Jobber vs Housecall Pro
Jobber vs Housecall Pro: pricing, features and who each fits
Short answer: Pick Jobber if you want the lowest entry price that scales by team size, a quote-first workflow, Xero sync and the only official ChatGPT and Claude connector of the two. Pick Housecall Pro if you are a residential HVAC, plumbing or electrical shop of about 5 to 8 people that wants maintenance plans, good-better-best estimates, QuickBooks Desktop sync and an AI team bundled into one plan.
Independent comparison by the Fieldproxy team. Every vendor fact is linked to its source; checked 13 November 2026.
At a glance
The differences that decide it
Both are well-made home service tools with published prices and no long-term contract. The real differences are how they price teams, maintenance plans, accounting, offline and AI.
Jobber
Job management for home service businesses, priced by team size.
- Pricing
- From $49/mo for one user ($29/mo billed yearly). Team plans $199 to $699/mo for 5 to 15 users.[1]
- Contract
- Monthly or yearly. Fees are non-refundable, and on the one-year commitment paid monthly, cancelling counts as notice of non-renewal: the remaining monthly payments are still due. You can't downgrade a tier before that year ends.[2]
- Setup time
- Jobber says many customers are up and running in about two hours, most teams within 10 business days, and its onboarding team moves key data in 3 to 5 business days.[4]
- Free trial
- 14 days with Grow features, no card.[1]
Housecall Pro
Home service software for residential trades, from solo operators to growing teams.
- Pricing
- $79, $189 or $329/mo ($59, $149 or $299 billed yearly) for 1, 5 or 8 users.[16]
- Contract
- No long-term contract required; monthly or yearly billing. Subscriptions auto-renew and fees are not prorated or refunded. Its help center says cancelling is completed after a team member speaks with the account owner.[16],[19],[20]
- Setup time
- Basic and Essentials are self-serve. MAX comes with a four-week onboarding journey with weekly training calls and a go-live date you set.[16],[21]
- Free trial
- 14 days of MAX, no card.[16]
- Built for
- Home service businesses such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning and landscaping, from solo operators to growing teams.[16]
Pricing shape
Jobber prices each plan by team size (1, 5, 10 or 15 users), so a 5-person crew pays $299/mo on Grow monthly. Housecall Pro bundles users into plans: Essentials includes 5 users at $189/mo and MAX includes 8 at $329/mo. For a team of 5 to 8, Housecall Pro is usually the cheaper sticker price; for a solo operator they are close ($49 vs $79 monthly).
Maintenance plans
Housecall Pro has Recurring Service Plans (memberships, billed monthly or yearly) on MAX. Jobber handles repeat work as recurring jobs; we found no separate membership module. If agreements drive your revenue, this matters most.
Accounting
Jobber syncs with QuickBooks Online and Xero but not QuickBooks Desktop. Housecall Pro syncs with QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop (US versions) but has no native Xero integration.
Offline and AI
Neither is fully offline: Housecall Pro is view-only for jobs opened earlier, and Jobber documents offline timers. Jobber has an official ChatGPT and Claude connector; Housecall Pro bundles an AI team (marketing, chat, analyst, coach) on every plan and sells AI call answering separately.
Pricing
Jobber vs Housecall Pro pricing
Published prices only, read off each vendor’s own pricing page on 13 November 2026. Where a vendor does not publish a price we say so rather than repeat third-party guesses.
Jobber
Published tiers, priced by plan and team size (1, 5, 10 or 15 users). Above 15 users, contact sales.[1]
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly |
|---|---|---|
| Core1 user | $49 | $29 |
| Connect1 user; 5 users $199 / $149; 15 users $399 / $299 | $139 | $99 |
| Grow1 user; 5 users $299 / $229; 15 users $499 / $399 | $199 | $149 |
| PlusFrom 5 users; 15 users $699 / $529 | $499 | $399 |
- Extra users $29/mo each. Add-ons: Marketing Suite $99/mo, AI Receptionist $29/mo, Pipeline $49/mo (Receptionist and Marketing Suite are included in Plus).[1]
- A third option sits between monthly and yearly: a one-year commitment paid in 12 monthly instalments.[1],[2]
- Card payments 2.9% + 30¢, Tap to Pay 2.7% + 30¢, bank (ACH, US) 1%.[1]
Housecall Pro
Three published plans with a user count included; extra users priced on MAX.[16]
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly |
|---|---|---|
| Basic1 user | $79 | $59 |
| Essentials5 users | $189 | $149 |
| MAX8 users; $35/mo per extra user | $329 | $299 |
- Add-ons (CSR AI call answering, Pipeline, Voice, GPS and dashcams, Websites, Payroll and more) are sold separately; prices are not published.[16],[17]
- Card payments 2.59% (reader or Tap to Pay) to 3.49% (keyed, Amex), online card 2.99%, ACH 1%. Tap to Pay adds $5 per active device a month.[18]
- Introductory promos run on the page and change often, so we list the standing prices.[16]
Worked example on monthly billing: a 5-user team pays $199 (Connect) or $299 (Grow) on Jobber, and $189 on Housecall Pro Essentials. A 10-user team pays $399 on Jobber Grow, and $329 + 2 × $35 = $399 on Housecall Pro MAX. Card fees and add-ons come on top of both.
