Updated 2026-09-11. No ranked winner.
MakeWash is pressure-washing-only software published as free today with a future $49/month per-business floor. QuoteIQ is a soft-wash and pressure-washing-heavy CRM with named plans from Essentials $29.99. Those units are not interchangeable, so this page does not name a winner. Figures are from vendor pages checked 2026-09-11. We have not tested either app.
Published 2026-09-11. Last checked 2026-09-11.
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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 soft-wash and pressure-washing-heavy CRM with aggressive named-plan gates. The products do not sell the same units.
See the MakeWash and QuoteIQ 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. Named-plan versus Jobber stays on QuoteIQ vs Jobber. Named-plan versus Opervo stays on QuoteIQ vs Opervo. Named-plan versus Housecall Pro stays on QuoteIQ vs Housecall Pro. 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. QuoteIQ sells a plan name plus a fixed user count and a feature gate on each tier. You cannot subtract one published dollar from the other and get a breakeven.
| Plan | Users included | Monthly | Yearly (as published) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | 1 | $29.99 | $299.99/year |
| Beginner | 2 | $74.99 | $749.99/year |
| Pro | 4 | $149.99 | $1,499.99/year |
| Elite | 10 | $299 | $2,990/year |
| Max | Unlimited | $699 | $6,990/year |
The 1-user floor is Essentials at $29.99/month or $299.99/year. Yearly cards also show an equivalent monthly figure. Unused IQ credits do not roll over.
MakeWash processing percent, card / ACH / instant fees, and multi-seat paid rules are a GAP. No published payment % rate card sits on the fetched MakeWash pages. How many seats sit on the paid $49 plan is a GAP.
Soft-wash / satellite depth
A soft-wash week often needs satellite takeoffs, SH / surfactant inventory, per-job chemical costing, routing, and a books connector. Those needs do not sit on both entry floors.
QuoteIQ (matrix first)
Prefer help and the pricing matrix. Do not price Elite tools from the $29.99 SEO hero.
Schedule, route, and quoting
QuickBooks Online
Direction, objects, unpaid invoices, and Desktop stay on the QuickBooks guide. This page locks the published gates.
Payments
Do not treat either vendor’s card math as a single settled rate. Confirm on a real invoice.
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Trials and $0 language
Those offers are not interchangeable. A launch $0 product with a stated later $49 floor is not a card-required 14-day trial with a 250-credit meter.
Who each product is for
These are fit notes against published units and documented claims. They are not awards.
MakeWash is for a shop that wants a published $0 bill today, will model $49/month per business after a month of notice, and wants the software page’s per-sqft estimating and soft-wash chemistry claims. An in-product satellite aerial measure SKU, QBO, named Route Optimization, a published payment % rate card, and paid-plan seat count are NOT CLAIMED or a GAP. The $0 bill is not forever-free.
QuoteIQ is for a shop that wants a published sub-$30 Essentials floor, accepts an IQ-credit meter, and can move to Beginner, Pro, or Elite when MapMeasure, QuickBooks, inventory, Route Optimization, density, or dispatch appear on the matrix. Options Estimates are documented on every plan. Soft-wash chemistry and SH inventory are not documented on Essentials. Offline field use is a GAP.
This page does not rank a winner. Quote MakeWash at the published $0 / $49 units and quote QuoteIQ at the plan that lists the feature you need, then compare the written totals. MakeWash versus Jobber stays on MakeWash vs Jobber. QuoteIQ versus Jobber stays on QuoteIQ vs Jobber. QuoteIQ versus Opervo stays on QuoteIQ vs Opervo. QuoteIQ versus Housecall Pro stays on QuoteIQ vs Housecall Pro. The wider solo set, including $0 tools and tools with pricing on request, stays on the solo operator guide.
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, QuoteIQ vs Jobber, QuoteIQ vs Opervo, QuoteIQ vs Housecall Pro, 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 QuoteIQ 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 treat QuoteIQ’s soft-wash or PW SEO pages as the plan matrix. We did not import QuoteIQ competitor “true monthly cost” tables as our facts. We did not invent a breakeven from a launch $0 / later $49 floor and an Essentials sticker. We did not pick a side on the QuoteIQ Stripe fee conflict. We did not invent a QuoteIQ offline mode. 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.
Sources
- MakeWash home: retrieved 2026-09-11
- MakeWash software (pricing + FAQ): retrieved 2026-09-11
- MakeWash about: retrieved 2026-09-11
- MakeWash tools (free calculators): retrieved 2026-09-11
- Houseler pricing (parent $49 corroboration): retrieved 2026-09-11
- QuoteIQ pricing: retrieved 2026-09-11
- QuoteIQ Pricing Plans 2026 (help matrix): retrieved 2026-09-11
- QuoteIQ CRM for soft washing: retrieved 2026-09-11
- QuoteIQ pressure washing software (industry): retrieved 2026-09-11
- QuoteIQ payments help (Stripe): retrieved 2026-09-11
- QuoteIQ QuickBooks Online help: retrieved 2026-09-11
- QuoteIQ affiliates (existence only): retrieved 2026-09-11