What furniture repair technicians need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber's $49 plan covers the quoting and billing side of this trade: quotes, invoices with online payments, online booking, scheduling and a mobile app. The tools that match how a refinisher prices sit higher up. Time and expense tracking come with Connect, and job costing and automatic time tracking come with Grow. Those matter when you price from labor hours, a note on the old finish and a markup for extras. Jobber also has QuickBooks Online sync, two-way texting, Jobber AI for drafting quotes, and 1-on-1 product support on its lower plans. Route optimization and crew scheduling are built for crews on the road, so a bench-based shop may never use them. Nothing in Jobber's list covers sales-tax line splitting (materials, fabrication labor and repair labor) or lead-safe (RRP) certification and pre-1978 job-site tracking. Both are your job to handle.
Nexa is our product, so weigh this part accordingly. It covers estimates, quotes and invoices, proposals that convert to invoices, and a client pay portal that runs through your own Stripe account. It also has job costing with profit per job, time tracking, expenses, profit and loss, and sales tax tracking. We have not verified that its sales tax tracking handles your state's repair-versus-fabrication labor rules, such as California Regulation 1550's 80/20 presumption when labor is not separated. Check that against your own state and your accountant before relying on it. Like Jobber, Nexa has nothing for RRP certification or job-site dating. It has no QuickBooks or Xero sync, no texting or calls, no route optimization or dispatch board, and no app marketplace. Its automated emails (reminders, sequences, 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 or vendor-run onboarding.
Over three years, Jobber's $49 plan is $1,764. Nexa is $279 once (or 3 payments of $99), or $458.64 with the optional $4.99/month Cloud Sync. Note that the $49 plan leaves out time tracking and job costing, which sit on higher plans, so the two prices are not like-for-like. Stay with Jobber if your bookkeeper depends on QuickBooks sync, you text clients, you do house calls where route planning matters, or you want vendor-run support. Stay too if reminders must go out when no device is open. A solo bench shop that mainly needs estimates, invoices, hours and profit per job could do that on Nexa for much less. We can't offer independent validation, so test it yourself. Build one real estimate in both tools, with labor hours, a finish note, a 25% extras line, and materials and labor on separate tax lines. Jobber's 14-day trial includes full Grow access without a credit card. Keep your own records of RRP certification and pre-1978 sites either way.
Our read for furniture repair technicians: A solo bench shop that needs only estimates, hours and job profit can save a lot on Nexa, but anyone relying on QuickBooks sync, client texting or vendor support should stay with Jobber.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs furniture repair technicians $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 furniture repair technicians: Either can do the job, for the reasons in our read above. On price alone, that is $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 furniture repair 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.)
This is the connection that makes the rest worth it. A furniture repair technician'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 furniture repair 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 furniture repair technicians. You own it like you own your burn-in knife and fill sticks.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small furniture repair technicians 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.
Furniture repair splits between bench work and the customer's living room, and the living room is harder. A moving company or a homeowner calls about a gouged tabletop, a white heat ring, a loose chair, or a chipped veneer corner, and you show up with a kit that has to do anything — fill sticks, burn-in knife, padding lacquer, graining pens, and a color palette. On-site, the gouge gets cleaned, filled with a melted burn-in stick leveled flush, then you grain in the wood pattern by hand with pens and seal it with padding lacquer, all while matching a finish under whatever light the dining room has and the owner watching over your shoulder. The skill is making the eye skip right over the spot. Bench jobs are the real repairs — a wobbly chair gets knocked apart, the old glue cleaned out, re-glued with hide glue and clamped square, because a joint that's just re-glued over dirty failed glue lets go again in a month. The frustration of the trade is the material: a lot of what comes in now is MDF and paper-thin veneer over particle board that swells when it's wet and won't hold a screw or a dowel, so you're managing expectations about what can actually be saved. Half the job some days is the claim paperwork — movers and insurers want a written assessment and an itemized repair-versus-replace number before you touch it.
Real furniture repair technicians near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a furniture repair technician? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every furniture repair technician 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 $950–$4,650 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 furniture repair 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 a furniture repair 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 furniture repair technicians 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 furniture repair technicians, 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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