What asphalt sealcoating need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber covers much of the general job-running work a sealcoating crew needs: quotes, invoices with online payments, scheduling, a mobile app for field teams, route optimization and QuickBooks Online integration. Higher plans add job costing and crew scheduling. Jobber AI can help price jobs and add line items to quotes. What its listed features do not show is the trade's central calculation: turning each bid area in square feet into gallons of sealer with an adjustable coverage rate. Trade press cites about 60 sq ft per gallon for normal pavement and up to about 100 on newer surfaces, so that rate has to change from job to job. Jobber's list also says nothing about recording which product was used on each job, which matters where coal tar sealer is restricted by state law, as in Minnesota.
Nexa covers estimates and quotes that convert to invoices, jobs with costing and profit per job, assigning jobs to team members, time tracking, and sending the day's stops to Google Maps in time order. It also has a simple stock count per product and bookkeeping tools. It has no area-to-gallon conversion, no adjustable coverage rate, and no per-job product record tied to location rules. It also lacks route optimization, a dispatch board, text messaging, QuickBooks or Xero sync, and a full inventory system. 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 at $49 a month costs $1,764. Nexa costs $279 once, plus $4.99 a month for optional Cloud Sync, which comes to $458.64 in total. Without Cloud Sync, Nexa runs on one device. The price gap is real, but neither tool lists the feature this trade depends on most. A contractor happy with Jobber's routing, texting and QuickBooks link should stay put and keep a coverage-rate sheet or spreadsheet beside it. A contractor who needs a gallon-based estimate and a per-job product log should look for estimating software built for paving and sealcoating, not switch between these two.
Our read for asphalt sealcoating: Neither tool lists square-foot-to-gallon estimating with an adjustable coverage rate or per-job product records, so a sealcoating-specific estimating tool is the better fit.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs asphalt sealcoating $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 asphalt sealcoating: 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.
Time tracking, invoicing, job tracking and the books are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot into something you buy once. 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 sealcoater: 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.)
Jobber plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median sealcoater earns $55,000/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 asphalt sealcoating. You own it like you own your Sealcoat spray rig with agitated tank.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small asphalt sealcoating 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.
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.
Time tracking, invoicing, job tracking and the books are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot into something you buy once. The sections below price both routes honestly.
He checks the radar before he checks anything else, because sealcoat and rain don't mix and a surprise afternoon storm turns a finished lot into a washed-out mess and a free redo. Today's clear and warm enough, so he rolls to a strip mall lot at dawn. Prep is the unglamorous half of the job: blowing every leaf and pebble off the asphalt, scrubbing the oil-dripped stalls with degreaser and priming them so the seal will actually stick, then melting crack-fill and pouring the cracks that would otherwise spider through the new coat by spring. He blocks the lot with cones and tape, because the whole thing has to stay tire-free until tomorrow. He agitates the tank, checks his sand-and-additive mix so the surface won't be slick, and starts spraying, cutting clean edges along the curb with a squeegee. The black goes down wet and glossy, transforming the gray faded lot, and that's the part the customer loves. The part they don't see is the crack-fill and primer under it that makes the difference between a coat that lasts three years and one that flakes in one. By midafternoon he's coated, the lot's roped off, and he's explaining to the impatient property manager one more time why nobody can park here until tomorrow.
Real asphalt sealcoating near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a sealcoater? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every sealcoater on Nexa →
The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
Here's the bar that matters: you spent $5,790–$28,670 on tools that last for years, and never thought twice. So why should the software cost more than your whole kit — every single year? Hold it to the same standard as a good tool: $279, once.
We build a sealcoater'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 a sealcoater — 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 asphalt sealcoating 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 asphalt sealcoating, 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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