PocketBoss

Yes — Free is the whole business: booking page and calendar, unlimited invoices and quotes, card payments, PDFs and invoice email, clients, expenses, time on the job, and a mileage log you fill in by hand. No card, no time limit; Boss is $14.99 a month for the extras listed under "What it costs".

No — a card payment is a direct charge to your own Stripe account, so the money never passes through ours and we cannot hold or freeze it. PocketBoss adds no fee and earns only from the $14.99 subscription; Stripe bills its own card fee straight to you.

Free is one login, the owner; Boss is up to 5 logins. Mint an invite code in Crew & logins and your helper joins as staff — they work the schedule, clients and invoices and get the Boss features, but cannot change money settings, edit the business profile or delete records.

Yes, on Android with Boss, opt-in and off by default: the phone records drives during your working hours, your jobs label them, and you mark each one business or personal at the end of the day. It records miles only — no rate, no dollar value — and a phone's sensors can miss a trip, so check every drive; on Free you log trips by hand.

No — PocketBoss keeps records (income from paid invoices, expenses by category, miles) and the Tax center on Boss sums your own entries for the year to copy or download for your accountant. It calculates nothing, applies no tax rate, and gives no tax, legal or accounting advice.

Not yet — PocketBoss runs on Android and in any web browser today, including an iPhone's browser at https://pocketboss-17392.web.app. A native iPhone app is planned, and there is no date to promise.

Yes, on Free. Every business gets a public booking page: the customer picks a service and a time inside your working hours and the request lands in the app for you to confirm or decline — or turn online booking off and the page shows your number instead.

Yes. Tap Send and the invoice goes from "Your Business via PocketBoss", replies going to your own business email, carrying a pay link; you can also download a PDF or copy it as plain text. Quotes send the same way — letting a customer approve one with a typed signature is a Boss feature.

Reminders go by email: an appointment reminder about a day before the job, a chase when an invoice is overdue, a follow-up on a quote gone quiet. Texts from PocketBoss's own number are limited to the founder's account today, so every other business texts from its own phone, one tap, in its own words — and only a customer who ticked "It's OK to text me" is ever texted.

Yes, on Boss. Request a deposit on a job and PocketBoss makes a Stripe payment link, prefilled from the service's suggested deposit; when it is paid, the job shows the deposit as received.

Yes, on Free. A quote uses the same line items, tax and discount as an invoice, numbers itself separately, and converts in one tap when the job is won; quotes that go quiet show up on your Today screen.

Cancel Boss and you keep it to the end of the month you paid for, then drop to Free with your records where they are. Export a JSON backup or CSV any time; delete your account and your sign-in goes at once, your business records and our backups within 30 days.

On Google Firebase, with Stripe for payments, SendGrid for email, Twilio for any text from the app's number and Anthropic for the Boss AI features; card numbers never touch PocketBoss. Your data is backed up every night to a file you can download from Backups & data, and the full list is in the privacy policy.

Yes, on Free. Clock in and out on a job or add hours by hand; set your hourly rate and the job shows what that time was worth.