Tiered hearth pricing, satellite chimney measurement, and job costing built for a trade where a single ticket runs from a $2,800 electric swap to a $19,000 masonry build.
Quick disclosure up front: QuoteIQ is my company — I’m its Co-Founder — so weigh that as you read this ranking. For gas fireplace installation businesses in 2026, here’s how the 5 best CRMs stack up: 1. QuoteIQ — my pick, built around Options Estimates for presenting electric, direct-vent gas, and full masonry tiers on one proposal, MapMeasure Pro for satellite chimney and clearance measurement before the truck rolls, hearth-component inventory, and per-install job costing, from $29.99/mo with no per-user fees. 2. ServiceTitan — the enterprise benchmark for 20-plus-technician chimney and hearth companies running multi-crew dispatch, reported at $245–$398 per technician per month (quote-only, no published pricing). 3. Jobber — transparent flat-rate scheduling and invoicing for solo installers and small crews, from $49/mo for one user. 4. Housecall Pro — dispatch, invoicing, and marketing automation for small-to-mid teams, from $79/mo. 5. RB Retail & Service Solutions’ Hearth CRM — the only software purpose-built and named for chimney and hearth businesses, blending point-of-sale and service scheduling for showroom-style hearth dealers, custom quote-only pricing with no published rate.
The honest editorial truth: most gas fireplace installation companies evaluating ServiceTitan are paying for a 20-technician dispatch platform when what they actually need is a tool that presents a $2,800 electric swap and an $18,000 masonry build on the same tiered proposal, measures chimney clearance before a truck rolls, and tracks gas logs and vent components across a couple of trucks. That is a completely different problem than the one ServiceTitan solves, and the per-technician bill reflects it.
A hearth job mixes retail-style upsells (mantels, surrounds, service memberships) with permit-driven installation work (venting clearances, NFPA 211 documentation, inspections), which is why generic scheduling apps and pure retail POS systems both leave gaps. Below: five CRMs evaluated on tiered estimating, measurement tools, hearth inventory, and standard month-to-month pricing — no annual-billing discounts, no credit-card-required trial gates.
U.S. Fireplace Services industry revenue in 2026, generated across 6,313 businesses nationwide. (IBISWorld)
Size of the gas fireplaces market in 2026, projected to reach $8.6B by 2035 at a 6.70% CAGR. (MarkWide Research)
Of home buyers rate a gas fireplace as at least a desirable feature. (National Association of Home Builders)
Home-heating-equipment fires involve a fireplace or chimney — the reason NFPA 54/211-compliant documentation matters on every install. (National Fire Protection Association)
QuoteIQ is my company — Justin Rogers and I co-founded it in 2022 — so QuoteIQ sits at #1 because it’s my pick, not because a neutral third party ran a blind scoring model. I’m telling you that plainly instead of dressing this up as independent research it isn’t.
The case for QuoteIQ rests on four structural facts you can verify yourself: it bundles tiered good/better/best estimating, satellite chimney and clearance measurement, hearth-component inventory, and job costing into one flat monthly tier instead of selling them as $67–$149/mo add-ons the way Jobber and Housecall Pro do; and it charges no per-user or per-technician fees, unlike ServiceTitan’s per-tech model.
Every QuoteIQ plan also runs month-to-month with no annual contract, unlike ServiceTitan’s 12-month minimum, and it publishes every price on its website, unlike ServiceTitan and RB Retail & Service Solutions, which both require a sales call to get a number.
Every price below is the vendor’s standard month-to-month rate, verified against the vendor’s own pricing page where one exists, or a labeled third-party-reported range where it doesn’t. I checked pricing in August 2026; software pricing changes, so verify current numbers before you buy. Below each pick you’ll find genuine cons, including QuoteIQ’s — five of them, not padded and not omitted.
Tiered hearth estimating, satellite chimney measurement, and hearth inventory in one flat-tier CRM — my pick, openly disclosed.
