Portara vs. Jobber
Jobber is built to dispatch service calls.Portara is built to manage changing jobs.
Send quotes or estimates
Collect approvals and deposits
Send invoices and take online payments
Set up progress invoices and payment schedules
Plan requirements may apply.
Keep customer and job records
Add products, services, and labor to a job
Schedule employees and check for conflicts
Track employee time by job
Approve timesheets for payroll
Track job expenses and profitability
Keep notes, photos, videos, and files with the work
Scan supplier documents and attach the expense to a job
Plan requirements may apply.
Pay one price for your whole team
Portara Teams is $1,020 a year with unlimited users.
Get every feature on the team plan without upgrading
Jobber puts many features on Grow and Plus. Plus renews at $4,788 a year for five users after the current promotion.
Built for organizers, stagers, designers, planners, stylists, caterers, and other non-trade service businesses
Let employees submit the days and times they are available
Send work offers that employees can accept or decline
Send the crew an automatic briefing with the latest job details
See how much of every item on the job has been invoiced
Easily see what remains to be invoiced after the job changes
Show all job invoices, payments, refunds, and the remaining balance together
Include the complete running job balance on every invoice
Make a purchasing list from the products required by the job
Subtract stock on hand from what the job requires
Track stock across storage, jobs, pickups, and returns
Scan a receipt and assign individual line items to the job
Portara is a standalone product for running jobs, employees, purchasing, inventory, billing, and payments. Jobber features depend on the plan you use.
Run the whole job in one place.
Keep changing scope, crew, purchasing, stock, invoices, payments, notes, and time together.
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