What is the best appliance repair scheduling software for a small shop?

For one to five technicians, our first pick is Taskrol: calendar and map together, and van stock visible from the job, so the return visit is next business day. Smart Service publishes skill-based assignment and is built around QuickBooks; Housecall Pro carries route optimization on its top tier.

How long should the second visit take when a part is needed?

If the part is on the truck or shelf, the repair finishes on the first visit. Otherwise the install happens the next business day as a rule, or the same day if the technician can reach the supply house. Knowing your stock before he leaves makes it routine.

Which appliance repair software has route optimization?

Orcatec publishes AI route optimization; Housecall Pro carries it on its top tier; QuoteIQ on its Elite tier; Rossware meters it per use. In Taskrol the dispatcher plans and optimizes the route on the day's map, where the visits are pins numbered in schedule order with arrival times.

Which scheduling software assigns technicians by skill?

Smart Service publishes skill-based technician assignment. LayCor assigns by technician specialty and brand certification at the moment of booking. Housecall Pro dispatches to the closest technician. In Taskrol, technicians have a work schedule and a ZIP service area, and the dispatcher makes the skill call.

What happens to a job that is waiting on a part?

At Cactus it stays In Progress, the technician tracks his own part, and the return visit is booked for the next business day. ServiceTitan publishes technicians reserving stock, Rossware special orders from the field, MeraFix a “parts on the way” flow, ApplianceOps a Parts-to-Order list.

What arrival window do appliance repair shops give?

Three hours is the market norm; some shops give two. Cactus gives three, like almost everyone. In Taskrol the customer picks the window at booking, and the “On my way” text comes with the Voice & SMS add-on. Most vendor pages we read don't state a window.

How does a Taskrol technician know whether the part is on the truck?

He searches the part from the job. The search is driven by the appliance's model number, and the result shows what's already in his van, by cell, and in the warehouse, so he can book the return visit before he leaves the kitchen.

How are warranty callbacks scheduled?

On the calendar, exactly like any other job. In Taskrol the warranty return is booked from the completed job and linked to it, and it stays out of the revenue statistics, so a free return trip leaves the margin numbers alone.

Why is Taskrol ranked first?

We rank for an appliance repair shop, on the job that waits on a part. In Taskrol the technician sees his van stock by cell from the job, and a job whose part arrived waits under Ready to install. It is our product, so the ranking is ours.

Buyer’s guide

Best Appliance Repair Scheduling Software in 2026: 14 Tools, Judged on the Second Visit

By the Taskrol team at Kereon Inc. Last reviewed October 15, 2026. Each vendor carries the date its own pages were read, at the bottom.

The short answer

For an appliance repair shop, our first pick is Taskrol: a booking lands on the calendar and the map together, the van stock is visible from the job before the technician leaves the kitchen, and a job whose part has arrived waits under Ready to install. Taskrol is our product, so the ranking is ours. For ten or more technicians, ServiceTitan: dispatching and capacity planning are first-class, and technicians can check stock and reserve materials from the field, which is what closes the second visit. For a warranty-heavy shop with a Windows back office, Rossware (ServiceDesk). Housecall Pro has the best dispatch surface of the generalists but publishes nothing about the job that waits on a part. Smart Service and LayCor publish skill-based assignment.

Taskrol is our product, so this page is not neutral; read it the way you'd read any vendor's ranking. We rank Taskrol first for an appliance repair shop, its entry says why, and every other product gets something named that it does well. The first-hand material comes from Cactus Appliance, an appliance repair company in Orange County, California, that runs on Taskrol every day and needs a part on close to every call.

Our first roundup judged the whole category on where the appliance record lives. This one asks a scheduling question, and it turns out to be a different question from the one the vendors answer on their scheduling pages.

Same rules as before. Facts about other vendors come from their own pages, read on the date next to each name. No prices, because a price goes stale inside a quarter. Where a vendor's pages say nothing about something, the table says “Not published,” and that is all it means. It's not a missing feature. It's a question for the demo.

The test: what happens to the job that's waiting on a part?

Every scheduling product in this category is sold on filling the calendar. Online booking, reminders, drag-and-drop, drive time. That's the first visit, and every product on this list does it well enough that it won't be the reason you pick one.

In appliance repair the first visit is often not the whole job. A part is needed on close to every call. The technician diagnoses, the customer approves the estimate, and if the part isn't on the truck, the job goes to In Progress and waits. It doesn't close and it doesn't get a new record. It sits there until the part lands.

Here is how that runs at Cactus. If the part is on the truck or on the shelf, the repair finishes on the first visit. Sometimes, depending on the schedule, the technician drives to the supply house and installs it the same day. As a rule, the install happens the next business day.

Next business day is the number this whole article turns on. It's achievable because the shop knows what stock it owns before the technician leaves the customer's kitchen. He searches the part on the job, sees whether it's in his van or in the warehouse, and books the return visit while he's still standing there. The scheduling question turned into an inventory question the moment the part became the thing the calendar was waiting for.

Taskrol mobile Map for Cactus Appliance: two numbered job pins in Anaheim and Irvine on a Google map, and below it today's list filtered by status, with an Oven job marked In Progress for a 4:00 to 7:00 PM window in Orange, CA and a Refrigerator job marked Completed in Irvine. — The job that's waiting on a part stays on the same board as everything else, marked In Progress, with its window and its ZIP. It never leaves the technician's day.Click image to enlarge

Nobody loses these jobs. Everyone in this trade runs a CRM and everyone tracks the open job; when it goes wrong, a person made a mistake, not the system. So this is not a scare story about forgotten work. The tracking is solved. What varies between shops, and between products, is the speed: how fast the part gets found, and how fast the job gets from In Progress back onto the calendar.

That's the test. Not whether it schedules. They all schedule. What does the product do with the job while it waits for a part, and how many screens does it take to put that job back on the calendar once the part is in hand?

There's a second question, and it decides who gets the first visit. At Cactus, assignment is skill first and geography second. If two technicians can both do the work, the closer one goes. But some jobs only certain technicians can do. Compressor brazing. Sealed-system work. Send the nearest technician to a sealed-system job and you've bought a second truck roll. Most dispatch marketing is about drive time, so the table has a column for what each product says it assigns by.

Appliance repair scheduling software at a glance

Shape, not prices. “Not published” means the pages we read don’t mention it; it doesn’t mean the feature doesn’t exist.

