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Dario Espinoza-Blum

Nov 5, 202614 min read

Jobber's field-service software for scheduling jobs, quoting and invoicing, sold as Core, Connect and Grow plans. According to AppForeman, Core's latest listed price is $49 a month. That number has moved before, and it's only the start of your bill.

Plan table with monthly and yearly prices

Some of this I can confirm and some I can't, and the table shows which. Treat every "not listed" as a blank to fill from jobber.com/pricing before you budget, because a blank you ignore still gets billed.

Plan Monthly price Yearly-billed monthly price Included users Caps/limits Check date
Core $49 not listed not listed not listed not listed
Connect not listed not listed not listed not listed not listed
Grow not listed not listed not listed not listed not listed

Trace the $49 to AppForeman, which tracks Jobber's price changes.

Three times now, Core's price has moved. It sat at $49, rose to $69, dropped to $39, then returned to $49.

A budget built on any single snapshot could've been off by as much as $30 a month. The sticker price is a moving target, so write down the date you checked it.

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What each plan includes and caps

Watch the user counts and caps, because that is where your field-service bill grows. The sticker price covers a set number of people, and every extra technician or office hand is a cost on top of it.

If a plan caps features or volume, that adds cost in the same way. I can't give you those limits here without guessing, and a guessed limit is worse than a blank, because you'd plan around it.

Pull three numbers from the pricing page for each plan: how many users are included, what an additional user costs, and which features sit behind a paid add-on. Those three set your real monthly figure more than the headline price.

Activepieces pricing page displaying four subscription tiers with features and costs.

Jobber monthly vs annual billing prices

Switch the toggle on Jobber's page between monthly billing and yearly billing, and the table has a column for each. Yearly-billed prices are quoted as a per-month number, so they look smaller than what you actually pay.

You pay for twelve months up front or on a twelve-month commitment, and leaving early costs you.

Compare the two columns, then ask whether you'd still want this plan in month eleven. Whichever way you decide, work out your own total first.

That means your seat count, your add-ons and your billing choice, before you compare Jobber with rivals or with Activepieces, which connects apps and automates routine tasks across 747 integrations.

Jobber costs by company size

Run through those three levers, a solo operator lands near $217 a month, a five-person crew near $367 and a 20-seat company near $742, before card fees. Each total comes from the same five steps, so you can repeat them with your own headcount:

  1. Pick the base plan that fits your headcount.
  2. Add the extra-user fees for everyone past the plan's included seats.
  3. Add card processing on the jobs you expect to collect.
  4. Add texting and marketing add-ons, such as Campaigns at $29 and Reviews at $39.
  5. Total the month, then multiply by 12 for the year.

What each Jobber paid add-on costs per month

The totals below use steps 1, 2 and 4, which are the ones with published prices.

If you run a one-person shop, you start at Connect, which Worthd puts at $149 a month for the smallest team.

Add Campaigns ($29) and Reviews (Jobber Help Center lists it at $39) and the bill's $217 a month, or $2,604 a year. The add-ons cost nearly half again what the plan does.

What Jobber plans cost as the team grows

As the team grows, Connect climbs from $149 to $229, $299 and then $444, so extra seats alone cost real money. A five-person crew sits at the second step, where Grow costs $299.

The add-ons cost nearly half again what the plan does.

Grow's the tier the added headcount pushes you toward. With the same two add-ons, that's $367 a month, or $4,404 a year.

20-seat company: where per-user costs add up

At 20 seats you're on the top step of every plan: $444 for Connect, $544 for Grow, $674 for Plus. Plus is where a company this size belongs, and it costs $674 against $149 for the smallest Connect team.

Adding Campaigns and Reviews makes $742 a month, or $8,904 a year. Plus starts at $399 and Grow at $229, so each tier raises the cost of every step.

Costs outside the subscription: payments and messaging

Collect more, pay more: card processing comes off every payment, so it grows with your revenue, not your headcount. Budget for it separately.

Also on the Help Center's list: an AI receptionist at $29 a month. The Marketing Suite's $99.