Commitment
Contracts, minimums and implementation time
As each vendor states it. These decide your real switching cost more than the monthly price does.
| Jobber | Housecall Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Contract | Monthly or yearly. Fees are non-refundable, and on the one-year commitment paid monthly, cancelling counts as notice of non-renewal: the remaining monthly payments are still due. You can't downgrade a tier before that year ends.[2] | No long-term contract required; monthly or yearly billing. Subscriptions auto-renew and fees are not prorated or refunded. Its help center says cancelling is completed after a team member speaks with the account owner.[16],[19],[20] |
| Minimums | No minimum beyond the term you choose. Plus starts at 5 users and covers up to 15.[2],[1],[3] | None stated. Downgrades take effect at the end of the billing period.[16] |
| Implementation | Jobber says many customers are up and running in about two hours, most teams within 10 business days, and its onboarding team moves key data in 3 to 5 business days.[4] | Basic and Essentials are self-serve. MAX comes with a four-week onboarding journey with weekly training calls and a go-live date you set.[16],[21] |
| Onboarding included | Connect: 2 sessions (up to 2 hours). Grow: 3 sessions (up to 3 hours). Plus: unlimited sessions with a dedicated specialist and data import help.[1],[3] | Dedicated onboarding specialist on MAX only; MAX customers can also work with the data import team.[16],[22] |
| Free trial | 14 days with Grow features, no card.[1] | 14 days of MAX, no card.[16] |
Features
Jobber vs Housecall Pro (and Fieldproxy), feature by feature
What each product does, with the plan it needs where the vendor says. Anything we could not confirm on the vendor's own pages is left out. The Fieldproxy column is our own product, so you can see a third option; each cell links to the page that shows it.
Scheduling and dispatch
Jobber
Drag-to-reschedule calendar, map view and routing. Route optimisation on Connect and up; Jobber's help center says the Optimize button runs twice a day and is tied to its older schedule view.[6],[7]
Housecall Pro
Scheduling and dispatch on every plan; routes and employee GPS tracking on Essentials; route optimisation with live traffic on MAX.[16]
Jobs and work orders
Housecall Pro
Jobs with job costing and photo reports; custom checklists and checklist automations from Essentials.[16]
Quotes and estimates
Invoicing and payments
Jobber
Batch invoicing, Jobber Payments (card, Tap to Pay, ACH) and consumer financing through Wisetack.[6],[1]
Housecall Pro
Invoicing, payments and consumer financing on every plan; flat-rate pricing and commissions from Essentials.[16]
Maintenance agreements
Jobber
Recurring jobs with repeat visits. We found no separate membership or service-agreement module on Jobber's feature pages.[6]
Inventory and purchasing
Jobber
No stock or warehouse tracking listed; it tracks material costs on jobs and keeps a products and services list.[6]
Housecall Pro
No native stock tracking; its help center points users to QuickBooks Online Plus inventory.[25]
Customer portal
Jobber
Client hub: customers request work, approve quotes or ask for changes, see scheduled jobs and pay invoices or deposits.[6]
Housecall Pro
Customer portal: view bookings, approve or decline estimates, pay and view invoices, book online, manage a card on file.[26]
Mobile app and offline
Jobber
iOS and Android app. Timers keep running offline; geofenced timers, crew clock-in and past time entries need a connection.[8]
Reporting
Jobber
Built-in reports on every plan; custom reports on Plus; an AI custom report builder in Jobber AI.[1],[9]
QuickBooks Desktop
Jobber
No. Jobber's help center: no information can be passed between Jobber and QuickBooks Desktop.[10]
Housecall Pro
Yes, US versions no more than three years old, on Windows 10 or later. After a one-time import, data syncs from Housecall Pro to QuickBooks.[28]
Fieldproxy
Xero and other accounting
Jobber
Xero, one way from Jobber into Xero, on Connect and Grow, in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand. Built and maintained by Xero.[11]
Housecall Pro
No native Xero integration found. Zapier, on MAX, is the documented route to other tools.[16]
Fieldproxy
API
Jobber
Public GraphQL API through the Jobber Developer Center; custom integrations for your own account are allowed. Plus includes an API tour.[12],[3]
