What window tinting auto need from their software, from sources outside Jobber and outside Nexa:
We have not tested either product against a tint shop's records. The comparison below rests on each vendor's published feature list, and where a list is silent we say so instead of assuming. Jobber covers the general service workflow: online booking and scheduling, quotes, invoices with online payments, a mobile app for installers, and a client hub. Higher plans add automated reminders, two-way SMS, job costing and QuickBooks Online sync. The tint-specific needs are narrower. South Carolina requires the installer to put a certificate, no larger than 2 inches square, between the film and the glass. It must show the transmittance percentage, the installer's name, address and phone, and the install date. No office software prints that label, so the software's job is to keep each vehicle's transmittance and install date in the client record. Jobber's list shows no film or vehicle fields and no tax coding by job type, so we can't confirm it does either natively. Its 14-day trial has full Grow access and needs no card. Use it to test three things: (1) whether a note, tag or custom line item can hold transmittance and install date for a client with several vehicles; (2) whether an invoice can split tint labor from film, since California treats tinting a new dealer-bought vehicle as taxable fabrication labor; (3) whether you can code vehicle jobs apart from building jobs if you also do glass work. A 1996 Texas letter taxed commercial film work and not residential labor, and it says it may be outdated. A 1986 Texas letter shows the vehicle rule has changed before. Confirm your state's current rule with its tax agency, whichever tool you use.
Nexa covers invoices and estimates, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, jobs with costing and profit per job, time tracking, and a CRM with tags and notes. It also has a booking page with intake forms, and bookkeeping with expenses and sales tax tracking. That supports invoicing and tax reporting, but we haven't verified it against any state's tint rules. Its published list shows tags and notes, not film or vehicle fields, so transmittance and install dates would go in notes, which is probably no better than Jobber's likely workaround. It has no QuickBooks or Xero sync, no text messages, no route optimization or dispatch, and no app marketplace. Its automated emails 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, so you handle setup and troubleshooting.
Over three years, Jobber at $49 a month costs $1,764 ($588 a year). Nexa is $279 once, or 3 payments of $99. Adding optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month for all 36 months brings it to $458.64. Without sync, Nexa runs on one device. Jobber's higher plans, which carry the reminders, SMS and QuickBooks sync, cost more than $49. Neither tool documents a film-specific record, so price shouldn't decide this. If you use QuickBooks, text customers or send installers out with phones, stay with Jobber and run the three trial tests above. A one-counter shop that keeps its own books, takes cards through its own Stripe account and is comfortable keeping film details in notes could save money with Nexa. It would give up those conveniences and run without vendor support.
Our read for window tinting auto: Keep Jobber: it offers texting, QuickBooks sync and a field app that Nexa lacks, and neither tool documents a transmittance record, so test your film and tax needs in Jobber's free trial first.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Jobber costs window tinting auto $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 window tinting auto: 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.
Invoicing, time tracking, 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 auto window tinter: 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 Auto Window Tinter earns $48,000/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 window tinting auto. You own it like you own your Plotter with vehicle window pattern database.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small window tinting auto 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.
Invoicing, time tracking, 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.
Tinting is a high-volume, precision trade run on a tight clock. The day is booked back to back, often four or five cars, each slotted at a couple of hours. A car comes in and the first thing is cutting film, increasingly off a plotter that knows the vehicle's window shapes, though the rear glass with its compound curve still gets shaped by hand with a heat gun and a shrinking torch until the film lies flat. Then the windows get cleaned obsessively, because the enemy is contamination: one hair, one fleck of dust trapped under the film, and the whole pane has to be peeled and redone. The application is slip solution and squeegee work, chasing every bit of water and air out to the edge, tucking the film under the gaskets. Before the customer leaves there is the legal piece, checking the VLT against state law and warning the customer not to roll the windows down for a few days while it cures, and that the hazy, bubbly look will clear up as the moisture evaporates. The recurring friction is twofold: customers pushing for illegally dark tint and then blaming the shop for the ticket, and the cure-window complaints where someone drops a window on day one and reports a peeling edge as a defect. Underneath it all is the schedule, because the margin is in keeping the bays turning and a single no-show or messy walk-in can unravel an otherwise full day.
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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 $540–$2,520 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 an auto window tinter'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 an auto window tinter — 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 window tinting auto 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 window tinting auto, 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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