This post highlights top alternatives to ServMan for businesses that have found it lacking or want to compare it with other field service management solutions.
We’ll provide overviews of seven field service management software, starting with our own, ServiceTitan, to help you find the best fit for your business needs. The platforms covered are:
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Things to Keep in Mind When Comparing Field Service Management Software
At first glance, field service management (FSM) platforms seem similar. Most offer key features like scheduling and dispatching, work order management, estimates and invoices, technician mobile apps, job management tools, and accounting integrations.
However, the way these platforms function in practice can vary significantly. Many FSM solutions come with limitations that may not be immediately apparent, such as:
Scalability issues: Some systems work well for small, single-location businesses with a couple of trucks and technicians. But as your business grows—adding more technicians and trucks in the field, operating from multiple locations, or launching new divisions or business units—these platforms may struggle to keep up with your needs.
Limited functionality: A platform might include features like reporting or scheduling, but lack depth or efficiency. For example, reporting tools might not let you drill down into your data, or scheduling tools might lack automations that significantly improve productivity and profitability.
In addition to feature-to-feature comparisons, it’s important to consider other critical aspects when choosing an FSM solution, such as:
Community resources: Does the platform have an active user community to share insights and best practices? (This can be invaluable as we’ll discuss below.)
Customer support: Are support resources readily available, and do they offer the kind of assistance that can truly transform your business and field service operations?
Understanding these nuances can help you select an FSM solution that not only meets your current needs but also grows with your business over time.
1. ServiceTitan
Our years of experience, larger workforce, and industry expertise fuel the development of over 200 new features and improvements yearly to support growing businesses—delivering more than any other software in the market.
For the past decade, ServiceTitan has revolutionized how contractors operate, making us a solution you can trust to support your business needs today and scale with in the future.
The following are some reasons to choose ServiceTitan over ServMan.
1. Robust Automation for Maximum Efficiency Gains
Throughout the ServiceTitan platform, automation features provide significant day-to-day efficiency gains for contractors and field service businesses.
For example:
Automated Report Delivery: The ability to schedule reports to your inbox anytime.
Adjustable Capacity Planning: The ability to set capacity planning rules that optimize your schedule to maximize revenue.
Touchless Accounting Integration: The ability to auto-export and update journal entries in QuickBooks Online and Sage Intacct.
Automated Invoice Capture: The ability to upload PDFs or images of vendor invoices and automatically extract the data into ServiceTitan.
2. A Platform That Scales with You as You Grow
ServiceTitan has the capabilities to support small businesses up to enterprise-level operations. If you are a medium-sized to larger enterprise or have ambitions to grow, our software is set up to support you.
This is exemplified throughout our platform in numerous ways:
Support for multiple business divisions, business units, and properties: We offer features to support residential and commercial service, as well as construction divisions. We support multi-tech jobs, multi-location shops, and roll-up reporting to track metrics across your operation.
System consolidation/all-in-one functionality: We bring the functions of standalone systems into one connected software solution. No alternatives bring together FSM, CRM, ERP, and financial technology (fintech) capabilities to deliver an unmatched experience for growing businesses.
Enterprise Hub — at the center of the ecosystem & tech stack: With ServiceTitan Enterprise Hub, features such as roll-up reporting, roll-up dashboards, a centralized contact center, and Marketing Pro Enterprise promote efficiency and profitability across every branch of your business. From our 30+ direct integrations to open APIs, we provide a seamless connection to third-party platforms to not only ensure real-time data syncing but also make ServiceTitan the source of truth for your data.
Infrastructure to support you as you grow and scale: We’ve been the leading software of the trades for over 10 years and are backed by leading investors. With quarterly releases, we’re continuously delivering new features and improvements right to your account, so you know your business is running with the latest innovation in the market. Our platform provides the reliability and support that’s needed for a business operating in a 24/7 world. With our historical uptime of 99.9%, ServiceTitan is a partner you can rely on.
Security: Protecting customer data is a top priority for ServiceTitan, so we have implemented best-in-class security practices to keep customer data safe based on best practices in the SaaS industry. We have compliance with PCI-DSS Level 1 (the highest security standards for handling credit card payments), AICPA SOC 1 Type I (financial reporting controls), and AICPA SOC 2 Type II (ensuring data security, availability, and privacy are consistently maintained over time). ServiceTitan’s formal security program is detailed in its independent third-party SOC-2 audit report and ServiceTitan’s Security and Privacy Documentation. ServiceTitan’s Security and Privacy Documentation and independent third-party audits demonstrate the advanced security framework that ServiceTitan uses to protect customer data.
3. Extensive Customer Support & Community Resources
ServiceTitan offers more extensive customer support, community, and training resources that help our users develop greater industry expertise, get maximum usage out of our product, and learn how to implement best practices to grow their businesses and revenue.
For example, ServiceTitan users get exclusive access to:
Knowledge Base: Nearly every feature available in ServiceTitan has an extensive knowledge base article with screenshots to walk you through it.
