Field service platform · Jobber alternative

The shop OS that gets you paid.

Quote the work, take a deposit to book it, put a tech on it, and collect the rest on the driveway — into your Stripe. Then tap Social Boost: the job you just finished is already a branded before/after for Instagram and Google. Jobber doesn’t ship that.

Clients & jobsSchedulePay to bookOnline bookingOn my wayWhile we’re hereSocial BoostField app

From $29/month · No annual contract · Or book a demo

Why trade shops switch to TradeCommands. Pay to book, pay to leave, follow-ups, house file, rate book, Social Boost. From $29 a month.

The backend your crew would actually live in

Dashboard, schedule, quotes, invoices, field, and card pay. Click through the full gallery — this is the product, not a mockup deck.

Operations software for trades — not a chatbot with a job list
$29Starter
0Annual lock-in
Same dayQuote to invoice

Bill clients directly. The money hits your Stripe.

Send a private invoice link. The customer pays by card on Stripe Checkout. Connect your own secret key and deposits go to you — not to TradeCommands.

  1. Connect your Stripe keySettings → Client payments. Paste sk_live_ or sk_test_ from the Stripe Dashboard.
  2. Send the invoiceOne link. The customer opens it on a phone and hits Pay with card.
  3. Collect into your accountStripe Checkout, then the invoice marks paid. Check and cash still record by hand.

* Connect your Stripe key so payments deposit to you. Stripe key guide. Or we’ll set it up for $49.

Pay to book. On the way. Pay to leave.

Jobber and Housecall Pro split this across requests, GPS texts, and invoices. One customer page. Money at both ends.

01

Approve & put money down

Customer opens the quote, picks a day, and pays 30% (you set the percent) into your Stripe. Only then does the job land on the board. Tire-kickers stop owning your Thursday.

  • Deposit on the same approve tap
  • Job created when the card clears
  • Remaining balance already on the invoice
02

Book online. Hold is money, not a form.

Housecall Pro and Jobber take a request and call you back. Here the customer picks a day and pays a hold to your Stripe. The slot is not theirs until it clears. Same tracker then shows booked → on the way → pay remaining.

  • Public /book link for Google and the website
  • Hold applied to the final bill
  • Tech taps On my way — no fake GPS
03

Don’t leave the driveway unpaid

Tech taps Complete. Before/after photos go on the invoice. Remaining balance is collected on site — card, cash, or a pay link they can hit before you pull away.

  • Photos the customer already saw, on the bill
  • Collect remaining from the field phone
  • Job isn’t quietly “green” with $1,800 open

Follow-up that collects. On by default.

Jobber’s automation builder is a maze. Shops stay for quote nudges, invoice reminders, and “see you tomorrow.” We turn those on, and every email has the pay or tracker link.

01

Quote still sitting

If they viewed it and did not put a deposit down, they get the approve-and-pay link — not a “just checking in.”

02

Invoice still open

Unpaid and partial bills get a card link to your Stripe. The office does not keep a sticky note of who still owes.

03

Coming tomorrow

Customer gets the job tracker the day before: booked → on the way → pay remaining.

04

Review after paid

Jobber often asks after “complete” while $1,800 is still open. We wait until the invoice is paid.

The house remembers. The van prices it the same.

Not another tracker. Not another pay screen. The two things ServiceTitan and Jobber shops quietly cannot work without — equipment at the address, and a rate book the office and the truck share.

01

House file

ServiceTitan’s secret is knowing the unit before you knock. Make, model, serial, filter notes, warranty — on the job and on the field phone. If you were here 11 days ago, the job says so. Don’t bill them for our miss.

  • Units live on the address, not in a tech’s notes app
  • Warranty countdown on the truck
  • “We were just here” if you completed work in the last 30 days
02

Shop rate book

Jobber’s price book is what estimators actually live in. Tap a rate onto a quote or invoice. Cost sits next to price so you see what you keep — the truck does not invent $275 on the driveway.

  • Starter rates you edit (service call, capacitor, tune-up…)
  • Tap onto quotes and invoices
  • Margin on the line, not a spreadsheet after the fact

Don’t make a second trip for a $285 capacitor.

