What electricians need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber covers the invoicing side of this trade well. Its $49/month plan includes quotes, invoices with online payments, scheduling, a mobile app for field crews and reporting. Higher plans add QuickBooks Online sync, job costing, time tracking, two-way SMS and crew scheduling. Its pricing tools and AI quote drafting suit flat-rate, up-front service-call pricing. Jobber's feature list doesn't mention license records, CE hours or renewal dates, certificate storage, or tracking a contractor license separately from individual electrician licenses. It also has no feature built for sorting helpers and subs into employees and independent contractors. Those compliance needs are left to you.
Nexa covers flat-rate quoting and invoicing, with estimates that convert to invoices. It also has jobs with costing and profit per job, team assignment with a crew view, time tracking, a payroll CSV of hours x rate, and 1099 summaries, which help with helper and sub records. Cards are paid through your own Stripe account, and it works offline. Like Jobber, it has no license or CE tracker, so the same gap applies. Nexa also has no QuickBooks or Xero sync, no SMS, no route optimization or dispatch board, and no payroll taxes or pay stubs. 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's $49/month plan costs $1,764 ($588 a year). Nexa costs $279 once, or 3 payments of $99, and runs on one device. With optional Cloud Sync at $4.99/month the total is $458.64. If you rely on Jobber's SMS, QuickBooks sync or route tools, staying with Jobber is reasonable. If you mainly need invoicing, job costing and a 1099 summary, Nexa costs far less. In either case, keep license and CE deadlines and certificates in a separate credential tracker.
Our read for electricians: Neither tool tracks license status, CE deadlines or certificates per license, so use a dedicated license and CE compliance tracker for that, and pick Jobber or Nexa only for invoicing and jobs.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs electricians $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 electricians: 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 electrician: 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.)
This is the connection that makes the rest worth it. A electrician's job already holds the services, the hours, the add-ons, and the materials — so the invoice builds itself from the work instead of you re-typing it at 9pm. Toggle an add-on or nudge the hours and watch it recompute.
You didn't write this invoice — the job did.
Jobber plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median electrician earns $60,240/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 electricians. You own it like you own your Multimeters (Fluke).
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small electricians 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.
Local rates and saturation vary widely — price for the city you serve, not a national average.
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.
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Most of my work is residential service calls and small projects: a dead circuit, a breaker that keeps tripping, adding outlets in a kitchen remodel, a panel upgrade, an EV charger in the garage. Troubleshooting is the real skill; I'm testing circuits, tracing where a fault actually is, and finding the loose connection or the overloaded circuit behind the symptom. Safety is everything. I verify every circuit is dead before touching it, because assuming kills electricians. Anything beyond a simple repair usually needs a permit, which means paperwork before the job and an inspection after, and I plan my schedule around the inspector's availability. Panel upgrades and new circuits start with a load calculation to make sure the service can handle it. I carry the common breakers, devices and wire on the van, but special-order parts can push a job back a week. Quoting is careful work, because opening a wall in an old house can reveal knob-and-tube wiring nobody expected. I keep my licence current with continuing education and invoice every job before I leave the driveway when I can.
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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 $940–$3,600 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 electrician'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 electrician — 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 electricians 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 electricians, 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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