QuoteIQ Scheduling and Dispatch: What Each Plan Gets

QuoteIQ's scheduling calendar is on every plan, from a one-person Essentials account up. What changes as you climb the tiers is dispatch: assigning work to team members, sending on-the-way texts, optimizing routes and letting customers book themselves. This page sorts out which is which.

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What the calendar does on every plan

• Day, Week and Month views, plus a day-as-a-list view and a job map.
• Recurring visits, with the option to edit a single occurrence without breaking the series.
• Drag to schedule and reschedule on desktop, "with a five-second undo".
• Conflict and double-booking warnings.
• Schedule Later for accepted work without a date yet, and mass reschedule for moving a block of jobs.
• Weather forecasts on the calendar, useful for outdoor trades.
• PDF export for a printed schedule.

What each plan adds

Extra users are $25/user/mo on every plan. One detail to watch: Beginner includes two users, but assigning individual team members to jobs is listed from Pro. Confirm in the trial how a second Beginner user sees and works the schedule before you rely on it.

Credit costs

The calendar itself doesn't use IQ Credits. Two connected features do, according to QuoteIQ's help-center plan matrix: Google Calendar sync charges credits per event added to Google, and in-calendar route optimization charges per leg. On-the-way texts run through ClientHub, whose page says "No per-minute charges. No extra messaging fees."

How a contractor uses it day to day

For a solo operator the calendar is the hub: accepted estimates go onto a date or into Schedule Later, recurring customers sit on a repeating series, and the weather view tells you which days to shuffle. When rain moves a day, mass reschedule shifts the block and the undo protects against a mis-drag. If you also live in Google Calendar, Beginner's two-way sync keeps personal and work events in one place.

Once there's a crew, Pro is where the calendar becomes a dispatch tool: you assign jobs to people and the customer gets a text when the tech is on the way. On Elite, route optimization reorders each person's stops, and InstaSchedule lets customers book open slots themselves. See route optimization for that tier in detail.

Limits and gotchas

QuoteIQ's own ServiceTitan comparison concedes it lacks a large-team dispatch board for 20+ technicians. GPS tracking is phone-based only, with no vehicle hardware; QuoteIQ says plainly, "If you need to see the truck rather than the phone, we cannot help you."

How it compares with Jobber and Housecall Pro

Jobber's pricing page lists booking and scheduling on Core ($49/mo, one user). Housecall Pro's lists online booking and scheduling/dispatch on Basic ($79/mo monthly, $59 annual). The sharpest difference is customer self-booking: QuoteIQ needs Elite, and QuoteIQ's own Housecall Pro page calls that HCP's "single strongest structural advantage". For each competitor's dispatch and assignment details, check Jobber's pricing page and Housecall Pro's pricing page.

QuoteIQ describes the tools on its scheduling page, its dispatching page and its Google Calendar sync page.

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Scheduling questions

Where to go next

See every tool we cover on the QuoteIQ features hub, check what each tier costs on our QuoteIQ pricing breakdown, or read the full QuoteIQ review for the overall verdict.