Product	Booking and dispatch	Assignment by	Arrival window and texts	Route optimization	The waiting job	Runs on
1. Taskrol	Online booking, the AI Agent, or a Quick Job lands on the calendar and the map together; office reschedules on web	The dispatcher picks; each technician has a work schedule and a ZIP service area	Customer picks the arrival window at booking; “On my way” text with the Voice & SMS add-on	The dispatcher plans and optimizes the route on the day's map: visits are pins numbered in schedule order with arrival times	Stays In Progress; parts search shows the van cell and the warehouse; shopping list; Ready to install queue once the part arrives	Web, iOS, Android
2. ServiceTitan	Dispatching and Capacity Planning, first-class on the appliance page	Not published beyond capacity planning	Not published	Not published on the pages read	Technicians check stock and reserve or request materials; per-location replenishment	Web, iOS, Android
3. Rossware (ServiceDesk)	DispatchLinks creates jobs from twelve warranty networks; dispatch board not published	Not published	Not published	Yes, metered per use	Special orders raised from the field against per-truck and stock-room stock	Windows desktop; hosted Windows Server; tech app on iOS and Android
4. Housecall Pro	Online booking; dispatch to the closest technician	Closest technician	Reminders; arrival window not described	Yes, top tier only	Not published; flat-rate price book, no stock described	Web, iOS, Android
5. MeraFix	Dispatch calendar; 24/7 AI receptionist and call tracking feed it	Not published	Two-way SMS; arrival window not described	Not published	“Parts on the way” return-visit flow	Web; native iOS technician app
6. ApplianceOps	Home-warranty dispatch emails parsed into work orders; dispatch board not published	Not published	Not published	Not published	Open invoices roll up into a Parts-to-Order list; purchase orders; stock ledger	Browser, Android app, iOS as web app; full offline
7. Smart Service	Inventory visibility before dispatch; dispatch board not published	Skill-based technician assignment	Not published	Not published	Inventory visibility before dispatch; depth not published	Cloud or Windows desktop; iFleet app on iOS and Android
8. Jobber	Client Hub, where customers see appointments; dispatch board not published	Not published	Client Hub shows the appointment; window and texts not described	Not published	Not published; no parts or inventory described	Web, iOS, Android
9. Workiz	Built-in phone system; Genius AI Answering books callers 24/7; Angi, Thumbtack, and LSA wired in	Not published	Calls, texts, and emails in one dashboard; window not described	Not published	Purchase-order tracking for back-ordered parts; inventory and POs on the top tier	Web, iOS, Android
10. LayCor	Booking page where the customer picks appliance type and brand; dispatch from the booking	Technician specialty and brand certification, at the moment of booking	Not published	Not published	Parts tracked per truck; nothing on the wait	Browser-based mobile, no app-store install
11. Service Fusion	Scheduling and a customer web-booking portal	Not published	Pre-job texts; window not described	Not published; GPS fleet tracking is an add-on	Not published; inventory arrives on the middle tier	Web, iOS, Android
12. Orcatec	Dispatching and scheduling, on the free version	Not published	Not published	AI route optimization published; which plan carries it isn't stated	Spare-parts inventory and a supplies order named; nothing on the wait	Web, iOS, Android
13. ServiceM8	Not published; free plan with one user and a monthly job cap	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published; no parts or inventory described	iOS first; Android (most features)
14. QuoteIQ	InstaSchedule booking where the customer picks appliance type; Virtual Call Team captures the call	Not published	Not published	Yes, on the Elite tier and up	Parts logged to the job for costing; inventory on upper tiers; nothing on the wait	Web, iOS, Android

How we judged them

Two products are first-hand: Housecall Pro, which Cactus ran on for years, and Taskrol, which it runs on now. Everything else is read from the vendor's own pages on the date shown and labeled that way, Workiz included: Cactus used it too, but its entry is judged on its pages. Where a vendor's pages say nothing about arrival windows, or assignment, or the waiting job, the cell says “Not published.” It means we didn't find it. It doesn't mean the product can't do it, and you should ask in the demo.

The order is our judgment, not a score: which product we would put in front of an appliance repair shop first, weighted by the second visit first, assignment second, and the first-visit surface third. On that weighting we put Taskrol first. It is our product, so its entry gives the reasons, and the test at the end of this page lets you check them in any demo. The order of the other products differs from the first roundup for the same reason. A product can be a poor home for the appliance record and still be a strong dispatcher, and the reverse.

Best appliance repair scheduling software: 14 tools, ranked

1. Taskrol

Our product · First-hand · pages read September 1, 2026

Here is what Taskrol does with the first visit, and then with the job that waits on a part.

A job arrives from online booking, from the AI Agent answering a call the shop missed, or as a Quick Job, and lands on the calendar and on the map at the same time. The dispatcher picks the technician. Each one has a work schedule and a service area by ZIP, which is what online booking and the AI Agent offer times from, and the job shows in his list and calendar right away, with a reminder push before the visit. The technician sees his day on the phone with the schedule and the map on one screen. Office staff reschedule from the web by dragging the card. The customer picks an arrival window at booking, and with the Voice & SMS add-on gets an “On my way” text when the technician heads out.

The part is why we rank it first. When a technician on a job searches the part, the result shows what's already in his van, by cell, and what's in the shared warehouse. If it's there, the job finishes today. If it isn't, the part goes on the shopping list and the job stays In Progress on the same board. When the part arrives, the technician switches on Parts received and the job shows under Ready to install, and the return visit is dragged onto a technician's day, as a rule the next business day.

Taskrol web Overview for Thursday, August 6, 2026: a company calendar with Unassigned, John Smith, and Max Rich columns, an off block on John Smith's morning, job cards showing appliance, city, ZIP, and job number, and a jobs list on the left filtered by status with New, In Progress, Warranty, Completed, and Cancelled chips. — The company day on the web. The In Progress and Warranty filters on the left are how a waiting job and a callback stay visible without leaving the board.

