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This calculator vs. Jobber
Two different shapes: Jobber is account-based field-service software for running a plumbing or drain-cleaning business across clients, scheduling, and crews. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this sewer camera, cable, or hydro-jet job cost, given its footage and access, before you quote it.
What each tool is for
Jobber is field-service management software founded in 2011 and headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, used by home-service businesses across HVAC, plumbing, electrical, lawn care, and cleaning trades. It combines client management, quoting, scheduling, invoicing, and payment collection into one subscription system meant to run a whole business across every job and every crew, and it says it serves over 200,000 users. It is sold as an ongoing subscription account. Jobber's own pricing page is not reachable from this session to confirm today's exact plan names or dollar figures, so no price for it is invented here: only its well-documented identity and category — home-service field-service management software, sold as a subscription account — are stated, and no dollar amount for Jobber appears on this page.
This calculator does none of what Jobber does. It does not manage clients, schedule crews, send invoices, or collect payments, and it stores no customer or job record on a server. It takes the work type (camera, cable, hydro-jet, or a combo pass), line footage past the included run, access method (existing cleanout, toilet pull, new cleanout, or roof vent), roots, grease, hose run from the truck, and a second line, plus loaded wage, overhead, and target margin, and turns that into the walk-away price below which the job loses money, the hour split between the trip, the machine pass, extra footage, and access, and a copyable customer-facing bid summary — plus a printable customer proposal with scope lines and a signature block. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I run a plumbing or drain-cleaning business and need client management, quoting, scheduling, invoicing, and payments in one system across every crew and every job. | Jobber, or a comparable field-service platform — running a whole business is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this job, given its footage, access, and whether it needs roots cut or a grease pass? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| How much does a toilet pull, a new cleanout, or 100 extra feet of main actually add over the flat published "drain special" rate? | This calculator's access, footage, and condition line items, not a blended trip charge. |
| Is the price I'm about to quote still above my walk-away cost for this job? | This calculator's walk-away price check. |
| I need one shared account so my whole crew is scheduling, invoicing, and collecting payment the same way. | Jobber, or a comparable field-service platform. |
| How does the math behind a hydro-jet or sewer camera bid actually work? | This calculator's own pricing walkthrough. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. Jobber is used through a subscription account. |
Most plumbing and drain-cleaning shops get different value from each: Jobber (or a comparable field-service platform) for running client management, scheduling, invoicing, and payments across a whole business as an ongoing subscription, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login answer to what one job should cost from its footage and access before a business system is involved. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a scheduled job, an invoice, or a signed proposal, and neither this calculator nor Jobber is a plumbing specification, a permit, or an engineering stamp.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
Common questions
Should I use this calculator or Jobber?
They do different jobs, and a drain-cleaning or plumbing shop of any size will likely end up touching both eventually. Jobber is field-service management software founded in 2011 and headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, used by home-service businesses across HVAC, plumbing, electrical, lawn care, and cleaning trades. It combines client management, quoting, scheduling, invoicing, and payment collection into one subscription system, and it says it serves over 200,000 users. It is sold as an ongoing subscription account. Jobber's own pricing page is not reachable from this session to confirm today's exact plan names or dollar figures, so no price for it is invented here: only its well-documented identity and category — home-service field-service management software, sold as a subscription account — are stated, and no dollar amount for Jobber appears on this page. This calculator does one narrower thing: starting from work type (camera, cable, hydro-jet, or a combo pass), line footage past the included run, access method, roots, grease, hose run from the truck, and a second line, plus loaded wage, overhead, and target margin, it turns that into the walk-away price and where the bid's cost is actually coming from, plus a printable customer proposal — before any of it touches a business-management system. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A drain-cleaning or plumbing shop that already manages clients, scheduling, invoicing, and payments across every job and every crew is better served by Jobber or a comparable field-service platform; a shop that wants an instant, private answer to what one sewer or drain job should cost from its footage and access before opening a business system is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with Jobber?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Jobber. Jobber is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
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