If you are weighing up Jobber and SKEDS, here is a fair comparison to help you choose. Both are capable tools, and the right one depends on how you work.
What Jobber is good at
Jobber is a polished home-service business platform from Canada, popular with residential plumbing, landscaping, cleaning and HVAC businesses across North America. It is known for fast setup and strong customer-facing communication, quotes, on-my-way texts, reminders, online payments and review requests, and suits residential teams that live on those workflows.
Where SKEDS focuses
SKEDS is a job scheduling and management platform built around a live dispatch board, an offline field app, and site safety and invoicing in one place, localised for 11 markets. If recurring maintenance, built-in health and safety, and local tax and accounting matter to you, that is where SKEDS puts its weight.
Compare them point by point
Here is what SKEDS offers against the things worth checking on any tool. We have filled in our own column and left Jobber for you to confirm, because their plans and features change over time.
| Capability | SKEDS | Jobber |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduling & dispatch | Drag-and-drop board with day, week and team views, plus travel time | Check Jobber’s current plan |
| Field app & offline | iOS, Android and web; crews can open jobs, add photos and complete safety checks offline, then sync | Check Jobber’s current plan |
| Health & safety | SWMS, hazard boards, incident reports and PPE checks built in and attached to each job | Check Jobber’s current plan |
| Invoicing & accounting | Quote to job to invoice, syncing both ways to Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks and local ledgers | Check Jobber’s current plan |
| Recurring & repeat jobs | Repeat-job templates and scheduled series for maintenance contracts | Check Jobber’s current plan |
| Inventory | Track materials and allocate stock to a job as parts are used | Check Jobber’s current plan |
| Local fit | 11 markets with local currency, tax handling and language | Check Jobber’s current plan |
| Migration | Guided import of clients, jobs, quotes and price lists, plus generic CSV | Check Jobber’s current plan |
| Pricing model | Per user, per month, no lock-in, with a 14-day free trial | Check Jobber’s current plan |
How to decide
The honest answer is to try the one you are leaning toward on a real week of your own jobs. SKEDS offers a free 14-day trial and a guided import, so you can move your clients and jobs across and compare like-for-like rather than from a feature list. Not sure where to start? Our comparison guide walks through the criteria.
A note on fairness
We have described Jobber in general terms and our own product specifically. Features and pricing for other products change often, so confirm the current details on Jobber’s own site before deciding. SKEDS is not affiliated with Jobber, and nothing here is meant to disparage it.
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