AllSquare wins at
- A fraction of the price (£5.99/mo vs £35+/mo starter)
- Minutes-to-first-invoice; Jobber requires onboarding and setup
- Built for the solo tradesperson, where Jobber is built around teams
AllSquare vs Jobber
A field-service suite for teams — pick AllSquare if you work solo and only need invoicing.
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Should a UK tradesperson use AllSquare or Jobber?
If you work alone and your only admin problem is invoicing, AllSquare does that job for a fraction of Jobber's price. If you schedule work across a team, dispatch crews or want customers to book online, Jobber is the right tool and AllSquare is not a substitute. Jobber includes quoting and invoicing, but most of what you pay for is scheduling and team workflow.
Jobber is a job scheduling, dispatch and invoicing suite popular with field-service teams (landscapers, cleaners, electricians with staff). If you dispatch work to crews or need customer scheduling, Jobber's your tool. For a one-person outfit who just needs to invoice, it's more than you need.
Pick AllSquare if
You're a sole trader or very small team (1–3 people) and your bottleneck is sending professional invoices quickly from site.
Pick Jobber if
You dispatch crews, need calendar scheduling, want customer self-booking, or are already past the "invoicing only" phase of running your business.
Is Jobber good for tradespeople?
Yes, for trades businesses with staff. Jobber is a field-service suite built around scheduling: a calendar of jobs, crew dispatch, customer self-booking, and quotes and invoices tied to each job. For a landscaping, cleaning or electrical business with several people out each day, that replaces a lot of phone calls, whiteboards and paper.
For a sole trader it's often more than you need. Plans run from around £35 to £150+ a month at the time of writing, depending on team size, and getting value from it means setting up your services, team and workflow. If your diary already lives in your phone's calendar and you just need to bill finished jobs, most of what you'd pay for would go unused.
A useful test: if you expect to take on your first employee in the next year, look seriously at Jobber. If you plan to stay solo, an invoicing app is likely enough — and you can move up to a job-management tool later if the business grows.
Where Jobber wins, and where AllSquare does
Jobber wins at
- Job scheduling with calendar + crew dispatch — AllSquare has nothing like this
- Customer self-booking portal
- Field service workflows built for teams of 2–20+
AllSquare vs Jobber: feature by feature
| Feature | AllSquare | Jobber |
|---|---|---|
| Core invoicing | Yes | Yes |
| Crew scheduling & dispatch | No | Yes — core feature |
| Customer self-booking | No | Yes |
| Team accounts / shared jobs | No | Yes |
| AI invoice drafting (voice or text) | Yes — optional | Check their current AI features |
| Starting price | £0 free tier, £5.99/mo Pro | ~£35/mo starter |
| Setup time | Minutes | Hours (onboarding, team setup, workflow design) |
| Best fit team size | 1–3 people | 2–20+ people |
Jobber pricing at the time of writing: £35–£150+/month depending on team size — check their site for current pricing. AllSquare: free tier, or Pro at £5.99/month or £49.99/year.
AllSquare or Jobber? Three UK trade scenarios
Best fit: AllSquare
A sole-trader electrician whose diary lives in the iPhone's calendar
With one person and one diary, there's nothing to dispatch. What's needed is a tidy estimate before the job and an invoice the moment it's finished — AllSquare's one-tap estimate-to-invoice and saved price list cover that for £5.99 a month or less.
Best fit: Jobber
A landscaping firm with three crews out each day
Deciding who goes where, letting customers book visits and tracking each job from quote to invoice across three crews is exactly what Jobber is for. AllSquare has no scheduling, dispatch or team features, so it can't run this business.
Best fit: AllSquare
A domestic cleaner with a regular round of weekly customers who book by text
Saved clients and a fixed price per visit make invoicing a regular round quick, and bookings by text don't need a portal. If the round grows to the point where you'd like customers to book online, or you take on staff, Jobber's self-booking and scheduling become worth a look.
Jobber vs AllSquare: what a sole trader pays in a year
Example: A one-person business that only needs quoting and invoicing, over twelve months.
| AllSquare | Jobber | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | £5.99 (Pro) | £35–£150+ depending on team size |
| 12 months, paying monthly | £71.88 | £420–£1,800+ |
| Annual option | £49.99 a year | Check Jobber's site |
For a sole trader, AllSquare Pro's annual plan is around £370 a year less than Jobber's lowest quoted price. For a team the comparison isn't meaningful — AllSquare has no team features — so the real question is whether Jobber's scheduling saves more time than it costs.
Jobber figures are the prices quoted on this page at the time of writing — check their site for current pricing.
Moving from Jobber to AllSquare
Moving from Jobber to AllSquare usually means you've decided you don't need job management any more — for example, you've gone back to working solo. There's no import, so:
- 1Make sure you won't miss scheduling. AllSquare has no calendar, dispatch, job tracking or team accounts, so decide where your diary will live — for one person, your phone's calendar is usually enough.
- 2Download your clients, quotes and invoices from Jobber before cancelling. Check Jobber's help pages for what can be exported.
- 3Set up AllSquare: business details, logo, VAT setting, and a price list built from the services you used to schedule in Jobber.
- 4Add your regular and recurring customers as saved clients so repeat invoices take seconds.
- 5Choose a cut-over date. Finish open jobs and outstanding invoices in Jobber, and raise everything new in AllSquare.
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Jobber alternative: common questions
Is there a cheaper alternative to Jobber for sole traders?
Yes, if you only need estimates and invoices. AllSquare is free for 2 invoices and 2 estimates a month, or £5.99 a month (£49.99 a year) for unlimited, against Jobber's £35–£150+ a month at the time of writing. It isn't a like-for-like replacement: AllSquare has no scheduling, dispatch or customer booking.
Does AllSquare do scheduling like Jobber?
No. AllSquare has no calendar, job scheduling, crew dispatch or customer self-booking. It's an invoicing and estimating app — if you need to schedule work, Jobber (or another job-management tool) is the right choice.
Can I use AllSquare with a team?
Not as a team tool. AllSquare has no team accounts, shared job lists or dispatch, so it suits a sole trader or a very small business where one person does the invoicing. Teams of two or more people out on jobs are better served by Jobber.
Can I import my Jobber data into AllSquare?
No — AllSquare has no import from Jobber. Download your clients and invoice history from Jobber before you cancel, then add your active clients and price list in AllSquare.
Does AllSquare handle UK VAT?
Yes. AllSquare supports UK VAT on invoices and estimates, so VAT-registered traders can show VAT on their branded PDFs. You only have to register for VAT once your taxable turnover goes over £90,000 (the threshold since 1 April 2024); below that you can invoice without VAT. AllSquare doesn't submit VAT returns — that stays with your accountant or your accounting software.
Try AllSquare before you decide
Free to download, free to use for your first invoices and estimates. No sign-up card required.