QuoteIQ’s Options Estimates let you present an electric insert, a direct-vent gas fireplace, and a full masonry build side by side on one proposal instead of one flat number — homeowners routinely pick the middle or premium tier when given three clear choices. MapMeasure Pro pulls satellite imagery to check chimney height and clearance to combustibles before you leave the shop, and built-in inventory tracking follows gas logs, liners, and termination caps across every truck.
Every tier runs month-to-month, includes per-install job costing, and carries no per-user fee — a five-person shop on Pro pays the same $149.99/mo whether it books 10 jobs or 40 that month. The Review Multiplier texts a Google review link the moment payment clears, and Pipelines CRM keeps builder and remodeler referral contracts from getting buried behind service calls.
Best for: solo installers through established 2–3 crew hearth operations that sell electric, gas, and masonry work off the same proposal and want tiered pricing and measurement tools without per-user fees.
The enterprise dispatch platform for hearth and chimney companies running 20-plus technicians.
ServiceTitan does not publish pricing; the range above is compiled by TrustRadius and ITQlick from user-reported quotes across three feature tiers, and it’s billed per technician on top of a one-time implementation fee that commonly runs $5,000–$50,000. For a growing chimney/hearth company scaling past 20 techs with a dedicated marketing budget, that depth of dispatching, reporting, and multi-crew scheduling is real and can pay for itself.
For the one-to-five-tech hearth installer this listicle is mostly written for, ServiceTitan is stated publicly as not built for companies with three or fewer technicians, and the 12-month contract with documented early-termination fees between $5,000 and $20,000 makes it a heavy commitment for a seasonal trade. See ServiceTitan’s pricing page for the demo-request process.
Best for: chimney and hearth companies with 20-plus technicians and a marketing budget to match — where ServiceTitan’s depth genuinely outclasses every flat-tier option on this list.
The transparent-pricing benchmark — published rates, clean scheduling, no sales call required.
Jobber publishes its full rate card at getjobber.com/pricing: Core runs $49/mo standard monthly for one user, Connect $139/mo, and Grow $199/mo, with team plans scaling to $499/mo and beyond for 15-plus users. Scheduling, quoting, and online payments are solid, and the Client Hub gives homeowners a self-serve portal to approve gas fireplace quotes and pay invoices.
What Jobber doesn’t have natively: satellite chimney measurement (contractors commonly add a $67+/mo tool for that), tiered good/better/best estimating on lower plans, or photo-documentation depth beyond basic attachments — most hearth installers pair Jobber with a separate app like CompanyCam for job-site photos, which adds real monthly cost on top of the subscription.
Best for: solo installers and two-person crews who want dead-simple, fully transparent pricing and don’t need tiered hearth estimating or satellite measurement out of the box.
The small-business benchmark — dispatch, invoicing, and marketing tools with a real learning curve at the low tier.
Housecall Pro’s standard monthly pricing runs Basic at $79/mo for one user, Essentials at $189/mo for up to five users, and MAX at $329/mo for up to eight, per Capterra’s published pricing data. Essentials is the practical entry point for most hearth crews, since Basic excludes QuickBooks sync and GPS tracking — features nearly every installer ends up needing within the first month.
Sales Proposals (the closest thing to tiered good/better/best estimating) and advanced reporting are MAX-only, and satellite measurement and hearth-specific inventory aren’t native at any tier — you’d be stacking a third-party GPS-measurement add-on and a separate inventory tool on top of the base subscription to match what QuoteIQ includes on Pro. See Housecall Pro’s pricing page for current tier details.
Best for: small hearth teams (2–5 people) that lean on Housecall Pro’s marketing automation and review requests and are comfortable landing on the $189/mo Essentials tier.
The only software actually built and named for the chimney and hearth trade — priced by demo only.
RB Retail & Service Solutions built its Hearth CRM specifically for chimney and hearth businesses, combining point-of-sale checkout, service scheduling, and inventory in one system — a genuinely different pitch from the generic field-service tools on this list. It’s a reasonable fit for hearth dealers who run a physical showroom floor alongside install crews, since the same system rings up a walk-in customer buying gas logs and schedules that customer’s install visit.
