QuoteIQ vs SmartCrew

Andrew Drish, founder
Published November 5, 2026. Updated November 5, 2026

QuoteIQ vs SmartCrew puts their name first. Same question. QuoteIQ is the home service CRM: quotes, invoices, getting paid. We are the dirt app: crews, machines, loads, job profit. Lawns and pressure washing, pick them. Excavators, pick us. Their price starts at $29.99 a month. Ours starts at $99/month. The other order is SmartCrew vs QuoteIQ.

QuoteIQ vs SmartCrew
Compared	QuoteIQ	SmartCrew
Who it is for	Home service contractors, from lawn care to house cleaning	Dirt and heavy civil crews of about 5 to 100
What the week is	Measure, quote, schedule, invoice, get paid	Clock in, run the iron, log the loads, read the profit
Price	From $29.99 a month for one user, up to $699.99 for 20	Starts at $99/month. Contact us for team pricing
Crew time	Time Tracker Pro and live GPS in EmployeeHub, Elite and up	GPS clock in with the job, the activity code, and the machine
Geo fencing and geofencing	Not listed on the pricing page checked November 2, 2026	Included with GPS clock in and live crew locations
Job cost	Starts on Pro	Daily profit against the budget you type in
Iron and loads	Its excavation roundup says crews and equipment can share a calendar. DOT inspections, a shop queue, and haul tickets are not on the pricing page	Hours, DOT and daily inspections, shop queue, haul tickets
Estimating	Estimates and invoices on the home service plans	Not included. Keep your takeoff tool

QuoteIQ price, plan gates, and home service description are from its pricing page, read November 2, 2026. The calendar line is from QuoteIQ's own excavation roundup, updated June 2026. SmartCrew starts at $99/month. Contact us for team pricing. Feature availability varies by plan. Fleet Management, Sales CRM, and Scheduling and Communications are Premium categories.

The short version

Names flipped. Same two products.
QuoteIQ publishes five plans. We publish a starting price only.
SmartCrew starts at $99/month. Contact us for team pricing.
QuoteIQ from $29.99 a month on its pricing page, November 2, 2026.
Clock-in is GPS-powered, with geofencing. We don't sell telematics.
The longer sourced writeup is the quoteiq alternative page.

SmartCrew projects board: total revenue, expenses and profit across jobs, a map of job locations and jobs grouped as accepted, in progress, on hold and completed

SmartCrew phone app home screen with a large Clock In button and the week's days

What QuoteIQ vs SmartCrew actually decides

The order of the names is the search. The products do not swap jobs when you type QuoteIQ first. QuoteIQ's pricing page calls it the all in one CRM built for home service contractors. Its industries page lists lawn care, pressure washing, house cleaning, and dozens of other service trades. That is a real product, and it is the right one for those routes.

SmartCrew is the other week. Andrew's family has been in the dirtwork business for over 75 years. They run about 20 to 30 people. Time tracking apps were too basic. Enterprise software was too complicated, confusing, and expensive. We built one phone app for that size of heavy civil company, from about 5 people up to about 100.

So the decision is the work, not the logo on the left. A driveway quote that gets paid by card is QuoteIQ's kind of job. A utility trench with two crews, a lowboy, and pit tickets is ours.

What QuoteIQ publishes

On November 2, 2026 the monthly cards were Essentials at $29.99 for 1 user, Beginner at $99.99 for 2, Pro at $199.99 for 4, Elite at $299.99 for 10, and Max at $699.99 for 20. Extra users were $25 a month each. Those are list prices. Promotions change. Read the pricing page before you buy.

GPS time tracking and team chat sit in EmployeeHub, which starts on Elite. Job costing and QuickBooks start on Pro. We did not find DOT inspections, a shop queue, or haul tickets on that pricing page. QuoteIQ's own excavation roundup, updated June 2026, says crews and equipment can share a calendar, and it pitches crews of 1 to 15. The article says QuoteIQ wrote the list. Some prices in that roundup do not match the pricing page, so this table uses the pricing page.

