The field-service stack, bought once: the quote that becomes a job, the van's service date, the kit that goes out, and the checks that come due

A trade business runs on four or five registers that vendors sell as four or five subscriptions: the job book, the vehicle file, the tool-crib log, the maintenance plan for its own plant, and the inspection calendar. The Field-Service Suite is those five as self-hosted products bought once. This page explains why they are five and not one, what each refuses to do, and where each hands off to the next.

The five, and where each stops

Jobora is the job book: quotes that become jobs, a drag-and-drop schedule board with one conflict rule enforced at all four doors (the page, the bulk action, the API, the MCP tool), job costing with a real margin, invoices from the same integer-cent money engine as Invora, sign-off at the door, before-and-after photos, and PDFs that leave the building. It is one business per installation, it never processes a payment (an invoice carries your payment link; marking it paid records a fact), it has no stock control (a material line is a cost against a job, not a draw from inventory), and recurring work is not automated.

Fleetora is the vehicle file: every document and service on every van with its expiry, due by date or by distance — whichever comes first — with an honest unknown for the reading nobody entered, your own compliance vocabulary rather than ours, a driver role that cannot break anything, defects with a severity that means something, calendar feeds and printable sheets. No telematics, no GPS, no dongles: it cannot know a reading nobody typed. No work orders and no parts — it is a register, not a workshop. No walk-around checklist builder; it records the fault a driver reports.

Lendra is the tool crib: who has which laptop, drill, camera or meter checked out, guided check-out and check-in, automatic overdue flags with reminders safe to leave on, a live who-has-what dashboard, full loan history and a tested double-booking guard. It reads tags from any keyboard-wedge scanner and does not print labels. No depreciation, no purchase orders, no helpdesk, no pricing or invoicing.

Fixora is the maintenance plan for your own plant — the compressor, the lift, the generator: usage-based and calendar schedules, usage meters entered by hand, work orders with an enforced state machine, a spare-parts inventory, cost and downtime reporting, and a PM calendar the team subscribes to. One site per installation, no IoT or telematics ingest, no purchasing module.

Inspectora is the inspection calendar: what is due, what is overdue and what has never been done, with the certificate on the record, rounds, and a calendar feed. Not a CMMS (that is Fixora's job), it does not perform or certify anything, and the people named on records are tracked rather than given logins.

How they hand off

Jobora schedules the engineer; Fleetora says whether the van they are taking has an MOT and a service due before Friday; Lendra says whether the calibrated meter the job needs is on the shelf or still in someone else's van; Fixora says the workshop compressor's 500-hour service is due; Inspectora says the fire extinguishers in the workshop were last checked in March and the PAT round is overdue. Each register answers one question that the others deliberately cannot, and none of them pretends to be the accounts. Every one of the five carries a REST API and an MCP endpoint since the 3.0 release, so a dispatcher's assistant can ask all five the same morning question under scoped keys — the pattern is in connect your AI.

The arithmetic, labelled as arithmetic

At the single-licence prices on the product pages today, 2 September 2026 — Jobora $129, Fixora $129, Inspectora $79, Fleetora $69, Lendra $59 — the five bought separately are $465. The Field-Service Suite is $369; the suite page computes the saving live, so trust it over this paragraph if they ever differ. The rented side, from the vendors' own pages on the dates they carry, is worked in what field-service software costs to rent, the fleet software cost teardown, the CMMS cost teardown and equipment checkout software, honestly compared.

The refusals, once more

No payments. No stock control in the job book. No telematics. No label printing. No IoT. No certification of anything. A buyer who needs one of those needs a different product, and would rather know now. The five demos are open without a sign-up — Jobora, Fleetora, Lendra, Fixora, Inspectora — and own the stack is the overview of every suite.