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BookingMachine lets cleaning customers price their own clean and book it on every plan, free included, while QuoteIQ keeps customer self-quoting and online booking for its Elite plan and above, where each booking arrives as a request you accept. QuoteIQ is a wider contractor system, with estimates, e-signatures and job costing for many trades; BookingMachine is the front desk a cleaner's customers see.
Updated 4 Nov 2026
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The QuoteIQ column comes from QuoteIQ's own site, on the date below. Where their site says nothing, so does the table.
| Feature | BookingMachine | QuoteIQ |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Local service businesses, cleaners included | Home service contractors in many trades |
| Free plan | Yes, no card | No, a 14-day free trial; a card is needed to start |
| Paid plans from | $18 a month billed annually ($24 month to month) | $29.99 a month for one user on Essentials, checked 4 Nov 2026 |
| Customer prices their own job | Yes, on every plan | InstaQuote, on Elite and above |
| Customer books online | Yes, into a free slot, or held for your confirmation if you choose | InstaSchedule, on Elite and above; each booking is a request you accept |
| Deposits | Yes, on a paid plan | Yes, on every plan |
| Website | Free, built from your services, prices and reviews | An add-on on every plan except Max |
| Estimates with e-signatures and job costing | No | Yes |
QuoteIQ's own pages put InstaQuote, its customer self-quoting, on Elite and above, and say every InstaSchedule booking lands as a request you accept onto your calendar. In BookingMachine the customer prices the clean and books it on every plan, and a booking goes straight into a free slot unless you choose to confirm bookings yourself.
QuoteIQ covers the back office of a contracting business: estimates with packages and e-signatures, job costing, route planning on its larger plans. BookingMachine covers what the customer sees, the price, the slot, the deposit, the invoice and the review request, and is simpler to run as a result. A cleaner with mostly repeat homes rarely needs the first; a contractor with large one-off jobs might.
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For a cleaner who wants customers to price and book their own clean without the top plans, yes. For a contractor who needs estimates, e-signatures and job costing across trades, QuoteIQ does more.
Its own pages put InstaSchedule on Elite and above, with each booking arriving as a request you accept.
Its pricing page lists the website builder as a paid add-on on every plan except Max. BookingMachine includes a free website.
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