DropHaul vs Jobber
Jobber is an easy, well-loved tool for home-service visits. DropHaul is built for portable sanitation, with unit inventory and QR scanning, route optimization on mobile and web, AutoShare, and no per-seat fees.
DropHaul
Portable sanitation software
Free plan, then $149 / $299 / $599 per month. Flat per tier with no per-seat fees; trucks, units, and team members are capped by tier (2, 10, and 25 trucks).
Jobber
Field service software
Published: from $49 per month for one user on Core (monthly), rising with plan and users; extra users are $29 per month. 14-day trial.
Reviewed by the DropHaul team on , using Jobber’s own published materials.
How Jobber and DropHaul differ
Jobber is popular, highly rated home-service software for quoting, scheduling, invoicing, and client communication. It has no native unit inventory; its community staff suggest custom fields or third-party apps for tracking equipment. DropHaul is built for portable sanitation, with QR unit tracking, delivery, service, swap, and pickup workflows, route optimization, AutoShare across 13 events, and flat pricing with no per-seat fees.
Choose Jobber if
Small home-service businesses that quote, schedule, and invoice visits and do not need to track rental units.
- You run home-service visits and do not rent units that stay on site.
- You want the simplest possible start with one user.
Choose DropHaul if
Portable sanitation operators who want to see the price up front, run crews from a native app that works offline, and keep customers updated without office typing.
- You need to know where every restroom, trailer, and hand-wash station is.
- Your crew is growing and per-user pricing is adding up.
- You want automatic customer updates and two-way texting without jumping to a top tier.
Feature by feature
- YesYes
- PartialPartial
- NoNo
- Not documentedNot documented
| Capability | DropHaul | Jobber |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Yes: Published: free plan, then $149 / $299 / $599 per month | Yes: From $49/mo for 1 user; $29 per extra user |
| Contract and trial | Yes: No contract or required setup fee; 14-day trial on paid plans | Yes: Monthly plans cancel anytime; 14-day trial |
| Built for portable sanitation | Yes: Yes, built only for portable sanitation | No: Home and commercial services; portable sanitation not listed |
| Unit tracking with QR or barcode scans | Yes: QR and barcode scanning for every unit (Pro and up) | No: No native unit inventory; community suggests custom fields |
| Route optimization | Yes: Road-aware optimization with monthly credits (Starter and up) | Partial: Connect and up, web only |
| Native mobile app | Yes: Native iPhone, iPad, and iPhone Duo app; Android coming soon | Yes: iPhone, iPad, and Android |
| Offline driver app | Yes: Full driver workflow without signal; syncs on reconnect | Partial: Since March 2026: job forms, visit details, notes, time |
| Automatic customer updates across the job | Yes: AutoShare texts or emails customers automatically from quote to payment (Pro and up) | Partial: Reminders, "on my way" texts, quote and invoice follow-ups |
| Two-way customer texting | Yes: Threaded SMS and email chat from your own number (Pro and up) | Partial: Two-way texting on Grow ($199+/mo) |
| QuickBooks Online | Yes: Invoice push on Starter; two-way sync on Pro and up | Yes: QuickBooks Online on Connect and up |
| Telematics and fuel cards | Yes: Samsara, Motive, Geotab, Verizon Connect (1 on Pro, all four on Fleet); WEX and Fuelman on Fleet | Not documented: Not documented |
| Official MCP server for AI assistants | Yes: Official MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants | Not documented: No official server documented; community-built only |
“Not documented” means we couldn’t find it in Jobber’s public materials, not that it doesn’t exist.
What Jobber does well
- Very easy to learn, with a 4.8-star App Store rating from more than 21,000 reviews (October 2026).
- Strong quoting, invoicing, payments, and a polished Client Hub.
- Transparent pricing, a free trial, and a large app marketplace.
- An active AI roadmap, including Jobber AI and an AI receptionist add-on.
Why operators switch to DropHaul
- Know which unit is on which site
- DropHaul tracks every restroom by QR or barcode from yard to site and back. Jobber has no native inventory or equipment tracking for rental units.
- Optimized routes in the driver’s hand
- DropHaul optimizes routes in dispatch and puts the ordered route in the driver app. Jobber’s route optimization is on Connect and up and runs on the web only.
- Flat price, no per-seat fees
- Jobber charges by user, and two-way texting starts on Grow at $199 per month. DropHaul has no per-seat fees, and two-way texting is included from Pro.
- AutoShare across the whole job
- Jobber sends reminders, on-my-way texts, and follow-ups. AutoShare adds driver arrived, service completed, payment, refund, and unit swap events, with per-event channels and per-customer overrides.
- Built for trucks, fuel, and yards
- DropHaul connects telematics and fuel cards and supports multiple yards. Jobber does not document fleet, telematics, or fuel-card features.
AutoShare tells customers before they call
Customers get a text or email when their service is scheduled, when the driver is on the way, when the job is done, and when the invoice goes out. Your office stops fielding “is the unit coming?” calls, and you choose how each customer hears from you. Included on Pro, Fleet, and Enterprise plans.
See AutoShare- Driver en route · Wed 7:41 AMRivera Sanitation: Hi Dana, Marcus is on the way to Oakridge Phase 2 and expects to arrive 8:00–8:30 AM.
- Service completed · Wed 8:19 AMRivera Sanitation: Hi Dana, your service at Oakridge Phase 2 is complete.
Leaving Jobber? Bring everything with you.
Most owners move over on their own with the built-in importer. If you’d rather hand it off, Switch & Setup is our hands-on migration: we bring your data over, set DropHaul up the way you run, and train your crew at a competitive rate, usually in a day to a few weeks.
We work from Excel, Google Sheets, CSV and TSV exports, PDF route sheets and invoices, Desktop software, or another dispatch tool.
Pickup. We collect what you have
Spreadsheets, exports from your current software, even PDF route sheets. Messy is fine.
Service. We set DropHaul up
Customers, sites, units, and jobs land in the right fields, and DropHaul is configured around how you already run.
Drop. Your crew goes live
We walk the office and drivers through it, then review your first routes with you.
What Switch & Setup covers
- Migration
- Customers, contacts, sites, units, trucks, jobs, and open invoices moved over and checked for duplicates and gaps.
- Configuration
- Yards, trucks, service schedules, pricing, and AutoShare set up to match how your operation works today.
- Training
- Your office learns dispatch and billing; your drivers learn the iPhone app they will carry every day.
- Go-live support
- We plan the cutover with you and review the first routes, with an on-site setup day available.
Doing it yourself
The importer reads PDF, CSV, TSV, and Excel. Match columns, fix flagged rows, review, and import across 12 record types, from customers, contacts, job sites, units to fuel entries.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sources
Accessed October 25, 2026.
- Jobber pricing (opens in a new tab)
- Jobber industries (opens in a new tab)
- Jobber route optimization (opens in a new tab)
- Jobber offline mode update (opens in a new tab)
- Jobber customer communication (opens in a new tab)
- Jobber community: inventory management (opens in a new tab)
Competitor information comes from each vendor’s public website, help center, pricing page, and app store listings as of October 25, 2026, and may have changed. “Not documented” means we could not find the capability in the vendor’s public materials, not that it does not exist. Trademarks belong to their owners. Spot something out of date? Email hello@drophaul.app and we will correct it.
Ready to switch?
Create your account, then bring DropHaul with you on iPhone. No credit card required.