I compared pricing, estimating tools, and scheduling features across the 7 CRMs wood stove and hearth installers actually use — including the one purpose-built for the hearth trade.
Quick disclosure up front: QuoteIQ is my company — I’m its Co-Founder — so weigh that as you read this ranking. For wood stove installation businesses in 2026, my pick is QuoteIQ ($29.99–$699/mo, no per-user fees), because it bundles AI estimating, satellite property measurement, and automated review requests into flat monthly tiers instead of selling them as add-ons. Jobber ($39/mo) is the cleanest budget option for a solo installer. Housecall Pro ($79/mo) fits a 3–8 tech crew that wants GPS dispatch and a flat-rate price book. ServiceTitan (reported $245–$398/technician/mo) is the enterprise pick for 20+ tech hearth and chimney operations. Workiz (reported $187–$270/mo) brings a built-in phone system that’s genuinely useful during fall installation season. LOU by Evosus (reported $49–$79/mo per license plus a one-time onboarding fee) is the only platform on this list purpose-built for hearth retailers running a showroom alongside install crews. FieldEdge (reported, quote-only, starting near $225/mo) is worth a look if your books already live deep in QuickBooks Desktop. Every price below is the vendor’s standard month-to-month rate — never a discounted annual figure — verified against vendor pricing pages and, where a vendor doesn’t publish pricing, third-party sources like G2, Capterra, and ITQlick.
TL;DR: Wood stove installation is a niche corner of the hearth trade — most jobs run $2,500–$8,000 for a freestanding unit with venting, and $5,000+ for a masonry-to-insert conversion. Your software needs to handle multi-line material quotes, EPA-compliance documentation, and the seasonal crunch that hits every September through November.
The honest editorial truth: most installers evaluating ServiceTitan are paying enterprise per-technician fees for a dispatch board built for 20+ tech operations, when a 1–10 person hearth crew gets the same core job — quote fast, schedule the crew, document the install, get paid — from a flat-tier platform for a fraction of the cost.
Fireplace and hearth service businesses operating in the U.S. in 2026
U.S. fireplace services industry market size in 2026
U.S. households heating primarily with wood this winter
Additional U.S. households using wood as a secondary heat source
QuoteIQ is my company. I co-founded it in 2022 with Justin Rogers, and it’s the #1 pick on this list — not because a neutral scoring algorithm ran these 7 platforms through a blind test, but because I built QuoteIQ specifically to solve the pricing and scheduling problems I lived through running service businesses, and I genuinely believe it’s the strongest option for the majority of wood stove and hearth installation shops in the 1–20 technician range.
The case rests on three structural facts, not marketing copy: QuoteIQ bundles AI estimating, satellite property measurement, and review automation into flat monthly tiers that competitors sell as paid add-ons; it charges no per-user fees on any plan, so a 6-person crew pays the same as a solo operator; and every price on this page is published on our own site — no sales call required, unlike three of the six competitors below.
I’m just as direct about where QuoteIQ loses. If you run a hearth showroom that sells units at the counter and installs them in the field, LOU by Evosus has kit-based pricing QuoteIQ doesn’t. If you’re running 20+ technicians across multiple markets, ServiceTitan’s multi-option estimate board and marketing attribution are genuinely deeper. Every price below is the vendor’s standard month-to-month rate, verified against vendor pricing pages where published and against G2, Capterra, ITQlick, and TrustRadius where it isn’t. All pricing verified as of August 2026.
My pick — built for 1–20 tech hearth and wood stove installers who want AI estimating and no per-user fees.
A wood stove install is a high-ticket, detail-heavy sale — a freestanding EPA-certified unit with Class A chimney pipe can run $2,500–$8,000, and a masonry-to-insert conversion can clear $8,000. QuoteIQ’s AI Estimator drafts multi-line quotes from a job description — unit model, venting run length, roof or wall penetration type — so you can turn around a professional proposal before the homeowner’s next bid lands in their inbox.
MapMeasure Pro lets you scope a chimney chase or roofline from satellite imagery before you drive out, and QuoteIQ Cam timestamps before/after install photos — useful documentation when a customer’s insurer or a local inspector asks for proof of a compliant venting run. Review Multiplier automates the Google review request every installer needs, since hearth customers research heavily before letting a crew run gas or wood venting through their roof.
Best for: Wood stove and hearth installation businesses with 1–20 technicians that want AI-assisted quoting and flat pricing without a showroom-specific SKU catalog. If you run a hearth retail counter, see LOU by Evosus below.
