Furniture Repair Technicians 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 furniture repair technician earns $55,000/year, so Jobber's annual cost is roughly 1.5% 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.
Furniture Repair Technicians face unique challenges: On-site touch-up where the lighting, the customer hovering, and no shop make matching a finish far harder than at the bench. Modern flat-pack furniture made of MDF and veneer that won't hold a glue joint or take a real repair. Insurance and moving-claim work that wants a teardown report and itemized cost before you can even start. Color-matching a damaged spot into an aged, hand-rubbed finish so the repair vanishes instead of showing as a patch. On top of all that, Jobber charges $69/month ($828/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median furniture repair technician earns $55,000/year. Software at $828/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your burn-in knife and fill sticks 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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Your exact Jobber cost, full stack total, and what switching saves. 10 seconds.
| 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 |
Most furniture repair technicians are fully switched before the weekend.
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Furniture repair splits between bench work and the customer's living room, and the living room is harder. A moving company or a homeowner calls about a gouged tabletop, a white heat ring, a loose chair, or a chipped veneer corner, and you show up with a kit that has to do anything — fill sticks, burn-in knife, padding lacquer, graining pens, and a color palette. On-site, the gouge gets cleaned, filled with a melted burn-in stick leveled flush, then you grain in the wood pattern by hand with pens and seal it with padding lacquer, all while matching a finish under whatever light the dining room has and the owner watching over your shoulder. The skill is making the eye skip right over the spot. Bench jobs are the real repairs — a wobbly chair gets knocked apart, the old glue cleaned out, re-glued with hide glue and clamped square, because a joint that's just re-glued over dirty failed glue lets go again in a month. The frustration of the trade is the material: a lot of what comes in now is MDF and paper-thin veneer over particle board that swells when it's wet and won't hold a screw or a dowel, so you're managing expectations about what can actually be saved. Half the job some days is the claim paperwork — movers and insurers want a written assessment and an itemized repair-versus-replace number before you touch it.
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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 $2,112/year on software — and furniture repair technician face their own version of that math. MO state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Independence metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Furniture Repair Technicians run into with Jobber, and what Nexa does instead.
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