Dedicated Support Teams: A personal support team to address specific questions and concerns.
Comprehensive Training and Onboarding: Extensive training and onboarding for new users to help understand the software and utilize features effectively.
Titan Exchange: A cloud-based platform for sharing assets such as contracts, templates, checklists, and other valuable information.
TitanAdvisor: With personalized feature recommendations and focused, step-by-step guidance, TitanAdvisor takes the guesswork out of choosing the right ServiceTitan features for your business, so you get the results you want.
ServiceTitan Community: A users-only message board sharing ideas for our software and general business.
Free Peer-Group Training: A program run by ServiceTitan employees through Ember and Spark sessions, designed to be a place where best practices are shared.
Certified Admin Program: Our Certified Administrator program provides a structured approach to increasing knowledge of ServiceTitan, as well as constant and continuing education on the software.
Business owners and operators, particularly in the core industries that ServiceTitan was built to support (HVAC, plumbing, electrical, etc.) find these resources to be invaluable for getting the most out of our platform, as well as staying up-to-date with the best practices and strategies that are working for other companies.
For example, here are some testimonials from people in the ServiceTitan Community:
“ServiceTitan Community has had a massive impact on our growth as a company. We have created connections, gleaned ideas/strategies, and grown exponentially. That may have never happened without the network that Community provides.”
“The ServiceTitan Community provides a wonderful opportunity for networking. It’s a great place to have questions quickly answered. You can search by keywords to pull up resources and if these can’t answer your question, you can post your question as a discussion and have other users help. Having the community helps all ServiceTitan users to feel connected to one another! I love the ideas page where we can post our ideas about the direction we would like to see the software go. This helps us feel like valued customers when we can influence the future of the software!”
4. A Deep Focus on Developing AI Technology for the Trades
ServiceTitan is at the forefront of bringing AI to the trades, something no other platform can provide. With Titan Intelligence (TI), our AI engine, you get insights to help automate repetitive and simple tasks, predict outcomes, lower costs, and stay competitive in a world run by data.
At the 2023 Pantheon conference, we announced 14 new AI-driven features across our Pro Products and Accounting suite. In 2024, we announced several new features that build further on what we already provide for trade businesses.
The key difference between ServiceTitan and other solutions when it comes to AI development for the trades is twofold:
Access to trade-specific data: AI takes an enormous amount of data to develop effectively. ServiceTitan benefits from trade-specific data across thousands of customers and locations giving us a significant advantage compared to other providers.
Dedicated AI division: ServiceTitan has an entire division — Data, Titan Intelligence, and AI — dedicated to developing these advanced technologies for our customers. We’re developing an AI platform for the trades — not simply a series of chatbots within our software.
5. Extensive Workflows to Support Commercial Service
In 2022 alone, our platform introduced 105 new commercial-focused features and improvements, including client-specific rate sheets, office estimates, project tracking, job costing reports, purchase orders, inventory management, and more.
Therefore, if your company is focused on commercial service, or has both commercial and residential service divisions (as many of our customers do), ServiceTitan has robust workflows for serving both business divisions.
6. Tailored Workflows to Support Construction Project Management
ServiceTitan combines field service management software and construction management software into a single platform.
If your business has a construction division, you’ll benefit from capabilities such as real-time project financial tracking, estimating, purchase orders, AIA-style progress billing, and more.
ServiceTitan Reviews
According to Software Advice reviews, some pros and cons to consider include:
Pros
A true all-in-one platform
Significant customizability and scalability
Powerful reporting features that drive long-term ROI
Cons
High price point (particularly for smaller businesses)
Initial learning curve
Limited construction takeoff functionality
The #1 newsletter for the trades.
Schedule a Free Demo of ServiceTitan’s All-in-One Platform
The features and benefits we’ve discussed so far are just some of the areas where ServiceTitan’s platform helps commercial and home service businesses improve efficiency and profitability.
We also offer tools for:
Estimates and Proposals
Mobile App (Compatible with Android and iOS devices)
Online booking
Self-serve Customer Portal with Online Payments
QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, and Viewpoint Vista integrations
And more
To see why our software is trusted by 100,000+ service professionals, schedule a call to get a free, live, one-on-one walk-through of how our user-friendly management platform can help you grow revenue, work smarter, and keep your business processes on track.
2. Housecall Pro
Housecall Pro is a mobile field service management software solution for home service businesses. Similar to ServiceTitan, it offers a wide range of features outside of invoicing, such as scheduling and dispatching, estimates, QuickBooks integration, and more.
