HomeGauge vs GoCanvas: Which is a better fit?

William F.: This is William, co-founder and inspector. I give HomeGauge a five star review. For more reviews like this, click below. We considered a lot of different products before choosing HomeGauge. Some of the things that were very important to us were, of course, ease of use, functionalities so that I can use it for different types of inspections, because we do commercial inspections, multifamily inspections, residential as well. But then some platform that contained a lot of different functionality, such as the thing to be able to send emails to clients, to be able to handle the billing, to be able to handle the scheduling and calendar portion of it. So those were some of the key things that we were looking for, but of course, it all comes down to price as a big factor because keeping your cost of overhead low is very important in a business like this. So having something that's cost-effective, very efficient and makes you be able to perform your job at a professional level was the key factors for our company. We chose HomeGauge because after looking at the full comprehensive package that they offer, it was definitely the best value for us. From getting everything set up, the onboarding support, the web services that they offered, everything just seemed to be a very efficient package and definitely at a good price. We stayed with HomeGauge because it's continued to be a great value for our company. We've looked at the other competition that's out there in the field, we want to remain being an industry leading organization within our own market, and HomeGauge helps us do that. When we first started with HomeGauge, there were a ton of training videos, as well as online support to help us get up and running. So it was fairly easy to get the program up and running for our company. We were using it right away with our first inspections. One of the things that we really enjoyed about the program is that there is so many different directions that you can go with this. So much functionality within the program that we've been able to tailor it and tweak it to our needs as the years have gone by. If you're considering choosing a software package for your company, I really recommend that you do a deep dive into each of the different packages as well as you can, because there are so many different items that come with HomeGauge that you end up paying a little bit extra with other companies. So just the overall value of longterm, as your company grows, as you're doing X number of inspections per month, whether that's five inspections or whether that's 150 or 500 inspections, add up the cost for the different services and take a good look at what's going to be a good value for your company. To us, that's what it comes down to is that efficiency, the productivity that we get out of the HomeGauge. For sure at the cost, it's a no brainer it's the package for us.