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Successware

Summary

Successware is business management software for HVAC, plumbing and electrical contractors, covering call booking, dispatch, a technician mobile app, price books and payments. It keeps its own general ledger and payables rather than syncing to separate accounting software.

Price
Price on request
Open source
No
Best for
HVAC, plumbing, and electrical home service businesses

What we checked

Pages last read
AI answers
Not named in any of 56Buyer questions, November 2026

What we checked on Successware

YesPartlyNo

What it costs your crewNo

Promotion and regular price

The public Platform pricing answer requests contact with an account representative and shows no promotion.

A: Please contact your Account Manager or Account Executive for your new Successware Platform pricing.

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What it costs your crewYes

Quote only

Successware publishes a contact-sales answer for Platform pricing rather than a public dollar rate.

On the page: New Successware Platform FAQs, pricing answer quoted in search result

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What it costs your crewYes

Setup or onboarding fee

The vendor's FAQ states a data conversion fee applies when moving from another system, sized by data complexity; whether every customer must pay it is not stated.

There is a fee associated with data conversion that will vary based on the complexity of your data.

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What it costs your crewPartly

Card processing rate

Successware supports customer payment collection, but its public material does not publish a processing rate.

competitive rates

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The trades it is built forYes

HVAC

Dedicated industry pages exist for HVAC, plumbing and electrical, plus roofing, solar and indoor air quality

Fully Integrated Electrical Business Software

successware.com/industriesChecked

The trades it is built forYes

Plumbing

Dedicated industry pages exist for HVAC, plumbing and electrical, plus roofing, solar and indoor air quality

On the page: Industries pages: /industries/hvac-software/, /industries/plumbing-software/, /industries/electrical-service-software/

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The trades it is built forYes

Electrical

Dedicated industry pages exist for HVAC, plumbing and electrical, plus roofing, solar and indoor air quality

On the page: Industries pages: /industries/hvac-software/, /industries/plumbing-software/, /industries/electrical-service-software/

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The trades it is built forYes

Lawn care and landscaping

no pages were found for lawn, cleaning, pest, pool or handyman businesses.

On the page: Industries pages: /industries/hvac-software/, /industries/plumbing-software/, /industries/electrical-service-software/

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The trades it is built forYes

Cleaning

no pages were found for lawn, cleaning, pest, pool or handyman businesses.

On the page: Industries pages: /industries/hvac-software/, /industries/plumbing-software/, /industries/electrical-service-software/

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The trades it is built forYes

Pest control

no pages were found for lawn, cleaning, pest, pool or handyman businesses.

On the page: Industries pages: /industries/hvac-software/, /industries/plumbing-software/, /industries/electrical-service-software/

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The trades it is built forYes

Pool service

no pages were found for lawn, cleaning, pest, pool or handyman businesses.

On the page: Industries pages: /industries/hvac-software/, /industries/plumbing-software/, /industries/electrical-service-software/

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The trades it is built forYes

Handyman

no pages were found for lawn, cleaning, pest, pool or handyman businesses.

On the page: Industries pages: /industries/hvac-software/, /industries/plumbing-software/, /industries/electrical-service-software/

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The trades it is built forYes

Features for one trade

Its PriceBook contains parts, labor, overhead, miscellaneous items, and flat-rate tasks for trade pricing.

You can import your price book or build a custom plumbing price book within the software.

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Running the dayYes

Schedule and calendar

The dispatch board shows each technician's day and lets the office drag a call onto a technician and time slot in one step.

Successware uses Google Maps to allow you to determine where your technicians currently are and who would be the best technician to dispatch to a job…

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Running the dayYes

Technician app

The mobile product lets technicians create job invoices, use PriceBook items, and collect a customer signature.

All information your dispatchers enter in the back-office platform will flow to Successware Mobile for your technicians to view.

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Running the dayYes

Where the trucks are

A Live Map on the dispatch screen tracks technicians through the mobile app once geolocation is switched on; whether this costs extra is not stated.

Our geolocation services update your technician's user location in real time and are sent to your back office.

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Running the dayPartly

Texts to customers

The BookIt add-on can send booking emails, while on-my-way messages are not established publicly.

In order for your customers to receive a booking email confirmation, you will need to enable the Job Notification in the Communication Manager.

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Running the dayYes

Maintenance plans and recurring jobs

Maintenance and service agreements are set up from templates with visits per year, billing frequency and deferred revenue, and unscheduled agreement visits appear on the dispatch board.

schedule visits, automatically process periodic billings, and offer renewals all from our agreement manager

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Running the dayYes

Checklists, photos and signatures

Custom forms arrived in Successware Mobile 2.0 for checklists, membership forms and agreements; photo capture and customer signature are not explicitly described in the sources read.

