What appliance repair technicians need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber covers the general job-running side of appliance repair well. It has scheduling and online booking, quotes, invoices with online payments, a mobile app for field teams, route optimization, and a client hub. Higher plans add checklists, two-way SMS, job costing, and photo and video storage, and it syncs with QuickBooks Online. What its feature list does not show is anything built for this trade's compliance duties. It doesn't list refrigerant type and quantity logged per job and attached to the invoice, refrigerant disposal records with monthly totals, or intake fields for appliance model and serial number. It also doesn't list a printable California claim-check receipt, or a zero-charge invoice carrying the required "no charge over the estimate without consent" wording. Ask Jobber whether it can do these before relying on it.
Nexa covers invoices, estimates and quotes that convert to invoices, jobs with costing and profit per job, a booking page with intake forms, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, time tracking, and bookkeeping with expenses and sales tax tracking. It also works offline. It does not list refrigerant logging, model and serial number fields, a printable receipt, or the required estimate wording. It also lacks text messaging, route optimization, dispatch, QuickBooks sync, and a marketplace of integrations. Its automated emails send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. It is software you own and run yourself, with no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding.
Over three years Jobber's $49 plan costs $1,764 ($588 a year). Nexa costs $279 once, or $458.64 with Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month. If you work alone and mostly need quotes, invoices and books, Nexa is far cheaper. Keep Jobber if you rely on its mobile app, SMS, route optimization or QuickBooks sync. Either way, the refrigerant, disposal, certification and California receipt records are the core of this trade, and neither tool clearly handles them. Plan to keep those in a dedicated appliance-repair compliance tool, or in custom job fields and templates you build and verify yourself.
Our read for appliance repair technicians: Neither tool lists refrigerant logging, model and serial intake, or California's required receipt and invoice wording, so look for appliance-repair field service software with compliance records and custom job fields.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs appliance repair technicians $588/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 5.7 months it has cost less than Jobber, and you own it after that. What it is not: hosted-for-you software with a support desk and a roadmap you can lobby. That is the trade, and the rest of this page is the detail behind it.
Nexa is $279 once, about $23 a month over its first year. Its Drain Guard reads your expenses (from a linked bank, an imported statement, or ones you type in), finds the charges that repeat, and adds them up by the month. Keep or Cut then walks you through them one at a time. Cancel $23 a month of charges you'd forgotten about and Nexa has paid for itself inside the first year, before you count the Jobber bill you'd stop paying.
It depends on what you find and what you cancel, so we don't promise a number. In our demo data, Drain Guard finds 5 subscriptions adding up to $110.13 a month. That is sample data, not a customer's.
The verdict for appliance repair technicians: Neither Jobber nor Nexa is the main system for this work; start with software built for it. Nexa only makes sense beside it, at $279 once against $1,764 for Jobber over three years.
Scheduling, invoicing, job tracking and client records are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot and carry their own booking link, with no per-appointment cut. The sections below price both routes honestly.
None of that is a software problem you can buy your way out of in one click — it is why the tool you pick matters more than what it costs. Jobber solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $49/month — $588 a year, from Jobber's own pricing page. Every figure below is that price, multiplied. Nothing is projected.
Nexa: $279 once (or 3 × $99). Over the same three years, that is $1,485 less.
If Jobber raises its price, the three-year cost goes up; if it cuts it, the cost comes down. We don't guess which. Add-ons, extra seats and card-processing fees are not included, on either side.
| Feature | Jobber | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✓ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | — | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | — | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $49/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $1,764 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for Jobber come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as Jobber lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from Jobber's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
Jobber is the better call if you need built for home services specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Jobber is built for home and commercial field service businesses. Its homepage names 12 trades, including cleaning, HVAC, landscaping, plumbing, roofing and tree care, and says it serves service pros in over 50 industries. (getjobber.com)
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Software doesn't do the actual work — it automates the business around it. And that part is the same for every appliance repair tech: find the work, manage it, bill for it, get paid. Each step has a tool — and the right single tool runs the whole loop, so the handoffs are automatic and you get back to the actual work. Tap a step to see what gets automated.
A lead, a call, a referral — and a quote or estimate that turns it into a booked job.
