What gutter cleaning need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber covers much of what a seasonal gutter business runs on. Core, at $49 a month, handles online booking and scheduling, quotes, invoices with online payments and reporting. The Connect plan adds automated client reminders and quote and invoice follow-ups, which suit the October-to-January rush and the spring wave. The Grow plan adds two-way SMS. Route optimization and a mobile app help crews work through many stops a day. The Plus plan adds crew scheduling. Jobber does not remove the paperwork the trade carries: proof of insurance and licensing, workers' compensation and the employee-or-contractor decision. Those stay with the owner. Nothing in Jobber's own list shows it replacing a payroll or safety-record system for ladder crews.
Nexa covers the core office work. It has estimates that convert to invoices, recurring jobs, a public booking page with reschedule and cancel links, and a pipeline board with email drip sequences for pre-booking pushes. It also has jobs with costing and profit per job, assignment to team members with a crew view, and today's stops sent to Google Maps in time order. Its time tracking and payroll CSV total each employee's hours x rate, and it has expense and bookkeeping tools. It does not run payroll, so there are no payroll taxes, pay stubs or direct deposit. It has no text messaging, no route optimization or dispatch board, and no QuickBooks or Xero sync. Its automated emails, including reminders and sequences, send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. Online card payments go only through your own Stripe account. There is no hosted support desk or vendor onboarding.
Over three years Jobber's Core plan is $1,764 ($588 a year), while Nexa is $279 once, or $458.64 with Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month. That is a large saving for a solo or small owner-run operation that is fine with email-only reminders and a single device. A crew business that depends on reminders going out on their own, texting customers, route planning and a mobile app for field staff should stay with Jobber and pay for the tier that covers those. Savings that come at the cost of missed seasonal reminders are not savings.
Our read for gutter cleaning: Stay with Jobber if reminders must go out on their own, you text customers or you run crews on routes. Consider Nexa only as a solo operator who is fine with email-only reminders sent while the app is open.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs gutter cleaning $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 gutter cleaning: 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 gutter cleaning 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.)
Jobber plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median Gutter Cleaning Technician 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 gutter cleaning. You own it like you own your Extension ladder with stabilizer arms and ladder levelers.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small gutter cleaning 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.
First job is a two-story colonial buried under maple leaves after a windy week, so I level the ladder on the soft lawn, add the stabilizer so I'm not denting the gutter, and start scooping by hand into a bucket clipped to the rungs. Every ten feet I'm climbing down and moving the ladder, which is most of the actual work. The back corner downspout is packed solid, so I snake it from the top and then flush with the hose until it runs clear. There's a paper-wasp nest tucked under the gutter lip on the south side, so I back off and deal with that before I get stung off the ladder. Second stop is a ranch with gutter guards the homeowner thinks mean they never need cleaning, but fine grit has built up under them, so I lift sections and vac it out. After lunch a customer calls because her gutter is overflowing and the fascia board is already soft and rotting, a problem she could have caught months ago, so I clean it and flag the wood damage for a referral. The last house is a steep three-story I do from the ground with a water-fed pole and a camera so I'm not on a forty-foot ladder. I finish by flushing every downspout to prove they drain, bag the debris, and rinse the driveway clean.
Real gutter cleaning near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a gutter cleaning technician? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every gutter cleaning technician 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 gutter cleaning 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 gutter cleaning 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 gutter cleaning 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 gutter cleaning, 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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