A Jobber alternative built for cleaning businesses
Jobber is good software that wasn't built for cleaning. Here's an honest comparison of what each costs and where each one actually fits.
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Jobber runs field service businesses: plumbers, HVAC techs, electricians, landscapers. It does that well, and it has done it for over a decade.
But walk through a Jobber quote as a house cleaner and you feel the mismatch immediately. There are fields for parts and materials. There's job costing built around labor hours against equipment. The scheduling assumes a technician driving to a diagnosis, then a callback, then a repair.
A recurring biweekly clean isn't shaped like that. You quote a whole-home price, not a parts list. The same three houses come around every other Tuesday forever. The thing your client wants proof of isn't a replaced capacitor. It's that the baseboards actually got done.
CleanDock is built for that job specifically. Here's an honest comparison so you can decide.
What it costs
Go to Jobber's pricing page and you'll see $21/mo for Core, with $49 struck through. That's their first-year annual rate: it rises to $29/mo after twelve months, you prepay the year up front, and it covers one user.
So let's compare both ways, because comparing only the one that flatters us would be pointless. You're about to open their page in the next tab anyway. Figures below are as listed on 27 July 2026.
If you prepay a year
| Crew | CleanDock | Jobber |
|---|---|---|
| Solo | $29.99/mo | $21/mo first year, then $29/mo |
| 5 users | $49.99/mo | $70/mo first year, then $99/mo |
| 10 users | $99.99/mo | $70/mo + $145/mo in seats = $215/mo |
Month to month, no commitment
| Crew | CleanDock | Jobber |
|---|---|---|
| Solo | $29.99/mo | $49/mo |
| 5 users | $49.99/mo | $139/mo |
| 10 users | $99.99/mo | $199/mo+ plus per-seat |
The moment you hire, the math changes and doesn't change back
Jobber's Core plan covers one user. Every additional person is $29/mo, on every plan, including the discounted annual ones.
CleanDock's Team plan covers five people for $49.99. Team+ removes the cap entirely at $99.99.
| Crew size | CleanDock | Jobber, prepaid annual |
|---|---|---|
| You + 1 | $49.99 | $50 first year, $58 after |
| You + 2 | $49.99 | $79 first year, $87 after |
| You + 4 | $49.99 | $70 first year, $99 after |
| You + 9 | $99.99 | $215 first year |
Hiring your first part-timer for the summer costs you nothing on CleanDock. On Jobber it's another $348 a year, and it stays on the bill after they leave unless you remember to remove the seat.
That's the difference between paying per body and paying for the business.
One more thing worth saying plainly: Jobber is a bigger product, built for a wider set of trades. If you need deep job costing, equipment tracking, or a franchise-level reporting stack, that is what they are for. More on that below.
What a cleaning business actually needs
Recurring cleans that repeat themselves
Most cleaning revenue is the same houses on a repeating cycle. Weekly, biweekly, monthly, first-and-third-Thursday.
In CleanDock you set the recurrence once and the calendar fills itself out forward. You're not rebuilding next month's schedule on a Sunday night, and you're not copying last week's jobs across.
This is the single feature that decides whether software fits a cleaning business, which is why it's the first thing we built rather than a setting inside a general scheduler.
Before-and-after photos on every job
Cleaners get "you missed a room" more than any other complaint, and it's almost always a memory problem rather than a work problem.
Your cleaners snap before and after photos from their phone at the job. The photos attach to that job, permanently, alongside the tracked time. When a client questions it two weeks later, you send the pictures instead of relitigating it.
For Airbnb turnovers and move-outs, where a deposit or a guest review is on the line, this stops being a nice extra and becomes the reason you get rebooked.
A booking link you can put anywhere
Put one link on your website, your Instagram bio, or your Google Business Profile. Requests arrive around the clock. You approve one, and it lands on the calendar.
You are not fielding "are you free Thursday?" texts at 9pm.
Quote to invoice to paid, in one line
Build a branded quote and send it before you're out of the driveway. Client approves it. One tap turns it into an invoice. They pay by card or ACH from the email.
No re-keying the same line items into a second tool. No chasing a bank transfer that never comes.
Reports your bookkeeper will accept
Revenue and jobs by date range. Employee pay ready to run. Export to CSV whenever your bookkeeper asks, without exporting your whole account.
Where Jobber is genuinely the better choice
We'd rather you picked correctly than picked us.
Choose Jobber if:
- You run mixed trades: cleaning plus handyman, restoration, or property maintenance. Jobber's job costing is built around parts and materials.
- You need deep equipment or inventory tracking.
- You have a large office team and want a mature app marketplace and integration ecosystem.
- You want phone support with dedicated onboarding sessions included.
Choose CleanDock if:
- Cleaning is the business, not one service line among several.
- Recurring clients are most of your revenue.
- You want photo proof attached to every job without bolting on a second app.
- You're a crew of one to ten and don't want to pay per head to add your sister-in-law for the summer.
Switching
Most people are up and running in an afternoon:
- Start the 14-day trial and add your recurring clients first. That's most of your revenue and it's the part that pays back immediately.
- Set the recurrences. This is the step where people realise how much of Sunday night they were spending.
- Run both tools for one billing cycle, then cancel the old one.
Your data exports anytime, so this isn't a one-way door.
Common questions
Is CleanDock actually cheaper than Jobber?
Once you have any team at all, yes, and the gap widens with every hire. Jobber charges $29/mo per additional person on every plan, including the discounted annual ones. Our Team plan covers five people for $49.99.
Can I take card payments?
Yes: card and ACH, and clients pay from the invoice email. QuickBooks sync is supported.
Does it work on a phone?
That's the primary way it's used. Cleaners clock in, shoot photos, and add notes from the jobsite. Owners quote from the driveway.
What if I have one employee today and five next year?
Single covers you now at $29.99. Team covers five at $49.99. Team+ removes the cap at $99.99. You're never paying per head.
Do I need a credit card to try it?
14-day free trial, cancel anytime, and your data exports whenever you want.
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Set up in an afternoon. Quote your first job tomorrow.