Where the appliance lives: On the job and in the customer's history; the appliance record is the first roundup's subject and we won't repeat it. What it does to the schedule: the model number drives the parts search, the search shows the van cell and the warehouse, so the technician knows before he leaves the kitchen whether today is the last visit. A warranty callback goes on the calendar like any other job. It's linked to the original job and kept out of the revenue statistics, and that is the one thing about callbacks that's different here.
Where it is strong: The map and the calendar on one screen, with the van stock a tap away from the job, so the return visit gets booked from the customer's kitchen with the part already located. The callback linked to its original job and kept out of the revenue numbers. None of the vendor pages we read describe the map, the calendar and the technician's own van stock as one workflow; ask each demo to show all three on one job.
Pricing shape: Solo $0 forever (1 technician), Basic $29/month (1 user), Pro $129/month (3 users), each extra user $29/month; 7 days of Pro for every new account, no card. Solo covers one company with unlimited jobs. From Basic, subcontractors are unlimited, each on his own Taskrol account, and AI invoice drafting is included. Paid add-ons: Voice & SMS with unlimited texts, AI Agent minute packs, and automatic ETA & tax rate. The shared warehouse and the company-wide shopping list are Pro; a personal shopping list is on Solo. Taskrol pricing →
For: A retail and COD appliance shop where a part is needed on most calls and the return visit has to happen the next business day.

Why first: this page ranks scheduling software for an appliance repair shop by the job that waits on a part, and we rank Taskrol first because it is built around that job. The technician searches the part from the job by the appliance's model number and sees his own van, by cell, and the warehouse before he leaves the kitchen, and that's what makes next business day routine rather than lucky. When the part arrives, the job waits under Ready to install until the return visit is dragged onto a technician's day. A booking lands on the calendar and the map together, on web, iOS, and Android. Van and warehouse stock is on every plan, the free one included, and the prices are published. Taskrol is our product, so this is our ranking. ServiceTitan and Rossware come next: ServiceTitan publishes a technician reserving stock from the field, and Rossware publishes a special order from the field and a metered router.

2. ServiceTitan

Documentation-based · pages read September 1, 2026

ServiceTitan's appliance page leads with Capacity Planning and Dispatching as first-class features, next to Pricebook, Timesheets, Custom Forms, Service Agreements, Job Histories, and Purchasing & Inventory. It's priced per technician, sold by quote through a demo, and built for a business with an office. 100,000+ trade professionals, they say.

It's second here because it publishes both halves of this article's test. The dispatch half is obvious. The second-visit half is the inventory: multiple locations across trucks and warehouses, and technicians who can check stock and reserve or request materials from the field. That is the mechanism that gets a job from In Progress back onto the calendar without a phone call to the office.

Where the appliance lives: In job histories and equipment records. For scheduling, the part matters more than the record: stock lives in per-location lists across trucks and warehouses with automatic replenishment, purchase orders, transfers between locations, and barcode receiving, and a technician can reserve a part against a job while he's still at the customer's house.
Where it is strong: Capacity planning for a real office, and a technician who can reserve or request materials from the field against multi-location stock, as a reservation or a request that a purchasing person acts on. Purchase orders, vendor returns, transfers, and QuickBooks Desktop Premier and Enterprise on top.
Watch for: Three packages, Starter, Essentials, and The Works, with mobile estimates above Starter and advanced reporting, commission tracking, and memberships on the top one, plus Pro products layered above that. Route optimization isn't on the appliance page we read, so ask which package carries it. For a two- or three-tech shop the per-technician price and the implementation buy capacity you'll never use.
Pricing shape: Per technician, quote only, three packages plus Pro add-ons. Their pricing page →
Published prices: Starter, Essentials and The Works each say “Request Pricing”; pricing is per technician (ServiceTitan’s pricing page, read October 15, 2026).
For: Ten-plus technicians, a dispatcher who plans capacity, and a warehouse someone owns.

3. Rossware (ServiceDesk)

Documentation-based · pages read September 1, 2026

Rossware is the incumbent. ServiceDesk was designed by an appliance repair company owner, the site claims 30+ years, and the copyright line now reads Fullsteam Software Holdings, which points to a change of ownership worth asking about before you sign. The core is a Windows desktop application, by their own FAQ, hosted on a Windows Server they'll rent you if you want it from anywhere. The technician app runs on iOS and Android.

On this article's test it publishes the right answer. A technician can raise a special order from the field, and stock is kept per truck and per stock room with minimum quantities. That is the waiting job handled the way this trade handles it: the part gets ordered from the kitchen, against what the shop already owns. Route optimization is published too, metered per use.

Where the appliance lives: In the job history and the inventory, keyed to machine type and make. For the second visit, what matters is that the part on the truck, the part in the stock room, and the special order raised from the field all live in one system, and that a warranty dispatch arriving from one of twelve named networks becomes a job automatically with status pushed back.
Where it is strong: Warranty dispatch: twelve named networks through DispatchLinks, jobs created automatically when a dispatch lands, status pushed back. A metered route optimizer. Thirty years of this trade's edge cases in the workflow. And special orders a technician raises from the field as a purchasing document.
Watch for: The dispatch board, arrival windows, assignment rules, and customer texts aren't described on the pages we read, so ask to see the day run end to end. The technician app, DispatchLinks, SD-CyberOffice, SD-Dealer, SmartParts, and hosting are separately priced add-ons, route optimization is metered per use, and there's no direct QuickBooks integration, exports only.
Pricing shape: Flat monthly core, per-user technician app, itemized add-ons, route optimization metered per use. Their pricing page →
Published prices: ServiceDesk core $199 a month, flat; add-ons priced separately: SD-Mobile $32 per user, SmartParts $35, DispatchLinks $29, RevenueBuilder $49 and Dealer $49 a month (Rossware’s pricing page, read October 15, 2026).
For: A warranty-heavy shop dispatched through the networks, with a Windows back office and someone who owns the configuration.

4. Housecall Pro

First-hand · pages read October 15, 2026

Cactus Appliance ran on Housecall Pro for years before moving to Taskrol, so this one is first-hand. Apart from a look at its current app in September 2026, the documentation is what we're judging today. It has the strongest dispatch surface of any generalist here for a small shop: online booking, dispatch to the closest technician, reminders, and route optimization on the top tier, alongside a full marketing suite.

On the test it's silent. The appliance page mentions inventory only in one line about tracking parts and inventory and describes no stock by truck or warehouse, and nothing on the pages we read says what happens to a job that's waiting on a part. That is not the same as saying it can't be done. It means it isn't what the product is sold on.

