Jobber Runs Your Day.
It Doesn't Price Your Work.
Jobber is excellent scheduling, invoicing, and CRM — that's not the problem. The problem is quotes that go out the door without anyone knowing the margin. GreenMargins fills exactly that gap: burdened labor, travel, overhead, and live gross margin before you hit send.
Built for landscape crews under 50 people. From $47/month (billed annually; $59 month-to-month).
Quick answer: Whether you should switch from Jobber depends on what's actually broken.
If scheduling, dispatch, or getting paid is the pain, Jobber is one of the best tools in home services — keep it. But if the pain is pricing — jobs that felt profitable and weren't, quotes built from gut feel, margins you only discover at year-end — then the fix isn't a different all-in-one. It's a tool that costs the job before you quote it.
Jobber is built for:
- ✓ Scheduling and dispatching crews
- ✓ Client communication and CRM
- ✓ Invoicing and payments
GreenMargins is built for:
- ✓ Burdened labor and travel costing
- ✓ Overhead allocation per job
- ✓ Live margin before the quote goes out
Jobber Quotes Are Formatted.
They Aren't Costed.
A Jobber quote is a clean, professional document built from the line items and wage rates you type in. What it doesn't do is calculate what the job will actually cost you. In 2026 Jobber's Grow plan ($149–$199/mo) added job costing — but it's a scoreboard that tracks costs after the work happens. At quote time, three things are still missing:
No labor burden
Jobber works from the raw wage rates you enter. Payroll taxes, workers comp, benefits, and PTO — typically 25–45% on top of wages — never make it into the quote unless you burden the rates by hand. GreenMargins applies your burden percentage everywhere labor is calculated, automatically.
No travel cost in the quote
Jobber can track drive time on timesheets, but the quote you build carries no travel line unless you add one manually. GreenMargins pulls drive distance and time from the job address and prices crew travel time, fuel, and vehicle wear into every estimate.
No overhead, no pre-send margin
Truck payments, insurance, shop rent, and software never land on any job's numbers in a Jobber quote — and there's no margin figure before you hit send. GreenMargins allocates overhead per billable hour and shows live gross profit as you price.
The honest framing isn't "Jobber has no job costing" — it's "Jobber tells you whether you made money; GreenMargins tells you whether you will." The full breakdown of what Jobber's Grow-plan costing does and doesn't cover is in our guide to what's better than Jobber for job costing.
Jobber vs GreenMargins, Dimension by Dimension
Two different jobs. One runs the operation; the other prices the work. Checked July 2026.
| Dimension | Jobber | GreenMargins |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduling & dispatch | Excellent — core of the product | None today |
| Client communication & CRM | Excellent | Basic customer records |
| Invoicing & payments | Yes — a core strength | No — quotes only today |
| Professional quote PDFs | Yes | Yes — branded |
| Labor burden at quote time | No — works from wage rates you enter | Automatic burden % on all labor |
| Travel cost priced into the quote | Manual line item only | Automatic from job address |
| Overhead allocation per job | No | Automatic per billable hour |
| Margin visible before you send | No — Grow plan ($149–199/mo) tracks costs after the job | Live gross profit & margin as you price |
| Entry pricing | Core $49/mo m2m (~$21–29/mo annual-prepay intro); extra users $29/mo | From $47/mo billed annually ($59 m2m) |
| Top-end pricing | Plus $499–699/mo m2m | Pro $159/mo annual ($199 m2m) |
| Trial & setup | Free trial; self-serve | 14-day trial, no credit card; ~15-min setup |
Comparison based on Jobber's public pages, checked July 2026. Tell us if something is out of date and we'll correct it.
Full plan details for GreenMargins are on the pricing page — no quotes, no sales calls. And if you want the deeper feature walkthrough of the cost engine itself, see the GreenMargins estimating product page.
Not Sure a Quote You Sent Made Money?
Run one real quote through the free margin check and see the hidden costs line by line. No signup, nothing to install.
