Jobber is genuinely good software — a deep scheduler and dispatch board built for growing crews. But you're one person, and Jobber prices and shapes itself around a team you don't have. QuoteIron does the two things a solo shop actually needs — quote and invoice — for $14 a month, flat, offline, month-to-month.
$14/MO FLAT · NO PER-USER FEES · NO ANNUAL PREPAY LOCK-IN · WORKS OFFLINE · 14-DAY TRIAL, NO CARD
This isn't a hit piece. If you run a crew, dispatch techs, and live inside a scheduling calendar, Jobber is worth a serious look — and it's well-liked, at 4.6/5 across 1,463 reviews on Capterra (as of July 2026). Its drag-and-drop scheduling, dispatch, client hub, native payments, and QuickBooks sync are mature and real. The question isn't whether Jobber is good software. It's whether a one-person shop should pay team-shaped pricing for a scheduler it barely opens.
Capterra rating as of July 2026 · capterra.com/p/127994/Jobber/reviews
Every figure below comes straight from Jobber's own pricing page, checked July 2026. Jobber's cheapest month-to-month plan is $49/mo; the $29 headline needs a full year paid up front. The follow-up and QuickBooks features a solo shop wants sit on higher tiers.
| Plan | Month-to-month | Annual prepay | What a solo shop hits | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QuoteIron | $14/mo flat | $140/yr (2 months free) | No per-user fees. Quoting, invoicing, follow-up queue, e-sign, photos — all in the $14 | — |
| Jobber Core | $49/mo | $29/mo | Quote follow-ups and QuickBooks sync are not on Core | getjobber.com |
| Jobber Connect | $139/mo | $99/mo | Where QuickBooks sync and automated follow-ups start | getjobber.com |
| Jobber Grow | $199/mo | $149/mo | Two-way texting, quote photos, upsell tiers | getjobber.com |
| Each extra user | +$29/mo | +$29/mo | Priced for the crew you'll hire — a cost of $0 to a one-man shop, but the whole product is built around it | getjobber.com |
Prices as of July 2026 from getjobber.com/pricing. Jobber's annual prepay is billed for the full term up front and is non-refundable; the month-to-month plan is cancel-anytime. QuoteIron's $14 needs no annual commitment to reach.
Pick by the shape of your day, not the length of the feature list.
Switching down from a crew platform means losing things. Here's the plain truth about both directions.
What QuoteIron does NOT do: no drag-drop scheduling board, no dispatch, no route optimization, no in-app card processing, no live two-way QuickBooks sync. If those are your day, Jobber wins — honestly.The trade-off, stated straight
What you gain: true offline quoting, a flat-rate price book you build from 600+ job templates, good/better/best options, e-signatures, job photos, an importer that brings your Jobber client list and price book over from their CSV export, and a one-tap income CSV export — all included, no add-on tiers.What lands in the $14
What you keep: your money flow. QuoteIron surfaces your own Venmo, Zelle, Cash App, PayPal, or card link on the invoice and never stands in the middle of it, so it can never hold or freeze a payment.Payments, your way
Two CSVs out of Jobber, two taps into QuoteIron. Your customers and your prices come across — no retyping a book you already built.
Getting the files out of Jobber. We ran this on a live Jobber account, so these are the real clicks, not a guess. Your price book is Settings → Products & Services → Export CSV — that one downloads instantly. Your client list is Clients → More Actions → Export Clients, and you have to change the format to CSV, because vCard is what Jobber picks by default. Jobber doesn't hand you the client file directly: it emails it to the account owner, so check your inbox. Each file caps at 1,500 clients; past that Jobber sends more than one.
Getting them into QuoteIron. Tap IMPORT FROM ANOTHER APP — it's on the Book screen, on the Clients screen, and in Setup — and pick the file. QuoteIron reads your column names, works out on its own whether it's a client list or a price book, and shows you the first rows before it touches anything. If it guessed a column wrong, you re-point it yourself from a dropdown. Nothing gets added until you tap the import button, and one tap undoes the whole batch if you don't like what landed. Clients come in with name, phone, email, address, and notes. Price-book jobs come in at your prices, held as a fixed price, so later changes to your labor rate or markup can't quietly move numbers you already trust.
The file never leaves your phone. It's read on your device, inside the app. Nothing about it is uploaded — not the file, not your prices, not your customers' names, addresses or numbers. Your client list can't leak from our server, because it never reaches our server. That's the part most of these migrations get wrong.
