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The self-hosted Tradify 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 Tradify every month.

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Stop renting Tradify.

Rented Tradify Lite $47 USD per user/month (Pro $51, Plus $61 per user/month) ^[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

1 month of Tradify costs what Jobora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: Straight per-user pricing with no bundled seats — the figure shown assumes a three-person crew on the entry tier, 3 x $47 = $141/mo. A sole trader pays $47 and should compare on that basis; the meter is the thing that grows. Jobora is one payment whatever the headcount.

How Tradify pricing grows

Tradify prices every plan per user per month, so each extra person on the tools adds the full tier price again.

“$47 USD per user/month.”, their own page, read 2026-08-22

What Tradify does that we don't

Tradify puts every feature into its free trial instead of gating them behind a plan.

“Our free trial includes all the features, giving you the freedom to find out what plan will work best for your business.”, their own page

Who should stay with Tradify

If you need Google Calendar sync for a crew already living in Google Workspace, stay with Tradify — Jobora publishes a read-only calendar feed and does not write back to anybody else's calendar.

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

Why owning beats renting Tradify.

One payment

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

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Tradify'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 Tradify.

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

Tradify: price checked 2026-08-22, source“'$47 USD per user/month.' ... '$51 USD per user/month.' ... '$61 USD per user/month.'”

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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