The report and the invoice, done before you leave the driveway.
Walk the house, tap the checklist, photos straight from the camera. The moment you tap Complete, the owner is reading the report and the visit is already a charge.
House Matters is home watch software for small businesses. A card for every client home, a route that puts overdue first, a checklist per house with a photo on every item, the owner’s report as a link that needs no account, and the visit billed on your own Stripe, Wave or Venmo. Your first three client homes are free, then $19 a month. Works in your browser on any phone.
Watch it. Flag it. Bill it.
Built for the person families trust with the house.
The work stays at the house — none of it follows you home.
The visit does its own back office.
Tuesday, four houses, the same loop at each: walk it, tick it, tap Complete. By the time you’re back in the truck the owner has the report and the charge is on the books.
- The route builds itself, overdue first
- The report writes itself as you walk
- The charge hits the books at Complete
Every flag becomes a paid work order.
A loose latch on today’s walk is a photo, a price and the owner’s one-tap yes — not a January surprise. If you fix things too, there’s a page for that.
- Photo, price, the owner’s one-tap yes
- Before-and-after on the owner’s report
- Parts and labor billed when it’s done
No favor rides for free.
Storm shutters, a contractor let-in, the mail run. Two taps from a preset you set once, itemized on the owner’s invoice.
- Storm prep, let-ins, mail runs — two taps
- Your presets — flat, or hourly with a minimum
- Itemized on the owner’s invoice
A clean, itemized report, under your name.
Every item you checked, every photo you took, every flag with your note — delivered as a link that opens in any browser. No account, nothing to install. You look as thorough as you are.
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Every client, every home, one glance.
A card for every home in your care — the owner, the cadence, your rate, the last visit, and what’s due next. A client with more than one home rolls up, so you bill the family in one go.
The route and the checklist run themselves.
Set the cadence once per home. From then on the app tells you where to be, and what to look at when you get there.
Cadences that hold
Weekly, every two weeks, monthly, or your own days. The route builds itself and overdue homes surface first.
Snowbird pause
Season over? Pause the home — it leaves your route and your count, and comes back on the date you set.
A checklist per home
Your 24-point default seeds every new home. Edit once, applies forward. The pool house gets pool items; the condo doesn’t.
Extras and errands, billed
Storm shutters, a contractor let-in, the mail run — charge it the moment it happens, from presets you set once.
Flags become work orders
A loose latch on today’s walk files itself on the home’s list with your photos, and the owner sees it.
Collections that chase themselves
Card and bank invoices remind on their own; Venmo requests get a one-tap nudge instead of an awkward text.
The work is done. So is the invoice.
Tap Complete and the visit is already an invoice. Bundle a family’s month in one tap, or bill each visit as it happens. On your own Stripe, Wave or Venmo — House Matters takes no cut, sells no leads, and keeps unbilled and unpaid on your screen until they’re settled.
Your accounts, your money — House Matters sends the invoice and keeps the record. See pricing →
Bill a visit or a month. Get paid your way.
Every check and extra becomes a charge on its own — nothing to reconcile at month-end. Bundle a family’s month in one tap and send it as a card or bank invoice, or a Venmo request with the itemized summary. Invoice night becomes a tap.
Your clients see your work in House Matters.
Free for them, nothing to install, your name on every visit. When they need a hand with the house, the ask comes to you, not whoever texted them last. Built by Family Matters, so the money side is there if they ever want it.
The owner’s side pulls its weight too — stays, guests, the supply list — and anything they flag lands on your next check.
Your first three client homes are free. Then $19 a month.
Everything included from your first home. Past three active homes, Pro is $19 a month or $190 a year. Paused homes don’t count, there is no per-user fee, and House Matters takes no cut of what you bill.
