What it really costs a month

How we add it up

The monthly figure is the plan price, plus a seat charge for everyone past the number the plan includes, plus the add-ons you tick, plus a percentage of the money you take on cards and by bank transfer. Where a vendor prices a plan by team size rather than by the seat, as Jobber does, we use the band your crew lands in.

What the year comes to

On annual billing the yearly figure is whatever the vendor prints, where it prints one. On monthly billing it is always twelve months of the monthly price, because a company advertising $105 a month and $1,264 a year has rounded the month, and twelve of those is not what you pay.

8 of these advertise a discount for paying yearly and never print what the year comes to. Switch those to annual and the column says so rather than showing a figure, because their year is certainly not twelve of their months. Where a vendor publishes no annual price at all, the year is twelve months of the monthly one and the line says it is paid monthly.

What the plan covers

The headline price covers one user on some of these platforms and 10 on others, which is most of the reason two plans at the same price are not the same deal. A plan only covers a crew if the page says it does. Some of these list a seat allowance, some say unlimited users, and some say nothing at all while charging for an extra seat. The last of those cannot be added up, so the column says that rather than quoting a base price as though it covered everyone. 7 of them sell an office licence and a van licence as different things and count them separately, so their seat total is the most it could be: the note under the figure gives the split, and whether your crew matches it is yours to check.

A plan metered in jobs, routes or locations says what it covers and, where the vendor prices going over, what one more costs. Neither is added up, because this page asks how many people you have and not how many jobs.

What the total leaves out

Where a vendor publishes no price at all for a plan at your crew size, the column says so rather than estimating one. The same goes for processing: 4 of the 64 platforms here publish a card rate on the pricing page, and for the rest the line reads not published, which means we looked and found nothing, not that it is free. A fixed fee a transaction, where one is published, is not folded into any figure, because this page cannot know how many transactions you take. It is printed beside the figure instead, so a total always says what it leaves out.

At least and at most

1 of the 4 that publish a card rate advertises its rate as a floor, as low as, and never says what a business is actually given, so its fee and its total read as the least they can be. A fee capped per payment is not applied to the month either, because we do not know how many payments your month is made of, so those figures read as the most the percentage comes to, with the fee a transaction alongside.

Where the numbers came from

Every figure came off the vendor's own pricing page between September 6, 2026 and September 16, 2026, and each column links to the page its numbers came from. These prices change, so check the current number with the vendor before you buy. Not sure which platforms to compare? Start with the picker.