Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Scheduling, estimates, invoices, and payments for trade businesses. Written a few miles from the jobs it runs.
No credit card. No contract.
Stephen Brown founded Pillar in 2025 and builds it from Lancaster. It is one product, not a branch office with a sales script.
When you send a message through the site, it reaches the person who writes the code. There is no call center between you and the fix.
Meet the founder2025
Founded, and still built here
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Product. Every feature on, every account
$0
For the first person, with no time limit
The county is boroughs, farm lanes, and a city of brick row homes. A day's work here is rarely inside one zip code.
A morning on a Cabbage Hill row home and an afternoon on a well pump past Quarryville are the same working day. Every job carries its own address, notes, and photos, so nobody guesses on the way out.
Crews here work the Route 30 strip, run north on 222 toward Ephrata and Reading, and cross the river into York. Put the whole week on one board and see who is where.
Softener swaps, well pumps, and cast iron in houses older than the borough they sit in. Equipment tracking keeps the make, model, serial, and warranty date on the customer's record.
No-heat calls stack up from December through February and nobody has time to retype an invoice at 9pm. The finished job becomes the invoice without anyone entering it twice.
Lititz in the morning, Columbia after lunch. One board, one day, no phone tag with the truck.
Nothing is held back for a bigger account. There is nothing to unlock and nothing to upgrade into.
Techs download the app to their phone straight from a link.
Pillar runs for trade businesses anywhere in the country. Lancaster is just where it gets built, so these names show up in our test data more than most.
Plenty of shops here run into York, Reading, and Harrisburg too. If you cover more than one shop, each location keeps its own schedule and its own numbers.
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Every feature on, no time limit, no card at signup. That is the whole offer for a one-truck shop.
+$39/mo
Technicians, office staff, managers. Customers and subcontractors sign in free and never count.
Payments taken through Pillar carry Stripe’s standard processing fees on your own Stripe account, plus 1% to Pillar. Cash and checks cost nothing.
Yes. It was founded in 2025 and it is written here, by its founder. There is no branch office and no franchise.
No. Pillar runs for trade businesses anywhere in the country. Lancaster is where it gets built, not a boundary on who can use it.
$0 a month, with every feature switched on. Each person you add after you is $39 a month.
Yes. Every job carries its own address, and the week view puts each technician in their own column so you can see the whole spread at once.
They download the Pillar app to their phone straight from a link. Their jobs, photos, and signatures are all on the first screen.
Yes. Customers, jobs, price book, and service history import from ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber, FieldEdge, ServiceM8, Workiz, Square, or a spreadsheet. Any import can be rolled back and run again.
The notes you put on an estimate or invoice print on the PDF your customer receives, so your registration line rides along with it. Anything your township or borough wants on top of that is worth a call to them.
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Put tomorrow's jobs in it tonight and see how it holds up.
No card. No contract. No sales call.