Where the appliance lives: In Property Profiles, an opt-in app under My Apps that records item type, make, model, serial, and install date per address. From the documentation, the record doesn't connect to parts or stock, and beyond one line about tracking parts and inventory the appliance page describes a flat-rate price book. So the pages we read say nothing about the job that waits for a part.
Where it is strong: Dispatch to the closest technician and route optimization on the top tier. Online booking, reminders, review management, marketing campaigns, a website product, Instapay deposits, and a published card-processing rate. If the phone isn't ringing, it sells a full set of tools for that.
Watch for: Route optimization, recurring service plans, and API access sit on the top tier, and GPS is an add-on, so the dispatch you saw in the demo may be two tiers up from the one you're quoted. Basic includes one user; Essentials and Max include a block of seats with additional users billed monthly, so count your dispatcher. From Cactus's years on it, simple things took too many operations: opening a job, creating a customer. That may have changed since. And nothing on the pages we read says what happens to the job waiting on a part.
Pricing shape: Three tiers with seats included, extra seats billed, many add-ons, 14-day trial without a card. Their pricing page →
Published prices: Basic $79 a month or $59 billed annually, 1 user; Essentials $189 a month or $149 billed annually, 5 users; Max $329 a month or $299 billed annually, 8 users; $35 a month per additional user (Housecall Pro’s pricing page, read October 15, 2026).
For: A multi-trade home-service business where the first visit is most of the job and the router matters more than the stock.

5. MeraFix

Documentation-based · pages read September 1, 2026

MeraFix is “all-in-one for appliance repair” and means it literally: the CRM, the dispatch calendar, a native iOS technician app, invoicing through Stripe, a branded website with “150+ local SEO pages,” Google Ads tracked “down to the PAID job,” call tracking, two-way SMS, review requests, and a 24/7 AI receptionist, on one bill. MeraFlow LLC, Fort Mill, South Carolina; they say it's running live in US repair shops.

It's fifth because it's the one competitor that states this article's thesis on its own home page. There is a “parts on the way” return-visit flow. A vendor that writes that down understands that the job doesn't end on the first visit. What the pages don't describe is stock, so we can't tell you whether the flow knows what the shop already owns. Ask.

Where the appliance lives: With the customer, as repair history and warranties, per the home page. For the second visit, the published piece is the “parts on the way” return flow with parts cost tracking hidden from the customer. Nothing on the pages describes truck or warehouse stock, so where the part comes from is a question for the demo rather than a fact we can print.
Where it is strong: Customer acquisition as part of the product: the website, the local pages, and the ads tracked to the paid job, with the AI receptionist on the same bill. White-glove setup included. And a return-visit flow with a name.
Watch for: QuickBooks Online sync is listed as “coming soon.” The technician app is iOS only. Assignment rules, arrival windows, and route optimization aren't described on the pages we read. The technician-count bands start at a level that assumes marketing is part of what you're buying, and the website and local pages are rented, so ask in writing what ports out.
Pricing shape: Flat monthly by technician band (1–3, 4–7, 8–12, custom), everything bundled, AI minutes vary by band, managed Google Ads as an add-on, month-to-month, CSV export anytime. Their pricing page →
Published prices: Starter (1–3 techs) $399, Team (4–7) $599, Shop (8–12) $899 a month, or $100 a month less billed yearly; a bundle with the AI receptionist and website (MeraFix’s pricing page, read October 15, 2026).
For: A shop whose real problem is the phone not ringing, and that wants the return visit to be a named flow rather than a note.

6. ApplianceOps

Documentation-based · pages read September 1, 2026

“The CRM built only for appliance repair,” by a technician with nearly two decades in the trade, aimed at a one-man operation up to a five-person store with a parts counter. The pages we read don't describe a dispatch board, an assignment rule, or an arrival window. What they do describe is the second visit, and they describe it properly.

Every open invoice rolls up into a Parts-to-Order list, parts run through an append-only stock ledger, and purchase orders are there. And the whole app works offline, which matters more for scheduling than it sounds: the schedule gets read in the basement where the machine is, not in the driveway after the technician walks out for a signal.

Where the appliance lives: On the invoice, one block per machine, with a service history per machine. For the waiting job, the published mechanism is the roll-up: an open invoice with a part on it lands on the Parts-to-Order list, the part is bought on a purchase order, and margin is tracked when the invoice closes.
Where it is strong: Full offline work: invoicing, payment capture, and signatures with zero bars. Home-warranty dispatch emails from AHS, First American, Choice, and ServicePower parsed into work orders, with split billing. A Parts-to-Order list that works as a purchasing document, and a QuickBooks Online sync, nightly.
Watch for: The field app is Android from Google Play, or a browser install on anything else, with no native iOS app. Dispatch board, assignment, arrival windows, customer texts, and routing aren't on the pages we read, so the first-visit half of this article is a demo question. It's a small team by its own description, and we found no independent reviews on their pages. We haven't run it.
Pricing shape: A base price plus a per-seat charge, capped for a five-person shop, then per seat beyond; every feature on every plan; phone system as a separate add-on; no cut of card payments. Their pricing page →
Published prices: $35 a month for the first seat and $10 for each seat up to five ($75 for five); AI Dispatch add-on $65 (1–2 techs) or $95 (3–5 techs) a month (ApplianceOps’s pricing page, read October 15, 2026).
For: A one-to-five-tech shop doing home-warranty work whose technicians read the schedule in basements.

7. Smart Service

Documentation-based · pages read September 1, 2026

Smart Service calls itself a QuickBooks add-on rather than an integration, “built around QuickBooks, not bolted onto it,” with a cloud version that works with QuickBooks Online or Desktop and a desktop version that installs beside QuickBooks Desktop. iFleet is the technician app, on iOS and Android.

It's here, above the generalists, for two lines on its appliance page: skill-based technician assignment, and parts inventory visibility before dispatch. Those two lines are exactly what Cactus dispatches on. Skill first, so the sealed-system job goes to the technician who can braze. Stock second, so the dispatcher knows whether the job can finish today before the truck leaves. We can't tell you how deep either goes, because the page doesn't say, and we'd want to see both run on one job in a demo.

Where the appliance lives: Per unit, properly: make, model, and serial per washer, dryer, refrigerator, range, and dishwasher, with service history, warranty status, parts usage, fault codes, and model-plate photos captured at the job. For scheduling, the useful sentence is inventory visibility before dispatch. How the waiting job is handled once the part is ordered isn't published.
Where it is strong: Skill-based technician assignment, published as a feature. Inventory visibility before dispatch, stated as a dispatch feature. And the accounting seat: if your bookkeeper's whole world is QuickBooks Desktop, this is built for that person.
Watch for: Pricing is quote-based, and the quote bundles onboarding and data conversion with support renewed annually, so you can't size it from the website. Arrival windows, customer texts, route optimization, and the dispatch board aren't described on the pages we read. Skill-based assignment and inventory before dispatch are single sentences; make the demo show both on one job.
Pricing shape: Quote-based subscription, Standard or Enterprise, annual discount, onboarding included; a desktop license option exists. Their pricing page →
Published prices: From $129.99 per user a month with a 3-user minimum; the final price is a written quote (Smart Service’s pricing page, read October 15, 2026).
For: A shop that dispatches on skill and on stock, whose books already live in QuickBooks.

