Houzz Pro

They don't answer the phone (a lot of their numbers are now disconnected) and when finally a rude woman answered, *, told me that I have to keep paying because I agreed to that 5 years AGO! To make things worse 3 months ago Houzz decided to raise their monthly fee 100%for advertising!...Even that I told them repeatedly I do NOT want the service anymore and sent email canceling, they keep charging my credit card instead of taking my name off their website...I changed my credit card number and they KEPT charging $324.00 monthly! I'm disputing thru my credit card but this company needs a CLASS law suit! I had my business for many years yet never had a situation like this with any merchant nor service provider, at this point Houzz is literally stealing my money!
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Our money was wasted. They ran our card about 7 times then ran our card for the trial multiple times after not the whole purchase to save money. The woman who was supposed to walk us through our purchase wasn't a reliable source. She told us all the wrong things about what equipment to get which cost us thousands including a high paying job. You can never get through to anyone. And if u do they'll say well give u a call back and never follow up. They will not let u talk to a manager or a higher up. They canceled our subscription and didn't put the full. Payment through which would cause us again to have to pay extra. They never emailed us. No waring and we lost another job over it. We tried for months but things kept getting worse. Terrible company. Very unreliable. Very dissatisfied. This website made us lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. Please find someone where else. This website would be amazing if they had better workers who were educated on there job so you know what ur walking into and a way to reach a higher up for serious matters instead of being ignored. So much potential in this website but I don't have time to stick around after what happened to see if they make major changes

I've been using houzz pro for a couple hears now. Price went from $99 to $249 without notice. I called and no help and no response from *. Reached out again today and the person I talked to couldn't help and said I can expect an email follow up. I'll find another application. Customer service is rarely helpful and I'd recommend looking elsewhere.
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I had a terrible experience with predatory sales practices. I specifically requested a trial period, but the salesperson, *, signed me up for a 12-month non-cancellable program without clearly informing me of the terms. This was a clear misrepresentation on *'s part. After escalating the issue to management, both * and the manager, Claire, became unresponsive, and I received only an automated message about the non-cancellable contract. Beware of this company and the tactics they use. The leads they provide are neither legitimate nor qualified, making the entire program a complete waste of money. Despite repeatedly stating that I don't want a refund and only wish to cancel, I was told that the yearly commitment is non-cancellable, and I must continue paying for this useless service.
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I was told there is a 30 day free trial when using the proservice, I signed up for the service then canceled 2 1/2 days later, due to their online floor planner being difficult to use, but HOUZZ is still billing me monthly. I have reached out to customer service, but have been told that I signed a contract and the 30 day trial does not exist, even though the trial offer is listed under prices on the website even today. This place is disgusting, they have no interest in keeping their word, and dealing with customers with Integrity! DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE!

I am leaving this review because I would like to help ALL potential businesses from wasting their money and their time into Houzz Pro. I am a business owner of (3) different businesses: real estate investment company, remodeling and moving company. I signed up with Houzz Pro about 6 months ago for my remodeling company to have a better and more efficient estimates and bid system for my company. I will say that part only Houzz has a decent system in place. I found out while talking to them, they also did marketing for business as well. It sounded very good on the phone with the package they had to offer, and I decided to go with it, along with their software program for contractors. So, I spent some time setting up my profile and loading pictures of projects with some small descriptions on it, so protentional clients could see the work we do. I attached our website to these pages as well, which is very well layout website with tons of pictures of projects we have done as well. Now comes the problems with Houzz. With talking with other contractors and talking to people at network meetings about the new program/subscription (Almost $5,000 for the year) I had with Houzz and how I was not happy with any of the customers that came through, to where they were NEVER responding to emails, calls or messages through Houzz or any other ways either. From all the people I talked to about this, that used Houzz had similar and other issues as well, on way they were not happy with at all with Houzz. When finally doing a deep dive into Houzz throughout the internet, I started finding a ton of negative feedback with all the same issues. Houzz has a 1.03-star average on BBB with 500+ complaints in the last 3 years alone. They have a 2.5-star average on site jabber. There Reddit complaints are through the roof. The list goes on and on with reason why not to sign the contract with this company and the reviews and complaints on the internet are very accurate. I hope if other people/business read this, they do their research before giving any money or signing anything with this company.

