Comparison
SeasonTuneUp vs ServiceTitan
ServiceTitan is built for a residential HVAC company ready to run dispatch, sales, and reporting on one platform, while SeasonTuneUp is for a shop whose only real gap is the agreement book.
Comparison
SeasonTuneUp vs FieldEdge: Picking by Renewal Workload
FieldEdge is built for mechanical trades contractors who want the office and the truck running on one field service system, while SeasonTuneUp only works the agreement book and the tune-up calendar.
The short answer
FieldEdge is a field service management system aimed squarely at HVAC and plumbing contractors, so its vocabulary already matches how your shop talks. If you want one vendor holding customer history, dispatch, and the back office together, that is the category it competes in. SeasonTuneUp is not in that category at all. It is a single purpose renewal tracker with seasonal booking built in, priced from $45 to $229 a month, and it earns its keep in shops where agreements lapse faster than new ones get sold.
SeasonTuneUp and FieldEdge side by side
| What you are deciding | SeasonTuneUp | FieldEdge |
|---|---|---|
| Product category | Renewal tracking with automated seasonal tune-up booking | Field service management for the mechanical trades |
| Primary user | Whoever owns the renewal number in your shop | Office staff and technicians working a shared system |
| Data it needs from you | Agreement list, anniversary dates, equipment and filter details | The full customer, job, and back office picture |
| Season planning | Sorts the expiring book so spring routes fill before the first heat wave | Handles day to day scheduling across all service work |
| Time to value | Working renewals within a week of importing the list | Longer, since it touches more of how the shop runs |
| Back office ties | None required, your bookkeeping stays as it is | Designed to connect with the accounting side of the business |
| Commitment level | One narrow workflow you can drop without disturbing operations | A system the whole shop learns and depends on |
| Published pricing | Owner Operator $45, Growing Shop $99, Multi Truck $229 | Scoped to the contractor and the breadth of what is deployed |
What follows on the right is the shape of FieldEdge as a category: the workflow it assumes and the buyer it is written for. Products change, so check the current details with them before you decide. SeasonTuneUp is published by MLJ, SASU and this page is written by Jimenez Julien.
Choose SeasonTuneUp when
- When your shop already runs fine on paper and phone calls, a full system rollout is a bigger swing than you need.
- When you can name the month your agreements expire but not the customers, the sorted list is the missing piece.
- When last spring ended with unbooked members calling during the first ninety degree week, seasonal booking logic pays for itself.
- When you want a tool the office can adopt without retraining every technician, keep the change narrow.
Choose FieldEdge when
- If your office and your trucks are working from different information, one shared field service system fixes that gap.
- If you want customer history, job records, and the back office connected for your bookkeeper, FieldEdge is built for the trade.
- If you are consolidating several disconnected tools, adding one more narrow product moves you the wrong direction.
Two different bets about where the pain is
A field service system bets that your biggest cost is information scattered across trucks, the office, and a shoebox of paperwork. For many HVAC contractors that is exactly right, and pulling it together changes how the business feels every single day. FieldEdge speaks the trade fluently, which is a genuine advantage over general purpose tools when your work orders involve model numbers, refrigerant charges, and equipment ages.
SeasonTuneUp bets on something narrower and more measurable. Most shops with a maintenance plan base can tell you roughly how many members they have, and almost none can tell you what percentage renewed last year by anniversary month. That gap is where recurring revenue leaks out, and it can be closed without touching how the rest of the business runs.
What renewal work actually looks like
Ninety days before an anniversary you clean the record. Card on file still valid, phone number still good, both visits delivered, filter size confirmed. Sixty days out the renewal notice goes out with the date, the amount, and a clear cancellation path, because a recurring charge on a homeowner card carries real disclosure duties. Thirty days out you are booking the visit, because a member with a scheduled appointment renews and a member with a vague intention does not.
That sequence is the entire product. It runs on the anniversary date, it repeats every month with a different slice of your book, and it is boring in the way that reliable revenue is boring. A broader system can hold the same fields, but the sequence has to come from somewhere, and in most shops it comes from a person remembering, which is why it fails in July.
Cost of ownership over a full season
Count the real numbers before you decide. A shop with three hundred agreements at $219 a year is carrying about $65,000 of recurring revenue. Losing ten percent of that to lapses that nobody caught costs $6,500 in a year, plus the repair pull-through and the equipment replacements those members would have bought from you instead of the company that answered on the hottest day.
Against that, Growing Shop at $99 a month is a small check. The comparison against a full field service system is different in kind, not just in size, because that spend buys you dispatch, records, and back office work you may badly need. The question is not which is cheaper but which problem is currently costing you more.
Questions people ask before they choose
Is SeasonTuneUp a replacement for a field service system?
No, and it does not try to be. It has no dispatch board, no work order history for every job type, and no accounting side. It handles agreements, anniversary dates, and seasonal visit booking, and it expects the rest of your operation to keep running where it already runs.
What if we plan to move to a full system next year?
Then the cleanup work is still worth doing now. Getting anniversary dates, equipment records, and filter sizes accurate is the hard part of any migration, and it is also what makes this season's renewals land. That data moves with you whenever you make the larger change.
How many agreements make a dedicated renewal tool worth it?
Around one hundred and fifty is where most owners stop being able to hold the book in their head. Below that a careful spreadsheet and a calendar reminder can work if someone genuinely maintains them. Above three hundred, the expiring list needs an owner and a system or it gets worked only when the phone is quiet.
Other comparisons on seasontuneup.com
Comparison
SeasonTuneUp vs Housecall Pro
Housecall Pro suits a home service business that wants scheduling, invoicing, and customer messaging in one approachable app, while SeasonTuneUp suits a shop whose agreement renewals keep slipping past the anniversary date.
Want this weighed against your own numbers
One head to head only carries you so far, because your member count, your truck count, and last season's renewal rate move the answer. Bring those three figures and we will walk your real expiring list through SeasonTuneUp rather than a sample book. If the broader system is the better call for the way your shop runs, we will tell you that instead.