What dryer vent cleaning need from their software, from sources outside Housecall Pro and outside Nexa:
Housecall Pro covers the field-service basics a dryer vent business runs on: scheduling and dispatch, online booking, invoicing, online payments, 'On My Way' texts, vehicle GPS, a price book and a CSR AI that answers calls. Its listed photo reports and checklist automations are the closest match to documenting each job with photos. Its recurring service plans are the closest match to a yearly service-due date. Both sit on higher tiers than the $79 plan. Max is $329 a month billed monthly. Nothing in its feature list mentions tracking C-DET renewal dates, or fields for duct length, bends, termination type or inspector findings. You would have to fit those into checklists or notes and test that setup in the trial. The trial lasts 14 days, needs no credit card and includes full Max access.
Nexa covers quoting and invoicing, estimates that convert to invoices, recurring invoices, recurring jobs, a client pay portal that runs through your own Stripe account, a CRM, a booking page with intake forms, job costing, time tracking and bookkeeping. It also works offline. Recurring jobs and email reminders could support an annual service-due date, but those emails send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. A client record has no street-address field. It has no text messaging, GPS, route optimization or dispatch board, and no QuickBooks or Xero sync. It does not run payroll, and the payroll CSV only totals hours times rate. Nexa is software you own and run, with no hosted support or vendor-run onboarding. It has no built-in C-DET tracking or duct-run fields either.
Over three years, Housecall Pro at $79 a month is $948 a year, or $2,844. Nexa is $279 once, or 3 payments of $99. With the optional $4.99 monthly Cloud Sync it comes to $458.64 over the same period. A crew that relies on texts, dispatch, GPS or hosted support should stay with Housecall Pro, since Nexa has none of these. A solo or very small operator who works from one device, takes payment through their own Stripe account and doesn't need texting or routing could reasonably use Nexa for much less. Either way, keep C-DET dates and license and insurance details in a separate record, because neither tool has a place for them. Name the source and years for any fire statistic you quote to customers.
Our read for dryer vent cleaning: Stay with Housecall Pro if you dispatch crews or rely on texts, GPS or hosted support; only a solo, single-device operator who can live without those should consider Nexa.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Housecall Pro costs dryer vent cleaning $948/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 3.5 months it has cost less than Housecall Pro, and you own it after that. What it is not: hosted-for-you software with a support desk and a roadmap you can lobby. That is the trade, and the rest of this page is the detail behind it.
Nexa is $279 once, about $23 a month over its first year. Its Drain Guard reads your expenses (from a linked bank, an imported statement, or ones you type in), finds the charges that repeat, and adds them up by the month. Keep or Cut then walks you through them one at a time. Cancel $23 a month of charges you'd forgotten about and Nexa has paid for itself inside the first year, before you count the Housecall Pro bill you'd stop paying.
It depends on what you find and what you cancel, so we don't promise a number. In our demo data, Drain Guard finds 5 subscriptions adding up to $110.13 a month. That is sample data, not a customer's.
The verdict for dryer vent cleaning: Stay with Housecall Pro if the needs in our read above apply to you. If they don't, Nexa covers the core invoicing, scheduling and books for $279 once against $2,844 for Housecall Pro over three years.
Scheduling, job tracking, invoicing and client records are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot and carry their own booking link, with no per-appointment cut. The sections below price both routes honestly.
None of that is a software problem you can buy your way out of in one click — it is why the tool you pick matters more than what it costs. Housecall Pro solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $79/month — $948 a year, from Housecall Pro's own pricing page. Every figure below is that price, multiplied. Nothing is projected.
Nexa: $279 once (or 3 × $99). Over the same three years, that is $2,565 less.
If Housecall Pro raises its price, the three-year cost goes up; if it cuts it, the cost comes down. We don't guess which. Add-ons, extra seats and card-processing fees are not included, on either side.
| Feature | Housecall Pro | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✓ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | — | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | — | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $79/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $2,844 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for Housecall Pro come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as Housecall Pro lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from Housecall Pro's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
Housecall Pro is the better call if you need online booking for home services specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Housecall Pro describes itself as 'Tailored for teams of 1 to 100+' and aimed at home service pros across 50+ industries, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning, lawn care and pest control. (housecallpro.com)
What people outside Housecall Pro and outside Nexa say:
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Software doesn't do the actual work — it automates the business around it. And that part is the same for every dryer vent cleaning technician: find the work, manage it, bill for it, get paid. Each step has a tool — and the right single tool runs the whole loop, so the handoffs are automatic and you get back to the actual work. Tap a step to see what gets automated.
A lead, a call, a referral — and a quote or estimate that turns it into a booked job.
