What fleet wash operator need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber covers the billing and field-service side of fleet washing well. Invoices with online payments, recurring scheduling, a mobile app for field teams, route optimization and QuickBooks Online integration all suit a crew that serves fleet accounts. The Connect plan adds checklists and automatic payment collection. The Plus plan adds unlimited photo and video storage, which could hold site paperwork. It does not list anything built for the trade's compliance work: per-site and per-vehicle storage of a discharge authorization, work plan and drainage map, a per-job pH reading, or an annual certification reminder. You would have to adapt checklists, photos and notes to cover those, and that would be your own workaround.
Nexa covers invoicing, recurring invoices, payment plans, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, jobs with costing and profit, recurring jobs, crew assignment, time tracking, expenses and a notes field. That is enough to bill a fleet account on a schedule. It also has no compliance features for discharge records. Its clients have no street-address field, which makes per-site paperwork harder. It has no route optimization, dispatch board, GPS or fleet tracking. It has no QuickBooks or Xero sync, so invoices headed to accounting software must be moved by hand. It has no text messaging. Its automated emails, such as reminders and sequences, 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 onboarding.
Over three years Jobber's core plan is $1,764 ($49/month, $588 a year). Nexa is $279 once, or $458.64 with the optional $4.99/month Cloud Sync. Nexa is much cheaper, but it lacks things a mobile fleet operation is likely to rely on: routing, QuickBooks sync and customer texting. If you already run on Jobber, stay and keep your discharge paperwork in checklists, photos or a separate records folder. Consider Nexa only if you work from one device, bill by hand and want to cut software cost.
Our read for fleet wash operator: Stay with Jobber: neither tool has compliance records built for wash-water discharge, and Jobber's routing, mobile app and QuickBooks sync are things Nexa lacks.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs fleet wash operator $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 fleet wash operator: 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 fleet wash operator: 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 Fleet Wash Operator 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 fleet wash operator. You own it like you own your Mobile wash rig with onboard hot-water pressure washer and water tank.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small fleet wash operator 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.
My shop comes to the customer, and usually at night. Fleets can't spare their trucks during the day, so I run routes after hours, pulling my mobile rig into a yard full of box trucks, tractors, or service vans and washing the whole fleet before the drivers show up at dawn. I'm working under my own lights off a generator, hot-water pressure washer humming, two-stepping each unit, foaming, brushing, and rinsing down a long row, and the clock is the morning dispatch. The part nobody sees is the water: I'm washing on the customer's parking lot, so I have to lay containment, run a reclaim boom, and vacuum up the runoff, because dumping wash water into a storm drain is a Clean Water Act violation that can cost me the account and a fine. Counting matters more than anything for getting paid, because I bill per unit across several yards, so I have to log every truck I touch, by number, or the monthly invoice is a guess. Winter is brutal, freezing lines, ice underfoot, and water that wants to turn solid before it hits the drain. The payoff is a yard of clean, branded trucks rolling out at sunrise and a customer who never had to lift a hose. The whole business runs on the count being right.
Real fleet wash operator near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a fleet wash operator? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every fleet wash operator on Nexa →
The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
You paid for these once because good tools last. That's the bar your software should clear too — priced like a tool you own, $279 once, not a subscription that costs more than your kit every year.
We build a fleet wash operator'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 fleet wash operator — 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 fleet wash operator 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 fleet wash operator, 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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