Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

How Much Should CRM Software Cost for a Home Service Business?

16 Oct 2026 · 2 min

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In this promotional monologue, Mike Andes explains why the advertised price of a CRM can be misleading for a growing home‑service business with ten employees. He breaks down the hidden costs of assembling a functional system from separate SaaS tools—CompanyCam ($300+/mo for 10‑user crew plan), Zapier ($20‑30/mo), and MailChimp (≈$300/mo for mass email/text to 5,000 contacts)—which already totals over $600 per month before even adding a CRM. Andes then contrasts this stack with HomeWorks’ Growth Plan, a single platform priced at $299 per month for up to ten users that includes HD video capture (up to 12 minutes), mass email and text, scheduling, dispatching, automations, and API/MCP access. He emphasizes that HomeWorks was built because he, as a home‑service business owner, wanted fewer software pieces and less “duct‑taping.” Finally, he offers a promotional incentive: a 4‑digit code for the first month free, plus an additional free month if onboarding is completed within 30 days, with free data import and setup.

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If you think your CRM costs you a couple hundred bucks a month, I want you to add up everything you had to buy because your CRM couldn't do it. Let's use a pretty normal growing home service business with 10 employees. You want good site photos and videos, so you add CompanyCam. At current monthly pricing, if you use their crew plan with 10 users, it's over $300 per month. And then maybe you add Zapier so you can have the software talk to other software. That's gonna be $20 or $30 a month. And then you want marketing, so you add in MailChimp, and that's like another $300. So you can do mass email and mass text messages to, you know, maybe 5,000 contacts you have in your database. You're already spending over $600 per month with just those 3 software packages, and we haven't even paid for the actual CRM yet. That's what drives me crazy about a lot of software. The advertised price looks reasonable, and then you have to keep buying other apps just to build the system you actually need. Homework's growth plan is $299 a month and includes up to 10 users. Your field team can capture video, high-definition video up to 12 minutes long. You can email your customer database, send out mass text messages. You have scheduling, dispatching, and automations in the same system. And when you want to build something more custom, you have MCP and API access instead of needing another patch between systems. I built HomeWorks for home service companies because I own home service companies. I wanted fewer places for my employees to go and fewer pieces of software that somebody has to keep duct taping together. If your software bill has slowly turned into a stack of subscriptions, click the button below. On the landing page, you're going to get a 4-digit code for your first month of HomeWorks free. If you complete the onboarding process during your first 30 days, We'll give you another month for free. We'll import your data and make sure you get set up as well, all completely free. Click below to get the code.