What moving companies need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber covers the office side of a local moving company well, judging by its own feature list. We haven't tested it. That list includes online booking and scheduling, quotes, invoices with online payments, a mobile app for field teams, route optimization, QuickBooks Online integration, and a client hub. The higher plans add time and expense tracking (Connect), job costing (Grow) and crew scheduling (Plus), which fit hourly crews working nights, weekends and part-time shifts. Nothing in that list covers the interstate household-goods paperwork. That means a non-binding estimate that says it is approximate and carries the 110 percent cap, kept for a year and tied to the bill of lading. It also means weight tickets attached to each freight bill, tracking of the 7-day and 30-day credit deadlines, and a declared-value record with a signed released-rates waiver. The crew tools also don't mention workers' compensation or injury records, a real gap in a trade with high strain and overexertion rates. If you run interstate moves, ask Jobber directly whether it can do these before you assume it can.
Nexa is made by the publisher of this page, so weigh this paragraph accordingly. It covers quotes, estimates and invoices, and a client portal where clients sign estimates and pay by card through your own Stripe account. It also has jobs with cost and profit per job, job assignment with a crew view, today's stops sent to Google Maps in time order, time tracking, a payroll CSV of hours times rate, and expense and bookkeeping reports. It has the same regulated-paperwork gaps as Jobber: no bill-of-lading or weight-ticket handling, no 110 percent estimate wording, no credit-period tracking, no field for declared value or a signed waiver, and no injury records. It also lacks things movers use in Jobber: no dispatch board, route optimization, text messaging, or QuickBooks sync. It does not run payroll, so no payroll taxes, pay stubs or direct deposit. Its automated emails send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices, and it comes with no vendor-run support or onboarding. We list these gaps in full because they are the reasons most movers should not switch.
Over three years, Jobber's $49-a-month plan is $588 a year, or $1,764. Nexa is $279 once, or three payments of $99. With optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month, three years comes to $458.64. Without Cloud Sync it runs on one device. A local mover who relies on crew scheduling, text-style client contact, route planning or QuickBooks should stay with Jobber, since Nexa has none of those. A very small owner-operator who needs only estimates, invoices, job costing and a payroll CSV could reasonably choose Nexa to save money. For interstate household-goods work, neither tool handles the estimates, bills of lading, weight tickets, credit-period tracking or claims records the rules require. That work needs moving-company compliance and dispatch software built for those documents. Both vendors offer a trial or low-cost way in (Jobber has a 14-day free trial with full Grow access), so test your own paperwork flow before you pay.
Our read for moving companies: Neither tool handles the interstate estimate, bill-of-lading, weight-ticket and credit-deadline paperwork that is this trade's core need, so interstate movers need moving-company compliance software, and purely local movers should stay with Jobber.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs moving companies $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 moving companies: 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.
Invoicing, scheduling, client records, time tracking 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 mover: 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 mover'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 mover earns $45,000/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 moving companies. You own it like you own your Moving truck.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small moving companies 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.
Invoicing, scheduling, client records, time tracking 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.
A move is won or lost on the estimate. I walk through the house or do a video survey, room by room, noting furniture, boxes, stairs, the distance to the truck and anything fragile or awkward, like a piano or a gun safe, because underestimating means a long day and an angry customer. On moving day the crew wraps furniture in pads, disassembles beds and tables, labels parts, and loads the truck like a puzzle so nothing shifts in transit. Stairs, elevators and parking change everything; a third-floor walk-up with a long carry adds hours, and some buildings need a certificate of insurance and a booked elevator. Packing services are a separate job, and I bring boxes, paper and tape for it. Damage happens occasionally, so I explain the coverage options before the move and document the condition of anything valuable. Crew scheduling is the hardest part: the end and start of every month are packed, and midweek is quiet. Most local moves are billed by the hour for the truck and crew, with a minimum, and long-distance moves by weight and distance.
Real moving companies near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a mover? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every mover 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 mover'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 mover — 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 moving companies 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 moving companies, 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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