Jobber Software

Pros

The support is amazing, it it so easy and intuitive you can start using it after the training with no problems at all, and if you have one, the support is quick and terrific.

Cons

If you are on a Pest Control company, you can no use it , I mean, you can, but there are so a lack of properly reports that I don't recommend it

Customer service usually doesn't have a solution to a problem.
The only way to make suggestions for improvements is to speak with customer service and they usually tell you that it would be a major change and not likely to happen.

Pros

Works well for scheduling and assigning jobs to techs in the field. Good for communicating information, files and attachments to individual jobs.

Cons

When entering an new address, it auto-populates the city and state and, in most cases, is incorrect. Very annoying and no way to turn this off.
No way to easily download or access all photos taken and attached to jobs.
No way to change/correct a property address in a job. The only way to do this is to delete the job and start over. Not a good solution if you have already assigned visits, attached files and added notes to the job.
Supposed to sync with QBs. It does to an extent, but not being to map items to match fields in QBs, becomes rather useless. The only thing I can sync with QBs are the clients information.

Overall it has done mostly what we need it to do. Except overtime.

Pros

Easy to use and learn. I can get my new people singed in and using the app very quickly and within a few days they are using it like a pro

Cons

Does not handles overtime very well. Also, when we receive a partial payment it still shows the total invoice amount on reports

Pros

This is a great quoting/ scheduling software. This product has been a huge time and money saver for our company.

Cons

This is an awesome software that is always adding new features to make it work even better than before.

Don't buy this product unless you run a simple Business that caters to residential customers only

Cons

This program is unable to handle third-party tracking for commercial accounts this is strictly a residential product for somebody moes lawns. I didn't like anything about this program. Customer service constantly gave us the wrong and run around answer.

Pros

This software keeps track of your customers current and past orders, stores signed agreements, helps with scheduling and even inventory of chemicals if you need it!

Cons

There are so many applications of this software that it was difficult to implement the software as we were working in our previous system. Once we got past the first few weeks the initial fear that we bit off more than we could chew was gone.

I did a lot of research to find the best software for our small business and Jobber solved most of our problems, but created a few also. It's not flawless and it needs some improvements, but it's the best thing out there to help keep you and your team organized with jobs and reporting time.

Pros

Set up online payments, work order submissions, recurring jobs, etc.
Very user friendly, easy-to-use interface.
Modern design and looks good and feels good.
Instant chat is quick and people are fast to respond.

Cons

No good way to make product suggestions for software.
Customer service usually gives you a round about answer that doesn't solve your problem.
They implement new ideas, but it never seems like the ideas are coming from their customers.
Time sheet reports are only shown by time entry and not by day (making it VERY difficult to calculate overtime)
No way to easily download or access all photos taken and attached to jobs.

We love Jobber because their support is great and there product is great! Its been going on 4 years now and still no resolve on the notifications issue. Not even an update. WE NEED SMS AND EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS TO WORK PROPERLY! PLEASE!!!!!

Pros

The way it organises our daily processes. Without it we would just be another business

Cons

Notifying our customers that their service is due, is crucial to our success. Notification emails and sms are just not working correctly? Right now if you have anyone unassigned in the grid view while sending notifications, all of those people will receive notifications too, when they shouldn't! Only the people on the calendar who are scheduled for that day should get the notifications. My customers who are unassigned get pissed and call me telling me "I didnt schedule service for this date". Any other users of Jobber using the notifications via email or sms having the same problem? Please let me know if your having the same issues? The reports need work, There are limited reports and no ability to shell out to a custom report writing utility. Things like new activations, disconnections so you can track how many active customers and non active customers you have. Love the quote signing ability they just came up with, but it would be nice if they had a Check box that has to be clicked acknowledging they read the service terms. Forms are lacking for our pest control industry. An inspection report of the home/office needs to be dont to let the customer know the deficiencies that need to be corrected for proper pest management. Invoices are great!