Watch: What Is QuoteIQ? →The cleanest budget option for a solo wood stove installer moving off paper.
Jobber’s Core plan runs $39/mo standard monthly for one user and covers quoting, scheduling, invoicing, and a client-facing hub where homeowners can approve a wood stove estimate and pay online. That client-approval flow matters here — hearth customers often compare 2–3 written bids before picking an installer, and a polished digital quote reads as more credible than a handwritten one.
Connect ($119/mo) adds GPS routing and QuickBooks sync once you’re running more than one truck; Grow ($199/mo) adds job costing, worth having given how material-heavy a wood stove install is — chimney pipe, roof flashing, hearth pad, and the unit itself all need to be tracked against the quote.
Best for: A solo wood stove installer or two-person crew that wants the cheapest reliable platform and doesn’t need AI-drafted quotes yet.
Solid GPS dispatch and a flat-rate price book for a 3–8 tech install crew.
Housecall Pro’s Basic plan starts at $79/mo standard monthly for one user, with Essentials at $189/mo covering up to five users and MAX at $329/mo for larger crews. The flat-rate price book, powered by Profit Rhino, is genuinely useful once you have more than one tech quoting stove installs — it keeps a chimney relining line item priced the same whether tech A or tech B writes the estimate.
Housecall Pro also plugs into Google Local Services Ads, so a homeowner searching “wood stove installer near me” can book directly from the search results page — a real lead-capture edge during the September–November install rush.
Best for: A growing 3–8 tech wood stove and chimney crew that wants real GPS dispatch muscle and doesn’t mind paying for marketing tools separately.
The enterprise pick for 20+ technician hearth and chimney operations.
ServiceTitan runs a dedicated chimney and hearth page and its multi-option “Good-Better-Best” iPad estimate board is a real fit for the trade — a tech can present a basic flue liner, a mid-tier liner-plus-cap package, and a premium full reline side by side on a wood stove or chimney job. ServiceTitan doesn’t publish pricing; the $245–$398 per technician per month figure is compiled from user reports on G2, Capterra, TrustRadius, and ITQlick, not a vendor-quoted number — treat it as a reported range, not a guarantee.
Implementation fees reported in the $5,000–$50,000 range and a 12-month minimum contract are the trade-off for that depth. For a 3–5 person wood stove installer, this is almost always more platform than the job requires.
Best for: Large-scale chimney and hearth operations running 20+ technicians across multiple markets, with the office staff to run it.
A built-in phone system that pays for itself during the fall install rush.
Workiz’s biggest edge is its built-in phone system with AI call answering. Wood stove installation demand spikes hard from September through November, and a missed call during that window is a lost $4,000–$8,000 job. Reported pricing puts Kickstart at $187/mo, Standard at $229/mo, and Pro at $270/mo standard monthly — Workiz doesn’t publish every figure openly, so these numbers come from ITQlick and G2, not the vendor directly.
The service-plan feature also supports recurring chimney inspection and stove maintenance agreements, which smooths revenue through the slow summer months between installs.
Best for: A 3–10 tech wood stove business that loses real revenue to missed calls during the fall installation rush.
The only platform on this list purpose-built for hearth retailers with an install team.
LOU is the one genuinely trade-specific tool here. Evosus built it around 20 years in the pool, hot tub, and hearth retail space, and its “Dynamic Kits” feature bundles a wood stove, Class A chimney pipe, roof flashing, and labor into a single priced package that updates automatically when a component cost changes — something none of the general-purpose platforms on this list do out of the box.
Reported pricing per G2 runs $49–$79/mo per license, with roughly a $1,999 one-time onboarding fee before seasonal monthly licensing begins — Evosus doesn’t publish a full public rate card, so treat this as reported, not vendor-confirmed.
Best for: Hearth retailers selling wood stoves at a showroom counter and installing them with an in-house crew — the kit-pricing and POS integration are worth the trade-off.
Deep QuickBooks integration for a shop already living in QuickBooks Desktop.
FieldEdge built its reputation in HVAC and plumbing, and that heating-adjacent lineage carries over reasonably well to wood stove installation — both trades deal with venting, combustion appliances, and seasonal demand. Reported pricing from Software Finder and Housecall Pro’s own pricing comparison put FieldEdge around $225/mo starting (roughly $100/office user plus $125/technician), though FieldEdge doesn’t publish a rate card — you’ll need a sales call to confirm your number.
The strongest reason to consider it is CSR performance metrics — visibility into how your office staff converts inbound calls to booked jobs, which matters if a receptionist (not just the install crew) is fielding your fall wood stove inquiries.