Taking Marketing Suite plus the receptionist adds $128 a month, or $1,536 a year, on top of any plan. Pick only the add-ons you'll use, because each one repeats every month.

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If you are running this arithmetic for your own team, see what the same workload costs on Activepieces.

Jobber Alternatives Compared on Price and Limits

Between Jobber and its rivals, the entry price differs less than what each charges once you add a fifth user and the features you actually need.

Compare that second number. Each add-on repeats every month, so the bill depends on how many of them your shop requires.

I'm not printing a price table here. I couldn't confirm current figures for Jobber, Housecall Pro, Workiz or FieldPulse (all four sell scheduling, quoting and invoicing software to field-service businesses) from each vendor's own page.

Because plans and card rates change often, a stale number would be worse than none: you'd budget around it and find the gap on your first invoice. Pull the figures yourself, on the day you decide, and write down the date.

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For each vendor, get the same seven answers, in this order:

  1. The entry monthly price. It tells you the cheapest way in, not what you'll pay.
  2. How many users that price includes. If you have a crew of five and it covers one, the rest are extra seats.
  3. The monthly price at five users. This is the real comparison, so work it out rather than reading the headline.
  4. The plan that unlocks quoting, online booking, GPS tracking and QuickBooks sync. If these sit on different tiers, you pay for the highest one you need.
  5. The card processing rate. A small difference in percentage adds up if most of your customers pay by card.
  6. The annual discount. It lowers the monthly figure, but you pay up front and are locked in.
  7. The date you checked, so you can tell later whether a price moved.

With your numbers in hand, the choice mostly sorts itself out.

  • A one- or two-person shop that needs only quoting and invoicing should take the lowest entry price with those features included.
  • A crew of five or more should ignore the entry price and pick the lowest total at their headcount.
  • A business that takes most payments by card should let the processing rate decide, since it can outweigh the subscription gap.
  • A business that lives in QuickBooks should take the vendor with sync on the cheapest plan.

Whichever vendor comes out cheapest on your own figures is your baseline, and any alternative has to beat it.

Connect Jobber to Other Tools with Activepieces

When Jobber's information needs to reach other apps, Activepieces passes it along for you: it connects to 747 integrations, and its MIT-licensed core is free to self-host.

It's worth building only when the copying it replaces costs you more than the afternoon it takes to set up. Doing nothing has a price too: someone retyping paid invoices into a spreadsheet every Friday.

What Jobber already connects to natively

Check Jobber's own app marketplace first, because a built-in connection costs you no setup and nothing extra to maintain.

Jobber lists accounting links such as QuickBooks Online and Xero, calendar syncing, email marketing through Mailchimp, and a connection to Zapier, another automation service. Confirm the current list inside your account, since vendors change it.

If the thing you want is on that list, use it and stop reading here.

Activepieces earns its place only for the gaps: a chat alert, a custom spreadsheet, or a tool Jobber's never heard of, and its free plan's 1,000 credits a month are enough to try each of them at no cost.

Then look in Activepieces' list of connectors, which it calls pieces and of which roughly 60% are community-contributed, and search for Jobber. I can't point you to a confirmed Jobber integration, so don't plan around one. If it's missing, you have a fallback.

Without a ready-made connector, Jobber can still send a webhook, a short message fired the moment something happens.

Activepieces bills one credit per flow run however many steps follow, so the ten-step version costs what the two-step shortcut does, unlike Zapier's per-task or Make's per-module billing.

Activepieces can catch that message with a webhook trigger, or reach into Jobber with an HTTP request step.

It takes a little more patience than a ready-made connector, but it works, and since every plan, free included, allows unlimited flows, a second flow adds no plan fee.

Example Jobber invoice to spreadsheet workflow

Take from it that the flow's one trigger and two actions, small enough for one person to build and check.

  1. Create a flow in Activepieces and choose a webhook trigger. Copy the address it gives you.
  2. In Jobber's developer settings, register that address to receive an invoice-paid event.
  3. Add a spreadsheet step that writes a new row: client name, invoice number, amount, date.
  4. Add a chat step that posts a one-line note to your office channel.
  5. Pay a test invoice and confirm the row and message both appear.

