By 6pm the truck's clean and you're at the laptop catching up. The missed call from this morning. The quote you forgot to send. The invoice still in your texts. We built one board for all of it.
I spent years working alongside home-service owners, and every one of them ran the same loop. Phone rings on the job site, you scribble the address on the back of a receipt. Quote the next stop from your truck cab. Text the customer the number, text the crew the schedule, chase the payment two Fridays from now. By the time you sit down at the laptop, the work has already happened twice. The work and the system were never in the same place.
I watched those owners try every tool out there, and none of it fit. The big-name CRMs were built for sales teams closing five-figure deals in a conference room. The trade apps were built to add one feature, charge a higher tier, add another feature, charge again. I kept landing on the same thought: none of this runs the day an owner-operator actually runs.
So I built the alternative. The pipeline is the product. One board carries every lead, every quote, every job, every invoice. It comes pre-loaded for the trade you run. Pick junk removal, the price book loads with truck loads and disposal fees. Pick pressure washing, it loads with house washes and concrete cleaning. You don't configure anything. You just start running the work.
Every call, every quote, every crew, every invoice. The screen you run the day from, instead of the six you reconcile at night.
The other tools have had years to get these right. Here's how we do each one, and the exact spot you'd catch us if we didn't.
Drop one card on "Won." The job lands on tomorrow's schedule. The crew marks it done and the invoice goes out on its own. The card clears and the review request sends the next day. You touched it once.
Open any customer. The first "she just called" note and the cleared invoice sit in the same timeline, color-coded the same way the whole way through. No second app. No export to reconcile at night.
Pick your trade at signup. The price book, job types, and lead sources load with line items your crew already says out loud. No blank canvas. No three-hour setup.
Export your customers anytime. Cancel anytime, no contract. Take a founding spot and the price holds for the life of the account. The file is yours whether you stay or go.
Every other tool in this space is racing to add more. Here's what we're choosing to leave out, and why leaving it out is the point.
No big claims. No someday-promises. Just where things actually stand today.
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Chat With Our TeamOne flat price per company. The founding ladder: the first 25 businesses pay $29 a month for life, the next 50 pay $49 for life, the next 100 pay $59 locked for 12 months, and list price is $79 (Solo: every feature, up to 5 users).
Your first 14 days are free. You put a card on file at signup, and nothing is charged until day 14. If you never start using the app, we pause your account instead of charging you. After your first charge, your first 30 days are money-back, no questions asked.
If you are using the app, your card is charged $29 on day 14 and your founding rate locks for life. If you signed up but never got going, we pause your account instead of charging you: no charge, and your setup is saved if you come back.
Need more time? Every trial can be extended once, by 7 days. And nothing is a surprise: we email you on day 11, and the app shows your exact charge date. Cancel is one click in settings, no call required.
Everything. Every feature we ship, up to 5 users (your price never changes when you hire), your business phone number, the carrier registration paperwork and fees, and your texting and calling: up to 1,500 texts and 500 voice minutes a month. No per-user fees, no add-on tiers, no usage bills.
If you regularly send more than that, we reach out and figure it out together. The price does not change behind your back.
The rate steps up to the next rung: 50 spots at $49 a month for life, then 100 at $59 locked for 12 months, then the $79 list price. Each wave locks its own rate. The ladder only goes up, and a filled wave never reopens.
Starting a trial reserves your spot: it is held through your trial and confirmed by your first charge. If you cancel or your account pauses, the spot goes back in the pool.
"For life" means as long as your subscription stays active without a 30-day payment lapse, and as long as Service Anchor continues to operate the platform. If you cancel for more than 30 days and come back later, you rejoin at whatever rung the ladder is on then.
We cannot promise the company exists forever. We can promise that for as long as Service Anchor exists and you keep your subscription active, your founding rate is locked. The legal language lives in our Terms of Service under the Founding Member Program section.
Yes. Your customers pay you through Stripe, and the money lands in your own connected account. Card processing is a flat 3.5% + $0.30 per transaction: every card type, one rate, no monthly minimums, no surcharges.
It is built and running. The pipeline, scheduling, estimates, invoicing, payments, and texting and calling all work today. The core is stable and secure; this is a working product, not a preview.
What "beta" means here is that the roadmap is still moving fast, and founding members steer it: feature requests go straight to the founder, and we prioritize what real operators ask for. You are shaping the product, not waiting for it.
Home-service operators running 1 to 5 trucks: junk removal, moving, pressure washing, and 5 more trades with pre-configured setups. If you are quoting jobs, dispatching a small crew, and chasing invoices from your phone, this was built for you.
It replaces the spreadsheet-plus-texts-plus-paper system, or a bigger CRM that charges for every tech you add. It is not built for franchises or 20-truck enterprises, and we would rather tell you that now.
Two ways. First, one board runs the whole job: lead, quote, schedule, invoice, paid. When a quote is accepted the job is created. When the job is done the invoice exists. When it is paid, the review request goes out. You never drag a card or re-type a thing.
Second, the price is flat. Everything is in the one plan: texting, calling, the follow-up suite, every user up to 5. No add-ons, no per-tech fees, one number.
Yes. Service Anchor has distinct user roles and permissions. Field technicians see exactly what they need to do the job (schedules, job notes, addresses), and you can restrict them from seeing sensitive business data like total revenue, pricing, or admin settings.
Mobile carriers require a business Tax Identifier (EIN, or SSN for sole proprietors) for A2P 10DLC business registration before your texts can be delivered. There is no path around this at the carrier level, but we built the data flow to keep your Tax ID out of our systems.
You enter it once during texting setup. We forward it directly to the carrier registry and do not write it to our databases. Only the last four digits stay on your account so you can recognize which Tax ID is on file. The registration fees are on us. The full description is in our Privacy Policy under "Information you provide directly" and "Data retention."
Not a native app from an app store, and we are not going to promise you a date for one. What you have today installs to an iOS or Android home screen like an app, so your crew logs in from a phone or tablet browser to see schedules, update job statuses, and pull customer details with nothing to download.
Setup itself belongs on a computer. A tablet or computer is the office, where you set things up and run the operation, and your phone is the field.
Sign up from your phone, sure. Then set it up from your computer. Service Anchor works like your business does: a tablet or computer is the office, where you set up and run the operation, and your phone is the field, for calls, texts, and today's jobs. Give it about 10 minutes to start.
We want to build it. The roadmap during beta is driven by the people running on it. Tell us what you are missing and it goes straight to the founder, and we prioritize what real operators actually ask for.
Free for 14 days. Then $29 a month, locked for life, for the first 25, everything included: every feature, your business line, texting and calling. The next wave pays $49, the one after $59, and list is $79. The ladder only goes up.