What hardwood floor cleaners need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber covers the scheduling side of this trade well. Its $49 plan handles online booking, scheduling, quotes, invoices with online payments and reporting. The Connect plan adds automated client reminders and quote and invoice follow-ups, which is the closest fit to a 3-to-5-year maintenance-coat reminder. Jobber's feature list doesn't mention a field for each floor's last coat date and finish, or a record of the cleaner used on each visit. A cleaner would have to keep those in job notes. Jobber's AI line-item help and its QuickBooks Online integration are useful when quoting damp-clean and screen-and-recoat as separate priced items.
Nexa covers the same basics: estimates that convert to invoices, recurring jobs, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, and client notes and tags where you could record coat dates and products. It also has costing and profit per job, and it works offline. It has no QuickBooks or Xero sync, no text messages, no Google Calendar sync and no vendor support desk. Its emails (sequences, workflows and reminders) send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices, so a coat reminder will not go out if the app is closed.
Over three years Jobber's $49 plan costs $1,764. Nexa costs $279 once, or $458.64 with optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month. Cleaners who rely on automatic reminders, QuickBooks, texting or vendor help should stay with Jobber and consider the Connect plan for the reminders. Only a cleaner who is happy to keep coat dates in notes, work from one device, and keep Nexa open for emails should think about switching.
Our read for hardwood floor cleaners: Stay with Jobber if you depend on automated reminders, QuickBooks sync, texting or vendor support, since Nexa has no QuickBooks sync, no texting and no support desk, and its emails send only while it is open.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs hardwood floor cleaners $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 hardwood floor cleaners: 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 hardwood floor cleaner: 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 Hardwood Floor Cleaner 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 hardwood floor cleaners. You own it like you own your Hardwood-specific buffer/cleaning machine with non-abrasive pads.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small hardwood floor cleaners 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 house has floors the owner has 'cleaned' with a wet mop and a splash of vinegar for years, which has dulled the polyurethane and started to break it down, so I explain why water and acid are the enemy of a finished floor and use a pH-neutral hardwood cleaner with a buffer instead. The floor comes back to a soft sheen, but in the kitchen the finish is worn through to bare wood in front of the sink, and there I have to stop and explain that bare wood isn't a cleaning fix, it's a recoat or refinish conversation. Second stop is a living room where the floor is just dingy and grimy, a straightforward deep clean and buff that makes a dramatic difference. After lunch I check a floor with a moisture meter because there are dark cupped boards near a patio door, and that's water damage, not dirt, so I flag it rather than throw moisture at it. The last job is a maintenance recoat: I screen the old finish with a fine pad, tack up every speck of dust, and roll on a fresh urethane maintenance coat, then tell the customer to stay off it and keep pets away while it cures. I always test a small area and read the floor's condition before I commit, because the difference between a clean, a recoat, and a full refinish is the difference between a happy customer and a wrecked floor, and I note each floor's finish and condition for the next visit.
Real hardwood floor cleaners near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a hardwood floor cleaner? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every hardwood floor cleaner 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 hardwood floor cleaner'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 hardwood floor cleaner — 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 hardwood floor cleaners 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 hardwood floor cleaners, 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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