5 ShareWillow Alternatives for HVAC and Plumbing Shops (2026)
September 7, 2026
Which ShareWillow Alternative Fits Your Shop
Which ShareWillow alternative fits your shop comes down to one question: what do you actually pay people on?
If you pay technicians on completed jobs in Housecall Pro or Jobber, TeamBuyIn is the closest fit. If you run a company profit pool, ShareWillow still handles that well. If you want a KPI scorecard to drive bonuses, Applause, Home Service Scorecard, and PerformancePay.net all compete there. If you pay crews on labor savings, look at ProTiv.
Each of these tools answers a different pay question, so the first step is naming yours.
Four Ways to Run Pay for Performance
Every tool on this list runs one of four pay models.
- Profit pools. The team earns a share once the company or a project clears a threshold, usually paid after the books close. This is ShareWillow.
- Job-level commissions. Technicians earn on every completed ticket through percentage of revenue, percentage of profit, spiffs, or tiers. This is TeamBuyIn.
- KPI scorecard bonuses. The owner picks several metrics, weights each one, and pays a bonus based on how many targets the tech hits. This is Applause, Home Service Scorecard, and PerformancePay.net.
- Labor savings. Crews share the hours they save against a labor budget. This is ProTiv.
Scorecards are best for coaching
A scorecard is a strong coaching tool. It shows a technician where they stand on memberships, callbacks, and reviews, and it gives managers something concrete to talk about.
The trouble starts when the scorecard becomes the paycheck. Here is a hypothetical example of a weighted scorecard bonus: a $400 monthly bonus split across four goals, each weighted at 25%.
- Each goal is worth $400 × 0.25 = $100
- The tech hits three of four goals: 3 × $100 = $300
- The tech misses the fourth and loses $100
To know what they earned, that tech has to track four targets, four weights, and a partial payout. Many plans also pay a percentage of each goal reached, which adds another layer of math.
Compare that to a job-level commission, also hypothetical. A tech closes a $1,000 ticket at a 10% commission: $1,000 × 0.10 = $100. That $100 shows up on the job the day it closes.
TeamBuyIn uses scorecards and leaderboards for coaching and pays on completed jobs. Keep that distinction in mind as you read each alternative below.
How ShareWillow Works
ShareWillow is a profit pool platform. According to ShareWillow's homepage, you set company-wide thresholds that must be hit before a plan pays out, then build formulas by role or tenure. Employees see their calculations and goals in a dashboard.
ShareWillow recommends paying out quarterly with a 30 to 60 day delay so you can close your books. They also offer a one-time plan design consultation, and pricing is based on active participants.
That model works well for owner-style profit sharing. The gap for service shops is timing: a technician who closes a strong ticket on Tuesday won't see what it was worth until the quarter closes. If you need pay tied to each completed job, the alternatives below fill that gap in different ways.
Pricing
ShareWillow charges $60-$120 a month per technician depending on the support level you're looking for.
1. TeamBuyIn
Best for: HVAC and plumbing shops on Housecall Pro or Jobber that pay technicians on completed jobs.
TeamBuyIn connects to Housecall Pro and Jobber, applies your commission rules to every completed job, and routes each payout through review and approval before a one-tap CSV export to payroll. Technicians open the app and see exactly what each job paid them and why.
Supported structures include percentage of revenue, percentage of profit, flat spiffs, split commissions, revenue tiers, per-job tiers, and user-based rates and tiers. Every override is logged with a reason. Employee scorecards and a team leaderboard handle the coaching side, as covered in the section above.
According to TeamBuyIn's homepage, 350+ technicians use the product, more than $500,000 in commissions have been processed, and customers report a 10% average ticket increase.
Pricing
TeamBuyIn's pricing page lists $199 per month for up to 5 users, plus $30 per month for each additional user.
If you need help designing the plan itself, the Performance Pay Build-Out is $9,997 one-time and includes 12 months of TeamBuyIn.
2. Applause
Best for: shops that want reviews, NPS, and behavior-based bonuses in one platform.
Applause is the broadest scorecard platform on this list. It combines technician scorecards, performance incentives, competitions, review requests, NPS surveys, customer tipping, and AI insights.
According to the Applause FAQ, scorecards draw from 70+ metrics. Admins choose which metrics to track, which to show techs, and which to tie to incentives, and they can assign weights. Bonuses trigger automatically when a tech hits a KPI, such as a small reward for each 5-star review.
The same FAQ names ServiceTitan, Jobber, and WorkWave as integrations. Housecall Pro is not named, so confirm compatibility on a demo. Pricing is not published. Applause sells two packages, Engage and Perform, and asks you to contact them for pricing. Onboarding takes a few weeks.
