Search “best software for appliance repair companies” and the page is vendor blogs and small directories: QuoteIQ’s own industry page, ServiceWorks’ own blog, FieldEdge’s own appliance-repair landing page, plus a scattering of AI-generated listicle sites. No G2, no Capterra, no large media outlet has written an independent comparison for this specific trade. That’s the same gap other underserved home-service categories on this site have shown, and it means nobody neutral has actually put these vendors’ pricing side by side.
What we didn’t expect going in: three of the five vendors people actually compare for this trade, Workiz, FieldEdge, and ServiceWorks, no longer show a single dollar figure anywhere on their own websites. All three require a sales conversation before you learn what anything costs. QuoteIQ still publishes real tiers. And the newest entrant, a purpose-built tool called ApplianceOps, publishes its price on the homepage and undercuts all of them.
Quick Comparison
| Tool | Entry Price | What It Buys You | The Catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| ApplianceOps | $35/mo (1 seat) | Full CRM: dispatch, warranty split-billing, AI diagnosis assist, parts inventory, per-machine pricing | AI Dispatch (phone answering) is a separate paid add-on, $65-95/mo |
| QuoteIQ | $29.99/mo (Essentials, 1 user) | Estimates, invoicing, scheduling, AI call credits | Inventory Tracking doesn’t appear until Elite, $299/mo |
| Workiz | Quote-only | Unlimited jobs/invoices, 5 automations, QuickBooks sync | No published price as of this check; Inventory management is Ultimate-tier only |
| FieldEdge | Quote-only | Dispatching, basic service agreements, price book | No published price, no free trial; Warehouse Inventory needs a separate QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise add-on to even function |
| ServiceWorks | Quote-only (“pricing snapshot”) | Full field service suite, sized to team and warranty mix | No published price; subscription bundles a “required onboarding plan” with an undisclosed cost |
All five vendors’ own pricing and product pages checked directly on September 18, 2026.
ApplianceOps: The Only Vendor With a Real Number on the Homepage
ApplianceOps prices itself at $35/month for the first seat, then $10 for each additional seat up to a five-person shop ($75/month total), and $15 per seat beyond that with no ceiling. Every plan gets every core CRM feature: dispatch board, per-machine multi-appliance invoicing, a price book with payer-rate overrides, home-warranty split billing where the warranty company and the customer copay are itemized on one invoice, AI that reads a home-warranty dispatch email and fills in the job automatically, parts and inventory desks, used-appliance resale with delivery and a warranty clock, route optimization, commission and payroll, and QuickBooks Online sync. There’s no higher tier holding any of that hostage, which is a genuinely different shape from every other tool on this list.
The one thing that costs extra is the phone. AI Dispatch, which answers calls in the shop’s name, texts back missed callers, and includes a business number, runs $65/month for a 1-2 tech crew (400 AI minutes included) or $95/month for 3-5 techs (750 minutes), billed separately from the CRM subscription and not covered by the 14-day free trial, since a live phone number costs real money the moment it starts answering.
ApplianceOps says on its own site that it was built by a technician with close to two decades in the trade, after trying and rejecting several generalist tools, a claim we can’t independently verify but which lines up with how specifically its features map to this one trade rather than field service in general (it doesn’t serve HVAC, plumbing, or any other vertical).
- Who should NOT buy ApplianceOps: a company that dispatches the same technicians across appliance repair and another trade, HVAC or plumbing alongside appliance work, for instance. ApplianceOps is built for appliance repair exclusively and won’t manage a mixed-trade crew.
- Who it’s right for: a solo tech to five-person appliance-only shop that wants a transparent per-seat number and doesn’t want to discover which features are missing after signing up.
QuoteIQ: Published Tiers, But Inventory Waits Until Elite
QuoteIQ’s pricing page lists five plans, confirmed directly: Essentials at $29.99/month (1 user, 500 AI credits/month), Beginner at $74.99/month (2 users, 1,500 credits), Pro at $149.99/month (4 users, 3,000 credits, marked “Most Popular”), Elite at $299/month (10 users, 5,000 credits), and Max at $699/month (unlimited users, 8,000 credits). The AI-powered Virtual Call Team (phone answering) is technically available starting on Essentials, but it draws down the same monthly AI-credit pool used by every other AI feature, so a shop fielding a high volume of calls can burn through Essentials’ 500 credits well before the billing cycle resets and need to move up a tier just to keep the phone answered.
Inventory Tracking specifically doesn’t show up until Elite, per QuoteIQ’s own plan comparison tool, a roughly 10x jump from the $29.99 entry price to get parts stock levels tracked digitally rather than kept on a clipboard.
- Who should NOT sign up for Essentials expecting inventory tracking: any shop planning to track parts stock digitally from day one. That’s an Elite-tier feature, $299/month for up to 10 users.
- Who it’s right for: a solo or two-person operation that mainly needs quoting, invoicing, and scheduling and hasn’t hit the point of needing digital parts tracking yet.
Workiz, FieldEdge, and ServiceWorks: Three Vendors, Zero Published Prices
As of this check, none of these three shows a single dollar figure anywhere on its own site without booking a call first.