Customized Forms, Presenting Multiple Selling Options, and Integrated Financing

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Running the dayYes

Works without signal

The technician app works in an offline mode without signal and syncs its data once a stable connection returns.

Once a technician loads a job to their device, it will stay active regardless of connectivity.

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Quotes and getting paidYes

Quotes and estimates

Opportunities become proposals and then jobs; customers accept options on the technician's tablet or get an emailed PDF, though online one-click approval is not described.

you can turn an opportunity into a proposal and then into a job

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Quotes and getting paidYes

Price book and options

Mobile invoicing searches the PriceBook and adds its items to a job invoice.

"Good" may be a basic replacement with a standard warranty, "Better" would be the same replacement with an upgraded warranty, and "Best" would be a…

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Quotes and getting paidYes

Invoices

Invoices come from the job, including paperless invoicing in the mobile app and Successware Invoice for online payment; automatic unpaid-invoice reminders were not found.

Successware Invoice™ is part of Successware Payments.

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Quotes and getting paidYes

Card and bank payments

Technicians take card or check in the field through the mobile app, and customers can pay by card or bank transfer from a secure payment link.

Customers can be charged by credit card or check in the field via Successware Mobile™, or sent a personalized secure payment link.

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Quotes and getting paidYes

Customer financing

Financing is built into the mobile app; the FAQ names Ally Lending and GreenSky, and older posts add Synchrony, each needing its own merchant account.

Ally Lending, GreenSky and Synchrony

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Quotes and getting paidYes

Parts and inventory

The Inventory module tracks quantity and value of parts across warehouses, and vehicles carrying stock are set up as warehouses too.

Functions like Inventory Management, Accounting, and Payroll are very similar between Classic and the new platform.

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The office and your customersYes

Online booking

BookIt is a branded booking widget for the company website that respects time-slot capacity and drops bookings straight onto the dispatch board.

BookIt talks directly with the Time Slot Capacity Management feature in Successware

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The office and your customersPartly

Review requests

Review requests rely on partner integrations such as PulseM, Customer Lobby and ReviewBuzz, plus a suggested review link in notification emails; no built-in review request flow is described.

we have teamed with the top companies in the field of reputation management to offer seamless integrations to their services.

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The office and your customersYes

Timesheets

Timecard entries are created automatically from dispatched and on-site call progress, and gross wages export to QuickBooks Pro, with ADP also named as a payroll partner.

With robust solutions such as ADP and Intuit QuickBooks Payroll, you can streamline your expense accounts.

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The office and your customersYes

Technician commissions

Payroll pay items can be set to commission and recorded against jobs, and agreement sales can carry commissions for salespeople or technicians.

That is how the sales team gets commission on jobs they converted.

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The office and your customersYes

Leads and follow-ups

The Opportunity Manager holds sales leads, tracks follow-ups and closing rates by opportunity code, and converts them into proposals and jobs.

track follow-ups and closing rates

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The office and your customersYes

Marketing campaigns

Customer lists can be targeted by equipment age or repair history and sent postcard or email notices; much campaign work relies on exporting lists, and costs are not stated.

Send notices to your customers via postcard or email and create a list of visits due in dispatch.

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The office and your customersYes

Several locations

One account can hold several companies, with a company switch in the mobile admin site so settings are kept per company.

multi-company summaries for owners of two or more businesses

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The office and your customersYes

Job costing and reports

Project Management compares estimated and actual cost and sale figures to monitor profitability during projects.

comprehensive job costing capabilities – including a full Project Management module – at NO extra cost!

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What it connects toNo

QuickBooks Online

only QuickBooks Payroll and ADP integrations are confirmed, with no vendor-documented QuickBooks Online, Desktop or Xero sync.

Instead of relying on third-party plugins like QuickBooks, use our trusted all-in-one tool.

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What it connects toNo

Xero

only QuickBooks Payroll and ADP integrations are confirmed, with no vendor-documented QuickBooks Online, Desktop or Xero sync.

On the page: Integrated Accounting feature page

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Where it is soldNo

Australia

no Canadian, UK or Australian sales or tax handling was found.

Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern Time

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Trying it, starting and getting helpPartly

Help getting set up

Implementation with data migration takes about 4 to 6 weeks and a free self-paced training account is offered, but data conversion carries a fee and live classes cost $249.

The data migration process is part of the implementation process. It generally takes about 30 days to complete, with the whole implementation process…

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Support

Phone, email and chat support runs weekdays 8am to 5pm Eastern and is included in the monthly license fee; nothing covers before 8am or weekends.

Unlimited support is included in the monthly license fee.

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