Cartoply vs The AC People

Cartoply is territory-based scheduling software for home service and mobile businesses. A single company booking link directs customers to the team member responsible for their location, with coverage defined by drawn areas, ZIP codes, counties, cities or radius. The service syncs bookings and availability with Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook, and supports round robin distribution, custom event durations and automated reminders. Teams can collect a deposit or full payment through Stripe or PayPal before confirming a job. Other listed integrations include Jobber, Zapier and MCP-compatible AI assistants. Cartoply runs on the web and offers an API with OAuth 2.0 access, booking webhook payloads and integration actions. The free plan costs nothing and includes a personal scheduling page, calendar sync, custom event types and durations, confirmations, and one personal event type. Pro costs $7 a month, billed at $7.00 per seat monthly, and adds territory management, automatic rep routing, team availability, payment collection, analytics and priority support. A 14-day trial of Pro features is available without a card to start; organization features pause when it ends unless the user subscribes.

The AC People is a field service operations platform for dispatching crews, preparing estimates, diagnosing field conditions, collecting payments and managing customer follow-up. Its workflows include a dispatch calendar, CRM and property history, industry job forms, field calculators, recommendations, invoices and follow-up. Office and field staff share customer, property, equipment, job and payment records. The site lists 75 industry packs shaped around trade-specific workflows and tools. Prepared connection and migration workflows cover QuickBooks, Jobber, ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Salesforce, HubSpot and structured CSV exports, with mapping, validation and rollback records. The current release is a Progressive Web App installed through a browser on Android, Apple devices and desktop using Chrome or Edge. The Field App includes an offline-ready job workspace linked into the secured platform. The site says there are no APK or Apple App Store downloads yet. Listed plan prices are demo pricing for layout and packaging review, and production pricing may change. Example plans address owner-operators, growing service teams and companies with multiple crews, branches or trades. The pricing note lists plans from $99/mo.