RB does not publish a price anywhere — GetApp and Capterra both list it as demo-only custom pricing, so you can’t compare it against a published number the way you can with QuoteIQ or Jobber. Reviews on Software Advice praise its support team but flag an inventory interface some users call outdated and dependent on local network file-sharing rather than a modern cloud stack.
Best for: hearth dealers running a retail showroom alongside install crews who want POS and service scheduling in one system and don’t mind demo-only pricing.
| CRM | Starting Price | Tiered Estimating | Satellite Measurement | Hearth Inventory | Per-User Fees | Contract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QuoteIQ | $29.99/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | Month-to-month |
| ServiceTitan | $245+/tech/mo (reported) | Yes | No | Partial | Per-tech | 12-month min. |
| Jobber | $49/mo | Higher tiers | No | No | $29/user | Month-to-month |
| Housecall Pro | $79/mo | MAX only | No | No | MAX only | Month-to-month |
| RB Hearth CRM | Custom (demo required) | No | No | Yes | Unpublished | Unpublished |
Run the math on a two-crew hearth operation. Jobber Grow plus a CompanyCam subscription for job-site photo documentation lands around $448/mo once you add the tools most installers actually use. Housecall Pro MAX plus a satellite-measurement add-on and a separate inventory tool runs $750–$1,030/mo. ServiceTitan starts near $1,800/mo per the vendor’s own published fireplace-industry comparison, before implementation fees. QuoteIQ Pro at $149.99/mo for up to four users includes tiered estimating, satellite measurement, hearth inventory, and job costing natively — no stacked add-ons required.
Electric inserts, direct-vent gas swap-outs, B-vent gas, full masonry builds, and annual service memberships each have different pricing logic. A CRM that only handles one flat-price format forces you to build workarounds for the rest — check whether tiered good/better/best estimating is native or a paid add-on before you commit.
Chimney height, roofline pitch, and clearance to combustibles all affect what unit fits and what a proposal should quote. Software with satellite or aerial measurement pre-qualifies a job before the first site visit; software without it means every clearance question gets answered on-site, adding time to every consultation.
Gas logs, vent pipe, termination caps, chimney liners, and mantels are expensive, slow to reorder, and easy to run out of mid-install. Generic field-service inventory built for parts bins doesn’t always map cleanly to hearth components — ask to see the inventory module before you buy, not after.
A $49/mo starting price that needs a $67/mo measurement add-on, a $99/mo photo-documentation tool, and per-user fees for a five-person crew is not a $49/mo tool. Add up every module you’d actually need before comparing vendors on their advertised entry price.
Build one real Options Estimate, run one real MapMeasure Pro (or equivalent) lookup, and log one real inventory pull during the 14-day trial. Software that looks clean in a sales demo can still be clunky on an actual gas insert quote — find out before the trial ends, not after you’ve paid for a year.
QuoteIQ is the best CRM for most gas fireplace installation businesses in 2026 — that’s my pick as QuoteIQ’s Co-Founder, and I’m disclosing that plainly. It bundles tiered Options Estimates for electric, gas, and masonry pricing, MapMeasure Pro satellite chimney measurement, hearth-component inventory, and job costing into flat monthly tiers starting at $29.99/mo with no per-user fees. For 20-plus-technician chimney and hearth enterprises, ServiceTitan’s dispatch depth is the stronger fit despite its higher, quote-only pricing.
For hearth dealers running a retail showroom, RB Retail & Service Solutions’ Hearth CRM is the only option purpose-built and named for the trade, though its pricing is demo-only.
Standard monthly pricing for the five CRMs in this guide ranges from $29.99/mo (QuoteIQ Essentials, one user) to $245–$398 per technician per month for ServiceTitan (reported, quote-only). Jobber starts at $49/mo for one user, Housecall Pro at $79/mo, and RB Retail & Service Solutions’ Hearth CRM has no published price — every quote requires a sales demo. None of these figures include annual-billing discounts; they’re the standard month-to-month rate you’d pay without a prepaid-year commitment.