According to Software Advice reviews, some pros and cons to consider include:
Pros
User-friendly and easy to learn
Responsive customer service and support team
Wide range of features for streamlining a service business
Cons
Monthly cost can be relatively high
Occasional bugs and technical issues
Not suitable for all business types, such as businesses with more complex project management requirements
Compared to ServiceTitan
When compared to Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan offers:
Greater native pricebook functionality
Ability to drill down further into reporting metrics and trust your numbers
Automated tagging features that help increase revenue
Gated work sequences and customizable forms to facilitate accountability across the organization
Offline functionality that allows techs to use our mobile app when out of cell service zones
For more details on these differences, check out our complete comparison article: Housecall Pro vs. ServiceTitan
3. Jobber
Jobber is a field service scheduling software that also offers a wide range of other features for field service business management. Like ServiceTitan, it offers functionality for estimating, quotes, scheduling, invoicing, and more.
According to Software Advice reviews, some pros and cons to consider include:
Pros
User-friendly and easy to navigate
Comprehensive features for business management
Helpful and responsive customer service
Cons
QuickBooks integration issues
Limitations in customization and features
Cost and pricing concerns
Compared to ServiceTitan
When compared to Jobber, ServiceTitan offers:
More robust, native pricebook functionality
In-app access to top industry supplier equipment catalogs
Extensive marketing functionality that reduces the need for third-party marketing hires
More flexibility and customization for membership plans and recurring services
Offline functionality for our mobile app that allows techs to work seamlessly (even when they’re out of cell service zones)
Deeper reporting capabilities that allow business owners to drill down into the sources of their data
For more details on these differences, check out our complete comparison article: Jobber vs. ServiceTitan
4. ServiceMax
ServiceMax, like other field service solutions, is designed to provide better visibility into your field service operations. It offers a number of products, such as Asset 360 for Salesforce, ServiceMax core, ServiceMax FieldFX (their mobile app), and ServiceMax Engage (for customer engagement).
According to Software Advice reviews, some pros and cons to consider include:
Pros
Strong functionality for field service operations
Significant customization and flexibility
Generally easy to learn and use
Cons
Technical issues and performance concerns ( downtime, load times, etc.)
Complex configuration process and reporting limitations
Inconsistent or slow customer support
Compared to ServiceTitan
When compared to ServiceMax, ServiceTitan offers:
The ability to toggle smoothly from one feature to another without the hassle of opening multiple windows, programs, or add-ons, which can disrupt workflow
Advanced customer communication features included in our base subscription (ServiceMax requires an add-on fee)
Highly customizable visual pricebooks that help grow average ticket prices and increase close rates
Service agreement features that are more tailored for service businesses
For more details on these differences, check out our complete comparison article: ServiceMax vs. ServiceTitan
5. ServiceTrade
ServiceTrade is a field service software specializing in supporting commercial service businesses. Like other FSM software, they offer tools for scheduling and dispatching, a mobile app for field technicians, analytics for business management, and a variety of other tools for running operations.
According to Software Advice reviews, some pros and cons to consider include:
Pros
User-friendly interface for field and office staff
Excellent customer support
All-in-one functionality
Cons
Occasional technical issues/glitches
Limitations in reporting and customization
Customer support issues/limitations
Compared to ServiceTitan
When compared to ServiceTrade, ServiceTitan offers:
Robust features for residential service businesses whereas ServiceTrade is primarily commercial-focused (i.e. we’re more suitable for hybrid shops)
Greater capabilities to drill down into reporting data
A more streamlined call booking process with additional features such as access to property data
Deeper pricebook functionality that’s natively built into our software
For more details on these differences, check out our complete comparison article: ServiceTrade vs. ServiceTitan
6. FieldPulse
FieldPulse is an all-in-one field service software designed for trade contractors and construction professionals. Its features include job scheduling and dispatching, estimates and invoices, time tracking, pricebooks, inventory management, and more. It also integrates with QuickBooks and other accounting tools to streamline financial processes.
According to Software Advice reviews, some pros and cons to consider include:
Pros
User-friendly design and intuitive interface
Responsive customer support
Comprehensive features and customization
Cons
Occasional technical issues and bugs
Limitations within specific features
Offline mode limitations and connectivity dependence
7. FieldEdge
FieldEdge offers a wide range of features like ServiceTitan, including functionality for quotes and invoicing, scheduling and dispatching, service agreements, and more.
According to Software Advice reviews, some pros and cons to consider include:
Pros
Manageable learning curve for basic functions
Helpful customer support
Comprehensive features for field service businesses
Cons
Lack of updates/modern features
Potential gaps in capabilities
Cases of poor customer service experiences
Compared to ServiceTitan
When compared to FieldEdge, ServiceTitan offers:
More automation for greater efficiency gains
Greater scalability
More robust customer support and community resources
A deeper focus on developing AI features tailored for the trades
Extensive workflows to support commercial service
Extensive workflows to support construction project management
For more details on these differences, check out our complete comparison article: FieldEdge vs. ServiceTitan
ServiceTitan Software
ServiceTitan is a comprehensive software solution built specifically to help service companies streamline their operations, boost revenue, and substantially elevate the trajectory of their business. Our comprehensive, cloud-based platform is used by thousands of electrical, HVAC, plumbing, garage door, and chimney sweep shops across the country—and has increased their revenue by an average of 25% in just their first year with us.