The part you actually get paid for — with the time, materials, add-ons, and tasks tracked as you go, not guessed at later.
The work becomes the invoice — the hours, the add-ons, the materials, the deposit credited — totaled and sent, instead of re-typed at 9pm.
Paid by card or link, the deposit credited, and what's overdue chased — without you doing it by hand.
You can stitch four separate subscriptions across these four steps, or run one tool that does the whole flow so a booking becomes a job becomes an invoice becomes a payment without re-typing. Either way the goal is the same: less time on the business of the business, more on the actual work. (Nexa is built to be the one — but the honest options for each step are above and below.)
This is the connection that makes the rest worth it. A appliance repair tech's job already holds the services, the hours, the add-ons, and the materials — so the invoice builds itself from the work instead of you re-typing it at 9pm. Toggle an add-on or nudge the hours and watch it recompute.
You didn't write this invoice — the job did.
Jobber plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median appliance repair tech earns $42,000/year. At $588/year, Jobber is a recurring slice of that — paid again every year, whether the year was good or not. Owning the same jobs outright is $279 once, and the slice stops.
Nexa is $279 once. Invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, accounting — all connected, built for appliance repair technicians. You own it like you own your Multimeter and amp clamp.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small appliance repair technicians business that owns its tools and is sick of renting software, Nexa replaces your whole stack for $279 once. If you're scaling past a handful of crews, a fleet platform may fit better — and we'd rather tell you that now than sell you the wrong thing.
Local rates and saturation vary widely — price for the city you serve, not a national average.
Year-round construction in SoCal. Fire season (June-November) drives restoration demand. Drought impacts landscaping. Earthquake retrofitting is ongoing market.
Extreme summer heat drives HVAC demand. Hurricane risk on Gulf Coast. Year-round construction. Rapid population growth in DFW, Austin, Houston, San Antonio creates sustained demand. Freeze events (like 2021) create emergency plumbing/HVAC surge.
Hurricane season June-November creates massive restoration demand. Snowbird season November-March boosts service volume 30-40%. Year-round construction. Pool service is year-round industry. Pest control peaks in summer humidity.
Harsh winters in upstate, moderate in NYC. Construction limited in winter upstate. NYC market is enormous but hypercompetitive. Brownstone/pre-war building maintenance is specialized trade. NYC licensing is notoriously complex.
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Open on Reddit →Scheduling, invoicing, job tracking and client records are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot and carry their own booking link, with no per-appointment cut. The sections below price both routes honestly.
Most of my calls are washers, dryers, refrigerators, dishwashers and ovens, and the diagnosis is where I earn my money. Before I pull anything apart I ask what it's doing, check the error codes and the model number, and look up the known failures for that model, because many machines fail in predictable ways. A dryer that runs but won't heat is usually the element, a fuse or a thermostat; a fridge that's warm might be a defrost problem, a fan, or a sealed-system leak that isn't worth fixing on an old unit. Part of the job is telling customers honestly when repair costs more than the machine is worth. I carry the common parts, belts, igniters, pumps and door switches, and order the rest, which usually means a second visit. Every job starts with a diagnostic fee that's credited toward the repair if they go ahead. Safety matters: disconnecting power, shutting off gas and water, and checking for leaks before I leave. Warranty companies send me work too, at lower rates and with a lot of paperwork, so I balance them against direct customers.
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The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
You paid for these once because good tools last. That's the bar your software should clear too — priced like a tool you own, $279 once, not a subscription that costs more than your kit every year.
We build an appliance repair tech's guide the same way every time, and we'd rather you trust it than take it on faith. Nexa is our product, so the test we hold ourselves to is simple: a tool only "wins" a job here when it genuinely does that job better for an appliance repair tech — and where something free, open-source, or buy-once does it better, we say so and link you to it. Where Nexa falls short (payroll is the honest example), we name the alternative outright.
Found something out of date? Prices change and we don't catch every move the day it happens. This guide is published and maintained by the Nexa team; if a figure here is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it — getting it right matters more to us than the sale.
For solo appliance repair technicians and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. Jobber may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
Jobber has features like Built for home services and Mobile app for field teams that some businesses rely on. For most solo appliance repair technicians, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $49/month, Nexa pays for itself in 5.7 months. After that: $588 saved every year.
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.
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