Kickserv
“Can a founder-owned field service SaaS win SMB service businesses by pairing a two-way QuickBooks integration with an embedded Stripe-based payments experience?”
Founded2006
HQDenver, Colorado, United States
FoundersTodd Eccles
Latest roundM&A ($15M)
IndustryVertical SaaS / Field Service Management
The story
Kickserv started as an in-house tool for the founder's family plumbing business in the 1990s, commercialized as ServiceSidekick in 2006, and rebranded as Kickserv in 2012. Acquired by ReachLocal in 2014 (which was itself absorbed by Gannett), Kickserv was bought back in 2021 by original founder Todd Eccles as an independent field service SaaS focused on plumbing, HVAC, landscaping and restoration SMBs. Embedded finance is thin — the company relies on Stripe for card/ACH payments and Klarna for BNPL rather than operating its own money-movement stack.
Last 12 months
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Product timeline
1994
Todd Eccles builds desktop app to manage family plumbing business· founding
2006
First web-based version launched as ServiceSidekick· product
2012
Rebooted as Kickserv after full engineering overhaul· pivot
2014
Acquired by ReachLocal· acquisition
2021
Bought back from Gannett/ReachLocal by original founder Todd Eccles and CTO Jonathan Vaught· acquisition
The stack
4 layers disclosed in Kickserv’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Money movement
in the full report
Lending
in the full report
Accounting
in the full report
Accounting gap: minor
5 more providers across 3 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.