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A taste of the pace. All of it built in the last few weeks, and all of it included. See the complete list on the features page.

• The crew pass works with no signal: every tap, note, checklist and photo waits in an outbox and sends in order when the signal is back
• The crew pass in Spanish and Portuguese, picked per crew member, and the mic listens in that language
• Sign or accept on the tech’s phone: agreements and quotes signed at the kitchen table, with the witness recorded
• Note to the office and Need a part from the crew pass: the owner gets a push, the part lands on the job, and the invoice builder offers it as lines
• Nearest next: the crew’s route re-chains from where the phone is after every Done
• Scout’s one-button jobs: Chase everything, Fill my week, Rebook the quiet ones
• Customers and contacts as relationships: mark a customer, keep a mailing list, and Move to on the leads bar
• A Recommended pick on Good, Better, Best quotes, a third More photo button beside Before and After, and one push the moment a client first opens a quote, invoice, or agreement
• Good, Better, Best quotes: one switch makes three options the client picks from their phone, filled from your price book, with Book it or a pick-a-day link the moment they accept
• The price book, loaded once: bring it in from a spreadsheet, edit every line and tier in Settings, and drop priced lines into quotes, invoices and agreements from a searchable picker
• Cash or check discount: every invoice can show two prices, the card price and the cash price, the legal shape of a card fee in every state
• Two-way Google Calendar sync: your jobs land on Google, Google events block your booking page, and every booking can speak the client’s own time zone
• Where is my tech: the On my way text carries a link with the tech’s photo, each stamp as it happens, and live distance while they share it, plus files attached to quotes, invoices and agreements
• Scout, the new add-on: say what you want done in plain words, read the exact sentence it will send, tap Confirm, done, with a morning line of what is ready
• Capacity-based availability: a time stays open until you are actually full, counted from your crews, on the booking page, forms, and the receptionist alike
• Pause for the season, restart on its own: the first visit back is offered two weeks out and one tap keeps the client’s old spot, plus a gentle check-in after two skipped visits
• Client replies reach the truck: a text back lands on the crew’s pass as a “Grace says” strip when the job is today or tomorrow
• Build a form with me: five plain questions and the form is made, plus a One-at-a-time look and a two-minute start page that builds your whole account
• One document header and letterhead across invoices, quotes, agreements and statements, with deliverability work so the emails land
• HoundSignal keeps only real asks now, says what it found each week, and the Chrome button’s Scan this page reads a group you already have open
• A location stamp at clock in and out, only at the tap and never tracking, with “at the job” on Timesheets and the payroll export
• Pay by percent of the job, house notes as set fields on the client card, and a late cancel fee the client’s own page enforces
• Five new trades with real starter kits: dog training, mobile pet care, personal training, coaching, and massage therapy, each with its own form, pipeline, agreement, prices, and follow-ups written in the trade’s voice
• Pets, packages, and report cards: pets on the client card with shot reminders, session packs that use themselves up, and a branded report card after every job
• Instant price on your booking page: bedrooms, bathrooms, add-ons, and frequency discounts totaled live before they book
• The booking pass: the hosted booking page rebuilt around a ticket that fills itself in as the client chooses, with the price and one button
• Calendar Week and Day views that read the way a dispatcher reads them, plus checklists on the crew’s pass
• Charge on Done with a tip line, and every client’s own magic-link page: visits, payments, and report cards with no login
• Four new one-click switches: day-before reminders on every plan, next-visit nudges, seasonal check-ins, and referral welcomes on Scale
• The HoundSignal Chrome button is live in the Chrome Web Store: press it on any local post and the scored card lands on your Signals page
• HoundSignal now checks the web every hour (Reddit every 15 minutes) and includes 3,000 scored posts a month
• Your booking page and gift card page get the same one-tap design themes as your forms, plus a choice of how services show: list, cards, tiles, or grid
• Emails that did not arrive now surface in the Daily Brief, and a bounced quote or invoice shows a red line with one-press Send again
• HoundSignal, a new add-on on any plan ($47 a month, $37 for Founding Members): paste a local post or press the Chrome button and get a scored lead with a ready reply that offers a real open slot. It can even watch the public web and add hot signals as leads on their own
• The demo grew a second door: see what the crew sees on their phone, a seven-step tour of a crew member’s day
• QuickBooks Online sync is live on Growth and Scale: customers, items, invoices with tax, payments, and optional expenses flow one way from HoundBell to QuickBooks, and nothing your accountant changes is ever overwritten
• The whole Scale suite shipped: email campaigns to smart customer segments, customer reactivation and referral campaigns, job costing and profitability, advanced reporting with Insights and revenue by lead source, and custom roles and permissions
• Automations: a page of switches, not a builder. Text new leads within two minutes, bring back customers who went quiet, thank people who refer a friend, and text the crew their day every morning
• Gift cards (Growth and up): sold from your own page on your own Stripe account, emailed as a code, redeemed on any invoice, tracked in Books
• The route sheet opens on a map: numbered pins in route order with Street View on every stop
• Google Analytics and thank-you page conversion tracking on your booking page, hosted forms, and website forms (plugin 2.5.1)
• One-click WordPress connect: activate the plugin, press Connect to HoundBell, sign in, pick your business, done. No application password to copy (plugin 2.5.0, live on WordPress.org)
• Six one-tap form themes on the builder’s Look tab
• Assign to now shows who is free, busy, or off for the picked time, and Insights rates each team member from the Google reviews their jobs earned
• Two recorded demo calls now play on the hear page
