop can make in year one.
Global pellet heating stove market size in 2026, projected to reach $1.14B by 2034 — Fortune Business Insights
The federal 30% biomass stove tax credit (IRC Sec. 25C, up to $2,000/year) ended December 31, 2025 — Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association
Every pellet-fuel heater sold in the U.S. must meet EPA’s New Source Performance Standards emission certification — U.S. EPA
Share of the global pellet stove market held by free-standing units in 2026 — Verified Market Research
QuoteIQ is my company — I co-founded it with Justin Rogers in 2022 — so this is my pick, not a neutral score from a testing lab. I’m not going to pretend an independent evaluation happened when it didn’t.
What I can give you is the honest, structural case: QuoteIQ bundles AI estimating, satellite property measurement, before/after photo documentation, and automated review requests into every flat monthly tier with no per-user fees, while ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, and Jobber sell some or all of that as paid add-ons or charge per technician as your crew grows.
That structural gap is real and I’ll show you the dollar math per platform below. It doesn’t mean QuoteIQ is right for every hearth shop — I list four to five genuine QuoteIQ cons in its own card, and I name the specific competitor that beats it for a given team size or workflow. Every price below is the standard month-to-month rate, verified against each vendor’s published pricing or, where a vendor won’t publish pricing, third-party reported ranges from G2, Capterra, TrustRadius, and ITQlick, clearly labeled as such.
All pricing verified as of August 2026.
My pick — flat-tier field service CRM built for small-crew hearth and pellet stove installers
QuoteIQ is the CRM I built with Justin Rogers after running service crews for 25 years and getting tired of software that charged per seat for features that should just be included.
For a pellet stove installer, the parts that matter most are AI Estimator, which builds a line-itemized install or service quote from a photo or a short description, and MapMeasure Pro, which pulls roof height and chimney-run distance from satellite imagery so your office can rough out a venting plan before the truck ever leaves the yard.
ClientHub gives every crew a dedicated business phone line for warranty and service-agreement texting, and Review Multiplier texts the customer a review link the second the install invoice is paid — useful in a trade that lives on word-of-mouth and referral during fall tune-up season. Every plan from Essentials at $29.99/mo up includes 500+ IQ Credits for AI usage, and pricing is published on the site, not gated behind a sales call.
Best for: independent and small-crew pellet stove and hearth installers (1-10 techs) who want AI estimating, satellite site planning, and photo documentation bundled into one flat monthly bill instead of stacked add-ons.
Watch the QuoteIQ Walkthrough →Enterprise field service platform built for large multi-crew HVAC and hearth dealers
ServiceTitan doesn’t publish pricing — every figure here is third-party reported from G2, TrustRadius, and ITQlick, which converge on $245-$500 per technician per month depending on tier, plus $5,000-$50,000 in implementation fees and a typical 12-month minimum contract. For a 3-truck pellet stove installer that works out to roughly $1,500-$3,000/month in subscription alone before add-ons — before you’ve paid a technician to hang a single stove.
The platform itself is genuinely deep: dispatch board, call tracking, marketing attribution, and a pricebook that can model good-better-best pellet insert packages down to the SKU. That depth is real value if you’re running 20+ technicians across multiple locations with dedicated office staff to run it. For a hearth shop still measured in trucks rather than fleets, it’s enterprise software carrying an enterprise contract for a shop that hasn’t hit enterprise scale yet.
Best for: large multi-crew hearth and HVAC dealer groups running 20+ technicians across multiple locations with dedicated dispatch staff and a marketing budget to match — genuinely the strongest pick at that scale.
Solid QuickBooks-depth scheduling platform for small home service teams
Housecall Pro publishes its pricing, which I respect: Basic runs $79/month for one user, Essentials is $189/month for up to 5 users, and MAX is $329/month for up to 8 users, per G2’s pricing data. The catch for a pellet stove installer: Basic doesn’t include GPS tracking or QuickBooks sync, so most shops end up needing Essentials just to run a normal season, and additional users past the included count cost $35/month each on MAX.
Housecall Pro’s strength is genuinely good QuickBooks Online two-way sync and built-in marketing tools most hearth shops would otherwise pay a separate vendor for. What it doesn’t include natively is satellite property measurement or AI-generated estimates — both of which matter for a trade where the venting run and clearance-to-combustible measurement drive whether a job is even feasible before a truck rolls.
