What automatic gate repair need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber covers the day-to-day running of a gate repair business. It is built for home services, has a mobile app for field teams, optimizes routes between sites, gives clients a self-service hub, and connects to QuickBooks Online. Technicians who drive between many sites will use those features every day. What its feature list doesn't show is the trade-specific record that older-gate work needs: each operator's age and safety devices, a per-gate service schedule, duty class and cycles per hour, the California D-28 licence classification, and a replacement-job compliance checklist with photos. DASMA says operators made before 2000 may not accept entrapment protection devices, and that automated gates need periodic testing. Neither tool is built around that record, so on either one you would keep it in custom fields, notes and attached photos.
Nexa covers quoting and billing well. Quotes and proposals convert to invoices, recurring invoices and jobs are supported, and clients can pay by card through your own Stripe account. It also has job costing with profit per job, assigning jobs to crew, time tracking, and full bookkeeping, and it works offline. Its gaps matter for field service. It has no route optimization, GPS or dispatch board, though today's stops can be sent to Google Maps in time order. It has no text messages, no QuickBooks or Xero sync, and no job templates, and a client record has no street-address field, which is awkward when every job is at a specific gate. Its automated reminders and emails send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. Nexa is software you own and run, so there is no vendor support desk or onboarding.
Over three years Jobber at $49 a month costs $1,764 ($588 a year). Nexa costs $279 once, or 3 payments of $99. Adding optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month brings the three-year total to $458.64. Teams already running routes and mobile crews on Jobber, or syncing to QuickBooks, should stay, because Nexa lacks those features. A solo repairer who works from one device, does their own books and doesn't need routing could reasonably save the difference. Either way, keep gate age, safety-device and licence details in a separate record.
Our read for automatic gate repair: Stay with Jobber if you rely on crew mobile access, route optimization or QuickBooks sync, which Nexa doesn't offer; only a solo, single-device shop that needs none of them should consider Nexa.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs automatic gate repair $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 automatic gate repair: Stay with Jobber if the needs in our read above apply to you. If they don't, Nexa covers the core invoicing, scheduling and books for $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 automatic gate technician: 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 automatic gate technician 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 automatic gate repair. You own it like you own your Multimeter and clamp meter for the operator circuit.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small automatic gate repair 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.
First call is an apartment complex gate that residents say sticks open at night, the kind of intermittent fault that's already swinging fine when he pulls up. He puts the multimeter on the operator circuit, wiggles connections, checks the photo-eyes, and watches the board for fault codes, because a problem that won't reproduce is the hardest money he makes. He finds a loose neutral that probably drops the board when the transformer warms up, and that's the kind of thing that would've cost a parts-swapper three visits. Next is a gate that slammed on a car, which means before anything else he's checking UL 325 compliance, the photo-eyes and the safety edge, because the last tech apparently jumpered out a sensor to stop a nuisance trip and left a gate that can crush. He won't sign off on a gate that doesn't reverse on an obstruction. Afternoon is a commercial slide gate dead in the water, and the culprit is a buried loop wire a landscaper's edger sliced; he traces the break, splices it weatherproof, and reseals it. Throughout the day he's explaining to customers why he can't quote a flat 'fix it' price over the phone, because the same symptom could be a cheap sensor or a whole new operator, and he won't know until he meters it.
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The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
Here's the bar that matters: you spent $1,280–$5,300 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 an automatic gate technician'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 an automatic gate technician — 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 automatic gate repair 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 automatic gate repair, 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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