The Jobber alternative priced in pounds, not dollars

The price, in three lines

Standard is £599 a month, covering up to fifteen on the tools.

The one-off Onboarding Investment on Standard is £249. The first ten firms pay no Onboarding Investment, on any Stage.

Your card is authorised when you confirm your setup. Nothing is charged until you are live, after our review.

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 14 September 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 VAT-correct invoices 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 worker app that stays readable when signal drops and invoices raised on completion, 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. A named person stands behind your support, you can always reach a real human, and Cristian is answerable for the answer you get. 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 when you confirm your setup but not charged until you go live.

What they have that we do not

On price, the section above already says it: at Jobber’s published rates a small team can pay less a month than our £599, and Jobber publishes in US dollars on its own site (Verified 14 September 2026). A rate per seat is the lower bill at the small end, which is what per-seat pricing is for.

On features, we have not re-read Jobber’s own pages on a date we could stamp here, so this block will not tell you what they do or do not carry. Where their site shows an accounting integration, a certificate generator or a free trial today, take each of those as a real gap on our side, because all three are missing from ours.

We have no accounting integration. Nothing of ours syncs to Xero, QuickBooks or Sage, and nothing here should be read as a hint that one is coming. Invoices are raised and emailed when a job completes and your records export as CSV, so the figures reach your books by hand or by import.

We do not generate compliance certificates. Your Gas Safe registered engineer or your qualified electrician issues the CP12, the EICR or the minor works certificate exactly as they do now, and what we keep is the document, the job record and the renewal date.

We run no free trial. What you get instead is a demo with the founder and a subscription that is not charged until you go live: the card is authorised when you confirm your setup and nothing is taken until your systems are running.