Service Tools Guide researches and compares software for service businesses , field service, property management, contracting, and the trades.
Every comparison is based on publicly available data: pricing pages, feature lists, user reviews, and hands-on testing where possible. No vendor pays for placement. No vendor reviews content before publication. If a product is the wrong fit for most readers, we say so.
We use a consistent methodology for every comparison:
Pricing changes. Features get added. We update comparisons regularly, with the last-updated date visible on each page so you know how current the information is.
Some links to software products are affiliate links. If you click through and sign up, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This does not influence our recommendations. Products are evaluated on their merits , pricing, features, support quality, and fit for specific use cases.
We also earn from Amazon Associates on gear recommendations and from Skimlinks on merchant links across the site.
Service Tools Guide is edited by Jamie Waterson, a researcher and software analyst. Jamie has spent the past year analyzing service business software , signing up for trials, reading terms of service, comparing pricing pages, and talking to business owners about what actually works.
The site is operated under Arduous LLC, an Indiana company. It is not owned by any software company, review platform, or media group.
We do not accept payment for placement in comparisons. No vendor gets to review or approve content before publication. If a vendor asks us to remove or change something and we think it makes the comparison less useful to readers, we refuse.
Our job is to tell you what we would want to know if we were shopping for this software ourselves. Sometimes that means recommending a more expensive product. Sometimes it means telling you a popular product is not a good fit for your specific situation. And sometimes it means pointing out that the free option is actually good enough.
If you spot something wrong , outdated pricing, a missing feature, a factual error , we want to fix it. Reach out with a correction and we will verify and update the page, usually within 48 hours.