Grows with you
Start solo. Add crews. Keep the same app.
Business Manager 4Home Pros is field service software for recurring home service work: lawn care, pool service, house cleaning, bin cleaning and pressure washing. It is free for your first 50 job sites, and the same account carries you from a one-person route to an office and several crews. It keeps getting better: 45 App Store releases in 2026 so far[3].
The idea
One owner, five stages
Say you start a lawn route on your own. A year later you have a helper. Then someone answers the phone, then a second truck. Most owners switch software at one of these steps, because the first app was built for one person and the next one charges per person.
Below is each stage: the problem it brings, and what Business Manager 4Home Pros already does about it. Nothing here is a plan for later. It is all in the app today.
Stage 1 · Solo
Day one: just you and a truck
You have a dozen yards. The schedule lives in your head and the money lives in a notebook. You need to know who is due today and who owes you, without office work at night.
Plan: Free. 50 job sites, 50 completed jobs, 8 invoice sends a day and 2 routes. No card, no time limit. The free plan shows ads.
What the app does for it
- Add a customer with just a name, and fill in the rest later. Each property is a job site with its own schedule (weekly, bi-weekly, every 3 or 4 weeks, monthly, and more) and its own price.
- See who is due today. Put the stops in GPS order: nearest stop next, or one direction with no doubling back. Then drag to adjust.
- Tap Done and the visit is billed: the charge lands on the customer's balance, per visit or once a month. Sending the invoice is a separate step, by text or email.
- Customers pay you directly. Your invoice shows your own Venmo, Zelle, Cash App or Apple Pay. Record cash and checks in the app.
- It runs on your phone (iPhone or Android) and in any web browser at app.4home-pros.com.
Stage 2 · Growing book
The first 50 customers
Word of mouth works. Now there are 50 yards, a few on hold, a few behind on payments, and rain days that push work around. Memory stops working here.
Plan: Free ends at 50 job sites. Pro removes the limits for $34.99 a month or $274.99 a year. Add 3 customers, 1 job site and 1 charge and every Pro feature unlocks for 14 days. No card.
What the app does for it
- The Customers page opens on your recent customers. Filter by past due, owes a balance, has a credit, or new this month. It also counts new customers, new job sites and lost job sites this month.
- Each customer page keeps payments, charges, job sites, invoice history and service history in one place.
- Rained out? Tap Skip and pick Weather. No charge is made, and the lawn stays due. Every skip and every cancellation asks why, so you can see why you lose customers.
- Send invoices to one customer or a whole batch. Every invoice has its own number.
- Ask Business Manager, the AI card on Customers: "Who owes me money?" It answers from your own data, in English or Spanish (on Android with version 122, not out yet).
- Moving from another app or a spreadsheet? Import a CSV file from Jobber, Housecall Pro or any spreadsheet, and review it before anything is saved.
Stage 3 · First hire
Your first helper
You hire a helper. Now someone else needs the route, the gate codes and the notes. But you don't want them to see what each customer pays.
Plan: Free covers you plus 1 teammate. With more people, Pro is still $34.99 a month. See do I need new software for my first employee?
What the app does for it
- Invite them with a join code or link. They use their own phone, iPhone or Android, in crew mode.
- A Crew Member sees the stops, notes and checklists on the routes you share. They never see prices, balances or payments, and they get no customer pages.
- Their Done bills the visit, the same as yours, and you see it on your phone.
- Crew GPS: on the free plan, each crew day is kept for 7 days, with 3 location requests a day. Pro adds live moving pins, Follow and the full history. You control tracking for each person and each phone.
- Training a new person? Turn on the house photo check: they photograph the house number before they finish, so you know the Done landed on the right house.
- A crew member can record a voice note in Spanish, and you get a clean English entry. It uses the free plan's 5 AI actions; Pro has no limit.
Stage 4 · Office help
Someone in the office
Calls, quotes, new customers and complaints pile up while you are on the mower. You bring in someone part time for the office. They need customers and billing, not every switch in the business.
Plan: Free includes 1 teammate and 5 Office cards. Pro: unlimited people and Office cards, same price.
What the app does for it
- Four roles: Owner, Admin, Manager and Crew Member. An Admin edits customers, texts them, sees prices and sends invoices. A Manager sees every site and customer page, plans routes, and can view charges, payments and invoices, but can't edit customers, send invoices or take payments. You switch on more for an Admin, one control at a time: payments, income reports, team and roles, campaigns.
