Jobber vs. Square: Payments and Scheduling Comparison

What can Jobber do vs. Square?

Jobber and Square can both help your business sell products and services, book and manage appointments, and get paid.

Square has separate apps that accomplish different tasks. Here are a few of them:

• Square Point of Sale is the app that lets you process in-person transactions using Square’s card reader, payment terminal, or register.
• Square Invoices lets you send estimates and invoices to customers, then collect payment online. 
• Square Appointments helps you take booking requests from customers, schedule your services, and collect payment.

Meanwhile, Jobber offers a single place for estimating, invoicing, online booking, scheduling, and payment processing.

There’s some overlap in the features that each Square app offers. To keep things simple, we’ll compare the features across all of Square’s apps against Jobber’s features:

What features does Jobber have?

Jobber has features that help you manage and organize your field service workflow from start to finish.

Home service businesses use Jobber on-site and at the office to quote jobs, schedule visits, invoice customers, get paid, communicate with clients, and keep client details organized.

Here are the key features that make Jobber unique from Square and ideal for service-based businesses:

• Quoting: Only Jobber lets you view the estimated margins on your quotes so you can price jobs profitably. In Jobber, you manage quotes in the same place that you manage your team, clients, and scheduling.
• Client relationship management (CRM): Jobber keeps your entire job and communication history in one place, including past emails and text messages between you and your clients, and past invoices and estimates you’ve sent.
• Client portal: Give customers access to a 24/7 online portal where they can request work, approve quotes, review scheduled jobs, make payments, and refer their friends.
• Work order management: Instantly convert a work order into a job, keep track of all jobs statuses in one dashboard, and set up invoice reminders so you can get paid faster.
• Service dispatching: Jobber automatically generates the fastest, most fuel-efficient routes to your day’s appointments.
• Online booking and quote requests: Jobber lets your customers book services directly into your calendar through your website, social media, or their online client portal. Or, share a customized quote request form to capture information for more complex projects.

Jobber integrations

You don’t need to give up your favorite apps to use Jobber. Jobber integrates with these tools (and many more) to help you run other parts of your business efficiently:

QuickBooks Online

QuickBooks Online is a complete cloud-based accounting solution that saves you time on bookkeeping, reporting, and financial management.

Stripe

Accept payments online or in the field with Jobber Payments, powered by Stripe. Stripe handles billions of dollars in transactions every year around the world.

Google Local Services

Offer online booking, right from Google search. Locals searching for your services can book an available time in your calendar directly from your Local Services Ad.

Mailchimp

Attract more customers with ready-to-run email marketing campaigns, postcards, Facebook ads, and more.

Zapier

Save time when you move info automatically between Jobber and 1,500+ web apps.

FleetSharp

Optimize your field operations with live GPS tracking and know where your team is in real-time.

| See all Jobber integrations here

Square and Jobber Payments pricing

Square and Jobber Payments have similar pricing. To collect payment online through Square or Jobber Payments, you only pay a processing fee when you collect payment—there are no setup fees or monthly fees.

To accept mobile credit card payments, order the Square Reader or the Jobber Card Reader at one fixed price. Once you have either card reader, you only pay transaction processing fees.