8. Jobber

Documentation-based · pages read October 15, 2026

Jobber is the best-reviewed app in this category by its own numbers, a 4.8 App Store rating across nearly 14,000 reviews on the appliance page, and it's famously easy to live in. Hiring a dispatcher who already knows it is easy, which is a scheduling feature nobody prints.

On the appliance page, the specifics this article asks about aren't there: we found no assignment rule, no arrival window, no router, and nothing about a job waiting on a part. What is there is Client Hub, the portal where the customer sees the appointment, approves the quote, and pays without calling you. That is the customer half of scheduling, done properly.

Where the appliance lives: In custom fields on clients, properties, quotes, jobs, and invoices, text, number, dropdown, true/false, or area, on Connect and above, with no equipment module. The appliance page describes no parts or inventory, and stock comes from third-party apps in its App Marketplace, so in Jobber itself the waiting job has no published mechanism beyond the job record. That's not a criticism of the calendar. It's where the calendar stops.
Where it is strong: Client Hub, the 24/7 portal where customers approve quotes, see appointments, and pay. Quotes with optional line items the customer picks from. A QuickBooks Online sync on the Connect tier and up. And the sheer number of people who've already learned it.
Watch for: Users follow team size, not tier: Core, Connect, and Grow come for one user, Connect, Grow, and Plus for teams of five, ten, or fifteen, and additional users are billed monthly. Job costing sits on Grow. The AI receptionist and marketing suite are included on Plus and add-ons below it. The appliance is a custom field from Connect up, and Jobber's own pages describe nothing about parts, so bring your own answer to the second-visit question and ask them for theirs.
Pricing shape: Four tiers priced by team size, one user or five, ten, or fifteen, extra users billed, annual discount, 14-day trial of Grow with no card. Their pricing page →
Published prices: One user: Core $49 a month or $29 billed annually; a team with 5 users: Connect $199 ($149), Grow $299 ($229), Plus $499 ($399) (Jobber’s pricing page, read October 15, 2026).
For: A small team that wants the smoothest customer experience on the first visit and doesn't need the system to know the part.

9. Workiz

Documentation-based · pages read October 15, 2026

Workiz's appliance page is about the phone: a built-in system with calls, texts, and emails in one dashboard, every call recorded, summarized, and searchable, Genius AI Answering that books emergency callers 24/7, and a line that says it's “fully integrated with Angi, Thumbtack, and Google's Local Services Ads.” 120,000+ pros, they say. Dispatch here starts with the ring.

On the second visit it publishes one specific thing: purchase-order tracking for back-ordered parts. That's the waiting job with a document attached, which is more than most generalists say. The catch is the tier. Inventory, purchase orders, and Equipment Tracking all sit on Ultimate, so on the lower tiers the pages describe none of them.

Where the appliance lives: On the Ultimate tier only, in Equipment Tracking, which reads the serial number, model, and make from a photo of the label and logs every repair, part, and visit against the unit; the appliance page itself doesn't mention make, model, or serial. For the waiting job the published mechanism is purchase-order tracking for back-ordered parts, and inventory that tracks which parts are in stock and what's running low, both on the Ultimate tier. Below that tier the pages describe the phone and the leads, not the part.
Where it is strong: Lead-source integrations: if Angi and Thumbtack are where your jobs come from, Workiz wires them in. Purchase-order tracking for back-ordered parts. QuickBooks sync on every tier.
Watch for: The appliance-relevant modules, inventory, purchase orders, and Equipment Tracking, are top-tier; custom reports start at Pro; Genius Phone, Answering, and Marketing are add-ons. Assignment rules, arrival windows, and routing aren't on the appliance page we read. The trial is seven days, which is not enough to watch one part come back and get installed.
Pricing shape: Standard, Pro, Ultimate; feature-gated; add-on Genius products; seven-day trial. Their pricing page →
Published prices: Every plan — Standard, Pro and Ultimate — says “Request pricing”; the trial is 7 days with no credit card (Workiz’s pricing page, read October 15, 2026).
For: A shop that lives on marketplace leads and wants the phone inside the CRM, on the tier that includes the parts.

10. LayCor

Documentation-based · pages read September 1, 2026

LayCor is a booking-and-scheduling platform for service businesses generally, 60+ industry solutions from HVAC to lawn care, with an appliance repair solution page on top. Flat monthly plans with unlimited team members, browser-based mobile with no app-store install, QuickBooks Online sync, a 14-day trial, and a 30-day money-back window.

It publishes a direct answer to the assignment question. At booking, the customer picks the appliance type and the brand, and dispatch can assign by technician specialty and brand certification right there. That is skill first, geography second, written into the product. It's tenth rather than higher because it's a general booking platform with an appliance template, and the pages say nothing about the job waiting on a part beyond parts tracked per truck.

Where the appliance lives: With the property: brand, model, service history, and warranty status captured at booking, when the customer picks appliance type and brand. Parts are tracked per truck. That's enough to route the sealed-system job to the technician certified for the brand; what happens after he orders the part isn't described.
Where it is strong: Dispatch by technician specialty and brand certification at the moment of booking: skill-first assignment built into the product. Unlimited team members at a flat price, and a booking page that carries the brand straight into the assignment.
Watch for: The outcome numbers on the page, “35% more bookings in month one” and “cut admin time by 60%+,” are claims we can't check any more than you can. The appliance layer is a template on a general product. Arrival windows, customer texts, routing, and the waiting job aren't described on the pages we read, so ask to see one job go from booking through a back-ordered part before the booking widget wins you over.
Pricing shape: Flat, unlimited users, add-ons, trial, money-back window. Their pricing page →
Published prices: Starter $49 and Professional $99 a month with unlimited users; dispatch, QuickBooks sync and SMS are paid add-ons (LayCor’s pricing page, read October 15, 2026).
For: A small crew that wants the brand-certified technician chosen at booking, and a branded booking page that works at midnight.

11. Service Fusion

Documentation-based · pages read September 1, 2026

Service Fusion's pitch is the seat count: “no per-user fees means your costs stay the same even as your business grows.” The appliance page covers scheduling, estimates, a customer web-booking portal, pre-job texts, eSignature, and payments, with GPS fleet tracking and ServiceCall.ai, which is call recording, transcription, and routing, as add-ons.

