What roof cleaning need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
Jobber covers much of what a roof cleaning business runs on. Quotes and invoices with online payments, online booking, and a mobile app for field crews are in the core plan at $49/month. The Connect plan adds automated client reminders, quote and invoice follow-ups and checklists, which suit a trade where roofs are often cleaned about once a year. Route optimization helps a crew move between properties. Grow adds two-way SMS and job costing, and Plus adds crew scheduling. The listed features don't mention per-square-foot pricing by cleaning method, fields for shingle manufacturer, approved method or chemical, license tracking by state, or fall-protection and training records. Roof cleaners would need to check whether notes and custom fields can hold those, or keep them elsewhere.
Nexa covers quotes, estimates and proposals that convert to invoices, recurring invoices, recurring jobs, job costing with profit per job, and a client pay portal with e-signed estimates. Card payments go through the user's own Stripe account. It also has a CRM, time tracking, a payroll CSV, bookkeeping with expenses and profit and loss, and offline use. Its limits matter for this trade. Client records have no street-address field, and a roof cleaner's records are tied to a property. There are no text messages, no route optimization or dispatch board, no QuickBooks or Xero sync, and no Google Calendar sync. Automated emails, such as reminders and sequences, send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices, which weakens annual-cleaning reminders. It is software you own and run yourself, with no hosted support desk or vendor onboarding. Like Jobber, it has no listed place for shingle approvals, licenses or safety records.
Over three years Jobber on the $49 plan costs $1,764 ($588 a year), and higher plans cost more. Nexa is $279 once, or $458.64 with optional Cloud Sync at $4.99/month for 36 months. Nexa is much cheaper, but the savings come with the loss of SMS, route planning and crew scheduling, and with a client record that can't hold a street address. A solo operator on one device who works from a regular customer list and doesn't need texting could reasonably try Nexa. Anyone running crews, working from their phone in the field, or relying on automated reminders and texts should stay with Jobber.
Our read for roof cleaning: Stay with Jobber if you run crews or rely on route planning, text messages and automatic reminders. Only a solo, single-device operator who can live without those should consider Nexa's lower cost.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs roof cleaning $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 roof cleaning: 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 roof cleaning technician: 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 Roof Cleaning Technician 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 roof cleaning. You own it like you own your Soft-wash system with a low-pressure pump and proportioner.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small roof cleaning 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.
The first job is a roof streaked black with algae, and the homeowner keeps calling it 'mold' and wants me to power-wash it, so before I unload anything I explain that pressure would blast the granules off her shingles and void the warranty, and that I soft-wash instead. I tarp and pre-wet the foundation plantings because the cleaning solution will brown them if it lands, then mix the hypochlorite and surfactant in the soft-wash tank. I anchor off and work the steep north slope first where the algae and moss are thickest, applying the solution at low pressure and letting it dwell so it kills the growth rather than just rinsing it. I tell her the streaks will keep fading over the next few days, because she expects it spotless the second I climb down. The back slope has thick moss in the shade, so I clear the loose mat with a moss rake before treating. Second stop is a quote on a tile roof where the customer wants the same service but the access is brutal. After lunch I do a smaller ranch that's an easy walk, soft-washing the whole thing and rinsing the gutters and downspouts of the runoff. I rinse every plant I tarped, pack up, and remind myself to follow up in a week so the customer sees the full result and doesn't think it didn't work.
Real roof cleaning near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a roof cleaning technician? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every roof cleaning technician 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 roof cleaning technician'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 roof cleaning technician — 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 roof cleaning 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 roof cleaning, 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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