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).
Billing starts the day you finish onboarding (setup wizard complete and your first job on the board). There is no free period: at these prices, the first month is the trial, and your first 30 days are money-back, no questions asked. Applying costs nothing, and there is no card at the application step.
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.
"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 3.5% + $0.30 per transaction. That covers Stripe's processing and our 0.6%, and that 0.6% is part of how the subscription stays under $80. We would rather tell you where the margin is than hide it in add-ons.
Absolutely. "Beta" does not mean "broken." It means we are still actively adding features and refining the design based on user feedback. The core functions (scheduling, invoicing, customer management, texting, calling) are fully operational and secure.
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 yet. A dedicated mobile app is currently in development. In the meantime, the platform is fully mobile-responsive and installable as a web app on iOS or Android home screens. Your technicians can log in via their phone or tablet browser to access schedules, update job statuses, and view customer details without downloading anything.
We want to build it. The roadmap during beta is driven by you. Submit feature requests directly through the dashboard, and we prioritize updates based on what real operators actually need.
The first 25 businesses to finish onboarding keep $29 a month for life, 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.