What geothermal installers need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber is a solid general home-services tool for the selling and scheduling side of a geothermal install. Core covers online booking, quotes, invoices with online payments and reporting. The listed plans add a mobile app for field crews, route optimization, QuickBooks Online sync, two-way SMS, job costing and crew scheduling. Those matter to a crew that drives between sites and bills through an accountant. What Jobber's feature list does not show is anything built for this trade's paperwork. Texas closed-loop wells need a licensed water well driller, a state well report filed with the Railroad Commission within 30 days, and a record of any loop additives other than potable water. 2025 completions need an in-service date and ENERGY STAR certification on file for clients claiming the 30% federal credit. Some states require IGSHPA certification proof with incentive applications, and that certification does not replace local permit licensing. Nothing in Jobber's list tracks licence status, report deadlines, loop fluids or certification records. Its checklists (Connect and above), custom workflow automations (Grow and above) and photo storage (Plus) could be used to build a manual routine, but that is a workaround, not a feature.
Nexa has no geothermal-specific features either. It does have quotes and proposals that convert to invoices, a client portal for card payment through your own Stripe account, a CRM with tags and notes, and jobs with costing and profit per job. It also has missions with sub-steps and templates, a task board, time tracking, a payroll CSV and expense and bookkeeping reports. Those could hold a per-job compliance routine, with a mission for each well and a note for the loop fluids. But Nexa has no job templates, no task dependencies, no QuickBooks or Xero sync, no text messaging, no route optimization or dispatch board and no integration library. Its automated emails (sequences, workflows, reminders) send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices, so they cannot be trusted as a 30-day report reminder. It is software you own and run yourself, with no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding.
Over three years Jobber at $49 a month is $588 a year, or $1,764. Nexa is $279 once (or 3 payments of $99). Adding optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month brings three years to $458.64. The gap is real, but it buys different things. If you already run Jobber and rely on its QuickBooks sync, texting or crew scheduling, keep it and do not expect either tool to track licences or filing deadlines. A solo installer with simple billing needs could run Nexa for far less, but should still keep well-report dates, additive records, equipment certifications and IGSHPA proof somewhere dedicated. The kind of tool that covers this trade's core need is a compliance or document-tracking system with per-job deadlines and attached records.
Our read for geothermal installers: Neither tool tracks well-report deadlines, loop additives, in-service dates or certification proof, so use a dedicated compliance or document-tracking tool for those; keep Jobber for billing if you already rely on its QuickBooks sync, texting or crew scheduling.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs geothermal installers $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 geothermal installers: 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 geothermal installer: 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 geothermal installer'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 Geothermal Installer 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 geothermal installers. You own it like you own your A drilling rig or horizontal boring machine for the ground loop.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small geothermal installers 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.
Your day begins coordinating crews you don't employ: a call to confirm the drill rig is rolling, a text to the excavator about whether last night's rain left the trench lines too soft, and a heads-up to the electrician that the heat pump won't be ready for hookup until Thursday. On site, the vertical bores are going down to depth while you fuse HDPE loop pipe at the surface, socket-welding the U-bends that will live underground for decades. You drop the loops, tremie the grout, and run the headers back toward the house through a trench the excavator opened. Midday you walk a new prospect's property to scope a horizontal loop, doing rough math on lot size and soil that will decide whether the bid even pencils. Back at the active job you start the part no one sees but everyone relies on: flushing the loop field, purging air, charging antifreeze to the right percentage, and pressure-testing the whole loop, recording each number because the warranty and the utility rebate depend on it. Once the heat pump is set you check the refrigerant charge and the airflow at commissioning. The evening is paperwork that actually matters here, assembling the rebate and tax-credit documentation the homeowner needs, billing the next draw on the contract, and re-sequencing the crews for tomorrow around the forecast.
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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 $73,850–$331,800 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 geothermal installer'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 geothermal installer — 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 geothermal installers 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 geothermal installers, 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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