What mirror installers need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber covers most of what a mirror installer's day looks like. It has a mobile app for field teams, route optimization, quotes and invoices with online payments, a client hub, and QuickBooks Online integration (sync arrives with the Connect plan). It also lists two-way SMS on Grow and unlimited photo and video storage on Plus. Photos help with site records and with showing how a mirror was fastened. Quotes and invoices take line items, so you can itemize the bottom channel, J-mold or other hardware, mastic, glass and labor, which matters because mastic alone is often not accepted. Neither product is described as having dedicated fields for a state license class and number, or for certificates of insurance and safety records. For now those belong in notes or on the document template, and you should confirm the license appears on every estimate and invoice. Jobber is also not a tool for the licensing itself, which varies by state and needs a contractor-level license in places like Connecticut.
Nexa covers the office side well. It has estimates and quotes that convert to invoices, a client portal where clients pay by card through your own Stripe account and sign estimates, and a CRM with a public lead form. It adds jobs with costing and profit per job, team assignment with a crew view, today's stops sent to Google Maps in time order, expenses, profit and loss and sales tax tracking, and it works offline. It does not have QuickBooks or Xero sync, text messages or calls, GPS or route optimization, a dispatch board, or an app marketplace. It also has no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding. Its automated emails (reminders, sequences, workflows) send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. Without the optional Cloud Sync it runs on a single device, so crews working from their own phones are a poor match.
Over three years Jobber's $49 plan comes to $1,764 ($588 a year). Nexa is $279 once, or $458.64 with Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month. The gap is real. But a mirror installer who is out measuring and installing, texting customers, and handing books to an accountant on QuickBooks relies on things Nexa lacks. A solo installer who works from one device, takes payments through their own Stripe account, needs no SMS or QuickBooks, and is comfortable owning the software could reasonably save the money. Everyone else should stay with Jobber.
Our read for mirror installers: Stay with Jobber if you work in the field, text customers or use QuickBooks; only a one-device solo installer who needs none of those should consider Nexa's lower three-year cost.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs mirror 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 mirror installers: 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.
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 mirror 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 mirror 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 mirror 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 mirror installers. You own it like you own your vacuum suction cup lifters.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small mirror 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 work is custom every time, because a mirror gets cut to a specific wall and won't flex to forgive a bad measurement. The morning is a measure for a frameless bathroom vanity mirror, and you template the wall carefully, noting the outlets and the light fixture it has to cut around and checking whether the wall is plumb, because a wall that leans will leave a wedge gap at the top if you ignore it. The afternoon install is a large gym wall mirror, so you and your helper bring the heavy sheet in on the A-frame rack and move it with suction lifters. You find the studs, set a laser line dead level, and apply mirror mastic in the right pattern while supporting the bottom edge on J-channel so gravity doesn't pull it before the adhesive grabs. Big mirrors are heavy and the failure mode is ugly, so you over-support rather than trust mastic alone. On the vanity job you have to coordinate with the GC because the backsplash tile and the outlets need to be done before your mirror can go on, and if you show up early it's a wasted trip. You handle every sheet in cut-gloves and watch the edges, because a chip or a scratched corner on a polished mirror means re-ordering. You finish by cleaning the surface to a streak-free shine, since on a mirror the install and the finish are judged in the same glance.
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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 $790–$4,550 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 mirror 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 mirror 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 mirror 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 mirror 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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