Love Invoicing vs Jobber UK (2026): Which Is Better for Tradespeople?

Love Invoicing vs Jobber: Which Job Management Software Is Better for UK Tradespeople?

Jobber is one of the largest names in home-service and field-service software.

Its platform connects customers, quotes, jobs, scheduling, workers, invoices and payments. Jobber says more than 100,000 businesses use the platform and that Jobber-powered businesses have completed more than 92 million jobs.

So why would a plumber, electrician, builder, roofer or other UK trade business consider Love Invoicing instead?

Because the biggest product is not automatically the best product for every business.

Love Invoicing approaches trade-business software from a particularly UK-focused perspective.

The core workflow is:

Customer → Quote → Job → Team → Navigate → Track → Proof of Work → Invoice → Payment

But Love Invoicing extends beyond that into:

customer statements

partial payments

payroll exports

contractor payments

worker performance

job profitability

inventory

delivery management

and:

UK VAT and CIS workflows

It also separates the business owner and field worker into two connected applications:

Love Invoicing

and:

Love Invoicing Team

For a UK trade business, that creates a very different proposition to Jobber.

Quick verdict: Love Invoicing vs Jobber

For the UK sole trader or small-to-medium field team, Love Invoicing has an exceptionally strong overall proposition if the priority is actually running jobs rather than buying a broader marketing and automation ecosystem.

Love Invoicing is particularly strong for businesses wanting:

• separate owner and field-worker applications
• job scheduling
• single-day jobs
• multi-day jobs
• repeat jobs
• team availability
• team assignment
• live GPS tracking
• navigation from the job
• GPS-backed proof of work
• Job Report PDFs
• quotes and quote follow-up
• lost and accepted quote tracking
• customer financial visibility
• customer statements
• mobile invoicing
• partial-payment tracking
• detailed payment history
• Take Payment
• Record Payment
• connected Stripe payments
• Tap to Pay on supported devices
• employee payroll export
• contractor-payment reporting
• job-profitability reporting
• worker-performance reporting
• built-in inventory
• delivery management
• UK VAT
• UK CIS
• web, iOS, Android and tablet use
• straightforward UK pricing

Jobber is particularly strong for businesses wanting:

• automated quote follow-ups
• automated invoice reminders
• online customer booking
• client portal
• advanced quote presentation
• deposits
• sophisticated timesheets
• location timers
• deep job costing
• Xero integration
• broader app integrations
• QuickBooks connectivity where supported
• AI Voice and AI Chat
• marketing tools
• Google Business Profile booking
• automated communication
• extensive CRM functionality

Jobber's current feature set confirms sophisticated quoting, scheduling, GPS tracking, timesheets, automated communications, payments, profitability and integrations.

So this is not:

good software vs bad software.

It is:

a broad, mature North American-origin field-service platform versus a highly focused UK trade-business platform with a different architecture, pricing model and feature emphasis.

Love Invoicing is built around the complete working day

Love Invoicing should not be understood as simply an invoice app.

Its working model is closer to a business command centre for trades.

A customer enters the system.

A quotation is created.

The quotation is sent.

If the customer has not replied, the quote remains visible as Awaiting Response.

The business can send a reminder.

If the customer proceeds, the quotation becomes Accepted.

If they do not proceed, it can become Lost without deleting the business history.

Accepted work can then become:

Create Job

or:

Create Invoice

If it becomes a job, Love Invoicing can then handle:

Schedule

→ Check Team Availability

→ Assign Worker

→ Notify Worker

→ Navigate

→ Start

→ Track Progress

→ Capture Evidence

→ Complete

→ Create Job Report

→ Invoice

→ Take or Record Payment

That continuity is one of Love Invoicing's strongest advantages

Love Invoicing vs Jobber for job management

Jobber is strong at job management.

Its current system connects a job with the customer, schedule, assigned workers, products and services, labour and invoicing. Jobber separates the overall job from individual visits, which can be useful for work involving multiple appointments.

Love Invoicing uses a very trade-friendly job model.