Pre-job texts and a web-booking portal are a decent first visit. The second visit isn't on the page. Inventory management arrives on the Plus tier, and nothing we read says what the product does with a job that's waiting on a part, so it's here on the strength of the office it's built for: flat price, unlimited users, dispatchers who outnumber technicians.

Where the appliance lives: Not on the appliance page, which has no make, model, or serial and no parts. Equipment tracking appears elsewhere in their feature marketing, and we couldn't find what a record holds. Inventory and job costing arrive on Plus, and the waiting job isn't described, so ask the demo to show a back-ordered part from estimate to install.
Where it is strong: Unlimited users at a flat price, so three technicians and two office people pay the same as three technicians alone. Bi-directional QuickBooks sync of customers, products, services, deposits, invoices, and payments. Pre-job texts and a customer web-booking portal, with onboarding and unlimited phone support on every plan.
Watch for: The flat price is a flat price for a full office; for a two-tech shop it's a lot of seats you don't have. Assignment rules, arrival windows, routing, and the waiting job aren't described on the pages we read, and no free trial is mentioned, so the demo is the only way to see the second visit.
Pricing shape: Flat, unlimited users, three tiers, annual discount, add-ons for VoIP and GPS. Their pricing page →
Published prices: Starter $245, Plus $382 and Pro $627 a month, or $208, $325 and $533 a month billed annually; unlimited users on every plan (Service Fusion’s pricing page, read October 15, 2026).
For: An office-heavy shop where dispatchers outnumber technicians and the books live in QuickBooks.

12. Orcatec

Documentation-based · pages read September 1, 2026

Orcatec is “All-In-One Home Services Management Software” from Rancho Santa Fe, California, fifteen trades including appliance repair, with a free version. The appliance page describes custom data-entry forms, a spare-parts inventory, a supplies-order feature, QuickBooks Online, GPS, call recording, and AI route optimization.

It publishes an AI route optimizer and a free plan that includes dispatching and scheduling. Which plan carries the router, the pages we read don't say. The reason it's twelfth is the rest of the test: no assignment rule, no arrival window, and nothing about the waiting job on the pages we read, and a spare-parts inventory described in one phrase. The pricing page is a contact form.

Where the appliance lives: In a custom form on the job, with fields for problem description, model, and serial number. A step above a text note and a step below a record with history. The spare-parts inventory and the supplies order are named on the appliance page and not described further, so what the product does while a job waits for a part is a demo question.
Where it is strong: A free plan that adds GPS, call recording, commissions, and QuickBooks Online to dispatching and scheduling, and a published AI route optimizer.
Watch for: The pricing page is a contact form, and the site says you pay only for the features you pick, which is a reasonable model and an unknowable one until you ask. Which plan carries the route optimizer isn't stated on the pages we read. Assignment, arrival windows, and the waiting job aren't described.
Pricing shape: Free tier; paid pricing by request, modular. Their pricing page →
Published prices: The pricing address now opens a contact form; the site advertises a free version and prices paid options on request (Orcatec’s pricing page, read October 15, 2026).
For: A shop that wants a free scheduler and QuickBooks, will ask which plan the router is on, and will build the appliance record itself.

13. ServiceM8

Documentation-based · pages read September 1, 2026

ServiceM8 is built for “sole traders up to 20 staff,” Apple-first; the 2024 Android app was the cut-down ServiceM8 Lite, and by October 2026 ServiceM8 for Android had almost all of the iOS features, with diagrams, Room Scan and PDF filling still on iOS. Pricing is by job volume rather than seats: a free plan with one user and a monthly job cap, then paid plans with unlimited users and rising job limits. Xero, QuickBooks Online, and MYOB sync on every plan.

The pages we read are about the asset register and the accounting, not about dispatch. We found nothing on assignment, arrival windows, routing, or the job that waits on a part, and nothing on parts or inventory at all. That's why it's here. Not because the calendar is bad, which we can't judge, but because the vendor's own pages don't make a scheduling case an appliance shop can check.

Where the appliance lives: In Asset Management, an add-on from the Growing tier: asset type, location on site, custom fields, photos, a globally unique QR label you stick on the machine, and service reports from completed forms. It's designed around fire extinguishers and air conditioners on commercial sites, but it works as a per-unit record. Nothing on the pages describes parts, inventory, or the waiting job.
Where it is strong: The free tier for a one-person iPhone operation with job-volume pricing instead of seats, the QR-labeled asset register, and three accounting integrations, Xero, QuickBooks Online, and MYOB.
Watch for: An Android technician should try the app on that phone first, since a few tools, Room Scan and drawing diagrams among them, stay iOS-only. Job-volume pricing means a busy solo tech outgrows Free fast. On scheduling specifically, the pages we read publish none of the dispatch specifics this table asks about, so every cell is a demo question.
Pricing shape: Free tier; paid tiers by monthly job volume with unlimited users; asset management, forms, and job costing gated by tier. Their pricing page →
Published prices: Free: 1 user, 30 jobs a month; Starter $29 (50 jobs), Growing $79 (150), Premium $149 (500), Premium Plus $349 (1,500+) a month, unlimited users on paid plans (ServiceM8’s pricing page, read October 15, 2026).
For: A solo tech with an iPhone and an accountant on Xero, who'll judge the calendar in the trial rather than on the website.

14. QuoteIQ

Documentation-based · pages read September 1, 2026

QuoteIQ's appliance page ranked first for the broader appliance software query when we wrote the first roundup, so it belongs on this list too. It's a flat-priced CRM for “100+ trades,” appliance repair among them, with a 4.7 rating across 4,100+ reviews on the home page and an appliance page claiming it's “60–80% less expensive than Jobber or Housecall Pro.”

For scheduling it publishes InstaSchedule, where the customer picks an appliance type and books, a Virtual Call Team that captures appliance type, issue, and address from the call, and route optimization on the Elite tier. That's a first visit. Parts are logged to the job for costing, motors, boards, pumps, thermistors, with inventory on the upper tiers, and nothing we read says what happens to the job while the part is on order. It's last because the scheduling case is a booking widget and a router on the top tier, and the second visit isn't on the page.

