What does a three-technician pest company actually pay?

Three routes on Basic is $147 per month. If you also want the software to charge customer cards automatically, that is a Pro feature, which puts three routes at $297 per month. The $49 figure on the pricing page assumes a single route.

Is GorillaDesk priced per user or per route?

Per route. Each technician running their own route counts as one route. That is friendlier than per-seat pricing when you hire a second technician, and less friendly if you are a solo operator with occasional help.

Is chemical and pesticide tracking included in the $49 plan?

Yes. Material logging — product, EPA-registered product list, dilution units, application method, location and target pest — is part of the Basic tier, not a paid add-on. We assumed otherwise at first because it appears in the Add-ons panel of the interface, and checked the pricing page before publishing.

Do I need the Pro plan?

Two things push small pest companies to Pro. Automatic card charging of customers is Pro-only — Basic can schedule a recurring invoice but will not pull the money. Multi-unit property management is also Pro-only, which matters if you service apartment buildings or commercial sites with multiple units.

Is there a free trial, and does it need a card?

The trial is 14 days and does not ask for a credit card. In our test the practical limit was emailing customers: we sent one invoice email and the second customer email was blocked with a request to upgrade. Anything that depends on emailing customers cannot be fully evaluated on the trial.

Are there setup fees or a contract?

No setup fee and no contract term appeared anywhere in our trial account or on the vendor's pricing page. Paying annually is cheaper than monthly: Basic is $539 per year against $588 if paid monthly, and Growth is $1,639 against $1,788. We did not test an annual subscription ourselves.

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GorillaDesk pricing: what $49 a month actually buys a three-technician pest company

Q: How much does GorillaDesk cost per month?

As of 8 October 2026 the published prices are Basic at $49 per month ($539 per year), Pro at $99 per month, and Growth at $149 per month ($1,639 per year). Billing is per route, not per user, so a company with three technicians each running their own route pays for three routes.

GorillaDesk publishes three tiers — $49, $99 and $149 a month — and bills per route rather than per user. For a residential pest company with three technicians, that means $147 a month on the cheapest tier, and $297 if you want the software to charge customer cards on its own. Here is how the numbers add up, read off the vendor's own pricing page on 8 October 2026.

Written by William Wang Prices checked 8 October 2026 Basic tier tested in a free trial No vendor involvement

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The short version

GorillaDesk's structure is simple and its published prices are low for what you get, but the headline $49 describes a company with one route. Three routes is $147. And two features that most residential pest companies eventually want — charging the customer's card automatically, and managing multi-unit properties — sit one tier up, so the number to plan against is closer to $297 a month than $147.

The tier you are really choosing between is Basic and Pro. If your customers pay by check or you invoice them and wait, Basic does the whole job, including the pesticide application record that state inspectors ask about. If you want the money to move on its own, you are on Pro.

At a glance

Basic	$49/month or $539/year — estimates, invoices, work orders, recurring jobs, scheduling, materials tracking, Square/Stripe integration
Pro	$99/month — adds automatic subscription charging, customer portal, online booking, review requests, e-signature, multi-unit property management
Growth	$149/month or $1,639/year — adds map-based estimating, dynamic quote packages, sales pipeline, custom fields, multiple branches
Billing model	Per route, not per user. Three technicians on their own routes = three routes.
Three-technician company	$147/month on Basic · $297/month on Pro
Free trial	14 days, no credit card
Setup fee	None found on the pricing page or in the trial
What we tested	Basic, in a free trial, 8–9 October 2026. Pro and Growth features were not tested.

The published tiers, as they stood on 8 October 2026

These are the vendor's own numbers, read from GorillaDesk's pricing page. We do not quote aggregator prices, and prices change — check the page before you buy.

Tier	Price	What it adds
Basic	$49/month or $539/year	Estimates, invoices, work orders, recurring jobs, scheduling, materials tracking, advanced invoicing frequency, Square/Stripe integration, reports
Pro	$99/month	Everything in Basic plus automatic subscription charging, the customer portal, online booking, review requests, e-signature, multi-unit property management
Growth	$149/month or $1,639/year	Everything plus map-based estimating, dynamic quote packages, sales pipeline, custom fields, multiple branches

One honest note on the annual figures: $539 a year works out to $44.92 a month, so paying annually saves about $49 over twelve monthly payments. On Growth, $1,639 saves about $149. We did not buy an annual plan, so we are reading the discount off the price list rather than describing it from experience.

Per route, not per user — and why that matters

GorillaDesk charges by route. A route is roughly "one technician's day of stops", so a three-technician company where everyone runs their own work is three routes, whether or not the office manager also logs in. That is worth comparing against tools that charge per seat: at per-seat pricing, three technicians plus one office login is four seats.

The trade-off is at the small end. If you are a solo operator with a part-time helper you pay for two routes, and if you are a two-person crew riding together you are paying for one — which is the good half of this model.

What we could not verify: whether a route can be shared, reassigned, or left idle without being billed. We tested a single account, so we never saw an invoice with more than one route on it. Treat the three-route arithmetic above as the vendor's published model, not as an observation from a live bill.

The two gates that move the real price

1. Charging the customer's card is a Pro feature

On Basic you can put a customer on a recurring invoice and the software knows when to bill. It will not take the money. Automatic subscription charging — the customer's card on file, charged on schedule — sits in Pro at $99 a month.

For a company whose revenue is a quarterly contract renewed automatically, that is the difference between chasing payments and not. On the three-route example that is $147 versus $297 a month, so the real question is whether a part-time person chasing payments costs more or less than $150 a month. For most companies it costs more, which is why the price they should plan for is $297, not $49.

