Switching from ServiceTitan
ServiceTitan Alternatives for Hood Cleaning Companies
ServiceTitan is built for large HVAC, plumbing, and electrical operations — powerful, but priced and shaped for trades that aren’t yours. If you clean commercial kitchen exhaust, here are the real alternatives, and why a hood cleaning company usually ends up somewhere purpose-built.
The switching triggers
Why hood cleaning companies leave ServiceTitan
It is built for residential HVAC, not commercial kitchens
ServiceTitan grew up around home services. There is no NFPA 96 layer in it — no frequency derived from cooking type, no grease depth logged against the threshold, no section citation on the record.
Enterprise cost and enterprise complexity
Per-technician pricing climbs with every seat, an implementation fee lands before you run a single job, and you carry configuration depth built for operations far larger than a hood cleaning crew.
You still build the certificate by hand
The jobs get scheduled and invoiced, but the document your client actually needs — the NFPA 96 report and certificate — is still assembled after the fact from photos and notes.
Ranked for the trade
The alternatives, ranked for hood cleaning
HoodOps
The NFPA 96 report and certificate generate from the job record itself, with the section citation for the edition your jurisdiction adopted. Clients get it in a HoodOps portal, sealed by EvidLY — a booking screen and the proof, in one place. Priced by the customer accounts you service, with unlimited users on every plan.
See HoodOps →Jobber
Built for HVAC and plumbing, not hood cleaning. Here is exactly what is missing for the work hood cleaners actually do.
HoodOps vs Jobber →Housecall Pro
A solid home-services tool — but the NFPA 96 side a hood cleaning company lives on is not there.
HoodOps vs Housecall Pro →ServiceTrade
The commercial incumbent — strong on assets, but no NFPA 96 certificates, frequency scheduling, or grease logging.
ServiceTrade Alternative →The differentiator
The one thing to check on any alternative
Ask whether the NFPA 96 certificate generates from the job record, or whether someone still builds it afterwards. Almost every field service platform will schedule the work, capture photos, and raise the invoice. Far fewer derive the cleaning frequency from cooking type, log grease depth against the threshold, cite the NFPA 96 section for the edition your jurisdiction adopted, and produce the certificate as an output of the job rather than a document someone assembles later. That gap is the whole difference between software that tracks your work and software that proves it.
Frequently Asked Questions
See it on your own jobs
Book a 30-minute demo and walk through the NFPA 96 job flow with the operator who built it.