Businesses can create:

Single-Day Jobs

Suitable for work such as:

• boiler repairs
• leaking pipes
• electrical call-outs
• servicing
• inspections
• small installations

Multi-Day Jobs / Block Bookings

Suitable for:

• bathroom renovations
• rewires
• larger boiler installations
• roofing work
• building projects
• longer maintenance jobs

Repeat Jobs

Suitable for:

• servicing
• maintenance
• inspections
• recurring contract work

The business therefore does not have to force every type of work into the same scheduling pattern.

Team availability before you assign the job

Love Invoicing also recognises that having an empty space in the calendar does not necessarily mean the right worker is available.

For a multi-day plumbing job, the owner can:

choose the dates

→

check team availability

→

select the available workers

→

assign the job

→

notify the team

That makes scheduling a workforce decision rather than simply a diary entry.

Jobber also has sophisticated scheduling and team assignment, including recurring work and team notifications.

Verdict

Both platforms are strong.

Jobber has more mature scheduling automation.

Love Invoicing presents single-day, multi-day, repeat and team-availability workflows in a very straightforward way for small trade businesses.

One of the biggest differences: Love Invoicing has two apps

This is one of the clearest structural differences in the entire comparison.

Love Invoicing provides:

Love Invoicing

The main business application.

It is intended for the business owner, administrator or other users who need wider access to:

• customers
• quotes
• jobs
• invoices
• payments
• customer balances
• statements
• reports
• inventory
• payroll information
• business settings

And separately:

Love Invoicing Team

The field-worker application.

A plumber being sent to replace a boiler does not necessarily need access to the same commercial information as the owner of the plumbing company.

The worker needs the information required to do their job.

The owner needs to run the business.

Love Invoicing deliberately separates those experiences.

How Jobber handles field workers

Jobber takes a different approach.

Jobber uses the same broader Jobber application for its users and controls access using permissions.

Its current Team Management functionality includes permissions, GPS waypoints, push notifications, time tracking and job checklists.

That is perfectly valid.

But the product philosophy is different.

Jobber

One primary application + user permissions

Love Invoicing

Main business application + dedicated Team application + role-based access

For a business owner who wants a very obvious boundary between:

running the company

and:

working the assigned jobs

I think Love Invoicing's architecture is easier to understand.

Quotes: Jobber wins on automation, Love Invoicing wins on visibility

Jobber has excellent quoting functionality.

Its current quoting tools include:

• quote templates
• images
• optional work
• deposits
• customer approvals
• automated quote follow-ups
• attachments
• advanced customisation
• Google reviews within quotes on supported configurations

That is a genuine Jobber strength.

Love Invoicing approaches quotation management with a particularly clear status workflow.

A quote can be:

Draft

Sent

Awaiting Response

Accepted

Lost

Expired

What happens after the quote is sent?

This is where Love Invoicing becomes especially easy to understand.

The quotation can remain:

Awaiting Response

Instead of relying on memory to remember which customer has replied.

The business can then choose:

Send Reminder

If the customer declines or does not proceed:

Mark as Lost

The quote remains part of the history.

If the customer comes back later, that previously lost work can be revisited.

If the customer agrees:

Accepted - Ready for next step

Then:

Create Job

or:

Create Invoice

The workflow is:

Create Quote → Send → Awaiting Response → Reminder → Accepted/Lost → Job or Invoice

Live worker GPS: both products support it

This is not an area where we need to manufacture a difference.

Jobber supports GPS waypoints and map-based workforce visibility and can use location timers to help track time at customer properties.

Love Invoicing also provides Live Tracking.

The business can use the map to understand where authorised workers are and how field activity relates to the wider job workflow.

Verdict

Both products offer useful GPS workforce functionality.

The bigger Love Invoicing differentiation comes in what happens to job evidence.

Proof of work: more than knowing where the van is

Worker GPS answers:

Where is the worker?

Proof of work answers:

What happened at this particular job?

Love Invoicing allows field evidence to remain attached to the job.

Evidence can contain:

• photographs
• notes
• worker/contributor
• timestamp
• available GPS location context

So a photograph has operational meaning.

The business can understand:

which job

which worker

when

and:

where

the evidence relates to.

