The questions owners ask before they switch.

Jobber is a well-built platform used across 50-plus trades: plumbers, landscapers, electricians, and yes, cleaners. The problem is exactly that. It is built to fit everyone, which means its workflows, defaults, and language are not shaped around the way a cleaning business actually runs. Eva is built only for cleaning. Every word, every default, every automation maps to your reality. And where Jobber gives you tools to operate, Eva does the operating: she schedules, dispatches, invoices, and follows up without you steering each step.

Housecall Pro covers a lot of ground because it serves a lot of industries. For a cleaning business, most of that breadth is noise. Eva covers the full picture of running a residential cleaning operation: scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, client messaging, payment follow-up, your team app, online booking, and a bilingual interface. What Eva does not do is serve plumbers and HVAC techs. That is not a gap. It is a choice.

Both platforms have added AI as a layer on top of tools that were built without it. The AI helps you draft things, suggests actions, or summarizes data. Eva is not a layer. Eva is the manager: she books jobs, sends invoices after each clean, chases the late payer, dispatches the cleaner with the entry code and checklist, and delivers a morning briefing. The difference is that Eva acts, not just advises. And she does it in English or Spanish, which the major platforms still do not do well.

Correct, and neither does Eva. Your 14-day trial is full Pro access, no credit card, no obligation. You can explore everything, including the schedule, the invoicing, and the client messaging, before you decide anything.

Eva is built specifically for the US market: pricing in US dollars, card payments via Stripe US, and a bilingual English and Spanish interface. If you run a cleaning business in the US, Eva is built for exactly your context. If you are in Canada or another market, the core features work but the billing and payment setup is optimized for the US.

ZenMaid is a solid, well-liked maid-service scheduling tool. Owners who use it tend to like it precisely because it is focused on cleaning. The gap is what happens after the schedule is set. ZenMaid organizes the calendar and sends reminders. Eva runs the calendar, chases the unpaid invoice, handles the rescheduling conversation with the client, dispatches the cleaner with the right notes, and flags what needs your attention in the morning. ZenMaid is a great organizer. Eva is the manager.

ZenMaid at $19 organizes your schedule. The hours you still spend texting clients, following up on invoices, handling reschedule requests, and coordinating your team are not in that price. Eva at $29 handles a large share of that work for you. The question is not which software costs less. It is what your time is worth after you factor in what each product actually takes off your plate.

ZenMaid is genuinely proven for maid-service scheduling, and that matters. If a scheduling calendar with automated reminders is what you need, ZenMaid earns its reputation. If you want a tool that schedules, dispatches, invoices, chases payments, and handles client messages for you, without you logging in to make it happen, that is a different category. Eva is not competing for the scheduling-calendar market. It is competing for the manager-that-runs-your-day market.

Launch27 does the front door very well: a clean online booking form, pricing, and recurring visits. Eva does the front door and everything after it. Once a booking comes in, Eva assigns the right cleaner, confirms with the client, drops the job into the schedule, sends the invoice on completion, and follows up if payment is slow. The booking is the start. Eva runs the rest.

Maidily gives you a solid, purpose-built cleaning toolkit at a low price. That is its genuine strength. The trade-off is familiar: it organizes the work without doing it. Your invoices go out when you send them. Your follow-ups happen when you remember. Reschedule requests land in your inbox for you to handle. Eva handles those things on her own. The difference between Maidily and Eva is not features. It is who does the work.

Service Autopilot is genuinely powerful for owners who invest the time to configure it. You build the workflows, set the triggers, and wire up the automations yourself. That is both its strength and its cost: a real learning curve, real setup time, and ongoing maintenance when things change. Eva ships working out of the box. You do not build the workflows. You talk to Eva and she handles it. For a cleaning business owner who does not want to become a software configurator, Eva is the more practical choice.

No. Eva is not automation software you configure. You talk to her in plain English, the same way you would talk to a manager you hired: tell me what needs doing, check in when I ask, flag what is urgent. There is no trigger editor, no workflow diagram, no onboarding maze. Most owners are running in under an hour because Eva is designed to be picked up, not set up.

