Jobtab vs Jobber
Jobber is a good product. It is not the same product, and the difference shows up on the bill. Here is the arithmetic, and here is the part where they win.
Jobber advertises $29 a month. That is Core — one user, paid a year up front. Core has no time tracking, no expense tracking, and no job costing. Month to month it is $49.
Jobtab is $29 a month, month to month, and does all three.
Same number. Different bill.
There is a free tier too — three invoices a month, and every one is the same invoice a paying customer sends. No watermark, no crippled version. Everything below is what happens when you outgrow it.
What each extra man costs
Jobber charges $29 a month per extra user, on every tier. That is their number, off their page.
In Jobtab, right now, your crew is free. You pay $29 a month whether you are on your own or you have got four men logging hours.
Crew billing is coming — $5a head, flat, no tiers, no “unlimited”, no maze. And here is the promise: the crew you have on the day it launches stays free, permanently. Only the people you hire after that day cost $5.
Sign up solo today, hire two men in September, and those two are free for as long as you use Jobtab.
Knowing which jobs made you money
Job costing is the thing that tells you a roof you were proud of lost you four hundred dollars. It is the feature people upgrade for.
On Jobber it starts at Grow: $199 a month month-to-month, $149 if you pay a year up front — for one user. It is not in Core and it is not in Connect.
In Jobtab it is in the $29.
| You are… | Jobber | Jobtab |
|---|---|---|
| You and three crewand you want job costing | $299/moGrow, 5 users · $229/mo prepaid annually | $29/moyour crew is free · no commitment |
| Soloand you want job costing | $199/moGrow · $149/mo prepaid annually | $29/momonth to month · no commitment |
The founding price
$400, once. Not a subscription. You own it.
The first 25 shops get it. Against Jobber's Grow plan at $149 a month prepaid, it pays for itself before Thanksgiving.
The things priced on top
Marketing Suite $79/mo · Receptionist $29/mo · Pipeline $49/mo — each one billed on top of whatever tier you are already on.
Jobtab doesn't sell any of those, because Jobtab doesn't build them.
Card processing
Jobber processes cards at 2.9% + 30¢, ACH at 1%, Tap to Pay at 2.7% + 30¢. Instant payout costs another 1%.
Jobtab takes nothing, because Jobtab never touches your money. The invoice carries your payment instructions and a QR pointing at whatever you already use. The customer scans it and pays you. Nothing lands in our account on the way.
Getting your data back out
Jobber and Housecall both let you export — in pieces, with row caps, and gated by tier. Neither one gives you your invoice PDFs or your job photos. Jobtab exports the lot, on every plan: your clients, jobs, hours, materials, every invoice and quote as the PDF your customer got, and every photo you took.
We gate the plan. We never gate the data.
Buy Jobber if your day starts with dispatch
Jobtab is for shops where everyone already knows what they're doing today.
If your day starts by telling people where to go — routing trucks, assigning calls, moving the schedule when someone cancels — buy Jobber. That is what it is for and it is good at it. Jobtab doesn't do it and isn't going to.
Also missing, and not coming soon:
- No scheduling or dispatch. No calendar.
- No QuickBooks sync.
- No client portal.
- No import from another tool yet.
That list is the reason the rest of this page is true. Everything Jobtab refuses is a thing it doesn't have to charge you for, maintain, or hide behind a tier.
Free to start. No card. Three invoices a month on the free tier, and every one of them is the same invoice a paying customer sends.
Jobber pricing as of July 2026, from their published pricing page. Prices change; check theirs. See how Jobtab works.