Breezeworks vs Jobber vs Housecall Pro

To help you in your search, we took a detailed look behind the curtain of three platforms and evaluated the setup process, features, mobile app, pricing, and reviews to show you how they stack up.

We’ve included a chart below to give you a quick overview to compare. To take a deeper dive into the details, we have full descriptions below along with screenshots from each platform so you can see what Breezeworks, Jobber and Housecall Pro look like from the inside.

Setup

Setup is important because every platform has a learning curve. Generally, there are two approaches companies take for setup:

1. The first approach is front-loaded. You to do the heavy lifting upfront to set up integrations, add employees, and import customers. Then you start using the platform to schedule your first job. (Breezeworks takes this approach).

2. The second approach is reversed. First, you do a quick basic setup, then you jump into the app to schedule your first job right away. After that, you can setup other features and integrations as you see fit. (Both Housecall Pro and Jobber take this second approach).

The setup process is illustrated below with screenshots so you can see them step-by-step.

Housecall Pro, Jobber, and Breezeworks all have a 14-day free trial and no credit card is necessary to sign up.

Housecall Pro Setup

Housecall Pro has a five-step basic setup process. To turn on additional features go to the “My Apps” in the web portal.

First, sign up for an account by entering your email address on the mobile app or computer.

Then, select your industry:

Next, select your business size

Then, enter your business address:

Then, enter your business name and phone number:

Then, enter your name and password:

Once you’re in the app click the blue “New” button to schedule your first job:

To connect your Quickbooks Online or setup other features like email/postcard marketing or text notifications, login from the computer and go to “My Apps” tab at the top of the screen.

The web portal has six tabs: dashboard, schedule, customers, map, my apps, and my money. Included are screenshots of the dashboard, schedule, and customer tab.

Jobber Setup

Jobber has a two-step set up before you can start scheduling jobs on the app.

First, you sign up for an account by entering your name, company name, email, and password.

Then you enter a phone number, years in business, how you found Jobber, company size, role in the company, and your industry.

After you finish the setup, click the green action button on the top right to schedule your first job.

Jobber’s web portal has six tabs and twelve sub-tabs on the left side of the screen that includes the dashboard, calendar, clients, work, reports, and timesheet.

Below are some screenshots of the dashboard, calendar, and the client's tab.

Breezeworks Setup

Breezeworks’s setup is a twelve step process but you can skip steps and enter additional information later.

First, you sign up for an account by entering your first and last name, email address, password, mobile phone, and referral code if you have one.

Then you enter your company name, industry, address, role, business size and logo.

Next, there are ten steps to get your company logo, add additional team members, import google contacts, link Quickbooks Online, link Tsheets, save lead sources to track, setup job tags, link or create your Square account, add boilerplate text for estimates/invoices, and enable online payments. Along the way, you can skip any of these steps and revisit.

Once you’re done with the initial setup, go to the “schedule” tab on the left and click the red “new job” button at the top right of the screen to schedule your first job.

Breezeworks’s web portal is organized in eleven tabs at the left of the screen that include: dashboard, schedule, service requests, notes, customers, estimates, payments, automations, forms, team map, and activity. Included below are screenshots of the dashboard, schedule, and customers tab.

Mobile App

Housecall Pro

Housecall Pro’s mobile app is organized with five tabs at the bottom: dashboard, schedule, messages, customers, and more. The mobile app gives you access to your customer history/database, invoices, estimates, and jobs. It’s designed to be used out in the field so to setup additional features, you need to use the web portal.

Jobber

Jobber’s mobile app is a simple version of the web portal for you to use out in the field. It’s organized in three tabs with your schedule, clients, and the timesheet. The plus button at the bottom right allows you to add a new task, quote, job, expense, or client. For other features or to see things in more detail, log in on the web portal.

Breezeworks

Breezeworks’ mobile app has five tabs for your schedule, notes, customer, estimates, and payments. At any point, click the plus button to add a new job, note, customer, estimate, invoice or payment.

Features

Housecall Pro, Jobber, and Breezeworks all cover scheduling, estimates/quotes, invoicing, and payments. Big differences include integrations and additional feature sets.

Jobber focuses their features ongoing deep into organizing your operations as well as helping you manage and run your service business.

Housecall Pro’s set of features takes a wider approach to help you manage your day-to-day tasks and to grow revenue.

Breezeworks takes a unique approach by offering Tsheets integration as well as allowing you to customize and automate your communication with customers.

Housecall Pro Features

Housecall Pro has a wide range of features that cover multiple areas of your business to streamline and save time, but also grow revenue, give your customers a great experience, and manage your money.

Housecall Pro’s features include: scheduling, dispatching, estimating, invoicing, time tracking and timesheets, customizable text notifications, email/postcard marketing, reviews, online booking, employee GPS tracking, service agreements, reporting, payment processing, instapay and integration with Quickbooks Online for accounting.

