Jobber vs Housecall Pro complaints
What owners have publicly complained about in each tool, side by side. This is not a ranking or a recommendation; counts reflect how many pains we seeded from public posts, not how good either product is.
Jobber
Jobber users in the official community describe card payments landing net of fees so deposits never match invoices, one-way QuickBooks sync that forces re-typing payments, routes calculated as the crow flies, and per-client invoice due dates that have to be edited by hand.
- Card payments land in the bank net of fees, so nothing matches the invoices (Jobber Community)
- Payments taken in QuickBooks have to be re-typed into Jobber (Jobber Community)
- Weekly mowing routes get reshuffled every time (Jobber Community)
- Routes are calculated as the crow flies, not by road (Jobber Community)
- Can't schedule a quote or invoice to send later (Jobber Community)
- Progress billing on big jobs doubles the client's value in reports (Jobber Community)
- Due dates can't be set per client, so every invoice is edited by hand (Jobber Community)
- Fixing the service address on an invoice is a chore (Jobber Community)
- Grouping quote line items into sections depends on your plan (Jobber Community)
Housecall Pro
Housecall Pro reviewers on Trustpilot describe charges that continued long after trying to cancel, surprise marketing fees, and jobs and payouts held up by extra payment-verification requests.
- Charges continued long after trying to cancel, plus surprise marketing fees (Trustpilot reviews)
- Jobs held up by extra payment verification requests (Trustpilot reviews)