For Commercial Snow Operations
Dispatch your trucks, log every salt application with times, weather, and photos, and bill snow contracts cleanly. Built for commercial snow operators serving HOA portfolios, retail parking, healthcare campuses, and industrial property management.
$29.99/month for your whole crew - Unlimited trucks and properties - Free plan to start
Quick Answer
Snow removal software for commercial fleets dispatches trucks, tracks crews on a map, logs the material applied at each property with times, weather, and photos, and bills per-event contracts as services are logged. CrewNest starts at $29.99/month with unlimited team members included, a flat $290/year whatever the crew size, versus per-user platforms like Jobber and Housecall Pro. Built for snow operators serving HOA portfolios, retail parking, healthcare campuses, and industrial property managers.
Most field service platforms were built around recurring lawn maintenance or pressure washing. Snow is different in five ways at once — the work is unscheduled, time-pressured, liability-heavy, weather-dependent, and contractually complex. These are the gaps that matter most:
When snow falls overnight, you need every driver to know their stops fast. Manually texting every driver their stop list at 3 AM doesn't scale. In CrewNest you pick the properties, optimize the route, and dispatch it, and each driver sees their assigned jobs on their phone. CrewNest does not trigger dispatch from the forecast; your dispatcher makes that call.
A slip-and-fall claim usually turns on when the property was serviced and what was applied. Many generic CRMs only record "job complete". CrewNest's Snow Log keeps start and finish times, a weather snapshot, photos, and the material applied for each visit, so you have a dated record to hand to your insurer or attorney.
Commercial snow contracts come in three flavors: seasonal flat-rate, per-event, and per-inch billing. A fleet running all three across different commercial clients needs the CRM to know which property is on which model. CrewNest stores the pricing model on each contract, and on per-event contracts logging a service creates the invoice at the contract rate. Flat-rate contracts store the amount and you send those invoices yourself. Per-inch billing is not built yet.
Healthcare campuses need to be cleared before the 6 AM shift change. Retail parking needs to be cleared before 7 AM doors-open. Industrial docks need clearing before 5 AM truck arrivals. CrewNest puts a day's stops in an efficient driving order with Google Maps. It does not plan around per-property deadlines, so put priority properties first when you assign them.
What CrewNest does today for a commercial snow fleet, and where its limits are:
Write each property's service standard (for example, plow at 2+ inches, salt at 0.5+ inches) into its contract and job notes, so every driver sees it on the job. CrewNest does not monitor snowfall or start jobs automatically; your dispatcher decides when to roll.
Each service entry includes start and finish times, a weather snapshot taken when it is logged, photos from the driver's phone, and the treatment type and weight applied. When a property manager calls three weeks later asking when their lot was last serviced, the answer is in the log.
Pick the day's properties, let CrewNest order the stops for the least driving using Google Maps, and dispatch the route to a crew. Each driver sees their assigned jobs on their phone and can open directions. With crew tracking on, the fleet map shows where each crew is.
Each commercial contract lives in CrewNest with its pricing model selected once: flat-rate (a seasonal or monthly amount) or per-event ($Y per service). On per-event contracts, logging a service creates the invoice at the contract rate. Customers sign contracts online. Per-inch (tiered) billing is not built yet.
Salt and other material applied is logged per service, and material purchases can be recorded as expenses, so at season end you can compare what you bought with what you applied. CrewNest does not track driver hours or export payroll.
For commercial snow operators, two financial risks deserve good records. CrewNest helps you keep them:
A single uncovered slip-and-fall claim can wipe out a season's profit. Your insurance defense depends on being able to prove: when the property was serviced, what was applied, who applied it, and whether you followed the contracted service standard.
CrewNest's Snow Log keeps start and finish times, a weather snapshot, photos, and material weights for every service it records. When a claim letter arrives months later, the service history for that property is in one place to share with your insurer or attorney. It does not guarantee any outcome.
Commercial snow insurance premiums depend heavily on documented service standards and claims history. Operators who can demonstrate professional documentation are better positioned at renewal.
Your Snow Log and job history show which properties you serviced and what was applied. Export jobs and invoices as CSV to build the summary your insurer asks for at renewal.
Flat-rate, fleet-friendly
$29.99/month
Your whole crew included, with no per-user fee. Unlimited trucks, properties, and services.
How the pricing model works:
CrewNest Pro is a flat $29.99/month that includes every team member at no additional charge, with no per-seat fee. A free plan covers a single user getting started. The cost-of-ownership table below compares that against the published plans of the major field service platforms for a typical small snow crew, with the math drawn directly from each vendor's pricing page.