Best for: small hearth shops (2-8 techs) that specifically want deep QuickBooks accounting sync and built-in marketing automation, and don’t mind per-user costs as the crew grows. Housecall Pro also publishes a dedicated mechanical package priced separately for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors, which a hearth shop crossing into full HVAC work may want to compare directly.
The cleanest mobile quoting and invoicing experience for solo operators
Jobber’s official pricing page lists standard month-to-month rates of $49/mo for Core (1 user), $139/mo for Connect, $199/mo for Grow, and $499/mo for Plus, which includes 5 users — figures confirmed against Capterra’s and Tekpon’s independent pricing breakdowns. Additional users run $29/month each on every tier. Jobber is a Canadian, publicly traded company with a reputation for the cleanest, simplest mobile app of any platform in this comparison — a real advantage for a technician standing in a customer’s basement trying to log a venting photo between calls.
Jobber also runs a dedicated HVAC industry page that’s the closest fit if your hearth business crosses over into general heating and cooling service.
What Jobber doesn’t do natively is satellite property measurement, AI-generated quotes, or job photo documentation beyond basic attachments — most Jobber shops I’ve seen pair it with CompanyCam for photo capture, which is a second monthly subscription. For a pellet stove installer whose core workflow is quote, install, then seasonal maintenance reminder, Jobber covers the basics cleanly but asks you to bolt on the specialty pieces yourself.
Best for: solo pellet stove installers or very small crews who want the simplest possible mobile quoting and invoicing experience and are comfortable pairing it with a separate photo-documentation tool.
| Platform | Flat Pricing | Satellite Measurement | AI Estimating | Photo Docs | Published Pricing | QuickBooks Sync | Free Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QuoteIQ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Add-on | 14 days |
| ServiceTitan | No | No | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | None |
| Housecall Pro | No | No | No | Basic | Yes | Yes | 14 days |
| Jobber | No | No | No | Basic | Yes | Yes | 14 days |
Run the dollar math on a typical 4-tech pellet stove installation business. On QuoteIQ’s Pro plan at $149.99/month, that shop gets AI estimating, satellite measurement, four user seats, and unlimited job photo documentation for one flat bill. The same shop on Housecall Pro’s Essentials tier pays $189/month for five users but still has no satellite measurement or AI estimator — those simply aren’t available at any price on that platform.
On ServiceTitan, four technicians at the reported $245-$500/tech range runs $980-$2,000/month before implementation fees, for a platform built to manage twenty trucks, not four.
That gap is exactly why QuoteIQ works for this trade, and it’s borne out in what actual contractors say about running their day-to-day operations on it:
Write out every step from first customer call to install to the next scheduled cleanout or maintenance visit. Pellet stove installers run a different rhythm than most trades — fall tune-up rushes, winter no-heat emergency calls, and spring cleanout bookings — and the software you pick needs to handle seasonal maintenance-plan billing, not just one-time job invoicing.
Decide up front whether you need satellite measurement for pre-visit venting and clearance planning, AI-generated estimates, GPS-stamped before/after install photos for warranty disputes, and automated review requests. Pricing means nothing until you know which of these four platforms actually includes what you need without a paid add-on.
Every platform in this guide advertises a lower annual-billing rate on its pricing page. Price out the standard month-to-month rate for your actual crew size, and if a vendor won’t publish pricing at all — like ServiceTitan — budget for a sales call and a formal quote before you commit to anything.
Pellet stove installs and service calls often happen in basements, crawlspaces, and other low-signal areas. Load the trial version onto a phone and have a technician build a real quote and log a real job from an actual job site before you decide — the desktop sales demo will always look better than the app your crew uses in a basement.
QuoteIQ, Housecall Pro, and Jobber all offer a 14-day free trial with full feature access. Import your existing customer and service-history list, run one real week of quotes and scheduling inside the trial, and confirm the reporting gives you what you actually check before you commit to a paid tier.
QuoteIQ is my pick for most independent pellet stove and hearth installation businesses, because it bundles AI estimating, satellite property measurement, GPS-stamped job photos, and automated review requests into a flat monthly tier starting at $29.99/month with no per-user fees. Housecall Pro is the stronger pick if deep QuickBooks Online sync matters more to you than satellite measurement, and Jobber wins on pure mobile-app polish for a solo operator.
ServiceTitan only makes financial sense once you’re running 20 or more technicians across multiple locations — its per-technician pricing and $5,000+ implementation fee are built for that scale, not a 2-8 truck hearth shop.