Love Invoicing can then turn that information into a Job Report PDF. Its public feature information specifically describes proof of work using photos, GPS information and signatures in a branded PDF.

What does Jobber offer for job evidence?

Jobber can attach notes, images and other files to clients, quotes, jobs and invoices.

Its current mobile application supports before-and-after photos and other attachments.

Jobber also has GPS waypoints from its workforce tracking.

However, from the current official documentation I reviewed, I could not confirm an equivalent core workflow where an individual job-evidence entry carries the same worker + timestamp + GPS context and is then compiled into the same style of Love Invoicing Job Report.

That makes:

GPS-backed evidence → Job Report

one of Love Invoicing's more distinctive trade workflows.

Customer management: both platforms are strong

Jobber has an excellent client-management system.

A client's profile can contain:

• contact details
• addresses
• requests
• quotes
• jobs
• invoices
• notes
• billing history
• account balance

and Jobber can generate customer statements.

So customer management is not an area where Jobber is weak.

Love Invoicing's strength is how quickly it exposes the customer's financial position.

The Customers area can visually show:

Green: Paid

Amber: Partially paid

Blue: Sent / still due

Red: Overdue

That means the business owner can look at a customer list and immediately start answering:

Who owes us money?

without first entering a separate financial report.

Customer records are also action points

From a Love Invoicing customer record, the business can quickly move into:

Create Quote

Create Job

or:

Create Invoice

That keeps the customer connected to operational and financial actions instead of treating CRM as a standalone address book.

Customer statements

Both Love Invoicing and Jobber support customer statements.

Love Invoicing can bring together information including:

• invoices
• payment history
• partially paid invoices
• total invoiced
• total paid
• credits
• outstanding balance

The statement can be viewed and shared as a document/PDF.

Jobber also has client statements.

Its current Billing History workflow lets businesses generate a statement using different date ranges and includes invoices, payments and account balances.

Verdict

Both are strong.

Love Invoicing integrates the statement particularly closely with its customer financial-visibility workflow.

Mobile invoicing: both can invoice from site

Jobber's iOS and Android applications allow invoices to be created and sent directly from the field.

Jobber can create an invoice:

• directly
• when completing a visit
• from a job requiring invoicing
• from the customer profile

Love Invoicing also supports invoicing directly from the phone.

A tradesperson can:

open the customer

→

Create Invoice

→

select a saved Price List item or add one manually

→

apply relevant VAT

→

save/share

→

take or record payment

This is a core part of Love Invoicing's:

finish the job → send the invoice → get paid

workflow.

Partial payments and payment history

Both products support partial payments.

Jobber's current invoicing workflow allows the payment amount to be adjusted so less than the full remaining invoice balance can be collected or recorded. It then updates the amount paid and remaining balance.

Love Invoicing also supports partial payments but places considerable emphasis on preserving the sequence of payment events.

For example:

Invoice: £1,500

Bank transfer: £500

Remaining: £1,000

Cash: £400

Remaining: £600

Card: £600

Remaining: £0

The invoice can retain a payment history rather than simply flipping from:

Unpaid

to:

Paid

Take Payment vs Record Payment

Love Invoicing deliberately presents two separate actions.

Take Payment

Use this when the customer still needs to give you the money.

Record Payment

Use this when the money has already arrived elsewhere.

Examples include:

• cash
• bank transfer
• cheque
• card collected elsewhere
• another payment method

Record Payment does not process money.

It records what has already happened.

Jobber supports a similar underlying distinction. Its current payment workflow uses Charge for an immediate Jobber Payments transaction and Save for an offline payment already accepted.

So the concept is not exclusive to Love Invoicing.

The Love Invoicing advantage is how explicitly it presents:

Take Payment

versus:

Record Payment

as two clear business actions

Payment processing: the models are quite different

Jobber provides Jobber Payments, its integrated payment-processing system.

In the UK, Jobber currently states card-payment rates of 1.4% + 20p per transaction across plans. Its UK payment documentation also states that payment availability is enabled after trial and explains payout timing.

Love Invoicing takes a different approach.

The business connects its own Stripe account.