Housecall Pro
Open API on MAX only; admins create keys, and Housecall Pro does not build custom integrations for you.[29],[16]
Fieldproxy
AI features
Jobber
Jobber AI: AI Receptionist (paid add-on, included in Plus), custom report builder, automations, Rewrite, voice commands in the field and recommendations.[9],[1]
Housecall Pro
AI Team on every plan: Marketing AI, CSR AI (chat), Analyst AI, Coach AI and Help AI. CSR AI 24/7 call answering is a paid add-on.[17]
ChatGPT / Claude (MCP)
Jobber
Official connector for ChatGPT and Claude on all paid plans. Reads clients, requests, quotes, jobs and invoices; creates requests, clients, properties and quotes. It can't create or edit jobs or invoices, change the schedule, or delete anything.[13]
Customisation depth
Jobber
Job forms and checklists; custom time-tracking labels and a Custom Automation Builder on Plus. Work follows Jobber's request, quote, job, invoice flow.[6],[3]
Fit
Which trades and company sizes each one suits
Both serve the same residential trades. The split is team size, how you sell recurring work, and your accounting system.
Pick Jobber if…
- You are a solo operator or a small crew and want to start at $49/mo, then pay by team size as you grow.
- Your work is quote-led (landscaping, cleaning, painting, handyman): automated quote follow-ups and optional line items do a lot of the selling.
- Your books are in Xero, or in QuickBooks Online.
- You want to ask ChatGPT or Claude about clients, quotes, jobs and invoices with an official connector.
Pick Housecall Pro if…
- You are residential HVAC, plumbing or electrical with 5 to 8 users: Essentials or MAX includes those seats at one price.
- You sell maintenance memberships and want them billed monthly or yearly (MAX).
- You run QuickBooks Desktop (US).
- You want good-better-best estimates and a bundled AI team without buying separate tools.
Reviews
What users complain about
Recurring themes in G2 and Capterra reviews, paraphrased. Both products are well rated overall; these are the patterns in the critical reviews, not the average experience.
Jobber
- Reporting is the most-cited weakness: users find it basic and hard to slice without exporting.[14]
- Cost rises with add-ons and jumps between plans; some reviewers call out price increases and features held back for higher tiers.[14],[15]
- Occasional glitches, including inconsistent QuickBooks syncing, and a daily re-login some find tiresome.[14]
- Limited control over user permissions and quote layout.[14],[15]
Housecall Pro
- Invoicing is called cumbersome and inflexible; it is the top con in Capterra's review summary.[32]
- Permissions are broad: reviewers want to stop technicians seeing revenue or moving appointments.[32]
- Costs add up with add-ons and extra users, and some find card fees high.[32]
- Some tasks only work on desktop, reports and QuickBooks sync can frustrate, and buttons move after updates without notice.[32]
Switching
Switching between Jobber and Housecall Pro
Both export customers to CSV and both import from CSV, so moving the customer list is a day's work. Agreements, open jobs and stored cards take planning.
Housecall Pro to Jobber
- An admin exports customers and jobs from Housecall Pro (Actions, then Export); the CSV is emailed.[22]
- Import clients into Jobber from CSV (files under 2.5 MB, about 5,000 rows); import jobs from CSV, up to 1,000 at a time (beta).[33],[34]
- Jobber's onboarding team helps move key data, typically in 3 to 5 business days by its own account.[4]
- Rebuild memberships as recurring jobs, since Jobber has no separate membership module on its feature pages.[6]
Jobber to Housecall Pro
- An admin exports clients from Jobber as CSV or vCard (up to 1,500 rows per CSV file).[35]
- Housecall Pro's import wizard takes CSV, XLS/XLSX and more; MAX customers can work with its data import team.[22]
- If you are on Jobber's one-year commitment paid monthly, the remaining payments are still due when you leave, so time the switch to your renewal date.[2]
What usually breaks in a switch, whichever way you go
- Recurring agreements. The agreement record usually exports; the schedule of future visits, visits used and renewal dates often have to be rebuilt. Ask who does that work.
- Price book. Items and prices export; good-better-best option packages, images and member pricing rules usually need rebuilding.
