What landscapers need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber covers the day-to-day running of a landscaping business well. At $49/month ($588 a year) its core plan handles online booking and scheduling, quotes, invoices with online payments, reporting and 100+ marketplace connections. It adds route optimization, a mobile app for crews, QuickBooks Online integration and two-way SMS on the Grow plan. Month-to-month billing with no commitment suits a seasonal business that goes quiet in winter, unless it does snow work. What Jobber's listed features do not show is anything for the pesticide side of the trade: no applicator license or renewal tracking, and no application log with the fields EPA requires for restricted use jobs (client name and address, product and EPA registration number, amount applied, applicator certification number, kept at least two years).
Nexa covers the business side with a one-time purchase: invoices, estimates, recurring invoices, payment plans, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, jobs with costing and profit per job, recurring jobs, crew assignment, time tracking, and bookkeeping including cash flow and sales tax tracking. Today's job stops go to Google Maps in time order. It does not cover the compliance records either. It has no license tracking or application log, and its client records have no street-address field. It also has no QuickBooks sync, no text messaging, 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, and support is self-serve.
Over three years Jobber's $49/month plan costs $1,764. Nexa costs $279 once, or $458.64 if you add Cloud Sync at $4.99/month for 36 months. Crews that mow, mulch and plow, and don't apply regulated pesticides, should stay with Jobber if they depend on routing, texting clients or QuickBooks. A one-person shop that only needs invoicing, jobs and books can run on Nexa for far less. Anyone applying restricted use pesticides should keep their licenses and EPA application records in a dedicated pesticide recordkeeping and applicator-compliance tool, whichever of these two they use for the rest.
Our read for landscapers: Neither tool tracks applicator licenses or EPA application logs, so spraying businesses need a dedicated pesticide recordkeeping tool; crews that don't spray should stay with Jobber if they rely on routing, texting or QuickBooks.
Neither product on this page is built for it. These kinds of software are. The examples are not ours and these are plain links, not affiliate links; each goes to the product's own page for that capability.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs landscapers $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 landscapers: Neither Jobber nor Nexa is the main system for this work; start with the specialist software above. Nexa only makes sense beside it, at $279 once against $1,764 for Jobber over three years.
Scheduling, client records, invoicing and job tracking 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 landscaper: 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 landscaper'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 landscaper 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 landscapers. You own it like you own your Commercial mower (zero-turn or stand-on).
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small landscapers 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.
Local rates and saturation vary widely — price for the city you serve, not a national average.
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.
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Open on Reddit →Scheduling, client records, invoicing and job tracking 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.
From March to November I'm on a route. Mowing clients get the same day every week, and the route is planned so the trailer isn't crossing town twice. A typical stop is mow, trim along beds and fences, edge the driveway and walks, blow off the hardscape, and on to the next one in under forty minutes. The real money is in the extras I spot along the way: a bed that needs mulch, shrubs that need shaping, a drainage problem turning the lawn to mud. Spring is cleanups, aeration and seeding; fall is leaves, which can mean three visits to the same yard. Installs are separate jobs with a design, a material order and a crew for a few days: a paver patio, a planting bed, a retaining wall. Rain throws the whole week off, and I'm rescheduling a dozen customers by text. Equipment is the constant cost: mower blades sharpened every week, belts, trimmer line, and fuel for the truck and every machine. In winter I'm plowing snow if I can and planning next season's price increases before the renewal letters go out.
Real landscapers near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a landscaper? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every landscaper 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 $13,800–$39,800 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 landscaper'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 landscaper — 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 landscapers 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 landscapers, 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.
Own your tools. Stop renting your software.
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