The Jobber alternative priced in pounds, not dollars
OptiTech Automation vs Jobber. Jobber publishes its pricing in US dollars on its own site. OptiTech Automation is the Jobber alternative built in the UK and priced in pounds, with the deposit taken automatically at booking.
| Feature | Jobber | OptiTech Automation |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Jobber publishes its pricing in US dollars on its own site (Verified August 2026) | Published in pounds: £599 a month up to fifteen on the tools, not per user, plus £249 setup |
| How work arrives | Requests, quotes and invoices | Customer self-books online, deposit taken at booking |
| Deposit at booking | Payment tools within its quoting flow | Taken automatically at the moment of booking, into your own Stripe account |
| UK GDPR / ICO | Global product from a North American company | UK GDPR compliant, ICO registered, EU-hosted |
| Who answers | A support team | The founder, one accountable person, every email |
The price, in the open
Jobber
Jobber publishes its pricing openly, which we respect, and it publishes its pricing in US dollars on its own site. Verified August 2026.
OptiTech Automation
Standard is £599 a month plus £249 setup, published in pounds, covering up to fifteen on the tools. Growth is £1,749 to thirty, published too. Hiring inside your band does not move the bill.
The number on our pricing page is the number the decision gets made on. No currency conversion, no per-seat arithmetic.
Pounds on the page
Jobber deserves credit for showing its prices at all, because most of this market hides them. But Jobber publishes its pricing in US dollars on its own site, verified August 2026. Ours is in pounds, because our customers are UK trade businesses and nobody else.
Pricing is only the visible part. UK GDPR handling, ICO registration, EU hosting and two-way Xero sync are the parts you feel later, when the accountant or the regulator asks.
Request-first against booking-first
Jobber is built around requests, quotes and invoices, a polished version of the classic flow. Work arrives as an enquiry and your office turns it into a job.
OptiTech Automation starts one step earlier. The customer books a real slot on your page and pays a deposit at that moment, by card, into your own Stripe account. The money never touches OptiTech Automation. The job arrives confirmed and part-paid instead of arriving as a task.
The honest maths
At Jobber’s published rates, a small team can pay less per month than our £599, and we would rather say that plainly than bury it. If you are two people and the quote-first flow suits how you sell, the per-seat sum may win.
What the £599 buys is a different machine: the booking page, automatic deposits at booking, auto-dispatch to the right worker, the offline-first worker app and Xero two-way sync, for up to fifteen on the tools, with Growth at £1,749 published for bigger teams. Run your own numbers in the worth-it calculator, it takes about two minutes.
One founder, not a ticket queue
OptiTech Automation is run by one accountable UK founder, a sole trader who answers every email personally. That is either a feature or a risk depending on what you value. We think an owner-run trade business deserves an owner-run software company.
Everything is on 30-day rolling terms with no exit fees, and your card is authorised at signup but not charged until you go live.
Who should stay where
Stay with Jobber if
- You are in North America, where Jobber is at home.
- You are a small crew where per-seat pricing genuinely costs less, and quote-first suits how you sell.
- You want a large public company behind your software rather than a single founder.
Move to OptiTech Automation if
- You want the deposit taken automatically at booking, into your own Stripe account.
- You are a UK business and want UK GDPR, ICO registration, EU hosting and pounds on the page.
- You would rather have two published plan prices than a per-seat meter that changes with every hire.
Questions owners ask about switching from Jobber
Jobber is built in North America and publishes its pricing in US dollars. OptiTech Automation is built in the UK for UK trades: pounds on the page, UK GDPR, ICO registered, the deposit taken automatically at booking, and two-way Xero sync.
Yes. Jobber publishes its pricing openly, which we respect, and it publishes its pricing in US dollars on its own site (Verified August 2026). OptiTech Automation prices in pounds: £599 a month plus £249 setup for up to fifteen on the tools, so the figure on the page is the figure the decision is made on.
Yes. Xero sync is two-way: a draft invoice is created when a job completes and syncs to your Xero. The deposit is taken earlier, at booking, by card, straight into your own Stripe account.
Not always, and we will not pretend otherwise. At Jobber’s published rates a small team can pay less than £599 a month. Our price is per plan: it does not grow per seat inside your band, and it includes the booking page, automatic deposits, auto-dispatch, the worker app and Xero sync. Run your own numbers on the worth-it calculator.
Yes. Export your customer and job data from Jobber, import it here. Most trades complete migration within a working day, and we help for free.
See the numbers for yourself
Our pricing is public, the worth-it calculator does your own sums in about two minutes, and the call is 15 minutes with the founder, not a sales team.