Service Autopilot vs Yardbook

Service Autopilot is software for service businesses to manage scheduling, payments, teams, and recurring business tasks. It serves lawn care, landscaping, cleaning, snow removal, pest control, pool cleaning, and field service businesses. The product supports job scheduling and dispatch, invoicing, integrated payments, estimates, proposals, client messaging, expense tracking, and recurring jobs. Its homepage describes scheduling and routing a day in one click; route optimization is included in Pro and Pro Plus. Pro Plus adds automation workflows for recurring activities. The Team App provides real-time job updates, GPS tracking, job management, chemical tracking, and before-and-after photos on iOS and Android. A FleetSharp integration can show vehicle and driver locations and provide driving behavior reports and alerts. Service Autopilot describes two-way sync with QuickBooks Online and Desktop, while its pricing page lists QuickBooks integration under Elite; the selected QuickBooks platform cannot be changed after the initial integration. Startup costs $49 a month on annual subscription rates, plus a sign up fee. Pro costs $199 a month and Pro Plus costs $499 a month on annual subscription rates, each plus a sign up fee.

Yardbook is a business application for landscaping companies, covering customer management, estimates, job scheduling, and billing. Its operations tools include routing, timesheets, GPS tracking, and equipment maintenance; finance and records features include invoices, payments, expenses, credit cards, chemical tracking, and a pricing catalog. Yardbook Profiles let landscapers present services and work, set service areas, attract homeowners, and manage incoming leads. A responsive mobile web app provides the full feature set through a browser, and an Android app is available. The iOS app is in beta and requires contacting support for an install link. Starter costs nothing and includes customer management, jobs and scheduling, estimates, invoices, routing, expenses, reports, lot measurement, employee access, credit card payments, snow removal, and a product catalog. Business costs $34.99 a month and adds features including bulk text messages through Twilio and GPS tracking. Enterprise costs $49.99 a month and adds Quickbooks Sync and a branded company portal. QuickBooks syncing is identified as beta. Non-premium accounts, including free trials, incur a 1% Yardbook processing fee on each customer online payment; Business and Enterprise waive it.