On Jobber’s community, shops still beg for change orders from the job and a punch list that survives the visit. They text photos from personal phones. They pay CompanyCam. We put both on the same customer tracker.

01

While we’re here

Tech photographs the extra, taps a shop rate, and sends it. The homeowner sees the picture on the job page and taps yes before the van leaves. Approved extras land on the invoice. Collect on the driveway like always.

  • No second quote, no personal-phone photo dump
  • Priced from the same rate book as the office
  • Decline is one tap too — “not today”
02

What’s left

A punch list on the job, not a form that dies when the visit closes. The customer can see 6 of 9 items done. The next tech does not guess what yesterday’s crew skipped.

  • Job-level, not visit-level
  • Visible on the customer tracker
  • Check off from the truck

Social Boost. Finish the job. Own the feed.

This is the feature shops grin about on demos. Jobber does not turn a driveway install into a branded post. You do — Instagram, Facebook, and Google Business Profile (Google My Business) — from the photos already on the job. Real work. Your name on it. No fake furnace.

Northside HVACFurnace replacement
Before: old furnace in a basementBEFORE
After: new furnace installedAFTER
Done in Toronto(416) 555-0142
01

The wow card

Before on the left. After on the right. Shop name, city, phone. Looks like a designer made it. Instagram 4:5 or square. Share from the truck or download a PNG.

  • Built from the photos already on the job
  • Your brand, not ours
  • The thing other software makes you leave the app to do
02

Social in one paste

Copy the caption into Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok. Optional OpenAI (your key) writes it. No key? You still get a clean template.

  • Edit anything that isn’t true
  • No homeowner names
  • Hashtags at the bottom
03

Google, too

The same PNG and caption drop onto your Google Business Profile. That listing is how locals find you. Before/after there is not a marketing suite — it is proof you showed up.

  • Post to Google My Business from the job
  • Reviews come later. Photos come today
  • You still paste it — we don’t fake a Google login

The loop a real shop already runs

Quote, take a deposit, run the job, collect the rest. Same afternoon you sign up.

01

Pay to book

Send a quote. They approve and put a deposit on your Stripe. The job hits the board.

02

Run the day

Schedule the crew, assign a tech, and track the job from booked to complete.

03

Proof on the bill

Before/after photos from the truck land on the invoice the customer pays.

04

Pay to leave

Tech taps Complete and collects the remaining balance before they drive away.

Office, field, and money in one system

This is the product — not a waitlist. Online booking, pay to book, pay to leave, while-we’re-here extras, follow-ups, house file, shop rate book, clients, schedule, quotes, invoices, team, and field.

Clients & properties

Every contact, address, and job history in one record so office and field are looking at the same job.

  • Residential and commercial
  • Property on the job
  • Quote and invoice history

Jobs & schedule

Create the work, drop it on a day, and assign a technician without a spreadsheet in the middle.

  • Unscheduled backlog
  • Day and week board
  • Assign from the schedule

Quotes they pay to book

Line-item quotes with a private link. Approve and put 30% down — the job lands on your board.

  • Approve & pay deposit
  • Money to your Stripe
  • Job created when it clears

Invoices & card payments

Bill the job, send a pay link, and take a card into your Stripe account — or record check and cash.

  • Customer pay link
  • Money to your Stripe
  • Photos on the invoice

Don’t leave unpaid

Tech taps Complete, photos go on the bill, and remaining balance is collected on the driveway.

  • Before/after on the invoice
  • Collect remaining on site
  • Or copy the pay link

Follow-ups that collect

Quote nudges, invoice chases, and tomorrow’s visit — on by default, with the pay link in the email. Not a Zapier toy.

  • Nudge unpaid quotes
  • Chase open invoices
  • Review only after they pay

House file

The next tech already knows the unit. Make, model, serial, warranty, and “we were just here” live on the address.

  • Equipment at the property
  • Warranty on the truck
  • Callback flag if you were here recently

Shop rate book

The office and the truck tap the same prices. Cost sits next to price so you do not quote a capacitor at cost.