Love Invoicing does not:

• receive the customer's funds
• hold the customer's funds
• take a percentage commission from the customer's payment

Stripe's own charges and terms apply directly through the user's Stripe relationship.

For a business that wants a very clear separation between:

software subscription

and:

payment processor

Love Invoicing's model is especially transparent.

Payroll reporting: an important Love Invoicing differentiator

This is a capability that should now appear in every serious Love Invoicing competitor comparison.

From the Love Invoicing web Jobs screen, the owner can choose:

Export Payroll

The report can be filtered by:

• date range
• worker
• customer
• worker type
• job status
• service type

The user can then export:

PDF

or:

Excel

The Excel workbook is not simply one timesheet.

It contains separate management views.

Employee Payroll

The Employee Payroll sheet can contain:

• Date
• Worker
• Role
• Start
• End
• Total Hours
• Hourly Rate
• Pay

Contractor Payments

The Contractor Payments report can contain:

• Date
• Contractor
• Job ID
• Job Title
• Customer
• Job Value
• Contractor Pay

This is particularly relevant to the UK trade sector, where businesses regularly combine employees and subcontractors.

Job Profitability

The same exported workbook can include:

• Job
• Service
• Workers
• Revenue
• Labour Cost
• Profit
• Margin %
• Revenue Source

Worker Performance

The workbook can also include:

• Worker
• Jobs Completed
• Total Hours
• Revenue Generated
• Efficiency

So the export answers more than:

How many hours did John work?

It can also help answer:

Which jobs did our contractors work on?

What did those jobs generate?

What was the labour cost?

Which workers completed the most work?

That makes the reporting useful for the owner, bookkeeper and operational manager.

What does Jobber offer for payroll preparation?

Jobber has strong timesheets.

Workers can:

• clock in and out
• record job time
• track travel
• track breaks
• record expenses
• generate GPS waypoints
• submit timesheet information

Jobber also has an approval and Confirm Payroll workflow.

Jobber itself states that it does not process payroll or pay employees directly.

This is a genuine Jobber strength.

Jobber wins:

detailed ongoing timesheet management

Love Invoicing is particularly strong at:

turning job/workforce information into one consolidated employee + contractor + profitability + worker-performance export

Those are different approaches.

Job costing: Jobber currently has more depth

This category should go to Jobber.

Jobber's Job Costing functionality can calculate:

• revenue
• line-item costs
• employee labour costs
• profit
• profit margin

and can use timesheet data together with product/service costs.

Jobber currently makes job costing available on Grow and Plus.

Love Invoicing's Job Profitability export provides:

• revenue
• labour cost
• profit
• margin

but does not currently provide the same depth of live, continuous job-costing functionality as Jobber.

Verdict

Jobber wins sophisticated live job costing.

Love Invoicing still gives small businesses meaningful profitability reporting without requiring the overall product to revolve around an advanced costing engine.

UK trades: CIS changes this comparison

Jobber serves dozens of home-service categories across multiple countries.

That scale is a strength.

But Love Invoicing is explicitly built around UK trade workflows.

One important example is:

CIS

Love Invoicing supports Construction Industry Scheme deductions for relevant UK construction businesses.

That can matter to:

• builders
• construction contractors
• subcontractors
• roofers
• electricians
• plumbers operating under CIS
• property-maintenance businesses

Jobber allows businesses to create their own tax rates and groups.

However, I could not identify native UK CIS deduction functionality in the current official Jobber documentation reviewed for this comparison.

Verdict

Love Invoicing has the stronger UK construction proposition where CIS matters.

VAT

Love Invoicing also supports UK VAT workflows, including VAT treatment on relevant line items.

Jobber allows custom tax rates and tax groups, so VAT can be represented through Jobber's general tax configuration.

The difference is positioning.

Jobber

Global configurable taxation.

Love Invoicing

Specific UK VAT + CIS trade-business workflows.

For a UK tradesperson, that distinction can reduce ambiguity.

Inventory: Price List is not the same as stock tracking

Jobber has a good Products & Services list.

It can store:

• product/service name
• description
• unit price
• unit cost on supported plans
• category
• tax information

Those items can then be used on quotes, jobs and invoices.