The part you actually get paid for — with the time, materials, add-ons, and tasks tracked as you go, not guessed at later.
The work becomes the invoice — the hours, the add-ons, the materials, the deposit credited — totaled and sent, instead of re-typed at 9pm.
Paid by card or link, the deposit credited, and what's overdue chased — without you doing it by hand.
You can stitch four separate subscriptions across these four steps, or run one tool that does the whole flow so a booking becomes a job becomes an invoice becomes a payment without re-typing. Either way the goal is the same: less time on the business of the business, more on the actual work. (Nexa is built to be the one — but the honest options for each step are above and below.)
This is the connection that makes the rest worth it. A dryer vent cleaning technician's job already holds the services, the hours, the add-ons, and the materials — so the invoice builds itself from the work instead of you re-typing it at 9pm. Toggle an add-on or nudge the hours and watch it recompute.
You didn't write this invoice — the job did.
Housecall Pro plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median Dryer Vent Cleaning Technician earns $38,000/year. At $948/year, Housecall Pro is a recurring slice of that — paid again every year, whether the year was good or not. Owning the same jobs outright is $279 once, and the slice stops.
Nexa is $279 once. Invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, accounting — all connected, built for dryer vent cleaning. You own it like you own your Rotary brush kit with flexible drill-driven rods.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small dryer vent cleaning business that owns its tools and is sick of renting software, Nexa replaces your whole stack for $279 once. If you're scaling past a handful of crews, a fleet platform may fit better — and we'd rather tell you that now than sell you the wrong thing.
Year-round construction in SoCal. Fire season (June-November) drives restoration demand. Drought impacts landscaping. Earthquake retrofitting is ongoing market.
Extreme summer heat drives HVAC demand. Hurricane risk on Gulf Coast. Year-round construction. Rapid population growth in DFW, Austin, Houston, San Antonio creates sustained demand. Freeze events (like 2021) create emergency plumbing/HVAC surge.
Hurricane season June-November creates massive restoration demand. Snowbird season November-March boosts service volume 30-40%. Year-round construction. Pool service is year-round industry. Pest control peaks in summer humidity.
Harsh winters in upstate, moderate in NYC. Construction limited in winter upstate. NYC market is enormous but hypercompetitive. Brownstone/pre-war building maintenance is specialized trade. NYC licensing is notoriously complex.
Scheduling, job tracking, invoicing and client records are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot and carry their own booking link, with no per-appointment cut. The sections below price both routes honestly.
First call is a homeowner whose dryer suddenly needs three cycles to dry a load and is hot to the touch, the classic sign of a packed vent and a genuine fire risk, so it's the priority. I pull the dryer out, find the flexible transition hose crushed flat behind it from being shoved against the wall, and that alone was choking the airflow. I run the rotary brush on the drill all the way through the duct to the exterior while the vacuum catches the lint at the dryer end, then I take an airflow reading to prove flow is restored. Up on the wall the vent hood flap was stuck shut with lint, so I clean and free it. Second stop is a townhouse with a long duct run up to a roof termination, the hard ones, so I work from both ends and send the camera through to confirm it's clear. After lunch a property manager wants a whole row of units done, an efficient stretch where I knock out unit after unit. One has a bird's nest packed in the exterior hood, so I clear it and add a guard. The last job is a routine residential maintenance clean. Before and after each one I run the anemometer so I can show the customer the numbers, because 'it dries faster now' is easy to dismiss but a measured airflow jump is proof, and I log every reading so next year's visit has a baseline.
Real dryer vent cleaning near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a dryer vent cleaning technician? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every dryer vent cleaning technician on Nexa →
The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
You paid for these once because good tools last. That's the bar your software should clear too — priced like a tool you own, $279 once, not a subscription that costs more than your kit every year.
We build a dryer vent cleaning technician's guide the same way every time, and we'd rather you trust it than take it on faith. Nexa is our product, so the test we hold ourselves to is simple: a tool only "wins" a job here when it genuinely does that job better for a dryer vent cleaning technician — and where something free, open-source, or buy-once does it better, we say so and link you to it. Where Nexa falls short (payroll is the honest example), we name the alternative outright.
Found something out of date? Prices change and we don't catch every move the day it happens. This guide is published and maintained by the Nexa team; if a figure here is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it — getting it right matters more to us than the sale.
For solo dryer vent cleaning and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. Housecall Pro may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
Housecall Pro has features like Online booking for home services and GPS tracking that some businesses rely on. For most solo dryer vent cleaning, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $79/month, Nexa pays for itself in 3.5 months. After that: $948 saved every year.
Yes. Nexa is $279 as a one-time payment, or 3 payments of $99 ($297 total). Either way it's a one-time purchase — no subscription, no recurring fees ever.
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