Field service software cost calculator

1. It finds each app’s cheapest plan that covers your people. “People” means everyone who logs in, office and field. Each app counts them its own way: Jobber™ by team-size band (1, 5, 10 or 15), Housecall Pro and Kickserv by users included per plan, Tradify and Fergus per user, ServiceM8 by jobs a month, GorillaDesk by route.
2. It skips plans that lack a feature you ticked. It reads which plan includes each feature from the app’s own pricing page. If the page doesn’t say, the app stays in the list with a warning, ranked after the apps that confirm it.
3. It adds a year of card fees. For each way customers pay, it multiplies your invoices by the app’s published rate: percentage × average invoice + fixed fee. Bank payments use the app’s bank rate and cap. Cash and cheques cost nothing.
4. It ranks by the yearly total. Apps with a complete price come first. Apps missing a card rate or user limit come next, showing only what they publish. Quote-only apps are listed with no number (FieldPulse pricing shows what one of them does publish).

What it leaves out: sales tax, setup and onboarding fees, add-ons, hardware, disputes and chargebacks, and limited-time offers (offers end; the regular price is what you’ll pay after). Payouts to us never change the order.

With the defaults (5 people, 50 invoices a month at $400, all paid by card online, monthly billing), Jobber’s row works like this:

• Plan: Connect (5 users) at $199 a month, so $2,388 a year.
• Card fees: $400 × 2.9% + 30¢ = $11.90 per invoice. × 50 invoices × 12 months = $7,140 a year.
• Total: $2,388 + $7,140 = $9,528 a year.

Choose “pay for the year up front” and the calculator uses each app’s published yearly price where there is one. Where an app publishes no yearly price, it uses the monthly price and says so. Jobber’s middle option (a 1-year commitment billed monthly) is on our Jobber pricing page. Yearly plans are often non-refundable: the calculator flags the ones that say so.