When Jobber Is the Better Choice
We'd rather you pick the right tool than pick us. Jobber is genuinely excellent software, and for plenty of landscapers it's the correct answer:
Dispatch, CRM, and payments are your core need
If your bottleneck is getting crews to the right property, keeping clients in the loop, and getting invoices paid, that's the exact job Jobber was built for — and GreenMargins doesn't do it. Keep Jobber.
You want one all-in-one system
Some owners would rather run everything — quoting, scheduling, invoicing, payments — in a single login, even if the quoting side is simpler. That's a legitimate trade-off, and Jobber makes it well.
You're solo and mainly need scheduling
A solo operator with a tight route and a handful of repeat clients often feels scheduling pain long before pricing pain. Jobber's entry plan is built for exactly that stage.
Your pricing is already dialed
If you already know your burdened rates, your overhead per hour, and your margins hold up at year-end, the gap GreenMargins fills isn't your gap. Don't buy software for a problem you don't have.
The "use both" option many crews pick
Switching isn't all-or-nothing. Many crews keep Jobber for operations — scheduling, dispatch, invoicing — and price their work in GreenMargins. Build the quote where the cost math lives, send it, and once it's won, create the job in Jobber. No integration needed, nothing to migrate, and neither tool fights the other.
Weighing other quoting tools too? Our roundup of the best quoting software for small landscaping businesses compares the field honestly.
What "Switching" Actually Involves: About 15 Minutes
There's no painful migration, because GreenMargins doesn't need your Jobber history. It needs your shop's numbers — once.
Enter your shop costs
Wages, labor burden percentage, annual overhead, billable hours, vehicle costs, suppliers. Self-serve onboarding walks you through it in about 15 minutes.
Price your first real job
Enter the address, pick services, set hours and materials. Travel, burden, and overhead populate automatically — and the margin number is right there before you send.
Keep Jobber if you want it
Nothing breaks. Your schedule, clients, and invoices stay in Jobber while GreenMargins takes over the pricing. Drop the overlap later — or never.
The 14-day trial needs no credit card, so you can run your next three quotes through it side by side with your current process and compare the numbers before deciding anything.
Switching From Jobber: Honest Answers
Is GreenMargins a full Jobber replacement?
No — and we won't pretend it is. GreenMargins does not do scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, or client messaging today. It replaces the pricing side: it calculates burdened labor, travel, materials markup, and overhead for each job, then shows your gross margin before the quote goes out. If scheduling and invoicing are what you need to replace, Jobber or another field service platform is still the right tool for that job.
Can I use Jobber and GreenMargins together?
Yes, and many crews do exactly that. Keep Jobber for scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, and client communication, and build your quotes in GreenMargins so every price carries burdened labor, travel, and overhead. There is no integration required — you price the job in GreenMargins, send the quote, and create the job in Jobber once it is won.
Does Jobber show margin before I send a quote?
No. Jobber's quotes work from the line items and wage rates you enter, and its job costing — which arrives on the Grow plan ($149–$199/month) — tracks profitability from logged hours and expenses after the work happens. It does not apply a labor burden multiplier, price travel into the quote, or allocate overhead per job at quote time, so there is no pre-send margin number.
How much does GreenMargins cost compared to Jobber?
GreenMargins starts at $47/month billed annually ($59 month-to-month), with plans at $47/$79/$159 annual — $59/$99/$199 month-to-month — and a 14-day free trial with no credit card. Jobber's Core plan is $49/month month-to-month (annual-prepay intro pricing runs roughly $21–29/month), extra users are $29/month each, and its top Plus tier runs $499–$699/month month-to-month. All figures come from public pricing pages, checked July 2026.
How long does it take to switch from Jobber?
There is no data migration to survive, because GreenMargins doesn't replace your Jobber records. Setup is self-serve and takes about 15 minutes: enter wages, labor burden percentage, annual overhead, billable hours, and vehicle costs once, and every quote after that carries your real numbers. Most people price their first job the same day.
Keep Jobber for the Schedule.
Know Your Margin Before You Quote.
14-day free trial · No credit card · ~15 minutes to set up · From $47/month (billed annually; $59 month-to-month)