No contract · No credit card to start · Free for homeowners, always
| Tool | Price at one user | What the price buys |
|---|---|---|
| House Matters | $0 up to 3 client homes, then $19/mo | Everything, no per-user fee, no cut of your invoices |
| Home Watcher (HomeWatchTools) | $49/mo, or about $44/mo billed yearly | Reports, scheduling, contracts, team tools |
| NestWatch | Solo $49/mo · Pro $99 · Business $199 | AI-written reports, a homeowner portal |
| QRIDit Home Watch | Essentials $50/mo (20 clients, 3 users) · Pro from $65 | QR-code visit verification, reports |
| HomeWatch Pro (formerly HWSoft) | $34.98/mo up to 10 clients · $52.46 to 20 · $69.95, or $3,495 to buy | Occupancy tracking, client portal, records |
| Home Watch IT | From $69/mo · $109 with Method:CRM · extra users $29–$39 | Full operations, two-way accounting, route tools |
| Jobber (generic field service) | Core $49/mo month-to-month, $21–$29 prepaid yearly | Quotes, scheduling, invoicing — no home-watch report |
Prices read from each company’s own pricing page on September 9, 2026. Read the full comparison →
Plain answers, before you ask.
The questions operators ask on the first call, answered the way they’d be answered on the phone.
Does it work with no signal?
You need a connection when you tap Complete. Walk the house and take photos as normal — the app holds them — and tap Complete once you have a bar. Don’t close the app before then: the visit isn’t saved until it’s sent.
Is there GPS proof that I was there?
No. Your proof is the photo on every item, taken in the app and timestamped. The owner sees the exact minute each photo was taken and the minute the report went out. Tools that geo-fence you sell that as trust; the owner who opens twelve dated photos of her own house doesn’t need a map.
Does it run on iPhone and Android?
Works in your browser on any phone, in the driveway. Open app.housematters.app on any phone and save it to the home screen. The House Matters app for iPhone is in review with Apple; Android follows.
What if I hire someone?
Add a helper and they walk the checklist under their own name. Rates, invoices and payments stay yours. There is no per-user fee. There is also no crew dispatch or roles system — House Matters is built for the operator who is mostly alone.
Who sees my client list?
You, and nobody else. Not other operators, not the owners’ families, not House Matters’ marketing. Your clients, homes, gate codes, photos and invoices belong to you. Ask, and you get a spreadsheet of all of it within a week — or the account and everything in it deleted.
Do my clients have to download anything?
No. The report and the invoice are links that open in any browser. If the owner wants more — the keys, the stays, the supply list, every bill in one place — House Matters is free for homeowners, and your reports are already in it.
I’m on QRIDit or Home Watch IT today. Why move?
Because you pay $50–$69 a month for a crew’s tool and use a fifth of it. House Matters does the part a small business actually does every day — the route, the checklist, the photo report, the invoice — for $0 to three homes and $19 after. Bring your client list as a spreadsheet; add each home once with its checklist; your old reports stay wherever they are.
Does NHWA accreditation matter?
It matters to some owners and to nobody’s software. House Matters works the same whether you carry the CHWP letters or not. What accreditation costs and what it buys is in the accreditation guide.
Will the price go up, or my data get locked in?
Free stays free for your first three homes, Pro is $19, and your data leaves as a spreadsheet on request. If you go back to Free, everything you built stays — clients, homes, visit history, invoices — and three active homes is the line again.
Guides and templates for home watchers.
All guides and templates →Home watch visit report
The full report, on the page, ready to copy.
GuideHome watch checklist (2026)
What the pros check on every visit, room by room.
GuideHome watch pricing: what to charge
Per-visit, monthly and add-on pricing with the math.
GuideBilling home watch clients
The four billing models, and which one to pick.
TemplateKey holder agreement
The one document every owner should sign.
GuideHome watch business insurance
GL, E&O and the dishonesty bond, with real numbers.
GuideYour first 25 clients
Where home watch clients actually come from.
GuideBest home watch software (2026)
Every rival, every price, dated and honest.
From signup to paid, in four steps.
Sign up free
Your name or your business name. Pick Home watch & checks. No credit card to start.
Add your homes
Owner, cadence, your rate, and a checklist per home. Invite the owner if you want them looped in.
Do the work
Walk it — checklist, photos, flags. Charges build themselves as you go.
Send the invoice
A visit or a whole month, bundled per family. Card, bank, or Venmo.
Watch over homes for a living? Start today.
Free to set up your homes and send your first report. Be up and running before your next round.
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