GreenRoute vs Jobber for Electrical Contractors

Pricing built for an electrical shop, not against it

Jobber's Core plan starts at $39/mo for a single user, and every plan above it charges for each additional seat. For an electrical contractor that runs even a small team — an owner, two journeymen, and an apprentice — those per-user fees add up quickly, and your software bill climbs every time you hire.

GreenRoute takes the opposite approach. Starter is free, Professional is $10/mo, and Professional Plus with full team management is $50/mo. You add every electrician, apprentice, and office dispatcher you want at no extra charge. The price you see is the price you pay, no matter how many trucks you put on the road.

• GreenRoute Starter: free, with unlimited customers and invoices
• GreenRoute Professional: $10/mo flat
• Jobber Core: $39/mo for one user, plus per-user fees to add your crew
• No per-user fees on GreenRoute at any tier

Everything an electrical contractor needs to run the day

Both platforms cover the fundamentals, and that matters. With GreenRoute you can schedule service calls and installs, dispatch electricians to the right job, build professional quotes for panel upgrades or rewires, send invoices the moment a job is marked complete, and collect payment by credit card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay.

Your customer history lives in one CRM, so when a homeowner calls back about that breaker that keeps tripping, your tech can see every past visit, photo, and invoice before they pull into the driveway. Recurring work — like annual safety inspections or maintenance contracts for commercial accounts — can be set to repeat automatically so nothing slips through the cracks.

• Scheduling and dispatch for service calls and installs
• Professional quotes for upgrades, rewires, and new construction
• Automatic invoicing the moment a job is completed
• Online payments: credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay
• Customer CRM with full job and equipment history
• Recurring automation for inspections and maintenance contracts

A mobile app your electricians can actually use in the field

Electrical work happens in basements, mechanical rooms, new-construction sites, and rural service areas where cell signal disappears. GreenRoute's crew app keeps working offline — your electricians can pull up job details, log the work performed, snap photos of the panel, capture a signature, and mark the job done even with no bars. Everything syncs the moment they're back in coverage.

Jobber offers a capable mobile app as well, but the field-ready offline experience and the fact that every member of your crew is included at no extra cost is where GreenRoute pulls ahead for a growing electrical business.

• Works offline in basements, sites, and dead zones
• Log work performed, photos, and customer signatures on site
• Every crew member included — no per-seat charge
• Automatic sync once back in coverage

Smarter routing and drive-time planning

When you're stacking five or six service calls across town in a day, the order you drive them in is real money. GreenRoute includes scheduling with drive-route planning so your dispatcher can sequence jobs to cut windshield time and fit in more billable work.

On Jobber, more advanced route optimization is reserved for its higher-priced plans, which means an electrical contractor often has to pay up to get the routing tools that should come standard. GreenRoute builds route planning into affordable tiers from the start.

• Plan the day's service calls to minimize drive time
• Sequence jobs across your service area for more billable hours
• Route planning available on affordable tiers, not just the top plan

A fair look: where Jobber may fit

We want to be straight with you. Jobber is a mature, polished platform with a large user base, an established app marketplace, and deep integrations built up over many years. If your shop is already standardized on Jobber's ecosystem and the per-user pricing isn't a pain point, it's a solid product and there may be no urgent reason to move.

Where GreenRoute wins for most electrical contractors is total cost of ownership. If you're paying per electrician, watching your bill grow with every hire, or you simply want the core job-management toolset without a $39-plus starting point, GreenRoute delivers the same daily workflow for a fraction of the monthly spend.

Switching from Jobber is straightforward

You don't have to start from scratch. Export your customer list, job history, and invoices from Jobber and import them into GreenRoute, and our support team will help you through the migration so your electrical business doesn't miss a beat.

Start on the free Starter plan to get a feel for it, then move up to Professional at $10/mo when you're ready. No long-term contract, no per-user fees, and no surprise charges when you add your next electrician.

• Import customers, job history, and invoices from Jobber
• Hands-on migration help from our support team
• Try it free, upgrade when ready, cancel anytime