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The self-hosted Kickserv 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 Kickserv every month.

Own Jobora for $129 Try the live demo

Stop renting Kickserv.

Rented Kickserv Start $60/mo on the annual subscription, $75/mo monthly (5 users); Run $119/mo annual, $149/mo monthly (10 users); Scale $199/mo annual, $249/mo monthly (20 users). The page opens on Annual ("Save 20% with annual subscription"); 30-day free trial, no free tier ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

Yours

Jobora

$129 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

3 months of Kickserv costs what Jobora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: Stored at Start on the annual subscription ($60), which includes five users; month to month the same plan is $75. Re-read 2026-09-26 with the page's Monthly/Annual switch in both positions: $60, $119 and $199 are the ANNUAL prices the page opens on, not month-to-month as this row said on 2026-08-30; monthly they are $75, $149 and $249. The ladder follows the headcount band either way. Jobora has no band: one payment covers the crew at any size.

How Kickserv pricing grows

Kickserv meters by USER BAND: 5 users on Start, 10 on Run, 20 on Scale — cross a band and the monthly price steps up ($60/$119/$199 on annual billing, $75/$149/$249 monthly).

“5 users included”, their own page, read 2026-09-26

What Kickserv does that we don't

Kickserv has a genuine low entry point and a 30-day trial, and its tiers are simple to read.

“Save 20% with annual subscription”, their own page

Who should stay with Kickserv

Stay with Kickserv if you want a hosted tool with a mobile app, integrated payments and QuickBooks sync for a crew of five or fewer at $60 a month on an annual subscription ($75 month to month). Jobora is the buy-once version, run on your own server.

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

Why owning beats renting Kickserv.

One payment

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

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Kickserv'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 Kickserv.

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

Kickserv: price checked 2026-09-26, source“Monthly Annual For Small Teams START 5 users $ 60/mo Save 20% with annual subscription. ... RUN 10 users $ 119/mo ... SCALE 20 users $ 199/mo ... [Monthly] START 5 users $ 75/mo ... RUN 10 users $ 149/mo ... SCALE 20 users $ 249/mo ... TRY START FREE FOR 30 DAYS”

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.

Replace Kickserv with Jobora.

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