They set me up on a free trial. My sales rep, *, intentionally misled me by explaining all costs in terms of monthly cost. Then at the very end, sends a contract that has me paying for the entire year up front. I had multiple conversations with them about how the service was not working out for me during the trial period and how I was going to be using a competitor instead. Rather than cancelling my account, they send me a link to cancel it myself. I fill out the form and forget about it. Months later when doing annual reconciliation of my business, I see I was charged $5,750! They said they have no record of a cancellation form from me. I have not touched this app or utilized any service since the trial period. When I attempted to work with customer service to get my money back for a service I do not use, they flat out denied me. Shame on me for being in a hurry and not paying attention to that contract I signed. But for the company to show zero flexibility and common sense is unacceptable. Charging someone nearly six thousand dollars for a service they do not use is absolutely insane. Collecting my money on a technicality and not by actually conducting mutual business of money in exchange for services. They displayed to me that they are not a trustworthy company and do not have the ability to look at a situation fairly for their customers, I will absolutely never recommend this company, and in fact will be very actively steering my friends away from this service in the construction company. DO NOT USE THEM. Their competitors are much better, look up other options for construction software.
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I signed up for a free trial with Houzz on July 10th, expecting it to end on August 8th, as stated in the welcome email. However, Houzz charged me before the trial ended, despite their promise not to do so. I cancelled my trial on the 8th, which should have been within the free period, but they still charged me and are now refusing to refund my money.

I reached out to their support team and spoke with Anthony, who claimed the email implied the trial would end "before" the 8th, even though the email clearly stated the 8th as the deadline. Despite cancelling within this timeframe, they went ahead and charged me. Additionally, the business continued to charge me the following month, indicating an issue with their billing system.

Houzz initially acknowledged my cancellation on August 8th but now falsely claims I cancelled on the 12th. I only reached out on the 12th to confirm if they had processed my cancellation after receiving a suspicious email. Despite their system error, they refuse to issue a refund. Their refusal to confirm my cancellation in a timely manner and the lack of customer support was highly frustrating.

In one instance, I had a deeply upsetting phone call with Anthony, during which he yelled at me. His unprofessional and aggressive behavior left me shaken, and I am now unwilling to engage with Houzz without a mediator.

Despite multiple requests for a refund, Houzz continues to ignore the issue, providing inconsistent explanations, and in their latest communication, no reason at all for denying the refund. Moreover, they attempted to charge my account again after the cancellation, demonstrating that their billing system has problems.

My request remains simple: Houzz should acknowledge their billing mistakes and provide a refund. I am not interested in apologies but in a resolution to the financial issue caused by their faulty system.

I highly recommend against this app. Sure, there are a lot of "free trials" out there that make you put in a credit card number, and then you forget to cancel in time, and then they charge you. Be warned, this app will charge you $199 per month, and if you cancel even a minute after your renewal, they will stick to their terms and screw you out of your money even though you don't want to use their service. I was unfortunately on vacation in Mexico at the time my trial was expiring so I missed it when it came through. I cancelled probably 7 or 8 hours after the renewal deadline when I finally saw it. Like I said, I would avoid this app like the plague. Also, besides the money scam, this app is so-so in terms of features. They are trying to create a "do everything" app, and the end result comes out weak.

This is easy to use but that's about it, The program needs allot of work to be useful for any professional to use. Constant issues! We have been using for a few years and have had enough they are not getting better.

Lots of system glitches, very pedestrian software made only for designers who just purchase items online, not those who do custom specifications. The worst part of this subscription is that there is ZERO customer service. When the program glitches and prevents user access or if they update their platform and it knocks settings off kilter, they are of no help and are quite rude. This has potential but they need to amend many things on program and change how they service the customer.

For a starting business like mine, I appreciate the integration of the tools available on Houzz Pro. I am learning the system and utilizing the people and training available to maximize their marketing, and systems available for growing my company.

