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The self-hosted Housecall Pro alternative

Jobora: Self-hosted field-service software: quotes that turn into jobs, a drag-and-drop schedule board, real job costing and invoices — bought once. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Housecall Pro every month.

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Stop renting Housecall Pro.

Rented Housecall Pro Basic $59/mo billed annually ($79/mo monthly), 1 user; Essentials $149/mo billed annually ($189/mo monthly), 5 users; Max $299/mo billed annually ($329/mo monthly), 8 users included, $35/mo per additional user. Card processing from 2.59% [1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud
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Jobora
$129 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

3 months of Housecall Pro costs what Jobora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: The annual-billing figure on the entry tier — the LOWER of the two published numbers, chosen deliberately so this comparison understates rather than overstates. Month to month it is $79. Basic includes one user, Essentials five and Max eight; on Max each user beyond the eight is $35/mo. Card processing is charged on top, from 2.59%.

How Housecall Pro pricing grows

Housecall Pro includes a set number of users in each tier (one on Basic, five on Essentials, eight on Max), and its Max tier prices each user beyond the eight at a flat monthly fee.

“8 users included *$35/mo per additional user”, their own page, read 2026-09-24
What Housecall Pro does that we don't

Housecall Pro sells consumer-facing online booking that takes the job straight off a Google listing.

“Let customers book and pay online 24/7 directly from Google or your website.”, their own page
Who should stay with Housecall Pro

If you need a customer booking page and card payments taken inside the product, stay with Housecall Pro — Jobora has neither; the customer sees one document at a time and pays you however you already get paid.

What Jobora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting Housecall Pro.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Housecall Pro's cloud.

No plan ceilings

Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Jobora vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off Housecall Pro.

Is the invoice math really the same as Invora's?
It is the same file. The totals and status functions are byte-identical — a test extracts both function bodies and compares them — and Invora's published reference case (10 x 100.00 at 8.5% plus 1 x 500.00 at 0%, 5% discount, total 1,505.75) reproduces to the cent here, on SQLite and on MySQL. Only the three loader methods differ, because they name Jobora's own tables.
What happens if I drag a job onto someone who is already out?
It springs back and tells you who, and when, in a sentence. The drag calls the same conflict rule the booking form calls, so the board and the form can never disagree about what is allowed.
Does it take payments?
Not on its own. Switch on card payment and your customer pays an invoice by card on your own Stripe account's page; Jobora records the payment Stripe reports and never sees the card. Without Stripe, an invoice carries your own payment link and recording a payment records a fact.
Will this run on shared hosting?
Yes. PHP 8.1+ with PDO, MySQL or SQLite. The MySQL path is not assumed: 32 checks run against MariaDB in strict mode, including the money reference case.
Better together
Jobora is part of the Field-Service Suite
5 apps for one price, $96 less than buying them separately.
$369once

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Sources

  1. Housecall Pro: price checked 2026-09-24, source“'$59 /mo (Billed annually)' ... '8 users included *$35/mo per additional user'”

Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.

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