That's the work. Afterward, watch the flow for a few weeks, because a broken connection fails quietly.

Skip all of this if you close a handful of invoices a week. Typing them by hand is cheaper than owning another system, and your accounting link may already do the job.

Worth checking against a plan that does not meter every step: one credit covers a whole run on Activepieces.

Determining your Jobber monthly costs

Spend one Monday morning turning Jobber's sticker price into your own monthly number before you pay anything. The plan you land on follows from how many people log in and which features you need.

The checklist below does that. Skip it and you find out on the first invoice.

  1. Count every person who needs their own login: office staff, crew leads, and anyone who clocks in on a phone.
  2. List the paid add-ons you'd actually use, not the ones the sales page makes tempting.
  3. Price the plan on the annual toggle, and note what you commit to if you leave early.
  4. In any trial, test the one feature that defines the tier you're considering.
  5. Confirm the card-processing and text-messaging rates in writing.
  6. Re-check the pricing page on the day you buy, since plans and limits change.

Applied to three buyers of different sizes, those steps play out like this.

If it's only you, step one is quick, but step four matters most. Check that the entry plan has what you need, such as quoting, invoicing, and scheduling.

If it lacks one, you'll pay for a higher tier anyway, so find that out before you commit.

Five-person crew: extra users and the plan jump

With a small crew, the count gets slippery. Extra logins may cost more each, and a plan's included users can run out, forcing a move to the next tier for everyone.

Count the people who truly need to open the app. A crew member who only needs a job address may not need a seat, and skipping that question means paying for logins nobody uses.

At this size, a small per-user charge repeats on every seat, so the gap between the plans widens quickly. Price the annual toggle against your real headcount, and ask whether seasonal hires will push you into a larger tier during your busiest months.

Jobber Core's price has swung up, down and up again

Ask also how a mid-year change in seats is billed, because that's the surprise most likely to land after you've signed.

Not all of the bill is the subscription. Jobber takes a processing fee whenever a customer pays by card, and text reminders and follow-ups can carry their own charges.

If a busy shop sends many messages and takes most payments by card, it can spend more on these than on the plan itself. Get the rates in writing, then multiply them by your own volume.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers follow, dated November 2026, and each one tells you what to check before you sign. The rates you confirm in writing only help if they match the plan you actually buy.

Does Jobber offer a free trial or a free plan?

You can get a free trial of Jobber's paid plans, but I couldn't confirm a permanent free plan. Treat the trial as a way to test your real workflow, not a way to avoid a bill.

Enter your actual clients, quotes and crew during it. If you only click around a demo account, you'll learn nothing about what the plan costs you later.

Can I switch Jobber plans or cancel mid-month?

On its standard plans Jobber bills monthly, and you can move between plans or cancel without a long contract. The catch is timing.

Changing plans in the middle of a billing period can leave you paying for capacity you're no longer using. Switch right before your renewal date and ask support in writing how the remaining days will be handled.

Yes. Each plan includes a set number of users, and going past it adds a per-user charge.

That's the line item most likely to surprise a growing crew, because hiring one more technician changes your bill as well as your payroll. Count everyone who needs a login, including office staff and seasonal help, before you pick a tier.

Is Jobber cheaper if I pay annually?

Yes, annual billing's been discounted compared with monthly, but check the current price page rather than trusting an old quote, since Core's price and the discount can both change.

The discount only pays off if you stay the full year. If you're unsure Jobber fits, paying monthly costs a bit more but costs less than a year you regret.

Does Jobber take a cut of card payments?

On card payments made through its own payments tool, Jobber charges a processing fee. It's a percentage of each payment plus a small flat fee per transaction.

On a few large invoices the flat part barely registers. On many small jobs it adds up, so multiply the rate by your typical invoice size and monthly volume.

Separately, paid add-ons such as Receptionist are billed on top of your plan and carry their own usage limits, so price them in the same worksheet.

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