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Backflow Base vs Workiz.
Field-service software for home services, with AI phone answering as a paid add-on. Made by Workiz (www.workiz.com).
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Side by side
| Backflow Base | Workiz | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Backflow testing companies | Home-service businesses of any trade |
| Price | $50/month or $500/year per company, 45 days free, no card to sign up | Standard, Pro and Ultimate; prices on request |
| Per-test or filing fee | None, and no per-user fee | Not on the pages we checked |
| Online booking | Hosted booking page, or your own website's form through the API | Online booking included |
| Phone bookings | An AI receptionist on your Quo number books callers and texts a pay link | AI answering (Genius Answering), a paid add-on |
| Routes | Puts each tester's stops in driving order | Not on the pages we checked |
| Backflow test in the field | Field app scores RPZ, double check, PVB and SVB tests, with no signal | No backflow test forms described |
| Reports to the water system | Each address matched to its water system; the report is emailed where the system takes email, and the portal is named where it doesn't | No water-system filing described |
| Card payments | To your own Stripe account; Stripe's fees only, Backflow Base adds none | Payments included |
| Next year's test | "You're due" emails, and Autopilot charges the saved card after each year's test | Not on the pages we checked |
| Customer portal | For HOAs, property managers, contractors and commercial sites | Not on the pages we checked |
| Set up by an AI assistant | Yes: sign-up and setup through the API and MCP, in test mode until the owner goes live | Not on the pages we checked |
From each company's own public pages, checked . Prices and features change: see a mistake? Email hello@backflowbase.com and we will fix it.
Workiz may suit you if
- You run several home services and want one app for all of them.
- You want phone answering from the same vendor as your field app.
Backflow Base may suit you if
- You want phone bookings priced from your backflow price list, included in the price.
- You want the backflow test scored and filed with the district.
- You want a published, flat price.
Questions
Does Workiz answer the phone?
Workiz offers AI phone answering, Genius Answering, as a paid add-on. Backflow Base books callers from a Quo AI receptionist at no extra charge.
Does Workiz file backflow test reports?
Its pricing page describes no backflow test forms or water-system filing.
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The software
- Bookings from a booking page, your own website, and an AI receptionist on your phone.
- Schedule board and route for each tester.
- Field app that scores every test, even with no signal.
- Test reports sent to the water system that serves each address.
- Card payments to your own Stripe account, and yearly renewals that charge after the test.
- Client portal for HOAs, property managers and contractors.
- $50/month flat: no per-test fee, no cut of payments.
- Every feature →What the app does, part by part.
- Compare →Next to other backflow and field-service software.
- Start free →No card. $50/month or $500/year once you go live, 45 days free.
- Free exam prep →Study questions, practice exams, device tests, a VR wet lab.