What Jobber Actually Costs When You Need Real Features

Why Does the $39 Plan Exist?

Let's be honest — it's an anchor price. Jobber wants you to see "$39/month" and think, "That's less than my phone bill." And it is. But the Core plan is built for a solo operator who needs basic scheduling and invoicing. That's it.

The moment you need to send a customer a quote? Upgrade. Want automated follow-up emails to close more jobs? Upgrade. Need reports to figure out which techs are profitable? You guessed it. Upgrade.

The Real Cost for a Growing Service Business

Here's the math nobody talks about. Say you're running a plumbing company with 8 technicians and 2 office staff. You need quotes, job costing, and automation — so you're on Jobber's Grow plan at $249/mo.

Add per-user fees for your team, and you're looking at roughly $2,347/year more than what Opsler would cost for the same team. That's not pocket change. That's a new set of tools for one of your vans.

And here's the thing — even on Jobber's most expensive plan, you still don't get Good/Better/Best estimates, invoice approval workflow, smart review gating, a free branded website, or per-van inventory tracking. Those features simply don't exist in Jobber at any price.

The Feature Tax You Don't See Coming

Tier-based pricing creates a sneaky problem. You start on Core because you're just getting started. Six months later, you've built your whole operation around Jobber. Now you need features that require an upgrade. You don't have a choice — you're locked in.

This is the feature tax. It's not on the pricing page. But it's in every frustrated moment when you discover the thing you need is on the next tier up. We've heard from businesses that upgraded twice in their first year. That's going from $39 to $249 in under 12 months.

So when you compare Jobber's "starting at $39/mo" to Opsler's flat $149/mo, you're not comparing apples to apples. You're comparing the appetizer menu to the full dinner.

The Fee They Don't Talk About

You know what's not on Jobber's pricing page? The cut they take every time a customer pays you. Jobber Payments charges 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction for card-not-present payments (which is most of them — online invoices, emailed payment links). Tap to Pay is 2.7% + $0.30. ACH transfers are 1%.

Sounds like small numbers. Let's see how small they really are.

Average ticket: $350. Jobs per week: 20. That's 1,040 transactions and $364,000 in annual revenue. At Jobber's 2.9% + $0.30 rate, you're paying $10,868 per year in processing fees. That's $10,556 in percentage fees plus $312 in per-transaction charges. Nearly eleven grand — just for the privilege of getting paid.

And that's not a fee you can negotiate down or avoid. If you're using Jobber Payments, that's what you pay. Every invoice. Every time.

Opsler doesn't skim your revenue. Here's how it works: your techs display Venmo or CashApp QR codes on-site — admin-locked so nobody can swap them — and customers pay directly. Zero processing fees. For customers who prefer cards, Opsler generates payment links that work with whatever processor you already have. Your bank, your rates, your relationship. Opsler doesn't sit in the middle taking a cut.

That's $10,868/year that stays in your bank account instead of Jobber's. Over five years, that's $54,340. You could buy a work van for that. Instead, it's disappearing into transaction fees you barely think about.