FieldBased vs RouteStacker

FieldBased is a field operations platform for businesses managing leads, quotes, scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, and payments. It is designed for service work including tree and snow, A/V and installations, cleaning, landscaping, and home services. Its AI assistant can book jobs, draft estimates and invoices, retrieve customer information, log receipts from photos, and set reminders by voice or text. An AI receptionist can respond to inbound leads, answer questions, quote prices, and book jobs through a business text line or Facebook Messenger. Website forms, Facebook lead ads, phone calls, and live web chat feed into a shared inbox. The platform includes route planning, crew scheduling, service logs, invoicing and billing, and a client portal, and runs on Android, iOS, and the web. Starter costs $29 a month for one user and 1,000 emails per month. Pro costs $79 a month for up to 10 users, 5,000 emails, and 500 texts monthly. Card payments settle into the business’s Stripe account, with a 1% platform fee plus standard Stripe fees. Businesses can export or delete data; the company says it does not sell business or customer data.

RouteStacker provides CRM, scheduling, routing, field, and billing tools for local service businesses, with features tailored to particular trades. Its snow removal workflow handles seasonal contracts, snowfall-triggered dispatch, crew logs, and per-event billing. A local forecast can queue visits for active clients when snowfall reaches a configured trigger depth. Crews can record snow depth, de-icer use, property hazards, and no-plow zones. The system tracks completed pushes against seasonal contract caps and warns when a client nears or passes the limit. Salt and de-icer stock can trigger reorder alerts, and recorded material use reduces inventory. Completed visits can generate same-day invoices using seasonal or per-event rates. RouteStacker describes an in-house optimizer and live dispatch board for crew assignment and appointment-aware sequencing. Customers can use its portal to pay invoices, manage billing, pause or resume service, request visits, leave reviews, and report issues. It runs on Android, iOS, and web. The listed plan costs nothing, with a 5% platform fee on processed payments plus standard card and ACH processing fees; it has no monthly, per-seat, or setup fees.