For most one-to-five-technician gas fireplace installation businesses, no — ServiceTitan has stated publicly that its platform isn’t optimized for companies with three or fewer technicians, and the per-technician pricing (reported at $245–$398/mo per tech) plus a 12-month contract and $5,000–$50,000 implementation fee makes it disproportionately expensive at that scale. ServiceTitan earns its cost once a hearth or chimney company scales past roughly 20 technicians and needs multi-crew dispatch, advanced reporting, and a dedicated marketing budget to match.
There’s no single dominant platform — fireplace and chimney companies split between general field-service CRMs (Jobber, Housecall Pro, QuoteIQ) built for scheduling and invoicing across trades, ServiceTitan for larger multi-crew operations, and hearth-specific systems like RB Retail & Service Solutions’ Hearth CRM or Evosus’s LOU for dealers who also run a retail showroom floor. Which fits best depends on whether your business is primarily installation-and-service or retail-and-installation combined.
QuoteIQ’s onboarding team supports data import for existing customers, jobs, and pricing during the 14-day free trial, so you can test a real Options Estimate and MapMeasure Pro lookup on your actual job list before committing. Most hearth contractors run both platforms in parallel for a week or two, migrate active jobs and client records, then cancel the old subscription once the team is comfortable with the new workflow. There’s no long-term contract locking you into either platform, which makes a side-by-side trial low-risk.
Yes, for most installation businesses — gas logs, direct-vent pipe, termination caps, chimney liners, mantels, and blower kits are expensive, slow to reorder from distributors (often 3–6 weeks), and easy to run out of mid-install if nobody’s tracking what’s on which truck. Software that tracks hearth components specifically, rather than a generic parts-bin inventory module, catches a missing termination cap before a crew arrives at a job site without it, which is the difference between a completed install and a rescheduled one.
Yes — RB Retail & Service Solutions’ Hearth CRM and Evosus’s LOU platform are both built and marketed specifically for chimney and hearth businesses, combining point-of-sale retail checkout with service scheduling for dealers who run a showroom. Neither publishes pricing publicly, and neither includes tiered good/better/best estimating or satellite measurement natively. General field-service CRMs like QuoteIQ, built for the broader home-service trades but with hearth-specific features layered in (tiered pricing, chimney measurement, hearth inventory), are the more common choice for installation-focused businesses without a retail floor.
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.
Pricing was verified against each vendor’s own pricing page where one is published, or against third-party review platforms (TrustRadius, ITQlick, Capterra, GetApp, Software Advice) where a vendor keeps pricing quote-only, between August 4 and August 12, 2026. Read more about Mike’s background and QuoteIQ on the About page.
If you’re a solo installer or run one-to-two crews selling a mix of electric, gas, and masonry hearth work, QuoteIQ’s tiered Options Estimates, MapMeasure Pro chimney measurement, and flat $29.99–$149.99/mo pricing with no per-user fees solve the actual operational problem of this trade — and yes, it’s my company, so weigh that accordingly. If you’re scaling past 20 technicians, get a ServiceTitan quote. If you want the simplest possible published-price scheduling tool and don’t need hearth-specific measurement or estimating, Jobber or Housecall Pro both work.
If you run a retail hearth showroom alongside installs, RB Retail & Service Solutions’ Hearth CRM is worth a demo despite the pricing opacity.
IBISWorld — Fireplace Services Industry · MarkWide Research — Gas Fireplaces Market · NAHB — What Home Buyers Really Want (via Builder) · NFPA home-heating fire data (via Angi) · Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association · National Fireplace Institute · NFPA 211 · Chimney Safety Institute of America · International Code Council · Jobber Pricing · Jobber Client Manager (CRM) Feature
Jobber Scheduling Feature · Jobber Construction & Contracting Industry Page · Housecall Pro Pricing (Capterra) · Housecall Pro Pricing (G2) · Housecall Pro Pricing (Toricent Labs) · ServiceTitan Pricing (TrustRadius) · ServiceTitan Pricing (ITQlick) · RB Control Systems (GetApp) · RB Control Systems (Capterra) · RB Control Systems (Software Advice)