Jobber for plumbing shops: 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 plumbing shops, 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 plumbing shops run, on either system.
01
Emergency call-outs
Any hour. The call becomes a job with the address, the history, and whoever is on call, not a voicemail to decode at 6 a.m.
02
Service routes
Drains, fixtures, repairs. The day’s route lives on the board, not on a whiteboard photographed at 7 a.m.
03
Install jobs
Water heaters and repipes, quoted from the book, scheduled around the service day instead of against it.
The difference
Jobber beside Thorbis, for plumbing shops.
Row
Jobber
Thorbis
Who this is for
Growing home-service teams that schedule more than they dispatch.
plumbing shops: emergency call-outs, service routes, and install jobs.
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 plumbing day on one board the office runs and the trucks read.
The old way
What the whiteboard costs plumbing shops.
The 2 a.m. call goes to a competitor
An emergency without a clear answer and an ETA calls the next name in the search results.
The quote takes the evening
Techs rebuild the same water-heater quote by hand instead of pulling it from a book.
The invoice waits for the office
Work finished Tuesday gets billed Friday and paid whenever. Collect in the driveway instead.
Straight answers
What plumbing shops ask about the switch.
What does Thorbis cost for plumbing shops, 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 →
Plumbing against the rest of the field
Thorbis vs Jobber for other trades
Start
One board for plumbing shops. 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.