Houzz vs N49

Houzz connects homeowners with home professionals, tools, resources, and vendors for renovation and design. Houzz Pro is intended for professionals in remodeling and design, with estimates, invoicing, a 3D Floor Planner, online payments, assemblies, and CRM in its Pro plan. Its contract builder offers templates, electronic signatures, reminders, and activity tracking. A browser extension saves products from supplier websites to the Houzz Pro product library. The mobile app covers project and lead management, estimates, proposals, invoices, schedules, tasks, time and expenses, time clocks, and daily logs; project data is accessible offline when connectivity is disrupted or unavailable. Houzz lists integrations including QuickBooks Online, iCloud, Google, Office 365, Exchange, Outlook, Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, Gmail, Gusto, and Zapier. Zapier imports leads and projects into Houzz Pro but does not export data from it. A free plan includes a 3D Floor Planner, estimates, and invoicing. Pro is $249 a month after a 30-day free trial. Online payment fees are 3.5% for credit cards and 1% for ACH.

N49 is a web service for businesses seeking local customers through business listings. Its Free Listing plan creates a basic business listing, while Verified Listing adds verification, website links from N49 and an eligible portal when available, weekly-updated Google reviews, a dashboard, and phone and email support. Sponsored Listing includes those verified-listing elements plus featured placement at the top of a category and on an eligible portal, the Opio PRO review AI system, and full-service listing setup. Verified and Sponsored profiles display Google reviews and include a business dashboard. N49 supports both listing submission and claiming, and profiles can show reviews. The Free Listing plan costs nothing, billed forever, but excludes a website link, verification, and support. Verified Listing costs $10 a month. Sponsored Listing costs $100 a month. N49 says yearly billing provides 12 months for the price of 10, and prices exclude applicable taxes. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.