That published grid is a fair reason to pick QuoteIQ. You can see the number before a call. SmartCrew does not publish the other tiers. SmartCrew starts at $99/month. Contact us for team pricing.

What the field does in SmartCrew

The operator clocks in on the phone and picks the project, the activity code, and the machine. Log and Switch covers a hop from the excavator to the loader without a second timecard. Break and clock out sit on the same screen. The office gets a payroll ready week without chasing texts.

Clock-in is GPS-powered, with geofencing, so the labor hours land on the job. We don't sell telematics hardware. Machine hours come from the operator, not a box in the cab.

The job page shows revenue, expenses, and profit, with budget against spent for labor, materials, equipment, and change orders. Hours by employee sit on that job. That is real time profit, the number Andrew calls the big selling point, and it moves while the work is still open. You type the budget. We do not build the estimate.

Haul tickets store the truck, import or export, the material, the yards, and the pit. A photo of a paper ticket can go through the AI reader. DOT and daily inspections, service requests, and the shop queue sit with the machine. Daily reports carry photos and field notes. Safety forms cover JSAs, toolbox talks, and incident reports. Plans live in the job files.

Scheduling, dispatch alerts, crew chat, and the sales CRM are Premium categories. Feature availability varies by plan. Fleet Management, Sales CRM, and Scheduling and Communications are the Premium names. QuickBooks Online is connected today. QuickBooks Desktop, Foundation, and ADP are in the works.

Where each one is the wrong buy

Pick SmartCrew if

You self perform heavy civil or dirtwork with about 5 to 100 people.
You want time, machines, loads, daily reports, and job profit in one app.
You already bid in AGTEK, InSite, HeavyBid, or a spreadsheet.
You want a starting price. SmartCrew starts at $99/month. Contact us for team pricing.

Pick QuoteIQ if

You quote and invoice homeowners or small commercial service routes.
You want a published price you can read before a call.
Your crew is inside the user caps on those plans, up to 20 on Max before extra seats.
You do not need DOT inspections, a shop queue, or haul tickets.

Name the week
Quotes and card payments, or crews and iron. That one line picks the product.
Read their grid
QuoteIQ publishes the plans. Count users before you assume the $29.99 card is the crew price.
Keep the bid tool
SmartCrew does not take off or estimate. Type the budget onto the job after you win it.
Ask for one job
Clock in, one machine, one load, profit against the bid. SmartCrew starts at $99/month. Contact us for team pricing.

A SmartCrew job page for a culvert replacement: revenue, expenses and profit, budget versus spent for labor, materials, equipment, other costs and change orders, a jobsite map and hours by employee

SmartCrew hauling log on a phone: date, truck, project, import or export, the pit the load came from and notes

Job profit on the office screen, and a haul ticket on the phone. Demo account, Cedar Ridge Earthworks.

We do the heavy lifting on setup. The team sets up the account, moves the jobs over, and trains your people. Most companies are up and running within a few weeks. Start with the features that hurt most. Our crews are not tech savvy. And they do not need to be. Simple for the field. Powerful for management. Fairly priced for owners.

The other order of this comparison is smartcrew vs quoteiq. The long table, with QuoteIQ's plan gates spelled out, is quoteiq alternative. The product pages next to this decision are all in one dirt work software and dirt work software with crm.

Questions people ask

What is quoteiq vs smartcrew?

quoteiq vs smartcrew compares a home service CRM with a dirt and heavy civil field app. QuoteIQ starts at $29.99 a month for one user on its pricing page, read November 2, 2026. SmartCrew starts at $99/month for crews of about 5 to 100. Contact us for team pricing.

Sources

QuoteIQ pricing checked November 2, 2026
QuoteIQ industries checked November 2, 2026
QuoteIQ excavation roundup checked November 2, 2026