That is useful.

But that is primarily a product/service catalogue and costing workflow.

The current Jobber documentation reviewed here does not show an equivalent native stock-on-hand quantity workflow within its Products & Services list.

Love Invoicing goes further with inventory.

It can:

• create products
• store prices
• apply VAT
• track stock quantities
• show in-stock/out-of-stock position
• use saved items on quotes
• use saved items on invoices

Love Invoicing's public feature information explicitly describes inventory as tracking stock and managing products.

Verdict

Love Invoicing has the stronger built-in stock/inventory proposition.

So where is Love Invoicing genuinely better?

Once those Jobber strengths are acknowledged, the Love Invoicing advantages become easier to trust.

1. UK-first trade workflow

Love Invoicing explicitly supports VAT and CIS.

Love Invoicing advantage.

2. Dedicated Team app

The field worker and business owner do not need the same application experience.

Love Invoicing advantage.

3. GPS-backed proof of work

Photos, worker, timestamp and available location context can become a Job Report.

Love Invoicing advantage.

4. Built-in inventory

Love Invoicing tracks stock, not simply reusable line items.

Love Invoicing advantage.

5. Delivery management

Jobs, inventory and deliveries can operate inside the same wider platform.

Love Invoicing advantage.

6. Consolidated payroll export

Employee payroll, contractors, profitability and worker performance can appear in one export workflow.

Love Invoicing advantage.

7. Contractor reporting

The contractor-payment report is specifically connected to jobs, customers and job values.

Love Invoicing advantage.

8. Payment architecture

Love Invoicing uses the business's own Stripe account and does not take a Love Invoicing percentage commission from the customer's payment.

Love Invoicing advantage for businesses preferring processor independence/transparency.

9. Simple feature access

Love Invoicing's pricing approach does not force the business through Core, Connect, Grow and Plus simply to unlock different product categories.

Love Invoicing advantage.

And then we reach possibly the biggest difference.

Love Invoicing vs Jobber pricing

The products currently use very different pricing philosophies.

Love Invoicing

The current Love Invoicing model is:

Main App account

£14.99/month

This is the owner/admin account with wider business access.

Team App member

£2.99/month per team member

This is the separate Love Invoicing Team field-worker access.

The business therefore adds field workers as it grows.

What does that mean in practice?

One owner

£14.99/month

One owner + one field worker

£14.99 + £2.99

= £17.98/month

One owner + four field workers

£14.99 + (4 × £2.99)

= £26.95/month

One owner + nine field workers

£14.99 + (9 × £2.99)

= £41.90/month

One owner + fifteen field workers

£14.99 + (15 × £2.99)

= £59.84/month

Businesses requiring more than fifteen Team App members can discuss a larger plan.

Love Invoicing also currently offers a:

30-day free trial

with no card required.

Jobber's current pricing model

Jobber currently publishes four primary tiers:

Core

Connect

Grow

Plus

Its official pricing page currently displays prices in US dollars, including different rates depending on user count and billing commitment.

At the current no-commitment list prices shown by Jobber:

Core

1 user:

$49/month

Connect

1 user:

$139/month

5 users:

$199/month

10 users:

$299/month

15 users:

$399/month

Grow

1 user:

$199/month

5 users:

$299/month

10 users:

$399/month

15 users:

$499/month

Plus

5 users:

$499/month

10 users:

$599/month

15 users:

$699/month

Jobber offers lower effective pricing for annual and committed billing arrangements, so buyers should use Jobber's live pricing page when making a purchase decision.

Because Jobber currently publishes these figures in USD while Love Invoicing prices in GBP, I would not publish a fake percentage saving.

The currencies are different.

But the difference in pricing philosophy is unmistakable.

A five-person trade business

Imagine:

1 owner

4 field workers

Love Invoicing

Main App:

£14.99

Four Team App members:

4 × £2.99 = £11.96

Total:

£26.95/month

Jobber's published Connect plan for five users currently lists:

$199/month

on the no-commitment rate.

Currencies differ, so this is not presented as a percentage comparison.

But for the price-conscious UK trade business, Love Invoicing's structure is extremely compelling.