A Jobber alternative at $9 flat, with no per-helper fee
Jobber is a serious product with genuinely well-reviewed support — that is not our argument. Our argument is arithmetic: it is priced for crews that dispatch, and a cleaning business, with one helper or several, pays crew prices for it.
Prices, caps and terms as published on 23 October 2026. Their pages may have changed since; the links below let you re-check everything.
A real month, priced
The advertised "from $21" is the annual rate, for the first year. Month to month, Core is $49 for one user — raised from $29 in April 2026 — and every additional user is $29 a month, on every tier.
| Jobber | TendMate | |
|---|---|---|
| The software, month to month | $49 — one user | $9 a month, flat |
| A second pair of hands | +$29 a month, every tier | Included |
| You and your helper, per month | $78 | $9 |
| The cheaper annual rate | $21 a month the first year, then $29 — a 12-month minimum, first payment non-refundable | No annual lock-in exists |
An owner and a helper pay $78 a month there, $9 here. Over a year: $936 against $108 — the difference is a month of revenue for many small cleaning businesses.
Their own pages, dated
Every line below was read from the linked page on the date above. Re-check before deciding; prices move.
- Core at $49 a month for one user, additional users $29 a month each, and the $21 figure only on a plan with a 12-month minimum term whose first payment is non-refundable — their pricing page and its questions. Jobber pricing
- On 6 April 2026 the monthly list prices rose: Core from $29 to $49, Connect from $99 to $139, Grow from $149 to $199 — a public price tracker's capture of their own page, before and after. PricingSaaS capture, April 2026
- Their support is well reviewed even by their critics, and this page will not tell you otherwise. The recurring public complaints are price increases and the annual commitment, not the people. Trustpilot
What Jobber has today that we have not built yet
An honest page names both columns. Today, theirs holds:
- Online booking, quoting and card payments inside the product.
- Automated reminders and follow-up messages to your clients.
- A large ecosystem of integrations, built for crews that dispatch.
If you dispatch a fleet, Jobber is built for you and this page is not. If you run a cleaning business — alone, or with ten cleaners — every feature above is on the table here, built in the order customers ask, at no extra charge unless something needs a paid external service, and you stop paying for the vans you do not have.
The trial is the difference in miniature
Jobber's trial is 14 days without a card — fair terms, honestly offered.
TendMate's is a month, because a schedule needs a full cycle of clients coming round again to prove itself. No card either way here. If you are on Jobber today: Clients, then More Actions, then Export Clients sends you a CSV by email. Send it to us with a screenshot of one typical week, and we bring your clients across and rebuild your recurring visits for you, before you log in.
1 month free. No card.