What paver installers need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber covers the day-to-day running of a paving crew well. It's built for home services and has a mobile app for field teams. Core covers quotes, invoices with online payments and scheduling. Route optimization helps when crews cover several job sites a day. Higher plans add two-way SMS, QuickBooks Online sync, job costing, and crew scheduling, and Core through Grow include 1-on-1 product support. Job costing matters because paver jobs buy materials up front. It sits on the Grow plan, not the $49/month Core plan. The sourced needs for this trade are state license numbers and expiry dates on estimates, deposit caps with a payment schedule tied to completed work, and invoices that split labor from materials. Nothing in what we have on Jobber confirms any of these, so check them with Jobber before relying on it for that.
Nexa covers a lot of the paperwork side. It has estimates and proposals that convert to invoices, payment plans, and a client pay portal where clients pay by card through your own Stripe account and sign estimates. Jobs carry costing and profit per job. It also has expenses, sales tax tracking, and a crew view of each member's assigned jobs. Those fit the materials-versus-labor billing this trade needs. It has no route optimization or dispatch board, no text messaging, and no QuickBooks or Xero sync. Its automated emails, such as reminders and sequences, send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. It is software you own and run yourself, with no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding. Nothing in its feature list confirms license fields or a deposit cap either.
Over three years, Jobber's $49/month plan costs $1,764. Nexa costs $279 once, or $458.64 with optional Cloud Sync at $4.99/month. Jobber's higher plans cost more. A solo or very small installer who bills from one device, already handles books without QuickBooks, and doesn't need SMS or routing could save real money with Nexa. A crew that depends on route planning, texting clients, QuickBooks sync, or vendor support should stay with Jobber.
Our read for paver installers: Stay with Jobber if you run crews across several sites or rely on QuickBooks sync, texting, or hosted support; only a solo installer who needs none of those should consider Nexa.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs paver 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 paver 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 paver 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 paver 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 paver 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 paver installers. You own it like you own your plate compactor for base and pavers.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small paver 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.
Most of a paver job is dirt and rock before a single paver is laid. You excavate well below the finished grade, because skimping on depth is why so many patios heave and dip, then bring in road-base and compact it in lifts with the plate, checking the pitch the whole way so the surface will shed water away from the house. The sand bed is the precision part: you screed a uniform inch of bedding sand off the screed pipes, dead flat, because any high or low spot telegraphs straight through the pavers. Then the laying, working off a string line, snapping the pattern tight, and the cuts, which is where the saw runs all afternoon trimming the border and the curves so the field looks intentional and not pieced-together. Once it's all down you run the compactor over the pavers to seat them, sweep in polymeric sand, and activate it with a fine mist, careful not to flood it because too much water hazes the surface. Customers love a low-baller's number until you explain that the cheap guy is laying pavers on bare dirt with no real base, and that's the patio that's a wavy mess by the second winter. You finish blowing the excess sand off the surface and checking the drainage runs the right way, because a beautiful patio that pools water at the back door is a callback waiting to happen.
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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 $27,230–$79,980 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 paver 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 paver 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 paver 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 paver 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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