At $29, Jobber gives you a solo plan with core scheduling and invoicing tools. You still do the scheduling, the invoicing, and all the client communication yourself. At $29, Eva gives you a manager: she schedules recurring jobs, dispatches your cleaner with the right notes, sends invoices automatically after each clean, and handles appointment reminders. You are not buying different software at the same price. You are buying a different relationship with your business.

Eva is priced by plan tier, not per user. Starter covers a solo business. Pro covers a team of up to five. Business covers up to fifteen. You move up a plan when your business genuinely grows, not because you added one cleaner. There are no per-user surprise charges.

Tools with free plans usually cap you at a small number of jobs, limited features, or no team access. They are demos dressed as plans. Eva does not have a free plan, but it does have a 14-day free trial with full Pro access, no credit card. After that, every paid plan is backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. If Eva does not work for your business, email the team and you get a full refund. No questions.

A part-time office manager in the US costs between $1,500 and $3,000 a month, plus payroll taxes, onboarding time, and the reality that they need sick days and vacations. Eva handles most of what they would do, for less than $30 a month on the Starter plan, available at 3 AM when a cleaner cancels and you need to cover. The comparison is not Eva vs another tool. It is Eva vs a person you probably cannot afford to hire yet.

No. Eva does not take a cut of your payments. Stripe charges its standard 2.9% plus $0.30 per card transaction, the same fee every platform using Stripe charges, and that goes to Stripe, not to Eva. SMS messages and client communications are included in your plan. No per-message credits, no surprise per-transaction markup from Eva.

Eva imports directly from both. Your clients, their details, and your schedule come over cleanly. On Pro and Business plans, the migration is done for you: send the team your export file and they load everything into your account. You do not type a single client name. Most owners are fully running within a day of starting.

That is exactly how most Eva owners were managing things before they switched. Gather whatever you have, a rough spreadsheet, a list of names and phone numbers, anything. If the data exists somewhere, Eva can work with it. You do not need a clean file to get started.

You own your data, and your client list exports from your current tool before you move. Eva imports it in. Your history with clients stays where it lives today; what moves to Eva is everything you need to run the business going forward. If you ever leave Eva, you can export everything back out. Your data is always yours.

The cleaner-facing app is designed for someone who checks their phone between jobs. Clock in, see the address and checklist, add photos, clock out. There is nothing to configure and no onboarding session to run. Most cleaners pick it up in five minutes.

Eva handles invoicing and payment tracking inside the app, so most owners stop needing a separate accounting tool for daily billing. If you use QuickBooks, you can export your financial data from Eva to keep your books in sync. A direct integration is on the roadmap.

Most tools added AI as a feature: a button that drafts an email, a summary panel, a chatbot in the corner. The underlying product is still software you operate. Eva is the other way around: the AI is the product. Eva watches your schedule, knows your clients, acts on your calendar, and takes care of the follow-up. Other tools use AI to help you do the job. Eva uses AI to do the job.

ChatGPT is a brilliant writing assistant. It can draft a client message for you, help you write a quote, or answer a general question. What it cannot do is log into your schedule, see that the Garcia invoice is seven days overdue, and send a polite follow-up text from your business number. Eva is connected to your actual business: your schedule, your clients, your money. A general AI gives you a better draft. Eva does the job.

Yes. Eva has two operating modes. In Co-pilot mode, she drafts the message, proposes the invoice, or flags the reschedule, and you approve before anything goes out. In Autopilot mode, she acts based on the rules you set: send the invoice when the job is marked done, follow up after seven days, confirm the next visit three days out. You decide how much autonomy she has, and you can change it at any time. Nothing goes out without the rules you agreed to.

No. Your client list, schedules, messages, and business data are never used to train AI models, by Eva or by any third party. Everything in your account belongs to your business. Eva uses your data only to run the product for you.