CrewCost How we make money

Methodology

  1. Capture. We open each vendor's public pricing page in a browser, after reading its robots.txt, and save the page text with the date (2026-11-10). Pages we are not allowed to fetch, or that block automated browsers, are not captured.
  2. Label. A price we read on the vendor's page is “official”. A price from a guide or another site is “third-party” with its author and date, and gets a red badge.
  3. Never invent. No public price = “quote only” or “not published”. Third-party estimates are shown separately as estimates, never as prices.
  4. Total. Technicians + office seats → cheapest published plan, or per-user, per-route, per-job and per-licence rules as the vendor states them. 12 months = 12 × monthly (annual price where published and chosen).
  5. Not modelled: feature gating, add-ons, payment processing, taxes, implementation, minimum terms, discounts.
  6. Freshness. Entries not re-checked within 60 days are greyed. Re-checks are planned weekly; the first full re-check ran 2026-11-10 (see the change log).

Known gaps (2026-11-10)