The tradeoff goes back to the scorecard math above. Applause is excellent at rewarding reviews and service behavior. If your technicians need to see commission on every invoice line, that is a different engine.
Pricing
Applause does not publicly disclose their pricing.
3. Home Service Scorecard
Best for: ServiceTitan shops doing $1M to $10M that want a done-for-you scorecard.
Home Service Scorecard is built only for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical companies on ServiceTitan. Their team configures your goals, scorecards, contests, and performance pay, then connects ServiceTitan so actuals pull automatically. Techs get a daily number, a leaderboard rank, and a running performance pay total. Owners also get a performance coach who sends weekly focus texts and emails.
They are upfront that the scorecard is only as good as your data: if your pricebook or job costing is wrong, the scorecard will be wrong. They check that before launch.
Pricing
Their homepage lists $799 per month for companies under $3M on ServiceTitan and $1,299 per month for $3M to $10M, plus a one-time setup fee. If you are on Housecall Pro or Jobber, Home Service Scorecard is not an option.
4. PerformancePay.net
Best for: owners who want coaching on defining expectations more than they want software.
PerformancePay.net describes itself as helping companies define expectations, connect compensation to results, and improve motivation through coaching and its "AskSeth AI" support. Their YouTube channel is led by Seth Lewis.
The product is an online scorecard that runs the same weighted-scorecard model covered earlier. It does not integrate with any field service software, so the numbers behind each scorecard come in by hand.
If you want a coach to help you build your first set of expectations, that guidance has value. If you want pay calculated automatically from your completed jobs, the manual entry puts you back in the spreadsheet you were trying to leave.
Pricing
Performancepay.net does not publicly disclose their pricing.
5. ProTiv
Best for: crew-based businesses that pay on labor savings, especially landscaping on Aspire, LMN, or Jobber.
ProTiv is a scorecard built around labor. ProTiv's homepage describes its main model as crews beating the labor budget on a job, route, or phase and sharing the savings. Four targets are live today: labor savings, billable percentage, produced hours, and produced revenue. Labor cost percentage and gross margin are marked "Soon."
Integrations cover Aspire, Procore, Jobber, QuickBooks Time, LMN, Boss, Paycom, and Salesforce. ServiceTitan is still listed as "in discovery," and Housecall Pro is not on the list. That makes ProTiv the only scorecard option here without a ServiceTitan connection.
Pricing
ProTiv's pricing page lists $20 per active worker per month, billed quarterly, with a $99 monthly minimum.
If your crews install fixed-scope work and the goal is fewer hours per job, ProTiv is built for that. If your technicians sell on service calls, a labor scorecard won't reward the revenue they create.
ShareWillow Alternatives FAQ
What is the best ShareWillow alternative for HVAC companies?
For HVAC shops on Housecall Pro or Jobber that pay technicians on completed jobs, TeamBuyIn is the strongest pay for performance alternative. On ServiceTitan, Applause and Home Service Scorecard are the scorecard options. Keep ShareWillow if your plan is mostly company profit sharing.
What is the difference between a scorecard bonus and a commission?
A scorecard bonus pays based on how many weighted KPI targets a technician hits over a period. A commission pays on each completed job, so the technician sees what every ticket earned. Scorecards work well for coaching. Commissions work well as the pay engine.
Which ShareWillow alternatives integrate with ServiceTitan?
Applause and Home Service Scorecard both integrate with ServiceTitan. ProTiv lists ServiceTitan as "in discovery." TeamBuyIn and PerformancePay.net do not integrate with ServiceTitan.
Which ShareWillow alternatives work with Housecall Pro?
TeamBuyIn connects directly to Housecall Pro. None of the other alternatives on this list name Housecall Pro as an integration on their websites.
Does ShareWillow replace commission software?
ShareWillow centers on profit pools with company-wide thresholds and payouts after the books close. Shops that need commission calculated on every completed job usually add or switch to a commission platform like TeamBuyIn.
How do I evaluate alternatives without a full migration?
Pick three real payouts you already run, such as a repair percentage, an install margin, and a maintenance spiff. Run each one in the candidate tool. Keep the platform that handles all three without a side spreadsheet.
Choose the ShareWillow Alternative That Pays the Way Your Techs Work
Go back to the four pay models from the start of this article. Profit pools point to ShareWillow. KPI scorecards point to Applause or Home Service Scorecard on ServiceTitan, or PerformancePay.net if you want coaching first. Labor savings points to ProTiv. Commission on every completed job in Housecall Pro or Jobber points to TeamBuyIn.
Your next step: write down what you pay on today, which field service software you run, and three real payouts from last month. Then book a time with us, and we will run those payouts in TeamBuyIn with you.