Where the appliance lives: On the booking and the job: InstaSchedule has the customer pick an appliance type, the Virtual Call Team captures type, issue, and address, and job costing logs parts against the job and reports profit by appliance type. No make, model, or serial record is described. Inventory is an Elite-and-up feature, and the waiting job isn't described.
Where it is strong: The entry price and the growth tooling: Review Multiplier, mass campaigns, consumer financing through Affirm, Klarna, and Afterpay, an AI website builder, and route optimization on the top tier.
Watch for: QuickBooks and job costing start at Pro; inventory, pipelines, and route optimization at Elite, so the scheduling features that matter here are two tiers above the entry price. MapMeasure Pro, satellite property measurement, tells you which trades this was built for first. Assignment, arrival windows, and the waiting job aren't on the pages we read.
Pricing shape: Five flat tiers from one user to unlimited, feature-gated, 14-day trial, price-lock guarantee. Their pricing page →
Published prices: Essentials $29.99 (1 user), Beginner $99.99 (2), Pro $199.99 (4), Elite $299.99 (10), Max $699.99 (20) a month; $25 per added user (QuoteIQ’s pricing page, read October 15, 2026).
For: A one- or two-person shop where budget is the first filter and the router can wait for the top tier.

The second visit, step by step

Here's the sequence at Cactus on a job that needs a part, because the ranking above is really a ranking of how many of these steps a product publishes.

The technician diagnoses and the customer approves the estimate. The technician searches the part on the job. If it's in his van, he installs it and the job closes on the first visit. If it's on the shelf in the warehouse, or the supply house has it, sometimes he drives over and installs it the same day, depending on the schedule. If it isn't owned, it goes on the shopping list and gets ordered, and the job stays In Progress.

The technician tracks his own part. He knows what he ordered and he watches for it to arrive. When it lands, someone calls the customer. Who that is depends on the shop: a solo technician calls himself, a shop with an office has the operator do it, and at Cactus it goes both ways depending on the day. The return visit goes on the calendar, as a rule the next business day. In Taskrol a job whose part has arrived is marked Parts received and waits under Ready to install until the return visit is booked.

Taskrol Inventory on the phone for Cactus Appliance: a Stock tab showing 201 parts and 283 pieces on hand, a search box by part number with a camera icon, and a table of Bosch and Whirlpool parts with quantity, price, and a cell location such as A10, C2, H1, or STORAGE, with a Shopping List tab beside it. — What the technician sees from the job: the part, how many, and which cell of the van it's in. That lookup is the difference between a same-day close and a next-business-day return.Click image to enlarge

How the model number gets to the part, and why the generalists keep re-buying parts they already own, is the subject of the first roundup, and we won't repeat it here.

Taskrol web Inventory page: a stock table on the left with part number, description, quantity, price, and cell for each part on hand, and on the right a shopping list of ten items to buy, each with a part number and a quantity, filtered to My list. — The shopping list next to the stock. A part that isn't owned goes here, and the job it came from stays In Progress on the board until the part lands.Click image to enlarge

What we'd measure in any product is the same thing. With the part in hand, how many screens between In Progress and a slot on tomorrow's calendar, and does the technician need to call the office to get there.

Skill first, geography second

Some jobs only certain technicians can do. Compressor brazing. Sealed-system work. Those go to the person who can do them, and the map comes second: if two technicians can both do the work, the closer one goes.

That order matters because most dispatch marketing runs the other way. Closest technician, drive time, optimized routes. A router that orders the day by drive time and knows nothing about skill will send the nearest truck to the sealed-system job, and the shop pays for the second roll. Housecall Pro publishes dispatch to the closest technician. Orcatec, QuoteIQ, and Rossware publish a router. None of those pages say the router knows who can braze, and we'd ask.

Smart Service lists skill-based technician assignment. LayCor assigns by technician specialty and brand certification at the moment of booking. In Taskrol the dispatcher assigns the job: each technician has a work schedule and a ZIP service area, and at Cactus the skill call is made by a person who knows the crew.

With a handful of technicians, the dispatcher knows who can braze and where each truck is at four o'clock, and makes the skill call himself. For a crew too large for one person to know every technician's hands, Smart Service and LayCor publish assignment by skill.

Callbacks go on the calendar like any other job

A callback is warranty work: the shop repaired something, it broke again, the technician goes back. At Cactus they run around 3% of jobs. It goes on the calendar exactly like any other job, on the same board as the rest of the day.

The one thing that is different, and it's already published on our site, is that Taskrol links the callback to the original job and keeps it out of the revenue statistics, so a free trip doesn't drag the margin numbers down. That's a reporting fact, not a scheduling one, and we're stating it once.

We didn't find callback scheduling described as a separate flow on any vendor page we read, and we don't think it needs one. Put it on the board. The board is where the job is.

When a route optimizer pays for itself

Four products on this list publish a router. Orcatec publishes AI route optimization. Housecall Pro publishes it on the top tier. QuoteIQ publishes it on Elite. Rossware meters it per use.

For a handful of trucks in one county, a dispatcher's head beats a router, whichever product you run. In Taskrol the dispatcher plans and optimizes the route on the day's map: the visits are pins numbered in schedule order with an arrival time on each, and the dispatcher arranges the order and moves jobs between technicians and hours. Those four products publish a router, and a router earns its price once one person can no longer hold every truck's afternoon in one head, or on the day the shop crosses into a second county.

What a shop actually pays

The sticker price and what you pay are usually different numbers, and the difference has a shape. Seats are counted separately, and the office dispatcher is often a seat too. Reporting frequently sits one tier above where the advertised price sits. The technician app can be its own line. Phone, AI answering, and marketing are add-ons almost everywhere. Card processing is a percentage nobody puts in the headline.

So read each card’s published prices against the tier that holds the work, not the entry price. Where that work sits with the three products most shops compare, from their own pricing pages:

Housecall Pro. QuickBooks Online sync starts on Essentials: $189 a month ($149 billed annually) with 5 users. Route optimization, recurring service plans and the open API are on Max: $329 ($299 billed annually) with 8 users, then $35 per added user. AI call answering (CSR AI), Voice, Pipeline and Payroll are add-ons on top of any tier, with no price on the pricing page. (pricing page, read October 15, 2026)
Jobber. QuickBooks Online sync starts on Connect: $199 a month ($149 billed annually) for a team of 5. Job costing is on Grow: $299 ($229) for 5 users. Custom reports, the AI Receptionist, Pipeline and Marketing Suite come together on Plus: $499 ($399) for 5 users. Below Plus they are add-ons at $29, $49 and $99 a month. (pricing page, read October 15, 2026)
Workiz. Inventory management, equipment tracking and purchase orders are on Ultimate only, priced by request. Genius Answering, its AI answering, is sold separately from the plans, with no price on the page. (pricing page, read October 15, 2026)
Taskrol. Solo $0 forever (1 technician), Basic $29/month (1 user), Pro $129/month (3 users), each extra user $29/month; 7 days of Pro for every new account, no card. Basic already carries the reports, the accounting sync and the team tools: all reports, including margin and on-hand inventory, team roles and permissions, technician assignment, van and warehouse inventory, the QuickBooks Online sync, appliance manuals and AI invoices; Pro adds the shared company warehouse. Calls with recording, two-way texts and AI call answering are add-ons on any plan, free Solo included: Voice & SMS from $25 a month and AI Agent packs from $49 a month.