Workiz used to publish numbers. Third-party trackers reported figures in the $187-$270/month range as recently as mid-2026, but Workiz’s current pricing page shows only “Request pricing” on all three tiers (Standard, Pro, Ultimate), with plans differentiated instead by automation count (5, 10, and 30 automations respectively) and feature gates: Inventory management, franchise management, and Open API access are all Ultimate-tier only. Third-party estimates we could not confirm on Workiz’s own site put real-world cost around $225 or more per month for a small crew, before add-ons like Genius Phone, Genius Answering, or Genius Marketing, all sold separately.
FieldEdge has never published a number for any of its three tiers (Select, Premier, Elite) and offers no free trial at all; its own FAQ states plainly that “we find new members have the most success when our team walks you through the onboarding process.” FieldEdge does maintain a dedicated appliance-repair industry page, which is more direct trade attention than Workiz or ServiceWorks show. But Warehouse Inventory Management is restricted to the Elite tier, and a footnote on FieldEdge’s own pricing page adds a second requirement most small shops won’t already meet: it only works for businesses running QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise with Advanced Inventory, a separate paid product layered underneath the feature you’d be paying Elite-tier money for.
ServiceWorks no longer lists tiers or prices at all. Its pricing page runs a “pricing snapshot” questionnaire about team size, scheduling complexity, warranty mix, and parts volume, and states outright that “your subscription includes a required onboarding plan,” without disclosing what that onboarding costs. Older third-party write-ups had cited roughly $99-149/month base tiers, but that’s not something ServiceWorks’ current page confirms one way or the other.
The catch that spans all three: comparing monthly cost requires giving up your contact information and sitting through a sales conversation with each one, a real time cost for a small shop trying to evaluate five tools before choosing.
- Who should NOT start with any of these three if time is tight: a solo owner trying to compare options quickly. Budget for at least one call per vendor before you’ll see a number.
- Who it’s right for: a multi-truck operation that expects a custom quote anyway and wants a platform built for scale from the start.
What About ServiceTitan?
ServiceTitan doesn’t publish pricing for any trade it serves, appliance repair included, and its own site routes every inquiry to a demo booking. Third-party trackers and user-reported figures, none of them confirmed on ServiceTitan’s own pricing page, commonly cite $245-$400 per technician per month on annual contracts, often with multi-year commitments and implementation fees reported in the five figures for a small shop.
- Who should NOT buy ServiceTitan: solo operators and small 2-5 tech appliance shops. The figures being reported target multi-truck, multi-location operations with office staff to run a heavier platform, and ServiceTitan’s own marketing centers HVAC, plumbing, and electrical rather than appliance repair specifically.
- Who it’s right for: a multi-location or multi-trade operation that already has the staff to manage a large platform and is comparing ServiceTitan against similarly-scaled competitors, not against a $35/month single-trade tool.
Who Should NOT Buy Any of These Five
A true one-person operation still running on a phone number and a paper invoice pad doesn’t need to solve this yet; QuoteIQ’s Essentials tier or ApplianceOps’ single-seat plan both cost little enough to try before committing further. On the other end, a company that dispatches the same crew across appliance repair, HVAC, and plumbing needs a generalist platform, FieldEdge, Workiz, or ServiceTitan, rather than ApplianceOps, which by design serves appliance repair only.
The same “advertised entry price doesn’t include the feature you actually need” shape shows up across this site’s other home-service software guides, including our pressure washing software comparison and our small trucking dispatch software guide, both trades where the vendor landscape is built the same way.
FAQ
Is there free software for appliance repair companies? Not free-forever among these five. ApplianceOps offers a 14-day trial (30 days with a referral code) with no credit card required, but every plan here eventually charges from the first seat.
Why won’t Workiz, FieldEdge, or ServiceWorks show me a price? As of this check, none of the three lists a dollar figure anywhere on its own site; all three require booking a call or completing an intake form first. This is a recent shift for Workiz specifically, which published tiered pricing as recently as mid-2026.
Which of these has parts inventory tracking without a five-figure jump in price? ApplianceOps includes a parts and inventory desk on every plan starting at $35/month. QuoteIQ and Workiz both gate inventory tracking behind their top tiers ($299/month and quote-only Ultimate, respectively), and FieldEdge’s version requires a separate QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise add-on on top of its Elite tier.
Do any of these handle home warranty company billing? ApplianceOps specifically advertises split billing, itemizing the warranty company’s portion and the customer’s copay on one invoice, as a built-in workflow. The other four don’t call this out as a named feature on their own pricing or product pages, though general invoicing tools in each could likely be adapted to it manually.
What does ServiceTitan actually cost for an appliance repair shop? ServiceTitan doesn’t say, on its own site, for any trade. Third-party trackers commonly cite $245-$400 per technician per month on annual contracts, but treat that as a reported estimate, not a confirmed number, until you get a quote directly.
Bottom Line: Which Should You Choose?
- Solo tech who wants a transparent number and won’t need HVAC/plumbing crossover: ApplianceOps at $35/month is the only one of these five with real pricing on the homepage and no feature gates by tier.
- Want published tiered pricing without a sales call, and can defer inventory tracking: QuoteIQ’s Essentials tier at $29.99/month, budgeting for a jump to Elite ($299/month) once digital parts tracking becomes necessary.
- Multi-truck shop willing to sit through a sales process for a broader platform: get an actual quote from Workiz or FieldEdge before comparing; neither publishes enough to compare from their websites alone.
- Multi-trade or multi-location operation with the staff to run a bigger system: ServiceTitan-class platforms are built for that scale, but expect five-figure implementation costs and multi-year contracts, reported rather than confirmed by ServiceTitan itself.