Best for: An established wood stove or hearth-adjacent HVAC business already deep in QuickBooks that wants better office-staff call metrics.
| Platform | AI Estimating | No Per-User Fees | Hearth-Specific Kits | GPS Dispatch | Built-In Phone/AI Answering | QuickBooks Sync | Published Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QuoteIQ | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Jobber | No | No | No | Partial | No | Yes | Yes |
| Housecall Pro | Partial | No | No | Yes | Partial | Partial | Yes |
| ServiceTitan | Partial | No | No | Yes | Partial | Yes | No |
| Workiz | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial |
| LOU by Evosus | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | Partial | No |
| FieldEdge | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Run the math on a 4-person wood stove installation crew. QuoteIQ Pro at $149.99/mo covers all 4 users with no per-seat charge. The same crew on Housecall Pro Essentials runs $189/mo and caps at 5 users, and on Jobber you’d need Connect Team at roughly $169/mo just to cover a second and third tech beyond the solo Core plan.
ServiceTitan, at a reported $245–$398 per technician, would put that same 4-person crew somewhere between $980 and $1,592 a month before implementation fees — 6 to 10 times QuoteIQ’s cost for a business that doesn’t need enterprise multi-location reporting.
Per-user platforms like ServiceTitan, Workiz, and FieldEdge scale their price with headcount, so a 1–2 person shop and a 20-tech operation land on wildly different tools even if their revenue is similar this year. Match the pricing model to your crew size first — flat-tier platforms like QuoteIQ make more sense under 20 techs; per-technician platforms start paying for themselves in reporting depth above that.
If you sell wood stoves at a retail counter and also run installation crews, LOU by Evosus’s kit-based pricing connects those two halves of the business in a way general FSM platforms don’t. If you’re install-only — subcontracting or working off referrals with no showroom — that specialization matters less, and a general platform delivers more value per dollar.
Pull up your last three wood stove quotes and try to rebuild one in each platform’s free trial. Multi-line material breakdowns — unit, Class A pipe, roof flashing, hearth pad, labor — should take minutes, not an hour of menu-hunting. This is the single fastest way to tell whether a platform actually fits high-ticket hearth work or was designed for simpler service calls.
A wood stove install needs to be documented — EPA compliance labels, clearance-to-combustible measurements, venting configuration photos. Confirm the platform lets you attach timestamped photos and notes directly to the job record, not just a generic “notes” field, since this is what protects you if a customer or inspector questions the install later.
Run the real monthly cost for your team size on your top 2 finalists, including any per-user or add-on fees the sales page doesn’t lead with. The sticker price on a per-technician platform is rarely the number you’ll actually pay once GPS tracking, marketing automation, or extra users are added.
QuoteIQ is the best CRM for wood stove installation businesses in 2026 for most shops running 1–20 technicians, because it bundles AI-assisted estimating, satellite property measurement, and automated review requests into flat monthly tiers — $29.99 to $699/mo — with no per-user fees. Jobber ($39/mo) is the strongest budget option for a solo installer. Housecall Pro ($79/mo) fits a growing 3–8 tech crew. ServiceTitan (reported $245–$398 per technician per month) makes sense above 20 technicians.
LOU by Evosus is the only platform genuinely built for hearth retailers running a showroom alongside install crews. I’m QuoteIQ’s Co-Founder, so weigh that against the honest, structural case above.
Wood stove installation software ranges from $29.99/mo (QuoteIQ Essentials, 1 user) to a reported $245–$398 per technician per month for ServiceTitan’s enterprise platform. Jobber starts at $39/mo standard monthly, Housecall Pro at $79/mo, and Workiz is reported around $187–$270/mo depending on plan and user count. LOU by Evosus, the hearth-specific option, is reported at $49–$79/mo per license plus a roughly $1,999 one-time onboarding fee. FieldEdge doesn’t publish pricing but is reported to start near $225/mo.
Every figure here is the vendor’s standard month-to-month rate — never a discounted annual price — and vendors that don’t publish pricing are labeled “reported” with a named source.
For most small wood stove installation businesses, no — ServiceTitan is built for 20+ technician operations with dedicated office staff, and reported pricing of $245–$398 per technician per month plus $5,000–$50,000 in implementation fees is a hard number to justify for a 3–6 person crew.
ServiceTitan’s Good-Better-Best estimate board and marketing attribution genuinely earn their cost at enterprise scale, but a solo installer or small crew typically gets the same core job — fast quote, scheduled crew, documented install, collected payment — from a flat-tier platform like QuoteIQ or Jobber at a fraction of the price.