• Crew quoting from the job: a crew member with “Can quote on site” describes the work out loud, the office approves and sends, and small jobs can auto-send under a limit you set
• Change orders from the field: found extra work, priced it, and the client approves from a text while the crew is still on site
• Know before you go: gate codes, site notes, and everything worth knowing, on the job card before the knock
• The receptionist demo line is live: hear it answer and watch the booking land on a real calendar
• The official WordPress.org listing is live: install the HoundBell plugin from Plugins → Add New inside WordPress, with updates delivered automatically from then on
• The AI Receptionist got its own page: houndbell.com/receptionist, with a live demo line you can call right now
• Google review automation is live for every Growth and Scale account: connect your Business Profile and every review is pulled, happy ones answered automatically in your voice, hard ones drafted for your approval
• Pay rates on the Team page: hourly, per job, or salary, feeding timesheet estimates, payroll exports, and Books labor cost
• The AI Receptionist is live as an add-on on any plan: your number answers every call or just the missed ones, books a real opening, creates the lead with a call summary, and texts the confirmation. From $57 a month with a free 30-minute test drive
• Forms 2.0: service cards with icons and prices, sizes as tiles, extras with price badges, a running total, three looks to pick from, and a hosted link for businesses without a website
• One services and prices list: set a price once and it flows to your booking page, forms, quotes, deposits, and the receptionist
• Deposits and no-show fees: ask for a card at booking, charge the deposit on confirm, and the no-show fee is one button
• Route order for the day: stops numbered, drive estimates, print it or open in Maps, and the crew sees the same order on their phone
• Missed call rescue: a missed call gets a text with your booking link before you have put the phone down
• On my way texts and before-and-after photos, sent from the job from the crew’s phone
• Outside payments: cash, check, Zelle, Venmo, or e-transfer, the client taps “I sent it” and you confirm
• Time tracking with payroll exports: clock in and out, timesheets, and a file your payroll provider accepts
• Cash on Friday in the Daily Brief: what lands this week, and what to chase
• Speak the job: describe the work out loud and get a priced quote draft
• Instant estimates on your website form
• Books: a simple ledger with a tax pack your accountant will thank you for
• Sales tax on quotes and invoices, tracked and frozen on every document
• Bring your own Square: already on Square? Connect it and keep taking cards the way you always have
• Recurring jobs you can actually edit: change one visit or the whole series, with a conflict warning on every visit
• Autopay on recurring invoices: the client saves a card once (kept by Stripe on your account), every future invoice charges itself, receipts carry a one-click Stop link, and declines fall back to a Pay now email with an owner alert
• White-label on Scale, everywhere a client looks: booking pages, quote and agreement pages, and every client email drop the “Powered by HoundBell” footer
• Your own business texting number, built in: confirmations, reminders, quotes and invoices by text, review asks, a two-way Texts inbox, and crew canned texts
• Teams, crews, and free field crew logins: My jobs on their phone, canned texts from your number, and a Done button that closes the deal
• 31 trades, ready at signup: pick your industry and the pipeline, website form, booking services, and agreement template are created for you
• Migration import from seven tools: Jobber, Housecall Pro, ZenMaid, HoneyBook, HubSpot, Pipedrive, HighLevel, or any spreadsheet, auto-detected
• Conditional logic and pick-many fields on forms: ask the follow-up question only when the answer calls for it
• The Daily Brief judgment engine: ranked morning to-dos with one-tap actions (send nudge, call, ask why, mark lost)
• Booking hours by day, with breaks: close for lunch, reopen for dinner, respected everywhere
• Directions on every job: Apple Maps on iPhone, Google Maps everywhere else
• A plan-aware Team page: seats and crew in use, crew texting, and the right next step
• Founding pricing: the first 100 businesses lock $47 / $97 / $177 for life
• Zoom video calls: live for every account, published on the Zoom App Marketplace
• Team delegation with owner approvals: access checkboxes now grant full working rights per area, and every deletion or cancellation waits for the owner’s one-tap approval from the Daily Brief, reason included
• Reschedule in two clicks: move any confirmed booking to a new time and the client automatically gets an updated email with fresh calendar buttons while reminders follow the new time
• Security hardened across the platform: bot protection on booking pages, tamper-proof e-signature records, hashed API keys, and a full audit of every public door
• One-click QuickBooks exports: invoices in QuickBooks’ own import format, payments ready to reconcile
• An instant branded reply to every new request, with the client’s own words quoted back
• A complete booking reminder clock: hour-before and 15-minute heads-ups to the client, you, and your assigned crew
• An Overview dashboard for multi-business owners: portfolio revenue, leads, and bookings on one screen
• White-label booking pages on the Scale plan, no HoundBell branding
• Additional locations purchasable on Scale, prorated instantly
• Returning customers recognized automatically, so a repeat client’s whole story lives on one card
• A permanent deal history with lifetime value for every client
• Multi-service jobs priced line by line
• Add a lead and book their first visit in one motion
• Booking requests straight from your website
• A shareable hosted booking page that takes bookings with no website at all
• A full calendar with recurring visits and crew scheduling
• Blocked-off time with permanent staff time-off records
• Contracts your clients sign from their phones
• Invoices paid by card
• Automatic review requests after every happy job
• Automatic follow-ups that chase your quotes and invoices so you don’t have to
• Webhooks that send your leads, payments, and bookings to other tools the moment they happen
• Smart spam screening on every form
• A phone field that refuses impossible numbers

Plans on this page reflect our current direction and can change as we build. When a feature ships, it moves off this page and into the product, usually with a help article the same day.