Here is our own number on a worked example: a shop with 3 technicians running about 150 jobs a month at an average ticket of $360 turns about $54,000 a month. Taskrol Pro costs $129 a month with 3 users included; each additional user is billed monthly. Card processing is 3.4% + $0.30 per successful card transaction. The phone is the separate Voice & SMS add-on, with unlimited SMS on every tier. The plan alone is 0.24% of revenue for the system the whole shop runs on. Hold every other product against that yardstick, because a tool that bills every seat from the first one lands somewhere very different.

Which one, for which shop

An appliance repair shop of one to five techs, retail and COD, a part on most calls, next-business-day return: Taskrol, our first pick. Solo is free; run a real week of parts jobs on it.
Ten-plus technicians, a dispatcher who plans capacity, a warehouse: ServiceTitan.
Warranty-heavy, Windows back office, special orders from the field: Rossware.
Multi-trade, the first visit is most of the job, you want the router: Housecall Pro, on the tier that carries route optimization.
The website, the ads, and the night phone on one bill, and the return visit as a named flow: MeraFix.
Home-warranty work, technicians reading the schedule in basements: ApplianceOps.
You dispatch on skill and on stock, and the books live in QuickBooks: Smart Service.
The smoothest customer half: portal, quotes, appointments: Jobber.
Marketplace leads and the phone inside the CRM: Workiz, on the tier with inventory and purchase orders.
The brand-certified technician chosen at booking: LayCor, after you've seen the parts side.
More office users than technicians: Service Fusion.
A free scheduler and a published router: Orcatec, once you've asked which plan the router is on.
One tech, an iPhone: Taskrol Solo, free with unlimited jobs (the one-way QuickBooks Online sync starts on Basic), or ServiceM8, with Xero sync on every plan.
Budget first, router on the top tier: QuoteIQ.

Whichever demo you sit through, run one test. Take a job that needed a part. Have the technician find out, from the job, whether the shop already owns it. Then say the part just landed, and count the screens and the phone calls it takes to get that job from In Progress back onto tomorrow's calendar with an arrival window. At Cactus the answer is next business day. If the demo can't show you the number, you've learned what you needed to.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best appliance repair scheduling software for a small shop?: For one to five technicians, our first pick is Taskrol: calendar and map together, and van stock visible from the job, so the return visit is next business day. Smart Service publishes skill-based assignment and is built around QuickBooks; Housecall Pro carries route optimization on its top tier.
How long should the second visit take when a part is needed?: If the part is on the truck or shelf, the repair finishes on the first visit. Otherwise the install happens the next business day as a rule, or the same day if the technician can reach the supply house. Knowing your stock before he leaves makes it routine.
Which appliance repair software has route optimization?: Orcatec publishes AI route optimization; Housecall Pro carries it on its top tier; QuoteIQ on its Elite tier; Rossware meters it per use. In Taskrol the dispatcher plans and optimizes the route on the day's map, where the visits are pins numbered in schedule order with arrival times.
Which scheduling software assigns technicians by skill?: Smart Service publishes skill-based technician assignment. LayCor assigns by technician specialty and brand certification at the moment of booking. Housecall Pro dispatches to the closest technician. In Taskrol, technicians have a work schedule and a ZIP service area, and the dispatcher makes the skill call.
What happens to a job that is waiting on a part?: At Cactus it stays In Progress, the technician tracks his own part, and the return visit is booked for the next business day. ServiceTitan publishes technicians reserving stock, Rossware special orders from the field, MeraFix a “parts on the way” flow, ApplianceOps a Parts-to-Order list.
What arrival window do appliance repair shops give?: Three hours is the market norm; some shops give two. Cactus gives three, like almost everyone. In Taskrol the customer picks the window at booking, and the “On my way” text comes with the Voice & SMS add-on. Most vendor pages we read don't state a window.
How does a Taskrol technician know whether the part is on the truck?: He searches the part from the job. The search is driven by the appliance's model number, and the result shows what's already in his van, by cell, and in the warehouse, so he can book the return visit before he leaves the kitchen.
How are warranty callbacks scheduled?: On the calendar, exactly like any other job. In Taskrol the warranty return is booked from the completed job and linked to it, and it stays out of the revenue statistics, so a free return trip leaves the margin numbers alone.
Why is Taskrol ranked first?: We rank for an appliance repair shop, on the job that waits on a part. In Taskrol the technician sees his van stock by cell from the job, and a job whose part arrived waits under Ready to install. It is our product, so the ranking is ours.

Sources and check dates

Every fact about another vendor above comes from these pages, read on the date shown. Re-check one vendor, update one line.

Vendor	Checked	Pages read
ServiceTitan	September 1, 2026	Appliance repair software · Pricing · Inventory software
Rossware	September 1, 2026	rossware.com · Pricing · Integrations · Overview
Housecall Pro	October 15, 2026	Appliance repair software · Pricing · Property Profiles · Help: Property Profile
MeraFix	September 1, 2026	merafix.com · Pricing
ApplianceOps	September 1, 2026	applianceops.pro · Pricing · Features
Smart Service	September 1, 2026	smartservice.com · Appliance repair software · Pricing
Jobber	October 15, 2026	Appliance repair software · Pricing · Help: Custom Fields · App Marketplace
Workiz	October 15, 2026	Appliance repair · Pricing · Equipment tracking · Phone system
LayCor	September 1, 2026	laycor.com · Appliance repair software
Service Fusion	September 1, 2026	Appliance repair software · Pricing · Field service management
Orcatec	September 1, 2026	orcatec.com · Appliance repair · Pricing
ServiceM8	September 1, 2026	servicem8.com · Pricing · Asset management
ServiceM8 for Android	October 4, 2026	Help: About the ServiceM8 Android app · Google Play listing
QuoteIQ	September 1, 2026	myquoteiq.com · Pricing · Appliance repair software

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