Jobber is the one we've tested end to end against real exported files — the client list and the price book both. It also reads the CSV exports from Housecall Pro, Square, QuickBooks, FieldPulse, and Joist: those we've built to match each app's published export format rather than proven against a real file, so we'll call that compatible, not battle-tested. And underneath all of it there's a plain fallback — any app that exports a CSV with a row of column names will work, because you can always point our fields at your columns by hand before anything is imported. One caveat if you're also on Housecall Pro: HCP's own help center says Profit Rhino price-book data can't be exported at all, by anyone, so that catalog can't come with you. That's their limit, not ours.
What doesn't come over is job, quote and invoice history — that's the least standardized data in this whole category, and we'd rather say so than fake it. Your book and your clients move; jobs start fresh. Pull your Reports history out of Jobber as CSV for your own records before you go, and if you're leaving for good, the full cancel-Jobber steps cover the renewal-date and refund gotchas too.
From there it's the same offline-first setup covered above — your book lives on your device, backs itself up encrypted automatically, and one tap exports a full JSON copy plus an income CSV any time. If you ever need to leave QuoteIron too, you leave with everything — no support ticket required.
Import runs in QuoteIron on the web today — quoteiron.com/app, in your phone's browser or on a laptop. It reaches the iOS app in its next update. Jobber's export click-paths above were captured first-hand from a live Jobber account, August 2026.
Less than you'd think for a one-person shop. Export two files from Jobber — your price book (Settings → Products & Services → Export CSV, instant) and your client list (Clients → More Actions → Export Clients, pick CSV, Jobber emails it to you) — then tap IMPORT FROM ANOTHER APP in QuoteIron and drop each one in. Your clients and your prices come across. Most solo operators are through the import and sending real quotes inside a single evening.
Yes — clients and your price book both. Export them from Jobber as CSV, then tap IMPORT FROM ANOTHER APP (Book screen, Clients screen, or Setup). QuoteIron reads the column names, shows you the first rows, and lets you fix any column it guessed wrong before a single record is added — and one tap undoes the whole import. Clients arrive with name, phone, email, address and notes; book jobs arrive at the prices you were already charging. The file is read on your device and nothing about it is uploaded, so your customer list never touches our server. Jobber is the export we've tested against real files; Housecall Pro, Square, QuickBooks, FieldPulse and Joist are built to their published CSV formats, and any app that exports a CSV with a header row will work because you can map the columns yourself.
If most of what you pay for is quoting and invoicing rather than the scheduling and dispatch calendar, usually yes. You're paying $49–$199/mo (or $29/mo only with a full year prepaid) for a crew platform being used as a one-person quoting tool. QuoteIron does the quoting-and-invoicing part for $14/mo flat, month-to-month, with no per-user math — see the honest trade-offs above for exactly what you'd give up first.
No — it's a narrower tool that does two jobs completely. Jobber is a crew operating system with scheduling, dispatch, payments, and bookkeeping sync. QuoteIron is offline-first quoting and invoicing for one person, with a build-your-own flat-rate price book. If you need the calendar and dispatch, keep Jobber. If you mostly need to price and bill, QuoteIron does that for $14 flat.
Not a drag-drop dispatch calendar. It has a follow-up queue that surfaces unanswered quotes after five days, and it can drop a won job onto your own phone calendar in one tap. If a full scheduling board is central to your day, that's a real reason to stay with Jobber.
No. QuoteIron is $14/mo month-to-month, or $140/year if you want two months free — your choice, not a requirement. Jobber's lowest advertised rate ($29/mo on Core) requires paying a full year up front, and that annual prepay is non-refundable per its pricing page (as of July 2026). Jobber's true month-to-month Core price is $49/mo.
Yes. QuoteIron's trial runs 14 days with no card up front. You can also build a real flat-rate sample book right now, free, in your browser — no signup — with the book builder.
It was never on our servers to begin with — it lives on your device. One tap exports the whole book as a JSON backup plus an income CSV any accountant or bookkeeping tool can open. If you leave, you leave with everything.
Every one links its prices and quotes to the source.
Build a real flat-rate book in your browser in about a minute — free, no signup. Or open the app on a 14-day trial with no card.
$14/MO FLAT · MONTH-TO-MONTH · CANCEL ONLINE, NO PHONE CALL · EXPORT YOUR DATA ANYTIME