QuoteIQ vs Busy Book: Online Booking at $299.99 a Month, or on Every Plan?

QuoteIQ is a field service app for home service contractors, and its own pricing page lists more than 20 trades, from HVAC, plumbing and roofing to pest control, pressure washing and maid service. Busy Book is built only for cleaning businesses, especially remote owners who work with independent contractor partners.

Both have AI that answers your phone, and both have a 14-day free trial. But there's one difference I really want every cleaning business owner to see before you pick, because it's the one that books cleanings while you're busy doing everything else: where online booking starts.

The quick answer

• Choose QuoteIQ if you run more than one home service trade, want iOS and Android apps, want AI call answering and AI tools from the very first plan, or need QuickBooks (from its Pro plan).
• Choose Busy Book if you run a cleaning business with contractor partners and want clients booking themselves online at your flat prices on every plan, with Irene texting every new lead within a minute and no fee per cleaner.

Online booking: $299.99 a month, or every plan

For a cleaning business, online booking is the big one. A client picks their home, sees the price, adds their card and books, and nobody has to call you back. The fewer steps, the more people book.

When I started, I didn't have the systems, the automations or the software I have now, and I was so overwhelmed. A booking link is what gets you paid, so if you're choosing what to set up first, start there.

On QuoteIQ, clients quoting and booking themselves online is called InstaQuote and InstaSchedule. Its pricing page puts both on the Elite plan at $299.99 a month and on Max at $699.99. Essentials ($29.99), Beginner ($99.99) and Pro ($199.99) don't include them.

On Busy Book, your booking page comes with every plan, starting with Starter at $39 a month. Clients pick their bedrooms, bathrooms, square feet, type of cleaning and extras, see your flat price and book. Irene can book them by text too.

To be fair to QuoteIQ, Elite brings a lot more than booking: 10 users, route optimization, mass text and email campaigns and a live GPS time tracker. If you'd use all of that, Elite is a lot of tool for the money. If online booking is the reason you're shopping, though, that's $299.99 a month on QuoteIQ and $39 on Busy Book.

At a glance

What it really costs with 4 partner cleaners

Starting prices only tell you part of the story, you guys. So I priced the same example I use in the best cleaning business software: you plus 4 partner cleaners who all use the app, doing about 40 cleanings a month. On QuoteIQ, that's 5 logins.

The least you can pay for 5 logins on QuoteIQ is Essentials plus 4 extra users, $129.99 a month. But assigning jobs to other users starts on Pro, and your partners need their jobs. So:

QuoteIQ's own pricing questions walk through this same choice: a Pro account with four users can add a fifth for $25 a month, or move up to Elite.

Both have costs outside the subscription. QuoteIQ's page says payment processing and optional services are separate from the subscription price. On Busy Book, card fees go to your own Square or Stripe, and Irene texts through your own Quo, GoHighLevel or Twilio number, which bills you directly. Quo starts at $19 a user a month ($15 on a yearly plan), plus 1¢ for each text Irene sends and carrier registration of $19.50 once, then $1.50 to $3 a month. Every one of those costs, with a calculator, is on Busy Book's pricing page.

Irene's phone calls run on Busy Book, with her number included. Starter includes 30 call minutes a month, Grow 100 and Pro 300. When they run out, new calls ring your phone (or Irene takes a message), and you can add 100 more minutes for $30 if you want them.

And both have yearly prices: QuoteIQ's page says yearly billing saves two months, and Busy Book is 20% less billed yearly.

Where QuoteIQ is stronger

QuoteIQ has real strengths, and you deserve to hear them straight:

• Apps for iOS and Android, with 4.7 stars from 3,401 App Store ratings (as of October 10, 2026, on its pricing page). Busy Book doesn't have an App Store app.
• AI on every plan. The AI Virtual Call Team answers calls 24/7, and AI Estimator, AI Autopilot, Review Multiplier and Google Business Profile reviews with AI replies come with every plan too, even the $29.99 Essentials.
• A connector for ChatGPT and Claude. QuoteIQ's MCP connector is on every plan.
• Customer financing through Stripe or Whop, on every plan.
• QuickBooks Online from the Pro plan. Busy Book doesn't sync with QuickBooks yet.
• Many trades in one app. If you also do pressure washing or window cleaning, QuoteIQ covers those trades too. It says it's "built by home service contractors, for home service contractors," and one of its founders ran a pressure washing business.

