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The self-hosted Jobber 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 Jobber every month.

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Stop renting Jobber.

Rented Jobber Core $49/mo with no commitment, $39 on a 1-year commitment, $29 billed annually (Just me, 1 user); Connect $139/$119/$99; Grow $199/$169/$149. Plus starts at 2-5 people (5 users): $499/$439/$399; larger bands up to 11-15 people cost more; 16+ is Plus by quote ^[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

5 months of Jobber costs what Jobora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: The lowest published price on the entry tier, one user: $29 a month billed annually ($49 with no commitment; re-read 2026-10-09). Plus is not sold to one person (it starts at 2-5 people, $499 with 5 users); team size is bought in bands (2-5: Connect $199, Grow $299; 11-15: Plus $699). Jobora is one payment for any crew size.

How Jobber pricing grows

Jobber sells tiers sized by team, so the bill steps up as people are added rather than staying where it started.

“Built for your team size”, their own page, read 2026-08-22

What Jobber does that we don't

Jobber ships native iOS and Android apps for running the day from the van.

“Run your day-to-day operations from anywhere with our iOS and Android mobile apps.”, their own page

Who should stay with Jobber

If you need a native mobile app, card payments taken in the field, or customer financing, stay with Jobber — Jobora is responsive web only, processes no payments, and offers no financing.

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

Why owning beats renting Jobber.

One payment

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

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Jobber'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 Jobber.

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.

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Sources

Jobber: price checked 2026-10-09, source“[Just me] Core 1 user $49/mo ... then $39/mo 1 year commitment ... then $29/mo Billed annually ... [2-5 people] Plus Includes 5 users $499/mo ... then $439/mo 1 year commitment ... then $399/mo Billed annually ... [16 or more] Plus Built for your team size ... All prices in USD. Subscription plan…”

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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