Pipe Daddy vs Jobber
Jobber is built wide. Plumbing and drain is built deep.
Jobber serves landscaping, cleaning, HVAC, and plumbing from one product, which means it's competent everywhere and specialised nowhere. We only do plumbing, drain, and sewer — so the things unique to this trade are in the product instead of on a roadmap.
Who Jobber is built for
Small home-service businesses across many trades.
Pricing model: Per-user tiers, with the higher plans holding the useful automation.
Jobber
Pipe Daddy
Fleet arrives through third-party GPS partners, priced by that vendor and separate from your seats.
Pipe DaddyFleet, DOT inspections, maintenance journal, and fuel capture inside the product, tied to the job.
No purchase orders or crew-level profitability.
Pipe DaddyPurchase orders, job costing, crew efficiency, surge pay.
Commission tracking is largely manual.
Pipe DaddyRules that fire on payment, with an approve-and-pay lifecycle.
No equipment leasing.
Pipe DaddyLease/sale toggle, lease agreements, and the recurring billing behind them — the water-heater and softener revenue line.
Multi-location is an upgrade path, not the shape of the product.
Pipe DaddySix roles per location, isolated per franchise, with a cross-org master view.
Where Jobber wins
Jobber is a well-built product with a bigger ecosystem and more integrations than we have. If you run mixed trades and plumbing is only part of it, that breadth is worth something real.
Common questions
Pipe Daddy and Jobber, answered
- How much does Pipe Daddy cost?
- Pipe Daddy is $500 a month plus $25 a user, with every module included. A 10 user shop is $750 a month. The price is published on the pricing page, there is no demo requirement to see it, billing is month to month with no multi-year lock-in, and you can export your data at any time.
- How is Pipe Daddy priced compared to Jobber?
- Both charge per user, so the difference is what a seat includes rather than whether you pay for one. Jobber uses per-user tiers, with the higher plans holding the useful automation. Pipe Daddy includes every module at $25 per user on top of the $500 platform fee, so there is no higher plan to reach for and no add-on to switch on later.
- Can I switch from Jobber to Pipe Daddy?
- Yes. Pipe Daddy migrates price book, customers, job history and recurring enrollments from Jobber, and you keep your existing system running until you trust the new one. There is no flag day where the business bets on a migration finishing overnight.
- What does Pipe Daddy include that Jobber does not?
- Fleet, DOT inspections, maintenance journal, and fuel capture inside the product, tied to the job. By comparison, fleet arrives through third-party GPS partners, priced by that vendor and separate from your seats. Pipe Daddy also ships purchase orders, job costing, crew efficiency, surge pay.
- When is Jobber the better choice?
- Jobber is a well-built product with a bigger ecosystem and more integrations than we have. If you run mixed trades and plumbing is only part of it, that breadth is worth something real.
Other comparisons
Switching off Jobber is a job we've done.
We move the price book, the customers, and the job history. You don't re-key a thing.