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This App Sucks from a Property Owner's Perspective
I gave them 2 stars, only because I am reviewing as a client of a company who uses their software for his cleaning business. It's a shame because the cleanings themselves have been good, but the software limitations of Housecall Pro (and whoever enters our cleaning schedules) have left us frustrated on the management side. We've been with this cleaning service for over 3 months. We own 2 vacation rentals they service, and this app and its limitations have resulted in missed services (yes guests arriving to a house that has not been cleaned or outfitted with linens). This reflects VERY poorly on our otherwise flawless history of reviews, and hurts us in the wallet, as we cover the cost of the screwups by refunding those guests' cleaning/linen fees, even though the screwups are due to no fault of ours (as a goodwill gesture for it the services not being performed prior to their arrivals). It also hurts in the wallet, because of the potential of poor reviews to an otherwise superior experience we provide with our high-end vacation rentals. Specifically the app does not integrate with Google Calendar, which is what our past services have used and is FAR superior to HouseCall Pro’s calendar (and Google Calendar is completely FREE). So clients of cleaning services must forward each and every cleaning date to the cleaning service, hope that they received it, and hope that they were entered correctly on the cleaning service’s end. Can you see where things may get screwed up with that clumsy process??? With Google Calendar, the clients of cleaning services enter the dates, and they automatically populate the cleaning service's calendars, and provide alerts to any updates or changes. Can you see why Google’s 100% FREE calendar puts HouseCall Pro’s calendar to shame? The other problem with HouseCall Pro is their payment system, which after months of trying to fix, still doesn’t work for us. We simply wanted to split the two properties, so that we’d have the convenience of keeping them separate for tax purposes. However this simple request has been unable to be accomplished. So we now must pay for one property the convenient way (via online payment) and the other we must mail a check. That’s just pathetic. I spoke to the people at HouseCall Pro about this today, and they simply said there is no way for customers to control their own calendars, and seemingly cared less about adding the functionality (even after I told them Google Calendar puts their system to shame).
Response from Housecall ProJan 25, 2022
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