What boat detailer need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber covers the general run of a mobile detailing business well. It has online booking and scheduling, quotes and invoices with online payments, a mobile app for field teams, route optimization, and a client hub. Quote and invoice line items let you bill extras such as oxidation removal, mildew, or marina access and travel fees on top of the base price. Jobber AI can draft quotes and add line items. Higher plans add job costing, two-way SMS, and QuickBooks Online sync. Nothing in the information I have shows a per-linear-foot price list by service, a field for marina insurance or revenue share, or hull-cleaning rule tracking. Expect to handle those with line items, custom pricing you set up yourself, and notes on each job.
Nexa covers quotes, estimates and invoices (quotes convert to invoices). It also has a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, a public booking page, jobs with costing and profit per job, and a crew view of assigned jobs. Today's stops go to Google Maps in time order, and its bookkeeping tools include expenses, profit and loss, and sales tax tracking. It has no per-foot price list or marina-insurance tracking either, so those would live in notes and line items. It has no text messaging, no QuickBooks or Xero sync, no route optimization or dispatch board, and no app marketplace. Nexa's emailed reminders, sequences and workflows send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. It is software you own and run yourself, with no hosted support desk.
At the figures given, Jobber's $49/month plan costs $588 a year and $1,764 over three years. Nexa costs $279 once, or $458.64 over three years with the optional $4.99/month Cloud Sync, and it runs on one device without Cloud Sync. A solo detailer who works from one device, writes quotes by hand, and sends reminders manually, or accepts that Nexa's automated emails go out only while Nexa is open, could save a lot with Nexa. A detailer who texts customers, relies on QuickBooks, or runs routes across several marinas should stay with Jobber.
Our read for boat detailer: Stay with Jobber if you rely on texting, QuickBooks sync, or route tools; Nexa suits only a solo, one-device detailer who accepts that its automated emails send only while Nexa is open.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs boat detailer $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 boat detailer: 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.
Invoicing, time tracking, 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 boat detailer: 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:
Email yourself this comparison?
The median Boat Detailer earns $48,000/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 boat detailer. You own it like you own your Heavy-cut rotary buffer with wool and foam pads for oxidized gelcoat.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small boat detailer 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.
Invoicing, time tracking, 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.
Boats live a hard life in sun and saltwater, so most of what I fight is oxidation. Gelcoat that's gone chalky and dull takes me through multiple cutting stages on the rotary with wool, then foam, before any wax goes on, and a thirty-foot hull is hours of work standing on a ladder or leaning over the rail. The waterline is its own battle, scum lines, hard-water spots, and bottom growth that laughs at regular soap, so I'm using marine acids and a pressure washer to bring it back. I detail the topsides too: vinyl seats that crack in the sun if they're not protected, isinglass clears that scratch if you wipe them wrong, and nonskid decks that hold dirt in every texture. Access is always a puzzle, because I'm working in a slip or on a lift with tides moving the boat, sometimes no shore power and no water at the dock, so I'm hauling my own. The thing nobody tells you about this trade is how seasonal it is: come spring everyone wants their boat ready to launch at once and I'm slammed, and by deep winter the calls dry up. When a faded hull comes back to a mirror and the owner sees it sitting in the slip glowing, that's the job.
Real boat detailer near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a boat detailer? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every boat detailer 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 $1,050–$4,050 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 boat detailer'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 boat detailer — 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 boat detailer 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 boat detailer, 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.
Own your tools. Stop renting your software.
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