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MakeWash vs Opervo

MakeWash is pressure-washing-only software free to use today with a published future paid floor of $49/mo per business (parent Houseler rate, one month notice), claiming per-sqft estimating and soft-wash chemistry tracking but not satellite measure, QBO, or a payment fee card. Opervo publishes Solo at $24.99/mo or $249/yr (2 users) and Team at $54.99/mo or $549/yr (up to 10), claiming Measurement Tool satellite sketch, SH/surfactant/fuel cost logging, and Route My Day on Solo with 0% Opervo payment markup. Live figures as of 2026-09-14. No winner. Depends on free-today PW-only simplicity vs Solo/Team wash-native measure/route/chem-cost depth.

Updated 2026-09-14. No ranked winner.

MakeWash is pressure-washing-only software published as free today with a future $49/month per-business floor. Opervo is a solo and small-crew field-service app at Solo $24.99 or Team $54.99. Those units are not interchangeable, so this page does not name a winner. Figures are from vendor pages checked 2026-09-14. We have not tested either app.

Published 2026-09-14. Last checked 2026-09-14.

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Two products

This is a wash-native launch product with a published $0 bill and a stated later $49 floor versus a flat Solo/Team field-service app with wash-native measure, chem-cost, and route claims. The products do not sell the same units.

See the MakeWash and Opervo profiles for documented functions, still without a field test. This page is a two-product comparison only.

Wash-native versus Jobber stays on MakeWash vs Jobber and Opervo vs Jobber. Wash-native versus QuoteIQ stays on MakeWash vs QuoteIQ and QuoteIQ vs Opervo. Wash-native versus CrewNest stays on MakeWash vs CrewNest and CrewNest vs Opervo. Soft-wash chemistry notes stay on the soft wash guide. $0 language stays on the free software guide.

How you pay

MakeWash publishes $0 today and a later per-business floor. Opervo sells Solo or Team, claims every feature on both, and charges no per-user add-on. You cannot subtract one published dollar from the other and get a breakeven.

PlanUsers includedMonthlyYearly (as published)
SoloOperator + 1 helper (2 users)$24.99$249/year
TeamUp to 10$54.99$549/year

The Solo floor is $24.99/month or $249/year. Team is $54.99/month or $549/year. Growth for teams over 10 is custom. The pricing page states a 14-day trial with no credit card. Annual Solo is described as saving $51 versus monthly; Team annual as saving $111.

MakeWash statusUsersMonthlyYearly (as published)Caps / extras
Free todayGAP$0n/aCalculator, playbooks, and early workflows. No card to start. Not a forever-free SLA.
When paidGAP$49/mo per businessNo annual SKU publishedOne month of notice. FAQ: $49 per month per business.

MakeWash processing percent, card / ACH / instant fees, and multi-seat paid rules are a GAP. How many seats sit on the paid $49 plan is a GAP. No published payment % rate card sits on the fetched MakeWash pages. Home JSON-LD names Stripe. Opervo processor % is a GAP.

Worked examples (published units only)

These rows use only the subscription cards above. They are arithmetic on published floors, not a field test and not a winner.

A. MakeWash $0 today versus Opervo Solo $24.99. MakeWash’s $0 bill is a launch floor with no published estimate or satellite cap on the fetched pages. Opervo Solo is $24.99/month or $249/year for the operator plus one helper, with every feature claimed on Solo. A $0 launch sticker is not the same stack as a paid two-user card.

B. MakeWash future $49 versus Opervo Solo $24.99. MakeWash’s stated later floor is $49/month per business, with no annual SKU. Opervo Solo is $24.99/month or $249/year for 2 users. A $24.01 monthly gap is not a like-for-like ops stack: seat rules, satellite, route, and chem-cost claims differ.

C. Opervo Team $54.99 / up to 10 versus MakeWash unpaid seat GAP. Opervo Team is $54.99/month or $549/year for up to 10 members. MakeWash does not publish paid multi-seat rules. Do not invent a MakeWash multi-seat paid total. Do not invent a MakeWash annual total.

Feature comparison

Satellite takeoff, chemistry, routing, books, payments, seats, and trial friction sit on different published units. Do not treat a row on one card as a row on the other.

Payments

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QuickBooks Online

Direction, objects, unpaid invoices, and Desktop stay on the QuickBooks guide. This page locks the published gates.

Trials and $0 language

Those offers are not interchangeable. A launch $0 product with a stated later $49 floor is not a no-card 14-day Solo preview.

When each is a reasonable fit

These are fit notes against published units and documented claims. They are not awards.

This page does not rank a winner. Quote MakeWash at the published $0 / $49 units and quote Opervo at Solo $24.99 or Team $54.99, then compare the written totals. MakeWash versus Jobber stays on MakeWash vs Jobber. MakeWash versus QuoteIQ stays on MakeWash vs QuoteIQ. MakeWash versus CrewNest stays on MakeWash vs CrewNest. Opervo versus Jobber stays on Opervo vs Jobber. QuoteIQ versus Opervo stays on QuoteIQ vs Opervo. CrewNest versus Opervo stays on CrewNest vs Opervo. The wider solo set, including $0 tools and tools with pricing on request, stays on the solo operator guide.

Gaps and conflicts

These rows stay unpublished on the fetched pages:

  • MakeWash in-product satellite / aerial measure: NOT CLAIMED
  • MakeWash named route optimization: NOT CLAIMED
  • MakeWash QuickBooks Online: NOT CLAIMED / GAP
  • MakeWash payment % rate card: GAP (Stripe named on home JSON-LD only)
  • MakeWash paid multi-seat rules: GAP
  • Opervo mix-ratio / dilution calculator: NOT CLAIMED
  • Opervo Square / Stripe processor %: GAP
  • Opervo live two-way QBO: Unverified (prefer features one-way invoices)

What we did not do

We have not run these products on a live wash route. We are not recommending a single product. We are not publishing star ratings.

We did not redo the solo operator guide, the free software guide, the soft wash guide, MakeWash vs Jobber, MakeWash vs QuoteIQ, MakeWash vs CrewNest, Opervo vs Jobber, QuoteIQ vs Opervo, CrewNest vs Opervo, or the QuickBooks guide. Those pages stay the workflow, $0 taxonomy, soft-wash taxonomy, other two-product bake-offs, and QuickBooks taxonomy. This page is the MakeWash versus Opervo bake-off only.

We did not invent MakeWash card, ACH, or instant percent fees. We did not treat $0 today as a forever-free SLA. We did not invent an in-product satellite aerial measure SKU. We did not invent a MakeWash QBO integration. We did not invent a MakeWash multi-seat paid total. We did not declare that free-today has ended because home JSON-LD prints 49.00. We did not invent an Opervo mix-ratio calculator. We did not invent Opervo Square or Stripe processor percents. We did not treat Founding 50 or Lifetime Pass as the core floor. We did not reprint Opervo competitor price tables or “$1,128 yearly savings” as our facts. We did not invent a breakeven from a launch $0 / later $49 floor and a Solo / Team sticker. We did not confirm Opervo QBO as live two-way. We did not wire affiliate CTAs or tracking URLs.

PressureWashStack does not earn commissions or affiliate revenue. Links on this page are ordinary vendor URLs, not tracking links. See the affiliate disclosure. Other directory listings stay on the directory.

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