Wood stove installers tend to fall into two camps: general field service management platforms (QuoteIQ, Jobber, Housecall Pro, Workiz, ServiceTitan) used by install-only crews, and hearth-specific retail software (LOU by Evosus) used by shops that also sell units at a showroom counter.
There is no single dominant platform for this specific niche the way ServiceTitan dominates HVAC — the trade is small enough (an estimated 6,313 fireplace and hearth service businesses nationally, per IBISWorld) that most installers choose based on crew size and whether they run a retail location, not brand dominance.
Switching from Jobber typically means exporting your customer list, job history, and contact records as a CSV from Jobber’s export tools, then importing that file into your new platform. QuoteIQ’s onboarding team assists with data migration for businesses switching from Jobber. Time the move for a slow season — for wood stove installers, that’s typically late spring through summer, well before the September–November install rush.
Run both platforms in parallel for 2–4 weeks if you can, so you can confirm every historical job and customer record transferred before you cancel Jobber.
No platform on this list offers a permanently free tier for wood stove installation businesses. QuoteIQ, Jobber, Housecall Pro, and Workiz all offer 14-day free trials that give you full access to test the platform before paying. Given that a single wood stove install job typically runs $2,500–$8,000, even a $39–$79/mo software subscription is a small fraction of one job’s ticket, and most installers find it pays for itself in the first month through faster quote turnaround and fewer missed calls during peak season.
LOU by Evosus is the best software for a hearth showroom that also runs installation crews, because its Dynamic Kits feature bundles a wood stove unit, venting components, and labor into one auto-updating priced package — connecting the retail sale directly to the install schedule. General platforms like QuoteIQ, Jobber, and Housecall Pro work well for install-only businesses without a retail counter, but they don’t have LOU’s showroom-to-install workflow built in natively. Reported pricing for LOU runs $49–$79/mo per license plus a one-time onboarding fee near $1,999.
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.
Wood stove installation isn’t my own trade — I’ve spent 25 years running exterior cleaning and pressure washing crews, not chimney and hearth work — so the case for QuoteIQ here is a software-operator lens, not hands-on hearth experience, and I’ve been direct about it in every card above. Pricing on this page was verified against vendor pricing pages where published, and against G2, Capterra, ITQlick, and TrustRadius where a vendor doesn’t publish a rate card, between July and August 2026.
Read more about my background and QuoteIQ on the About page.
Wood stove installation is a small, high-ticket, seasonal trade — 6,313 fireplace and hearth service businesses nationally, per IBISWorld, splitting a $710M market that spikes hard every September through November. Most of these shops don’t need ServiceTitan’s enterprise dispatch board or FieldEdge’s per-technician pricing; they need a fast, accurate quote out the door before a homeowner books a competitor, a schedule that survives the fall rush, and documentation that protects the business when a customer or inspector asks about the install.
That’s the case for QuoteIQ, and I’m openly biased toward it as its Co-Founder. If you run a hearth showroom with a retail counter, LOU by Evosus deserves a serious look. If you’re running 20+ technicians across multiple markets, ServiceTitan’s depth earns its cost. For everyone in between, compare the standard monthly price of your top 2–3 finalists against your actual crew size before you commit.
Industry data: IBISWorld — Fireplace Services in the US Industry Analysis · U.S. Energy Information Administration — residential heating fuel data · Alliance for Green Heat / U.S. Census Bureau — wood heating and the US Census · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — wood heater emissions standards · National Fire Protection Association — NFPA 211 venting standard · Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association — trade association & NFI certification · Chimney Safety Institute of America — certified inspector directory
QuoteIQ: published pricing · MapMeasure Pro · QuoteIQ Cam · Review Multiplier
Jobber: Tekpon pricing breakdown · Capterra pricing guide · Capterra reviews · FieldCamp review · Jobber’s own comparison page
Housecall Pro: official pricing page · official rate disclosure page · ITQlick pricing analysis · Tooled Up Pro breakdown
ServiceTitan: chimney & hearth industry page · G2 pricing reports · Capterra profile · Tooled Up Pro cost breakdown · Projul pricing analysis
Workiz: ITQlick pricing analysis · TrustRadius pricing · CheckThat pricing breakdown · SaaSrat review · G2 comparison
LOU by Evosus: hearth industry page · official pricing page · G2 pricing · ITQlick pricing analysis · Software Advice profile
FieldEdge: Software Finder pricing · Capterra profile · GetApp profile · FieldEdge’s own site · Housecall Pro’s comparison