Other integrations include: Convert, NiceJob, Broadly, Google Calendar, Zapier, Fundbox, and Yelp. Features coming soon include employee expense cards and a few other integrations.

Pros: Housecall Pro’s is easy to learn and use. There are many features to help you grow revenue including online booking, postcard/email automation, and reviews.

The marketing features such as online booking, reviews, postcard/email automation are all useful features to help you grow more business online and to build better relationships with customers and get more repeat business. Housecall Pro also integrates with a lot of companies that specialize in different services such as website building, generating reviews, business lending, and even Yelp.

Cons: Housecall Pro only operates in the US/Canada. Some features we lack include: custom forms/templates, job costing, inventory tracking, chemical tracking, and equipment management. The only accounting software we integrate with is Quickbooks Online.

Jobber Features

Jobber focuses on keeping your business organized and impressing your customers.

Jobbers major features include: scheduling, dispatching, quoting/invoicing, client manager, reporting, client hub, QBO, and XERO integration, expense tracking, time tracking and timesheets, routing, GPS tracking, customer reminders/follow up, and chemical tracking.

Pros: Jobber does customization and tracking well. They have custom forms/fields for quotes, invoices, customer information, property information and various tracking mechanisms for expenses, chemicals, and time tracking.

Cons: Jobber does not have a lot of features to help you directly grow and expand the business. The work requests from client hub is set up to make it easier for customers to request work from you again. Faster payments help with cash flow and reporting gives you insight on your business. These features might help with your business growth indirectly, but do not contribute to finding new customers.

Breezeworks Features

Breezeworks’s major features include: scheduling, invoicing, payments with Square, customer work requests, GPS tracking, customer database, and custom automated email and text reminders/follow-ups and Tsheets and QBO integration.

Pros: Custom email/text automations allow you to set up automated communication with customers to follow up after estimates are sent, invoices are past due, after jobs are complete, or if the previous job was over a certain length. Custom forms with signatures, uploaded photos, checkboxes, and other fields allow you to create a variety of forms.

Cons: Besides Tsheets integration and the flexibility of the custom email/texts, Breezeworks lacks the level of capabilities that the other two competitors have.

Pricing

Housecall Pro, Jobber, and Breezeworks’ pricing all varies based on users and features.

Housecall Pro Pricing

Housecall Pro’s pricing starts at $39/month for the Simple plan, $107/month for the Modern plan, and goes up to $199/month for the advanced plan if paid annually. Each plan varies in pricing and additional users.

Monthly plan pricing is increased by 20% and pricing ranges from $49/month up to $249/month.

Jobber Pricing

Jobber’s pricing starts at $78/month and goes up to $291/month, if paid month-to-month with no contract. Pricing varies based on users and features. They also have a Lite Plan starting at $22/month.

If you pay annually, you save 13% and pricing starts at $69/month up to $259/month. Or $19/month for the Lite Plan.

Breezeworks Pricing

Pricing for Breezeworks starts at $31.99/month for 1 user and goes from there depending on the number of users. For two or more users it’s $41.99/month + $14.99/month for each user if paid monthly. Annual plans give you 20% off the monthly price. For larger companies, there’s an Enterprise plan with quarterly reporting, custom integrations, and personalized training.

Reviews

Housecall Pro Reviews

• Capterra - 4.5 with 1533 Reviews

• Get App - 4.72 with 1536 Reviews

• Software Advice - 4.72 with 1535 reviews

• G2 Crowd - 4.5 with 74 reviews

• iOS App Store - 4.4 819 reviews

• Android Google Play Store - 4.2 689 reviews

Jobber Reviews

• Capterra - 4.5 496 with reviews

• Get App - 4.59 with 496 reviews

• Software Advice - 4.59 with 496 reviews

• G2 Crowd - 4.1 with 79 reviews

• iOS App Store - 3.5 53 reviews

• Android Google Play Store - 3.7 397 reviews

Breezeworks Reviews

• Capterra - 5 with 25 reviews

• Get App - N/A

• Software Advice - 4.8 with 25 Reviews

• G2 Crowd - 3.5 with 1 review

• iOS App Store - 4.3 42 reviews

• Android Google Play Store - 4.4 201 reviews

Summary

Housecall Pro gives you a well-rounded set of features that are user-friendly and easy to learn. The main benefits help you streamline and organize to save time, grow revenue, manage your money better, and give your customer an excellent experience. If you’re looking to improve multiple fronts with one software, then Housecall Pro might be your best option.

Jobber provides many tools to organize and streamline your service business. What makes these tools different than the ones from Housecall Pro and Breezeworks are the options to customize forms/fields and processes. If you need that extra customizability but do not mind spending more effort on the setup, then Jobber might be what you’re looking for.

Breezeworks focuses on helping you manage and organize your business. If you’re married to Square or Tsheets and need software to integrate those directly, then Breezeworks might be the easier option to add to your toolkit.