What garden maintenance need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber covers most of what a garden maintenance business runs on day to day. It has online booking and scheduling, quotes, invoices with online payments, a mobile app for field crews and route optimization. Its quote and invoice line items let you itemize materials and labor, which matters for sales tax on landscaping. Higher plans add job costing, two-way SMS, automated client reminders, and QuickBooks Online sync. Crew scheduling is on the Plus plan. Its listed features don't mention a field for pesticide license or county registration numbers, so you would likely track those in notes or elsewhere. Nothing in its list marks which visits involved pesticide either.
Nexa covers invoicing and estimates, recurring invoices and recurring jobs, job costing with profit per job, time tracking, expenses, sales tax tracking, and a client pay portal that runs through your own Stripe account. Today's stops go to Google Maps in time order, and it works offline. Tags and notes could hold license details and mark pesticide visits. It has no route optimization or dispatch board, no text messages, and no QuickBooks or Xero sync. The client record has no street-address field, which is awkward for a trade that works at clients' properties. Its automated emails (reminders, sequences, workflows) send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. It does not run payroll, and there is no vendor-run onboarding or hosted support desk.
Over three years Jobber's Core plan costs $1,764 ($49 a month, $588 a year). Nexa costs $279 once, or $458.64 with optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month. That is a real saving. A solo gardener on one device, working from a fixed route and happy to invoice and bill manually, can reasonably switch. If you use route optimization, text messaging, QuickBooks sync, or reminders that go out without anyone opening the app, stay with Jobber. Crews that need scheduling across several people should stay too.
Our read for garden maintenance: Stay with Jobber if you rely on route optimization, SMS, QuickBooks sync or reminders that send without Nexa open. Nexa suits only a solo, one-device gardener who wants a much lower cost.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs garden maintenance $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 garden maintenance: 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.
Scheduling, job tracking, invoicing and client records are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot and carry their own booking link, with no per-appointment cut. 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 garden maintenance gardener: 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 Garden Maintenance Gardener earns $38,000/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 garden maintenance. You own it like you own your Bypass and anvil pruners plus long-handled loppers.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small garden maintenance 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.
Scheduling, job tracking, invoicing and client records are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot and carry their own booking link, with no per-appointment cut. The sections below price both routes honestly.
The morning starts at a walled cottage garden where the herbaceous border has flopped after the rain, so I stake and tie the delphiniums, deadhead the roses to push another flush, and cut back the hardy geraniums to get fresh foliage. The bindweed is twining up everything again, so I trace each stem to the root and pull rather than snap it. I edge the lawn with a half-moon and rake the clippings onto the tarp. Next is a formal front garden with box hedging that I shear by eye to keep the lines crisp, watching for the tell-tale brown patches of box blight along the bottom. After lunch I'm at a new client's neglected plot, mostly assessing: the apple needs winter pruning but it's the wrong season, the shrub roses want a hard cut in spring, and the whole back bed is choked with ground elder I'll have to tackle in stages. I weed the gravel paths, sweep, and load three tarps of green waste to take to the tip because there's no compost area. I water in the newly planted perennials, feed the tomatoes in the greenhouse, and finish by walking the garden with the client to flag what's coming up next month so nothing surprises either of us.
Real garden maintenance near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a garden maintenance gardener? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every garden maintenance gardener 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 garden maintenance gardener'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 garden maintenance gardener — 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 garden maintenance 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 garden maintenance, 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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