You can sign up and pay them money without ever speaking to anyone but when you want to cancel they say that you MUST call there office in the US and if you don't and your subscription expires, you have no access to your account. Meanwhile, your clients are still getting appointment emails and the program keeps going along without you able to stop it. Customer service is beyond appalling, you send a request and you get a response after 4-6 days with a question and then you have to wait another 4 -6 days for another one-line email with another question - it is beyond frustrating. Features I am paying for just don't work and it has been 8 weeks now and I am being asked the same questions over and over with no answers.

Pros

Absolutely nothing worth the price they are asking. Super expensive with features that just don't work and they don't seem to care.

Cons

I signed up because of the payroll and employee scheduling capabilities but it turns out that during my first QB sync that this doesn't work. It syncs employees time in at 5 hours earlier so I am having to manually input them every week. Appalling customer service - minimum 4 days to reply to emails (new person each time who asks the SAME questions over and over) its been 7 weeks and they haven't worked it out yet.

I would highly recommend for anyone running an HVAC business.

Pros

Easy to set up, we were up and running in about a week. Simple to use, training was couple of hours. It is reliable and saves me time every day.

Cons

There is a pretty big jump in price to switch plans and go to unlimited users. I can only have 10 employees in the system.

I really wanted to use it, but it just wasn't built for my type of business. However, to those that are in the field service realm, you will absolutely love what Jobber has created for you in this simple to use and feature-rich app.

Pros

The ease of use and seamless app interface really made it easy to get started and keep going without spending too much time setting up.

Cons

Despite the rich feature set and awesome functionality, it caters more to landscapers, painters, and general contractors (among others), and wasn't suitable for my chauffeured transportation service.

I am working very confortable with Jobber

Pros

It is a good Software easy to manage.
And jobber team is the best support team ever, I have tried to reach with other support teams in other companies and the difference is big.

Cons

For a pest control company, they need to improve the chemicals management. They have some forms, and maybe there are not exactly what you are looking for and, for the moment you cannot customize them.

Pros

Easy to use, payments can be made directly in the app, you can see who has unpaid invoices right on the dashboard.

Cons

Doesn't seperate merchant service fee from total payment making it hard when it's time to reconcile books

route mapping could be a little easier to use.

Pros

employees can see exactly what their day entails. Route mapping makes scheduling our work day more efficient and profitable.

Cons

wish the calendar was easier to use when scheduling also, don't like how can't see the calendar at all times when scheduling.

We love the product, and will continue to be great supporters of Jobber!

Pros

Jobber is extremely easy to use and to learn how to use. It is extremely intuitive and has a lot of features for the price of the service.

Cons

As Jobber is designed to be used over many service industries, there are some things it doesn't track for industry-specific needs.

Pros

Jobber is fairly easy to use once you've had it for a while. They payment integrations are fantastic and the workflow from quote to job completion is great as well.

Cons

This team is VERY unresponsive to feature requests. Basically, if you have a feature need they'll all but let you know that they are not interested in hearing about it. Simple things like being able to mark all tasks as complete are not available and when I requested it I was brushed off. I have been asking, for years, for a way to link Jobber to external "form builder" software so that when a user requests a quote from my website it shows up in Jobber. Hasn't happened. Also having to move an employee to "Pro" jsut so they can use the timesheet feature is just stupid.

The basics of what Jobber is built around is route scheduling and can do so much more. The basics of being able to simply organize routes while out in the field (like other apps offer) has been overlooked

Pros

Jobber is a great idea with excellent customer support. The support for this product is through the roof excellent! The overall programming is huge, you can do a ton of stuff with Jobber.

Cons

The Achilles heel is this; jobber is designed to be used as a route manager for administrators and employees. The idea is that an employee can load up his or her daily tasks and go to work. From an employee’s stand point that is easy enough. Click on the first job for the day and they are off . . . . .

