Free field service management software. Not a trial.
Scheduling, online booking, quotes with e-signature, invoicing, card and ACH payments, a client portal, team chat, and Atlas AI, free for 2 users with no card and no clock. Extra users are $10 a month, and the add-ons start at $29 a month, only if you want them.
No trial clock
Core is on from the day you sign up and never expires. There is no day the essentials stop working.
No card to start
Sign up, set up your company, and run jobs. The only time a card comes up is if you choose an add-on later.
Full access for 2 users
Every role, every feature in the free plan. A third person is $10 a month; Pro makes users unlimited.
Nothing gets taken away
If packaging ever changes, existing customers keep everything they already use.
What’s in Core
Everything a service business needs to run a day.
The same list the pricing page shows, because it is the same list. The features page has every item in detail.
Run the work
- Client database & history
- Online booking & self-scheduling
- Drag-to-schedule calendar
- Job pipeline with notes & photos
- Lead pipeline board
- Clock in and out on the job
Get paid
- Quotes with e-signature
- One-click invoicing
- Card & ACH payments
- Deposits & payment reminders
- Recurring billing & autopay
- One-click refunds
Grow & manage
- Branded client portal
- Two-way client messaging
- Team chat & mobile push
- Team roles & permissions
- iPhone & Android apps, offline mode
- Atlas AI, 10,000 free tokens a month
Free plan, not free trial
Most “free” software is a countdown.
A free trial gives you the product for a few weeks and then asks for a card. A free plan with the good parts removed makes you upgrade the first time you need to invoice. Core is neither: the essentials are free, on from day one, and they stay that way.
| WorkBench Core | A typical free trial | |
|---|---|---|
| Time limit | None | Usually 14 or 30 days |
| Card required | No | Often, up front |
| Users included | 2, with full access | Varies; the clock runs either way |
| Features held back | None of the essentials | Whatever the paid tier gates |
| When it ends | It doesn't | Pay or lose access |
What costs money
Three things, all optional, all on the pricing page.
Payment processing
Only when a client pays you through WorkBench. Pay the fee yourself at 2.95% + 30¢ per card payment and 0.70% ($1 minimum, $8 maximum) per ACH transfer, or add a service fee your client pays at checkout (3.50% + 30¢ card, 0.75% ($1 minimum, $8 maximum) ACH) and keep the full invoice amount. No monthly fees, no minimums, no charge on failed payments.
This is the fee you pay already: online card payments cost about 2.9% + 30¢ almost anywhere. The difference is that here there is no subscription underneath it.
Add-ons, flat per company
- VoiceYour own business phone line, inside WorkBench.$35/mo
- ProUnlimited users and the tools that run a growing crew.$89/mo
- GalleryComing soonJob photos your clients and crew can trust.$29/mo
- MaxEvery add-on, one price.$109/mo
Extra users on Core are $10 a month each; Pro has no per-user charge.
Atlas, past the free allowance
Every account gets 10,000 Atlas tokens free each month, refilled on the 1st. AI usage costs real money, so it is the one metered thing instead of being buried in the price of everything else. Heavier users can move to Atlas Full, on its own or with Pro; Atlas pricing has the numbers.
What you keep
The card fee is the same bill you pay now. The subscription isn’t.
Three shops, their card volume, and what each keeps in a year next to the cheapest published plan at Jobber and Housecall Pro, with everyone’s processing counted.
| Kept a year | vs. Jobber | vs. Housecall Pro | vs. Jobber, client pays the fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| A one-person handyman1 on the app · $8,000 a month by card | $300their Core plan | $660their Basic plan | $3,247software and processing both at $0 to you |
| A three-person plumbing company3 on the app · $25,000 a month by card | $1,518their Connect plan | $1,518their Essentials plan | $10,568software and processing both at $0 to you |
| A six-person HVAC company6 on the app · $60,000 a month by card | $1,296their Connect + 1 extra plan | $2,748their Max plan | $22,776software and processing both at $0 to you |
Estimates. Published annual-commitment prices as of October 2026, the cheapest plan that fits the team, and card processing costed at 2.9% + 30¢ for the others and at WorkBench’s own 2.95% + 30¢ here. The last column adds the 3.50% + 30¢ service fee at checkout so clients cover the processing, where your state allows it. The calculator has the details and your own numbers.
From the field
Owners who run their day on WorkBench.
“I used to juggle texts, a spreadsheet, and a separate card reader. Now a customer books online, I send the quote from my phone, and they pay the invoice from a link. One app instead of five.”
BrendanOwner, Excellent PC Building“Install season is a sprint. WorkBench keeps every house on the route in order, the crew knows exactly where to go, and deposits are in before we ever pull out a ladder.”
EdanOwner, Knight Light Christmas LightingQuestions about the free plan
Is the free plan a trial?
What's the catch?
Do I have to take card payments to use it?
What happens when I add a 3rd person?
Which features are held back for a paid plan?
Will features I use ever move behind a paywall?
Can I get my data out?
Free for 2 users. Full access, not a trial.
Create your account, pick who pays the card fee, connect your Square account, and you are in — about five minutes, no waiting on anyone.