They scattered your business across ten logins. We collapsed it into one.
Jobber is field service management software. Helix is a business command center with full accounting built in. One costs $1,548/year forever. The other is $279 once.
Bottom line: Jobber Connect costs $1,548/year. Most Jobber users also pay for QuickBooks ($456-$1,380/year) because Jobber doesn't include accounting. Helix is a one-time purchase of $279 with invoicing, scheduling, CRM, and full accounting built in. Break-even: 2.2 months. Over 5 years, Jobber alone costs $9,925. Helix costs $279.
Jobber is pre-selected below. Add any other tools you're paying for to see the full picture.
Jobber Connect: $129/mo = $1,548/year. Break-even with Helix: ~2 months.
Jobber is field service management software. It schedules jobs, dispatches crews, and sends invoices. But it doesn't do accounting. For that, you need QuickBooks or Xero on top — another $30-55/month, another login, another system that doesn't quite sync right.
Helix is different. It's a business command center where scheduling, CRM, invoicing, and full accounting live in one place. Drag a prospect onto a job — the invoice creates, the time logs, the P&L updates, the cash flow forecast adjusts. One action, seven systems. Jobber can't do that because half those systems live in a different app.
Jobber has a polished native mobile app, GPS fleet tracking, and features built specifically for managing larger field service teams. If you have 10+ techs in the field and need to see where everyone is in real time, Jobber handles that well. The client hub and online booking are also solid.
Jobber doesn't do accounting. At all. You need QuickBooks or Xero alongside it, which means you're paying $129/month for Jobber PLUS $55/month for QuickBooks — that's $2,208/year for two apps that don't fully talk to each other. And Jobber's pricing has been creeping up steadily, with features that used to be included getting moved to higher tiers.
Most Jobber defectors hit one of three triggers: (1) they got tired of paying for Jobber AND QuickBooks when they should just need one thing, (2) another price increase pushed them over the edge, or (3) they realized they were paying $1,548/year for features they weren't using — GPS tracking for a crew of one, team management for a solo operation.
In Jobber, go to Settings → Import/Export and export your clients, jobs, and invoices as CSVs. You'll have your core data in 10 minutes.
15-minute setup. Import your clients, set up services and pricing. The Setup Wizard walks you through everything — including the accounting setup that replaces QuickBooks.
Run both systems for a few days. Enter jobs and transactions in both. Make sure everything matches and you're comfortable.
Once you're confident, cancel your Jobber subscription. And your QuickBooks subscription. Two monthly fees gone at once.
For small field service businesses (1-5 people), yes. Helix includes scheduling, invoicing, CRM, expense tracking, P&L, and time tracking — plus full accounting that Jobber doesn't have. You won't need QuickBooks alongside it. The main things Helix doesn't have are GPS fleet tracking and a native mobile app.
Yes. In Jobber, go to Settings → Import/Export and export your clients, jobs, and invoices as CSVs. Helix can import client data directly, and your job history can be referenced as you build your new records.
On Jobber Connect ($129/month), you save $1,249 in year one and $1,548 every year after. Over 3 years, that's $4,345. And that's before factoring in the QuickBooks subscription you won't need anymore.
Helix is a desktop application, not a mobile app. For field service teams that need to dispatch and update jobs from phones throughout the day, this is a real difference. If you mostly manage jobs from your office or truck and handle admin at the end of the day, Helix works great.
Helix does not include GPS fleet tracking. If you're managing a large crew and need to see where everyone is in real time, that's a Jobber advantage. For solo operators or small teams where you know where everyone is, GPS tracking is overhead you're paying for but not using.
We're not VC-funded. We don't have investors demanding "recurring revenue." We're a small team that built what we wanted to exist. One-time purchases still make money — $279 times enough customers is a real business. Optional extras exist (Cloud Sync at $5.99/mo, Station access at $10/mo after 90 days), but the core product works forever without paying us again. Even if we disappeared tomorrow, you'd still have your data on your device in exportable formats. That's more than Mint users can say.
Jobber costs you $1,548/year — plus QuickBooks on top. Helix is $279 once.
Calculate Your Savings· Data sourced from official pricing pages
Jobber locks your field service data behind a monthly fee. Helix puts it in your hand — one file, owned forever. Jobber is another login, another sync, another place your data can leak. Helix is a Single Source — 65,000+ workflows, zero walls between them.
One point of truth. Zero points of failure.