First part of the problem we are experiencing with jobber is that if the employee is not within a good service area the photos and service notes for that home will not upload AND WILL NOT be kept in cue until the employee gets into a decent service range. If you have spotty service where your route is this will not work for you. You'll end up going back to paper logs.
FOR AN ADMINISTRATOR - jobber really sets up work nicely for the day, week, and month very nicely BUT has some really important short comings that you should be aware of PRIOR to starting this service..... As an administrator you cannot mass assign or unassign routes to and from employees. You cannot memorize the modifications to a daily route but one click.
JOBBER needs to be able to allow us to set up routes as a whole NOT just individual’s one at a time to create routes. FOR EXAMPLE: we need to be able to go into a master list of clients, click and drag those clients into a “MONDAY A” route and or a “MONDAY B” route and the same for Tuesday and Wednesday etc. etc. . . . . if we want to make changes to a route as a single entity we should be able to do that as opposed to what we have to do now which is change each individual client to be on a different day one at a time for the next 6 months and or 10 years
FOR EXAMPLE, we have three routes per day each route has approximately 20 visits. If an employee calls in sick and we need to reassign 20 visits to another employee we have to do it manually for EACH CLIENT as opposed to just reassigning and entire route to another employee.

WHAT WOULD BE MOST HELPFUL AND CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE FROM JOBBER, would be to adjust routes on the "map" page and have it ask us if we want to memorize the reorganization of that route for all future visits or just that one day. The way that it is limited requires me to go in and manually change EVERY JOB ONE BY ONE to the route organization. This process takes approximately 1 to 2 entire minutes to complete depending on whether or not the visits are reoccurring for the next 6 months or six years . . . . . 1 to 2 minutes times 20 minutes obviously doesn’t work for any administrator at all.....the only way around this is to make the changes daily or weekly which is labor intensive and your will be paying for this each time your employee has to redo the routes.

Overall, this is the best program IMO of the 4 or 5 I tried while looking for something that would work for my business. Customer support is great. And I like some of the different ways I can customize information for unusual jobs that come up from time to time.

Pros

The ability to generate quotes, then turn them into jobs, and once completed into invoices, and do it with minimal steps. This frees up time for me to focus on building new business, and enables my employees to do some of what I used to have to do. Also useful is the ability to attach notes both to a customers information, as well as to individual jobs, which is useful for both passing on special requests a customer may have for all jobs, as well as information that is specific to a particular job.

Cons

The program rounds financial numbers slightly different than accounting programs such as QBO. Which means that when we sync to QBO, there are often several minor corrections of 0.01 cent that need to be done. Would be nice to see that changed.

I would also like to see an email notification 'OPTION' where customers would be notified if a job was skipped. There should also be a section for the reason why it was skipped. We should be able to make these reasons whatever we want in the settings... THIS IS HUGE!

The amount of time I spend notifying clients we have skipped a lawn cut due to "Minimal growth" or "The lawn too wet to cut" or "Cannot access the back lawn"...

This is such an important need of ours. I want to use Jobber for the next 30 years but if these changes do not happen we may create our own program one day - I DO NOT WANT TO DO THAT!

OVERALL I WOULD RECOMMEND JOBBER TO ANYONE WHO NEEDS HELP WITH SCHEDULING & INVOICING!

Pros

I like the fact that Jobber will not allow you to forget about any jobs, quotes, & most importantly invoices...
The invoices are very professional looking. The ease of use of the software is awesome! The help/support there for you from their team is 10 out of 10/Tops/ the best! It does NOT get better as far as customer service goes...

Cons

I would like to see us be able to "Bold, italic, underline, etc" the fonts in invoices, jobs, everything! We should be able to format the font the same way we can in say - Google email!

Pros

Easy to use. Mobile capability. Speeds up cash flow. Ease of use for customers. Great value for the low price of the software.

Cons

Does not have full accounting capabilities such as inventory tracking and etc. Does not integrate with current software.