Most snow operators do not need a 50-truck enterprise platform. The honest comparison is what you actually pay for a 3-person and a 5-person crew on each vendor's lowest plan that fits. CrewNest charges one flat fee with team members included; Jobber and Housecall Pro charge per user, which is why their totals climb. The figures below are annual-commitment totals.
| Software | Pricing model | 3-person crew | 5-person crew |
|---|---|---|---|
| CrewNest | Flat (unlimited users) | $290/yr | $290/yr |
| Jobber | Per user | $1,788/yr | $1,788/yr |
| Housecall Pro | Per user | $1,788/yr | $1,788/yr |
| GorillaDesk | Flat per tier | $539/yr | $539/yr |
| ServiceTitan | Custom | Contact sales | Contact sales |
| FieldPulse | Custom | Contact sales | Contact sales |
CrewNest comes to $290/year for both a 3-person and a 5-person crew, because the plan does not charge by seat. Jobber's lowest fitting plan (Grow, 5 seats) is $1,788/year, and Housecall Pro's (Essentials, 5 seats) is $1,788/year, both flat across 3 and 5 users because each includes 5 seats. GorillaDesk's flat Basic plan is $539/year with unlimited seats. ServiceTitan and FieldPulse do not publish prices, so they are shown as Contact sales rather than estimated. Competitor pricing verified from public pricing pages, July 2026. Subject to change.
The general field service platforms can schedule and invoice a snow job, but the snow-specific pieces (salt logging, per-event billing, and a dated service log) are where they differ. This is feature coverage for a commercial snow operation, not a verdict on each tool overall.
| Snow capability | CrewNest | Jobber | Housecall Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salt weight + material logging | |||
| Snow Log with weather snapshot + photos | |||
| Per-event contract billing | |||
| Job scheduling + dispatch | |||
| Invoicing + online payments | |||
| Mobile / PWA field app | |||
| Flat pricing (not per user) |
Comparison based on each vendor's publicly documented feature set as of June 2026. Jobber and Housecall Pro are capable general field service tools; the rows above reflect snow-specific capability only.
Salt is one of the largest variable costs in a snow operation and one of the easiest to lose money on. If you cannot tie material applied back to the job and the contract, you cannot tell which properties are profitable, you cannot bill per-application contracts accurately, and you cannot defend usage if a client questions an invoice. CrewNest captures material at the point of work so the record exists by default.
Each service entry records the treatment type and the weight applied, entered by the driver. That number is attached to the property and the date, so every pound of material has a home in your records instead of disappearing into a bulk purchase that you reconcile by guesswork in April.
With material logged per service, you can see how much each property used across the season. A flat-rate contract that looked fine in November can quietly turn unprofitable after fifteen storms. The log shows which contracts to look at before you sign the renewal, instead of after.
When a property manager asks why a February invoice ran high, you show the logged salt weights and times for each event rather than arguing from memory. The record was built as the work happened.
The same logged material data helps with bulk-purchase reconciliation. At season end you can compare salt applied across properties against what you bought, spot shrinkage or over-application, and walk into next season's supplier negotiation with a real usage number. Pair that with the built-in salt calculator, which estimates application rates per surface area before a storm, and you have both a forecast and an actuals record for the single biggest consumable in the business.
No. CrewNest does not read forecasts or trigger dispatch on its own. When a storm is coming, your dispatcher picks the day's properties, optimizes the route, and dispatches it to a crew. What CrewNest does record is the weather at the time each service is logged, pulled from a weather service when the driver logs the visit.
Not as an automatic trigger. You can write each property's service standard (for example, plow at 2 or more inches) into its contract and job notes so crews see it, but CrewNest does not watch snowfall and start jobs for you.
Each Snow Log entry records the treatment type (rock salt, calcium chloride, sand, brine and so on), the amount applied in pounds, and the area treated, along with start and finish times. You can add material purchases as expenses and compare them with what was logged at season end.
Each Snow Log entry keeps start and finish times, a weather snapshot taken when the service is logged, photos, and the material applied. That gives you a dated record of when the property was serviced and what was applied. CrewNest is software, not legal counsel or insurance, and cannot promise any outcome for a claim.
Yes, for per-event and flat-rate contracts. Each contract stores its pricing model. On a per-event contract, logging a service creates the invoice at the contract's per-event rate. Flat-rate contracts store the seasonal or monthly amount, and you send those invoices yourself. Per-inch (tiered) billing is not built yet.
Yes, with limits. With crew tracking turned on, the fleet map shows where each crew is during working hours, with a location history. Route optimization puts a day's stops in an efficient driving order using Google Maps, and you dispatch jobs to a crew, who see their assigned jobs on their phone. It does not plan around per-property deadlines or truck equipment.
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