2. Multi-unit properties are also Pro

Our second test customer was a 24-unit apartment building, and multi-unit property management lives in Pro. If your book includes apartment complexes, HOAs, or commercial sites with several units, that gate applies to you as well.

One correction to our own first impression. Chemical tracking shows up in the Add-ons panel of the interface, which made us assume it was a paid extra. It is not — material logging is inside the $49 tier. We checked the pricing page before writing this, and we flagged our mistake in the review as well.

What the $49 tier really gives you

The cheapest tier is not a crippled version. It does the whole loop a residential pest company runs: quote, schedule, recurring visits, work order, invoice, record the payment, and log the pesticide application. The pesticide record is the part worth understanding before you decide, because it is the reason many pest companies pick this tool over a bigger general-purpose platform.

Pesticide application record printed on a GorillaDesk work order, showing product name Suspend SC .03% with EPA registration number 432763, 4 fluid ounces, dilution of 2 fluid ounces per gallon, spot treatment method, interior baseboards and kitchen, and ants and spiders as target pests. — What prints on the customer's work order at the $49 tier: the product, the EPA registration number, the amount, the dilution, where it was applied and what it was applied for. None of it typed by hand — every field is a pick-list.

Two limits on the cheapest tier are worth knowing, and neither is on the pricing page. Offline payments can only be recorded as Cash or Check — take a Zelle transfer and you have to file it as one of those two. And the Reports menu in our trial listed 16 reports, while the pricing page advertises 20 for Basic. We are reporting both numbers rather than picking one; the difference may be tier-related or a page that has not been updated.

Exported GorillaDesk work order PDF showing the customer block, the service item with a work order note, the pesticide application table with an EPA number, and client and technician signature blocks with printed names and signing dates. — The document a customer receives after a visit, from the cheapest tier. The signature blocks only render once someone has actually signed — our first export had none.

Costs the pricing page does not list

Three things showed up in the trial that a buyer should budget for.

The software picks a price before you do

When we scheduled a monthly service, the account already contained a draft invoice for it, with a line item, a description and a price attached to the service preset. We changed ours to match our test data, but the sequence matters: the number arrived before we set one. If you send that draft without reading it, you have billed a customer an amount the software chose.

GorillaDesk invoice PDF showing a single line item for Monthly Service with a price of 189 dollars, a payment terms line reading Payment is due on receipt, and a notes line reading Thank you for your business. — The invoice GorillaDesk drafted on its own when a monthly service was scheduled. The line item, the description and the terms were pre-filled; we edited the price to $189 for our test. The invoice frequency was set to bill with each job.

Card payments run through a separate system

GorillaDesk connects to Square or Stripe rather than processing cards itself, so card fees are whatever those providers charge, on top of your subscription. We did not connect a payment processor, so we cannot tell you anything about rates or settlement from experience — and any review that quotes you card rates for this product is quoting someone else's contract.

GorillaDesk Add Payment screen with the method dropdown open showing only two options, Cash and Check. — Inside the software, only two offline payment methods exist. Card payments are handled by the Square or Stripe integration instead — a separate system with its own fees.

The trial caps customer emails

The trial runs 14 days and does not ask for a card, which is generous. It also stopped us sending the second customer email with "You've hit your free trial email limit." If evaluating the customer-facing side of the product is the point of your trial, plan the two messages you care about in advance.

Basic, Pro or Growth?

If you are	Look at
One route, customers pay by check or bank transfer, no multi-unit sites	Basic. The pesticide record, recurring jobs and invoicing are all inside $49.
Any size, but you want cards charged automatically	Pro. This is the gate most residential pest companies hit.
Servicing apartments, HOAs or multi-unit commercial sites	Pro. Multi-unit management is Pro-only.
Running several branches or a sales pipeline	Growth. We did not test it, so we cannot tell you whether it is worth $50 more per route.

Frequently asked questions

How much does GorillaDesk cost per month?

As of 8 October 2026: $49 for Basic ($539 a year), $99 for Pro, $149 for Growth ($1,639 a year). Billed per route.

What does a three-technician company actually pay?

Three routes on Basic is $147 a month. Three routes on Pro — which is what you need for automatic card charging — is $297 a month.

Is it priced per user?

No, per route. Each technician running their own route counts as one. An office login is not a separate seat, which is the useful part of this model.

Is chemical tracking included in Basic?

Yes. The product library, EPA registration numbers, dilution units, application methods, locations and target pests are all in the $49 tier. It appears in the Add-ons panel of the interface, which is misleading — we checked the pricing page before publishing.

Do I need Pro?

If you want customer cards charged automatically, yes. If you service multi-unit properties, yes. Otherwise Basic covers the whole residential route, including the pesticide documentation.

Are there setup fees, contracts or long commitments?

We saw none in the trial or on the pricing page. Annual billing is cheaper than monthly — about $49 a year cheaper on Basic, $149 on Growth — but we did not buy an annual plan and cannot describe the cancellation terms from experience.

What is not included in any tier?

Card processing fees, because those belong to Square or Stripe. And anything that depends on emailing customers during a trial, because the trial caps customer emails. Tracking technician hours is also not something this product does, which matters if you pay by the hour — we could not find check-in data anywhere in the reports.

Sources, and how to cite this page

Prices read from GorillaDesk's own pricing page on 8 October 2026. Behaviour observed in a free trial account (Basic tier) on 8–9 October 2026. Test data is fictional. Pro and Growth were not tested. We have not been paid by the vendor, and this page was not shown to the vendor before publication.

Cite this page: Wang, William. "GorillaDesk pricing: what $49 a month actually buys a three-technician pest company." Pest Software Hub, 10 October 2026. https://pestsoftwarehub.com/gorilladesk-pricing

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