Where Busy Book is different

1. Online booking on every plan. Your booking page, with your flat prices and your card on file step, starts on Starter at $39.
2. Irene answers your leads. She texts every new lead within a minute, day or night, quotes your flat price, offers open times and books the cleaning. She answers your phone too, on every plan, with her own number and call minutes included.
3. No fee per cleaner. Adding partners doesn't change your bill.
4. Made for contractor partners. Jobs go out to your partners, the partner app works in English or Spanish, partners check in on the day of the cleaning, and tips go to the partner.
5. Made for cleaning. Flat prices by bedrooms, bathrooms and square feet, repeat cleanings with your own discounts, cards held before the cleaning and charged after through your own Square or Stripe, job checklists with before and after photos, and Airbnb calendar sync, all on every plan.

Where Busy Book falls short

• No App Store app. Busy Book works as a home-screen app on your phone and your partners' phones.
• No QuickBooks or Xero sync yet.
• Texting needs your own account. Irene texts through your own Quo, GoHighLevel or Twilio number, which bills you separately.
• Monthly limits. Irene's conversations, call minutes, new leads and texts have a set number on each plan.
• Some features are on higher plans. Referrals, gift cards and campaigns start on Grow, and cleaning memberships on Pro.
• A younger product, with fewer outside reviews so far.
• US and Canada only.

Who each one fits

QuoteIQ fits a home service contractor who runs more than one trade, wants iOS and Android apps and AI tools from the first plan, and either doesn't need clients booking online or is ready for Elite.

Busy Book fits an owner who's building or running a cleaning business with independent contractor partners, maybe around a full-time job, and wants clients booking online and leads answered fast from the very first plan.

What to test during your free trial

Both have a 14-day free trial, and both ask for a card to start. So try them side by side with a real booking from start to finish:

1. Book a cleaning as a client would, on your phone, at your real prices. How many taps did it take, and which plan did you need for it?
2. Send yourself a test lead and see how fast it gets an answer, and who answers it.
3. Call your own business line and listen to how the AI answers.
4. Send the job to a partner and look at it in the app, the way they will see it.
5. Add a few partners and check what happens to your monthly price.

The tool that makes all five feel simple is the right one for you.

Switching from QuoteIQ

QuoteIQ's pricing page says your data stays available for export when you cancel. Export your clients to a file, then upload it in Busy Book's Bring your clients over, check the columns and bring them in. Keep QuoteIQ until your first full cycle of cleanings runs smoothly, then cancel.

Questions people ask

How much does QuoteIQ cost?

QuoteIQ's pricing page lists five plans billed monthly: Essentials $29.99 (1 user), Beginner $99.99 (2 users), Pro $199.99 (4 users), Elite $299.99 (10 users) and Max $699.99 (20 users). Extra users are $25 a month each on any plan. Prices checked November 2026.

Does QuoteIQ have online booking?

Yes, on its Elite and Max plans. InstaQuote (clients quote themselves) and InstaSchedule (clients book online) start on Elite at $299.99 a month. Busy Book includes your booking page on every plan, starting at $39 a month.

Is QuoteIQ made for cleaning businesses?

QuoteIQ is built for home service contractors in many trades. Its pricing page lists maid service next to HVAC, plumbing, roofing, pest control, pressure washing and more. Busy Book is built only for cleaning businesses.

Does QuoteIQ have AI call answering?

Yes. Its AI Virtual Call Team answers calls 24/7 on every plan. Busy Book's Irene answers calls on every plan too, with 30, 100 or 300 call minutes a month depending on the plan.

Can I switch from QuoteIQ to Busy Book?

Yes. Export your clients from QuoteIQ, then upload the file in Busy Book's Bring your clients over page.

JT

Jazmine Tates

Jazmine started cleaning houses herself, then built a remote cleaning business with independent contractor cleaners. She has taught thousands of people to start their own, and built Busy Book to run it all.

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