  • Tap onto quotes and invoices
  • Margin on every line
  • Starter rates you edit

While we’re here

Found a rotten board or a dead capacitor? Photo it. The customer taps yes on the tracker. No second trip, no second quote.

  • Change order from the truck
  • Customer-visible punch list
  • Approved extras hit the invoice

Social Boost — the extra they don’t have

Finish the job, tap once, and you have a branded before/after for Instagram, Facebook, and Google Business Profile. Jobber shops still dump photos in a camera roll. This is the wow.

  • Your shop name on the graphic
  • Post to social and Google
  • Caption you copy-paste

Team

Invite technicians and office staff so every job has a name on it.

  • Add a teammate in a minute
  • Assign from the board
  • Each person signs in

Jobber-class operations. Owner-class pricing.

Keep the workflow your crew already understands. Drop the annual contract, the mystery seats, and the six-week onboarding.

Month-to-month

Stay because the board works, not because legal locked you in.

Pay to book, pay to leave

Deposit on approve. Photos and remaining balance collected on the driveway. Jobber will not default to that.

Follow-up without the maze

Quote nudges and invoice chases run on their own. Every email has the pay link. Jobber hides this in a workflow builder.

House file + rate book

The next tech knows the unit. The van taps the same prices as the office, with margin on the line. Not GPS. Not another pay wall.

Price you can explain

Starter $29 (1 user). Growth $99 (5). Pro $199 (10). About half of Jobber, month-to-month.

Compare to Jobber
TradeCommandsTypical FSM
Starting price$29/moJobber Core $49 for 1 user
ContractNoneOften annual
Card payYour StripeTheir processor
Pay to bookDeposit on approveOptional extra
Pay to leaveCollect on siteInvoice later
Follow-upsOn by defaultBuried workflow builder
Found workApprove on the trackerWrite a second quote
House fileUnit + warranty on the truckBuried in client hub
Rate bookTap + see what you keepPrice book, no margin on the line
Quotes + invoicesIncludedIncluded
Field viewIncludedIncluded

Simple plans. No surprises.

Starter $29 for 1 user. Growth $99 for 5. Pro $199 for 10. Extra seats $15.

Starter
$29/month

Solo operators · 1 user · half of Jobber Core

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Pro
$199/month

High volume · 10 users · half of Jobber Grow at 10 seats

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Bookings live here. A real website lives at 360 Nerds.

We are not Jobber Sites. Your shop gets a public /book link. Want pages, photos, and a site that ranks? 360 Nerds builds it — dirt cheap because you are already a TradeCommands customer.

Questions owners actually ask

Is this a real Jobber alternative?

Yes. Clients, jobs, schedule, quotes they pay to book, invoices with job photos, collect remaining from the truck, while-we’re-here extras, Social Boost, follow-ups, a house file, a shop rate book, team, and a field view — month-to-month, from $29. About half of Jobber’s list.

What is Social Boost?

The extra most field-service tools simply do not have. Before and after from the job become a branded card with your shop name on it, plus a caption you paste into Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or Google Business Profile (Google My Business). Real photos — we don’t AI-fake the install. OpenAI is optional and only writes the words.

Do my customers pay me, or TradeCommands?

They pay you. Connect your Stripe key in Settings → Client payments, or we’ll connect it for $49.

Do you build us a website like Jobber Sites?

No. You get a public book-a-visit link to put on Google and the van. If you want a real shop website, our sister company 360 Nerds builds it — dirt cheap if you are already on TradeCommands. Start at 360nerds.com and tell them you are a TradeCommands shop.

Do I have to sign an annual contract?

No. Plans are month-to-month. Cancel anytime.

How fast can we go live?

Most shops can create a client, quote, job, and invoice the same day. Card pay goes live as soon as your Stripe key is saved.

Can I try it before I buy?

Yes. Start a 14-day trial, or book a demo and we will walk your real workflow with you.

Jobber alternative · from $29/month

Run the shop from one screen. Get paid on the same job.

Create an account in minutes, or book a demo and we’ll set the first jobs — and Stripe — with you.

Month-to-monthCards to your StripeAbout half of Jobber