Ceramic Coating Specialists on Jobber pay $69/month — $828/year. Over three years, that's $2,778. Nexa is $279 once. Break-even runs about 4.0 months. The median Ceramic Coating Specialist earns $48,000/year, so Jobber's annual cost is roughly 1.7% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
That's $2,778 gone. And you don't own anything. Stop paying, lose access.
You're not the only one who's had enough.
Ceramic Coating Specialists face unique challenges: A ceramic job is two-plus days of paint correction before a drop of coating goes on, and customers who think it is a one-day 'wax' are shocked at both the timeline and the price. The car has to stay in a dust-controlled bay to cure, so a single overbooked day means a car sitting in a stall the next client needed. Coatings carry multi-year warranties with maintenance-wash requirements, and tracking which customer is on which warranty and due for an annual inspection is a long-tail obligation. Quotes swing wildly with paint condition, so a price given off a phone photo collapses the moment the car arrives covered in swirls and deep scratches. On top of all that, Jobber charges $69/month ($828/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Ceramic Coating Specialist earns $48,000/year. Software at $828/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Dual-action and rotary polishers with a graded pad collection is yours. You bought it once. Nexa works the same way — $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, and full accounting. All connected. All offline-capable. You own it like you own your tools.
Jobber is just one piece. What else are you losing money on?
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| Feature | Jobber | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $69/mo forever | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Cost | $2,778 | $279 |
| Stop paying? | Lose everything | Keep everything forever |
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The bay is the whole world for a coating specialist, because dust is the enemy and the work happens under controlled light. A typical car arrives and the real job is the inspection: paint depth readings, swirl-finder light raking across every panel to map the defects, and an honest conversation with the owner that the gloss they want comes from correction, not from the coating itself. Most of the actual hours are polishing, stage after stage, chasing swirls and scratches out of clear coat with the right pad and compound, wiping down with panel prep, and re-inspecting under the lights to confirm the correction held. Only then does the coating go on, panel by panel, applied with a suede block and leveled in a tight window before it flashes. Then the car sits to cure, which means the bay is occupied and the schedule has to respect that. Between the hands-on work there is the customer side: explaining why this is a multi-day commitment, setting the maintenance-wash expectations that keep the warranty valid, and following up months later for the annual inspection the warranty requires. The frustration is almost always the gap between what a customer imagined and what the paint actually needs, and that gap is best closed before the deposit, not after the car is on the lift.
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For solo operators and small teams (1-5), yes. Nexa includes invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting. Jobber may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
It's $7.75/month over 3 years. Jobber is $69/month — that's $2,778 over 3 years. Which is more? And if you'd rather split it, Nexa is also available as 3 payments of $99.
Yes. Nexa is $279 as a one-time payment, or 3 payments of $99 ($297 total). Either way it's a one-time purchase — no subscription, no recurring fees ever.
30-day money-back guarantee. Full refund. If Nexa doesn't save you $500 in year one, you get every penny back.
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The average solo operator there spends about $2,880/year on software — and Ceramic Coating Specialist face their own version of that math. FL state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Fort Lauderdale metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Ceramic Coating Specialists run into with Jobber, and what Nexa does instead.
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