- Job history, photos and attachments. Ask how much history comes across and in what form. Photos and PDFs are usually the hardest part to move.
- Equipment records. Make, model, serial and install date per customer drive replacement sales, so move them properly rather than as a notes field.
- Stored cards. Saved cards are held by the payment processor, not the field service app, so they rarely move. Plan for customers to re-enter cards.
- Open work and timing. Pick a cut-over date for open estimates, unpaid invoices and booked jobs, and switch in a quiet season, not your busiest week.
Before you sign
Questions to ask both vendors in the demo
- What will we pay in year one with every user we have, including office staff and part-time techs, add-ons and card fees?
- What is the contract term, what happens at renewal, and how much notice do we have to give to leave?
- Who moves our data across, what exactly comes over (agreements, price book, photos, equipment), and what do we rebuild ourselves?
- Show a tech building a good, better, best quote on the phone with no signal.
- Show a maintenance agreement with our real terms: visits per year, member pricing, renewal reminder.
- Can we change forms, job stages and checklists ourselves later, and how long does a change take?
A third option
Where Fieldproxy fits
When it is worth a look
Fieldproxy is AI-native field service software that is set up around your own workflow: your job types, stages, forms and approval steps, live within a day. It is one price per company with unlimited users, and you can run it from ChatGPT or Claude through its MCP server. It replaces Jobber or Housecall Pro; it does not sit on top of either.
It is worth a look when your process doesn't fit either template: commercial accounts with their own visit rules, approval steps before a quote goes out, checklists that differ by equipment, or many office and part-time users where per-seat pricing hurts.
When it is not
If you are a small residential crew running a standard quote, job, invoice flow, Jobber or Housecall Pro will serve you well and cost less to get going, and Fieldproxy is more system than you need.
Fieldproxy has no free trial or card sign-up; pricing is quoted on a call. If you want to start today on your own, Jobber and Housecall Pro both offer 14-day trials with no card.
FAQ
Jobber vs Housecall Pro: common questions
Is Jobber or Housecall Pro cheaper?
Does Jobber or Housecall Pro have a long-term contract?
Which works with QuickBooks Desktop?
Which works with Xero?
Do Jobber and Housecall Pro work offline?
Which one handles maintenance agreements better?
Can I use Jobber or Housecall Pro from ChatGPT or Claude?
Which has better AI features?
How hard is it to switch from Housecall Pro to Jobber, or back?
Which is better for HVAC?
Go deeper
Sources
Each vendor fact on this page links to one of these. All checked 13 November 2026. Vendors change plans often; if you spot something out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
- [1] Jobber pricing page
- [2] Jobber terms of service (sections 3 and 18)
- [3] Jobber Help: the Plus plan
- [4] Jobber: Jobber vs ServiceTitan (Jobber's own page, updated 5 Oct 2026)
- [5] Jobber industries
- [6] Jobber features
- [7] Jobber Help: how to route
- [8] Jobber Help: timers and timesheets in the app (offline behaviour)
- [9] Jobber AI features
- [10] Jobber Help: QuickBooks integration FAQs
- [11] Jobber Help: Jobber and Xero integration
- [12] Jobber Help: Developer Center (GraphQL API)
- [13] Jobber Help: connect Jobber to Claude and ChatGPT
- [14] Capterra: Jobber reviews
- [15] G2: Jobber reviews
- [16] Housecall Pro pricing page (plans, FAQ)
- [17] Housecall Pro AI Team
- [18] Housecall Pro Help: payment processing options
- [19] Housecall Pro terms of service
- [20] Housecall Pro Help: billing and account management
- [21] Housecall Pro Help: MAX onboarding support overview
- [22] Housecall Pro Help: import and export jobs and customers
- [23] Housecall Pro Help: what's new in estimates (multi-option)
- [24] Housecall Pro Help: service plans starter kit
- [25] Housecall Pro Help: how do I keep track of inventory?
- [26] Housecall Pro Help: using the customer portal
- [27] Housecall Pro Help: mobile FAQ (offline)
- [28] Housecall Pro Help: QuickBooks Desktop integration overview
- [29] Housecall Pro Help: API overview
- [30] Zapier: Housecall Pro MCP (third-party)
- [31] Housecall Pro Help: custom fields
- [32] Capterra: Housecall Pro reviews
- [33] Jobber Help: import clients
- [34] Jobber Help: import jobs (beta)
- [35] Jobber Help: export client information
Process doesn’t fit either template?
See Fieldproxy set up around your own job types, forms and approvals, live within a day.