Jobber alternatives

Invoice Fly

Good fit for: Contractors and freelancers who set their own prices and want simple estimates and invoices plus time and expense tracking

Price: $8.99 a week or $98.99 a year; 3-day free trial

A phone-first estimate and invoice app with a web app. Estimates come from your saved items and markups, clients e-sign from a link, and estimates convert to invoices. Its e-signature page says its AI can generate an estimate. Payments run through your own Stripe or PayPal account. It adds automatic follow-ups and overdue reminders, recurring invoices, time tracking, an expense tracker with receipt scanning and reports. ^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Compared with Jobber: Invoice Fly is a narrower app: estimates and invoices from your saved items, with overdue-invoice alerts, time tracking and expenses, on one plan at $8.99 a week or $98.99 a year, and online payments through Stripe or PayPal. Jobber adds scheduling, a client hub and its own payment processing, with routing from its Connect plan. ^{[5][7][10][11][9][1][2][12]}

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Contractor+

Good fit for: Contractors who want to start free and grow into CRM, scheduling and project management

Price: Free plan; Pro $49 a month, or $29 a month on the annual plan

A contractor business platform with a free plan of up to 5 estimates or invoices a month. From Pro, Estimatic AI drafts estimates from a description, photos, blueprints or another quote, priced from your cost book, supplier prices and a labor-rate index, using AI credits. Contracts and e-signatures also start on Pro. ^{[13][14][15][16]}

Compared with Jobber: Contractor+ starts on a free plan, with up to 5 estimates or invoices a month, where Jobber’s pricing page lists a 14-day trial. From Pro at $49 a month billed monthly, Contractor+ lists scheduling and Estimatic AI, which it says drafts estimates priced from your cost book, supplier prices and a labor-rate index. Jobber prices quotes from your own products and services list. ^{[13][14][15][2][4]}

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Housecall Pro

Good fit for: Home-service companies that book, schedule and dispatch techs

Price: From $79 a month billed monthly, or $59 a month billed annually; 14-day free trial

Field service software with online booking, scheduling and dispatch on every plan, and estimates priced from a price book that can start from Profit Rhino’s ready-made one. Customers approve and e-sign estimates from their phone or email, with optional deposits and progress invoicing. Online invoice payments are 2.99% and bank payments 1%. ^{[17][18][19][20][21][22]}

Compared with Jobber: The closest in scope: field service software with online booking, scheduling and dispatch on every plan and a 14-day trial, like Jobber. Its price book can start from a ready-made Profit Rhino one based on industry averages. Plans start at $79 a month billed monthly, or $59 billed annually. Its help center lists 2.99% for online invoice card payments, where Jobber lists 2.9% + 30¢, and both list 1% for bank payments. ^{[17][18][22][2]}

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Joist

Good fit for: Small home-service contractors who want low-cost estimates and invoices with room to grow

Price: From $10 a month billed monthly; 14-day free trial

An estimate and invoice app on iOS, Android and web. AI Estimate drafts an estimate from a typed or spoken description for you to review, and e-signatures are on every plan. Upper plans add reports, change orders and job scheduling, and it syncs with QuickBooks. Card payments are 3.49% + 49¢ in the US. ^{[23][24][25][26]}

Compared with Jobber: Joist is an estimate and invoice app from $10 a month billed monthly, with an AI that drafts an estimate from a typed or spoken description and in-app e-signatures on every plan. Its pricing page lists QuickBooks sync from the Pro plan and job scheduling on the Run plan. Joist lists US card payments at 3.49% + 49¢, where Jobber lists 2.9% + 30¢. ^{[23][24][27][25][2]}

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Square Invoices

Good fit for: Service businesses that start free and also take cards in person

Price: Free plan; Plus $49 and Premium $149 a month per location; 30-day trial of paid plans

Invoicing inside Square’s payments platform: estimates clients accept, plus e-signed contracts and deposits on every plan, with milestone payment schedules on Plus and Premium. Online card payments are 3.3% + 30¢ on Free and 2.9% + 30¢ on paid plans; ACH is 1% with a $1 minimum, capped at $10 on paid plans. ^{[28][29][30][31]}

Compared with Jobber: Square Invoices has a free plan and sits inside Square’s payments platform, with e-signed contracts and deposits on every plan and milestone payment schedules on Plus and Premium. Its online card rate is 2.9% + 30¢ on paid plans, the same as Jobber lists, and 3.3% + 30¢ on Free. Its pricing page also lists appointment scheduling and an online booking website on every plan, and team shift scheduling on paid plans. ^{[28][30][31][2]}

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BuildWell

Good fit for: Contractors who want each estimate priced from local store prices and wages, then signed and paid

Price: $7.99 a week or $79.99 a year; 3-day free trial

Describe a job by voice, text, photos or a floor plan; the AI picks the work and quantities, and prices come from stores near the job and BLS wages plus your overhead and markup. Clients sign on their phone, estimates become invoices with deposits and progress payments, and card or bank payments go through Stripe at cost. iPhone, Android and web; English or Spanish. Not a scheduling, CRM, time-tracking or accounting tool. ^{[32][33][34][35][36][37]}

Compared with Jobber: BuildWell does only the estimate and the bill: its AI plans the work, prices come from stores near the job and local wages, clients sign on their phone, and Stripe’s fees pass through at cost. It’s $7.99 a week or $79.99 a year. It has no scheduling, dispatch, CRM, time tracking, GPS or QuickBooks and Xero sync, which Jobber users may rely on, and no free plan. ^{[33][34][36][32][1][2]}