This company tricks you into thinking they have a free trial and than stick you with a year membership at 100.00 a month and they refuse to let you out of it. I have used the free software for a total of 10 minutes and now they feel like they should send me to collections for non payment. I have requested that they remove me from the billing and delete my account multiple times as I have never played around with it for more than 10 minutes. They always say they will talk to the accounting department which goes nowhere. This is by far the worst experience I have had with any company. How do they justify the sneakiness and unwillingness to release people from something a person has not used. This is unethical and immoral behavior and I can't believe they feel okay with this. I guess I will now have to deal with a collections on my credit. Good job Houzz pro. Thanks for nothing. I'm getting a lawyer.

Houzz seems to offer multiple free trials. But all of them end up with a paying subscription AND a one year locked in subscription.
I am not sure whether the tools will satisfy your long-term needs, but their marketing department seems to highly doubt that you are going to stick around after a monthly free or half-priced trial, as to get this trial, you have to commit for a yearlong subscription.
Buyer (Renter) beware!

We signed up for the Pro ultimate program they offered in 2020. They claimed we were getting 99% of the lead coming in from an area of over 2 million. Only 26 leads presented in the year period. So in internet term that is about $150 per click. Horrible waste of money. To add injury to insult they continue to charge me each month even tough I have told them to cancel my subscription. With no response from them and no way to cancel from their system I am left paying for months. Avoid Houzz and predatory companies like them

As a designer, we are constantly creating mood boards, furniture, fixture & finishing schedules. I love how Houzz has this special tool to clip images online and smartly save the description, colour, price onto your product library. The software is very comprehensive and user friendly. It is an all-in-one tool! Clients can see all corresponding emails, attachments, mood boards, invoice status all in their dashboard. I would highly recommend this software to anyone in the industry. It really helped me organize my business.

The support staff at Houzz are all amazing and very helpful!

Houzz provides a platform for me to showcase my design projects and services. I have, however, avoided using features of Houzz Pro other than marketing as I am wary of ceding control of my affairs to big tech. I regret that Houzz Pro Support is exceptionally poor. They have refused, for example, to take down a fake review of my service which details an encounter with a client which never occurred and which violates Houzz's own review Policy. They have accepted a falsified invoice as proof of the encounter. For this reason, I am relieved that I have never used features of Houzz Pro beyond marketing. I was tempted at one stage to avail of their offer to host and design my website. I realise now that to do so would be to cede authority to an entity which knowingly publishes defamatory and libellous reviews. Under these circumstances, their rolling one year contract system is infuriating.

We were contacted by a Houzz representative in January 2024 and promised a whole bunch of nothing. We have received a total of 24 leads, of which a handful were spam/scammers, not in our service area, not looking for a service we provide, and the rest of the "quality" leads never respond back to us. There is also no option to show the customers phone number after initial contact which is a red flag. If the leads were quality, then Houzz should have no issue giving us the customers direct contact info...I mean they are in the market for a contractor right? Houzz was also supposed to run our website on their platform, which was up for a few days, and has been inactive ever since. I have reached out out and received no call back, but they sure did reach out promptly when our payment didn't go through due to our bank account being hacked. I encourage all businesses and customers to PROCEED WITH CAUTION when dealing with Houzz. We refuse to pay for a service that we aren't receiving. Do not listen to what the representative sells you because they are very manipulative and good at it. Read the terms completely. We also were not provided with a trial period so please be sure to ask about that. Houzz is no better than most of the services out there, and we have tried many. Houzz is by far the worst. I hope this helps somebody.

I started with houzz around 1 year ago.I had a call from technical people 3 month ago
They said that i owe them 300$ and i don't have card on file that was tru so even with them providing me minimum value. So i paid and requested to close the account. Next month they charged my card again so I send request to close the account It says it would be closed in about an year from now. Next month after they charged my card again. I give them call and request closing subscription again. I hope they will let me go. I'm not willing to work with this company anymore because the way they do business doesn't seem morally acceptable to me.