HouseCall Pro Co-Founders Win First Place Award at QuickBooks Connect 2015 Hackathon

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. - Nov. 9, 2015 - PRLog -- HouseCall Pro (http://tryhousecall.com/pro)Co-Founders Roland Ligtenberg and Reza Olfat are excited to announce that they are recipients of the first place award for ‘Best Existing App’ category at the $100k Hackathon during Intuit’s QuickBooks Connect 2015.

HouseCall Pro, an award-winning mobile platform built for home service professionals, fully integrates with Intuit’s accounting platform, QuickBooks Online. Intuit holds the annual conference Quickbooks Connect, which took place November 2-4 in San Jose, California and included a programming competition.

At the $100k Hackathon, Ligtenberg and Olfat competed against 154 developers and 40 other teams. The pair were awarded first place in the existing app category as representatives of HouseCall Pro. The Hackathon aimed to encourage developers to solve problems businesses face through innovation.

“When we saw the $100k Hackathon announcement, we knew this would be the perfect chance to work on seamlessly integrating HouseCall Pro with QuickBooks Online and Apps.com. The developer support team on-site was incredibly helpful, and helped us integrate everything within the 36 hours!” said Roland Ligtenberg, Co-Founder of HouseCall Pro.

HouseCall Pro is an all-in-one field service management and marketing platform for service service businesses.

"We're excited to be partnering with Quickbooks to bring home service professionals a comprehensive solution to run both their business and financials,” said Reza Olfat, Co-Founder of HouseCall Pro.

HouseCall Pro aims to help service business owners grow their operations by streamlining processes and offering marketing capabilities. Users of the system can also be featured in HouseCall, the mobile application for homeowners to book service professionals at the push of a button.