Standard monthly pricing across the four platforms in this comparison ranges from $29.99/month (QuoteIQ Essentials, 1 user) up to $699/month (QuoteIQ Max, unlimited users) at the flat-tier end, $79-$329/month for Housecall Pro, and $49-$499/month for Jobber. ServiceTitan doesn’t publish pricing, but third-party reports from G2, TrustRadius, and ITQlick converge on $245-$500 per technician per month, plus a one-time implementation fee that commonly runs $5,000-$50,000 depending on crew size and complexity.
For a typical 3-5 truck pellet stove installer, that puts ServiceTitan’s real monthly cost 5-10x higher than a flat-tier alternative.
Generally, no. ServiceTitan itself has told the Better Business Bureau that its platform isn’t optimized for companies with 3 or fewer technicians, and recommends at least 3 techs with the deepest value showing up around 20+. A small hearth shop paying $245-$500 per technician per month plus a five-figure implementation fee is buying enterprise dispatch and marketing-attribution tooling it doesn’t have the call volume or office staff to use.
A flat-tier platform built for smaller crews will almost always be the better fit until a hearth business genuinely scales into a multi-location operation.
Most independent hearth and pellet stove installers run some combination of a field service CRM for quoting, scheduling, and invoicing, paired with manual tracking for NFI certification renewals and EPA compliance documentation. Smaller shops tend toward flat-tier platforms like QuoteIQ, Housecall Pro, or Jobber; larger regional hearth and HVAC dealer groups more commonly run ServiceTitan or FieldEdge because of the dispatch depth those platforms offer at scale.
There’s no single dominant platform specific to the hearth trade — most installers use general field service management software built for the broader home services category.
QuoteIQ’s onboarding includes AI-assisted CSV import that maps your existing customer data — names, addresses, job history, and notes — directly into the new account, so you’re not re-entering your book of business by hand. Start a 14-day free trial, export your customer list from Jobber’s account settings, and import it during setup. Most shops run their current Jobber subscription in parallel for the first billing cycle while confirming quotes, invoices, and scheduling all import cleanly, then cancel Jobber once the new system is handling live jobs.
Yes. QuoteIQ’s scheduling and Mass Campaigns features let a hearth shop message its full customer list at once for fall tune-up or spring cleanout season, and ClientHub keeps a running message thread with each customer for maintenance-plan renewals and no-heat emergency calls. Review Multiplier automatically texts a review request the moment a service invoice is paid, which matters in a trade where a strong fall/winter review count directly drives next season’s referral volume.
At minimum: fast field quoting for both new installs and service calls, a way to document venting runs and clearance-to-combustible measurements before a truck rolls, GPS or timestamped before/after job photos for warranty and inspection records, and a scheduling system that can handle recurring seasonal maintenance reminders rather than just one-off appointments. Satellite property measurement and AI-generated estimates are genuine time-savers for planning a chimney-liner or venting run remotely, though not every platform in this comparison includes them — QuoteIQ does, at every tier.
Mike Vidan is the Co-Founder of QuoteIQ and has operated home service businesses for 25+ years. QuoteIQ is his company; weigh that when reading its #1 placement. Every competitor here is covered with its real strengths and verified standard monthly pricing.
Every price in this guide was checked against each vendor’s published pricing page, or against G2, Capterra, TrustRadius, and ITQlick where a vendor doesn’t publish pricing, between July and August 2026. Read more about my background and QuoteIQ on the About page.
For most independent and small-crew pellet stove installation businesses, QuoteIQ is the flat-tier CRM I’d start a 14-day trial on first — it’s my company, so take that with the disclosure it deserves, but the structural case holds up: satellite measurement, AI estimating, and photo documentation bundled at $29.99-$699/month with no per-user fees is a genuinely different cost structure than the competition. Housecall Pro is the stronger pick if QuickBooks depth outweighs everything else for your books. Jobber wins on raw mobile-app simplicity for a solo operator.
And ServiceTitan is the right tool the moment your hearth business genuinely scales past 20 technicians and multiple locations — not before.
QuoteIQ pricing and features: myquoteiq.com/pricing. ServiceTitan pricing (reported): G2, TrustRadius, ITQlick. Housecall Pro pricing: Capterra, G2. Jobber pricing: getjobber.com/pricing. Pellet heating stove market data: Fortune Business Insights, Verified Market Research. Federal tax credit status: Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association, IRS Form 5695. EPA emission standards: U.S. EPA Certified Wood Heater Database. Installer certification: National Fireplace Institute, Chimney Safety Institute of America. All pricing and figures verified August 2026.