- The Office tab: each job, request or question is one thread, held by one person or role. Tag who must act, add photos and voice memos. Each customer's threads get ticket numbers. In the app, crew see only the threads that name them, without prices.
- The web app on the office computer: send invoices in batches, import a customer list, plan tomorrow on a big map.
- The Dispatch Board: crew ask for access or a route, and you say yes in one tap, with 24 hours to undo. Post a heads-up or an announcement and see who saw it.
- Campaigns (Pro): text a group of customers, such as everyone due this week. AI drafts the message.
Stage 5 · Two trucks and up
Several crews and routes
Two trucks, then three. Each crew has its own routes. You need the whole operation on one screen, a quick way to move houses between routes, and to know which route makes money.
Plan: Pro: unlimited job sites, routes and crew for $34.99 a month. The price does not change with the size of your crew.
What the app does for it
- Route Board: every route side by side, each in its own colour. Drag houses between routes or paint them onto a route on the map, then order each route by GPS from a starting house. A new house joins the route of its nearest neighbour.
- Each house has a core route, its usual day, and can be overflow on another route for weeks when the work moves.
- Live crew map (Pro): a moving pin for every tracked phone, Follow one person, and replay any past day of a crew member's route.
- Route profit reports (Pro): what each route and crew earns per hour.
- Plan from a bigger screen: the web app, an iPad, or the unfolded iPhone Duo.
- Ask from Claude with the AI connector: who owes you, what is left today, mark a yard done.
Why you won't have to switch
Four reasons you can stay put
1. One flat price, any crew size
Pro is $34.99 a month for 1 person or 15. Many field service apps charge by the user, so the bill grows with every hire. Monthly list prices, billed monthly, for the cheapest published plan that fits:
2. It keeps getting better
The iPhone app has had 108 App Store releases since December 2021, and 45 in 2026, about one a week[3]. Recent months added the Office tab, the Route Board, a Today widget and Siri on iPhone, and the Ask Business Manager AI card. Every update is free. See the update log.
| People using the app | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4Home Pros Pro | $34.99 | $34.99 | $34.99 | $34.99 |
| Jobber[1] | $49 (Core, 1 user) | $168 (Connect, 1 user + 1 added) | $199 (Connect, 5 users) | $299 (Connect, 10 users) |
| Housecall Pro[2] | $79 (Basic, 1 user) | $189 (Essentials, 5 users) | $189 (Essentials, 5 users) | $399 (MAX, 8 users + 2 added) |
Our free plan also covers 1 or 2 people up to 50 job sites. Their plans include more in some areas, and both run first-period discounts for new customers. Full comparison on the pricing page.
3. The same account on every device
iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad, Android phones and tablets, and the web. A visit your crew marks Done on a phone shows on the office computer, already billed. New phone? Sign in and your business is there. See every device.
4. Your data comes with you
The owner can export the business at any time: Profile → Export data saves an Excel file with your customers, job sites, charges and payments. Bringing data in works the same way: import a CSV from Jobber, Housecall Pro or a spreadsheet.
Stop paying for Pro and your customers and history stay in your account, on the free plan.
Before you commit
What we don't do
- No built-in card processing and no autopay.
- No QuickBooks sync and no online booking page.
- No price book and no drive-time route optimization. Our stop order is by GPS position.
- Our App Store listing is small and young: 5.0 from 8 ratings.
If you need those, a bigger suite may suit you better. Our lawn care software roundup and the alternatives page say who fits what.
FAQ
Questions
Is there field service software that grows with a small business?
Yes. Business Manager 4Home Pros is free for your first 50 job sites, for you plus 1 teammate. Pro is $34.99 a month for unlimited job sites, routes and crew, so the price does not rise as you hire.
Will I have to switch software when I hire crew?
No. Add them as Crew Members. They use their own phones, see their stops, notes and checklists, and never see prices, balances or payments. More on your first hire.
Can an office person use it without seeing everything?
Yes. Make them an Admin or a Manager. A Manager sees customers, sites, routes and billing, but can't edit customers, send invoices or take payments. An Admin also edits customers and sends invoices, and you switch on more controls one at a time.
How often is the app updated?
About once a week: 45 App Store releases in 2026 so far, and 108 since December 2021. Update log.
Can I take my data with me?
Yes. Profile → Export data saves your customers, job sites, charges and payments to an Excel file.
Does Pro cost more as my crew grows?
No. Pro is $34.99 a month, or $274.99 a year, for any number of people.
Start where you are. Grow without switching.
Free for your first 50 job sites. No card. Same account on iPhone, Android and the web.