Jobber for HVAC contractors: a calendar with seats, or a board without them.
Jobber is a good calendar with a published price and a seat for every extra person. For HVAC contractors, Thorbis is a dispatch board rather than a calendar, one posted price for the company, and a crew that is never a seat count.
Jobber · their model
The calendar
- From $49 / month · $29 per extra person
- Published tiers. Seats. Core, Connect, Grow, Plus.
- Growing home-service teams that schedule more than they dispatch.
Thorbis · posted
$99
- Per company, per month.
- Unlimited people. Jobs are never metered.
- Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
The work
The days HVAC contractors run, on either system.
01
Seasonal
Maintenance plans generate the tune-up visits, renew on stored cards, and carry a checklist for the system type.
02
Service
No cool, no heat. Urgency first, the nearest truck next, and the customer texted an ETA.
03
Install
Changeouts and new construction tracked across their days: crews, equipment, and permits on the same record as the service board.
The difference
Jobber beside Thorbis, for HVAC contractors.
Row
Jobber
Thorbis
Who this is for
Growing home-service teams that schedule more than they dispatch.
HVAC contractors: seasonal, service, and install.
The price
From $49 / month · $29 per extra person
$99 per company, posted. Unlimited people.
The model
Published tiers. Seats. Core, Connect, Grow, Plus.
One posted price. Every usage rate posted beside it.
The board
A good calendar. Dispatch is not a calendar.
The HVAC day on one board the office runs and the trucks read.
The old way
What the whiteboard costs HVAC contractors.
Two seasons overload one board
Summer and winter peaks bury dispatch while install crews compete for the same trucks.
Renewals slip
Maintenance agreements lapse quietly when renewal is a spreadsheet column somebody forgets.
The paperwork exposure
Refrigerant logs, warranty registrations, and rebates left incomplete are an audit risk and lost money.
Straight answers
What HVAC contractors ask about the switch.
What does Thorbis cost for HVAC contractors, next to Jobber?
Jobber: From $49 / month · $29 per extra person. Thorbis: $99 per company per month, unlimited people, every module as it releases. Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
Can we bring our Jobber records?
CSV or API. What comes over: customers, properties, jobs, invoices, payments. Requests and quotes map. We do not invent approved.
Is this comparison current?
The Jobber side is read from its own pricing page or from what shops report, as of August 2026, and it says which. If Jobber changes its model, this page is wrong until it is updated, and we would rather you check than trust a stale row.
The whole migration, step by step: switching from Jobber →
HVAC against the rest of the field
Thorbis vs Jobber for other trades
Start
One board for HVAC contractors. One posted price.
$99 per company, unlimited people, and every usage rate posted beside it. No second conversation.
Coming from Jobber? We’ll extract your records.
Rather talk first? Email the team.