Jobber is the dominant home-service CRM for a reason. It's polished, mature, and works. But the per-user pricing adds up fast and most pool/lawn/contractor crews end up paying for a Connect tier they only half-use. Here's the honest side-by-side.
Last reviewed May 2026. Jobber's stack is huge — we've focused on what pool, lawn, and contractor crews actually use day to day.
| Feature | Workhand | Jobber |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Entry-tier price | $35/month flatUp to 5 team members | $49/month"Core" — 1 user only |
| Mid-tier price | $89/month flatUp to 15 team members + QBO | $129/month"Connect" — 5 users included |
| Top-tier price | Custom (~$199-249/mo)Email for crews 16-50 | $249/month"Grow" — 15 users included |
| Per-user fees over the included count | NoAdd team members for $0 | $29/month per extra userAdds up fast on Connect |
| Free plan | ✓1 active job + 1 user | ✗ |
| Free trial | 14 daysNo card required | 14 days |
| Estimates & invoices | ||
| Estimates with e-signature | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-language estimates (en/es/pt) | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI line-item suggestions | ✓Trained on your past jobs | ✗ |
| Read receipts on documents | ✓ | ✓ |
| Online invoice payments via Stripe | ✓No platform fee — keep 100% | ✓Through Jobber Payments |
| Recurring invoices | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quote follow-up automation | Email re-send | ✓Built-in nudge automation |
| Field operations | ||
| Per-job team chat | ✓Photos, pinned messages, role-scoped | Notes only |
| Daily logs with photos | ✓ | ✗Visit notes only |
| Photo annotations (pins / labels) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Time tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mileage tracking + IRS-rate write-offs | ✓ | ✗ |
| GPS-stamped check-in / check-out | Time-stamped | ✓ |
| Drag-and-drop dispatch grid | ✗Calendar view, not grid | ✓Best-in-class |
| Route optimization | ✗ | ✓ |
| Punch list | ✓ | ✗ |
| Sales & customer-facing | ||
| Public profile page (lead capture) | ✓workhand.app/c/your-name | ✓Online booking widget |
| Sales pipeline / CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customer review automation | ✓Google funnel built-in | ✓ |
| Customer-facing job portal | ✓ | ✓"Client Hub" |
| Email marketing campaigns | ✗ | ✓Bulk email + segmenting |
| Automated SMS reminders | Push only | ✓ |
| Subs & team | ||
| Subcontractor invitations + insurance tracking | ✓ | ✗ |
| Sub bidding workflow | ✓ | ✗ |
| 1099 export | ✓ | ✗QuickBooks-side only |
| Accounting | ||
| QuickBooks Online sync | ✓Built into Team plan | ✓Connect tier and up |
| Job costing + profit per job | ✓ | ✓Grow tier only |
| Reports (revenue trend, top customers, win rate) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Onboarding & support | ||
| Self-serve sign-up | ✓90 seconds, no card | ✓ |
| Phone support | Email-only | ✓ |
| Annual contract required | ✗Month-to-month | ✗Annual discount available |
| Implementation cost | $0 | $0 |
Apples-to-apples for QuickBooks sync, time tracking, customer hub, and reports.
Workhand pricing locked for the first year — early supporters keep their rate forever. Add a 6th, 7th, 8th crew member at no extra cost. With Jobber that's $174 more per year, per person.
If your daily flow is dispatch-grid → route → invoice and you've trained your office team on that pattern, switching is friction you may not want. If you mostly send estimates, log site photos, chat with crew, and bill — you're using maybe 40% of what you're paying for. Workhand is built tight around that 40%.
Yes. Jobber lets you export customers, jobs, and invoices to CSV. We help with first-time migrations on Pro and Team plans — email hello@workhand.app and we'll walk you through it.
If your customers book service appointments through your website, Jobber's widget is genuinely useful. Workhand has public profile pages with a lead form (workhand.app/c/your-business), but it's a static lead capture — not a real-time slot picker tied to your calendar. If online booking is mission-critical, stay on Jobber. If it isn't, you're paying a lot for a feature you don't use.
Not in v1. If you're stacking 8-12 stops a day across a city and need to minimize drive time, Jobber wins. Most pool route guys we talked to have their route memorized and don't use the auto-optimizer anyway, but it's a real gap if you do.
We don't charge per user. Jobber's pricing model assumes office-staff growth funds their MRR; ours assumes you'd rather hire another field tech. Both are valid — pick the one that matches how you grow.
Try Workhand on a real job. If it doesn't fit, walk away. Free plan handles your first job at $0/month.
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