Jobber runs your existing jobs. ProWebsite Co fills your pipeline.
Jobber is a field service management platform — quoting, scheduling, job tracking, invoicing, and payment collection for service businesses. It's genuinely useful once you have steady inbound enquiry volume. Most UK trades we speak to lose work earlier — missed calls on site, slow form replies, and quotes that never get chased. ProWebsite Co sits upstream: the website that ranks on Google, captures enquiries, and fires the automations that convert them into booked jobs.
Jobber runs the job. We help you win the call and the form before ops software matters.
What Jobber is built for
A trades business using Jobber can manage their entire job pipeline from first quote to final invoice in one place, with a client portal for customers and a mobile app for the team on-site.
It's genuinely useful software for a trades business that's reached the point where manual scheduling and hand-written invoices are causing problems. Larger plumbing, electrical, or building firms with multiple engineers and several active jobs at once tend to benefit most.
- Scheduling and dispatch
- Quotes and invoices in one app
- Client history and team permissions
- Integrations with payments and accounting
The gap Jobber doesn't fill
Jobber's core assumption is that you already have the customers. It's a tool for managing work you've already sold — not for generating new enquiries, recovering missed calls, or following up on quotes that went cold.
For a UK trades business, the typical failure points are earlier in the funnel: a customer calls, can't get through, moves on. A web enquiry comes in at 9pm and gets a reply at 9am — by which time they've booked someone else. A quote gets sent and never chased. These are lost jobs before they ever enter Jobber.
Jobber is excellent at the part of the process it covers. It doesn't cover the part where most trades businesses actually lose revenue.
Where ProWebsite Co fits
ProWebsite Co sits upstream of Jobber. We build the website that ranks on Google for "plumber in [city]" searches, captures enquiries from that traffic, and fires the automations that convert those enquiries into booked jobs — the missed-call SMS, the instant web enquiry reply, the quote follow-up sequence.
Once those jobs are booked, Jobber takes over — scheduling, invoicing, the customer portal. The two tools aren't competing. They're covering different parts of the customer lifecycle.
For a trades business at early stage, ProWebsite Co comes first — because you need the pipeline before you need the management layer. For a more established business, both together give you a complete front-to-back system.
- Missed call SMS in ~60 seconds (A1)
- Web capture with instant alerts (A3)
- Quote follow-up automation (A4)
- TradesFlow included in the core system — enquiry → job workflow
The pricing difference and what it means
Jobber's UK pricing starts around £35–£90/month depending on the plan. ProWebsite Co is £299/month (plus £4,997 setup). These reflect different types of investment: Jobber is operational software that pays for itself through saved admin time. ProWebsite Co is a growth investment that pays for itself through new bookings it would otherwise not capture.
For a trade business turning over £100K–£500K, the question isn't usually "can I afford ProWebsite Co" — it's "how many missed calls and cold quotes does it take to justify the cost?" The answer, for most trades, is around 2–4 recovered jobs per month.
Who is Jobber for?
Jobber suits established trade businesses with multiple engineers and several concurrent jobs who need structured scheduling, invoicing, and a client portal to manage operational complexity.
ProWebsite Co suits UK trades businesses at any stage that want a consistent inbound lead channel — owned site, Google ranking, and automations that respond to missed calls, web enquiries, and cold quotes — to fill the pipeline that Jobber then manages.
- Jobber: teams with steady inbound and organised sales admin
- ProWebsite Co: trades losing work before it reaches their CRM
- Together: front-to-back coverage of the customer lifecycle
ProWebsite Co vs Jobber
| Feature | ProWebsite Co | Jobber |
|---|---|---|
| Generates new leads | Yes — via Google ranking and the site | No |
| Missed call recovery | Yes — SMS within 60 seconds | Not a default marketing feature |
| Quote follow-up automation | Yes — automated at 3, 7, 14 days | Basic (manual triggers) |
| Web enquiry auto-response | Yes — instant reply on submission | Form tools; not full capture stack |
| Job scheduling | TradesFlow in the core system | Core strength |
| Invoicing and payments | Not our focus | Built in |
| Customer portal | Not our focus | Built in |
| Google ranking | Yes — local trade × city pages | No |
| UK-specific focus | Yes — built for UK trades | No (US-first product) |
Why trades businesses switch
1. Jobber doesn't generate leads — it manages the ones you already have
Operations software does not text the homeowner when you miss a call on the tools. We add missed-call SMS and fast form alerts so more enquiries become clients inside Jobber.
2. Most trades lose revenue before Jobber is even involved
Missed calls, slow web enquiry responses, and cold quotes are lost jobs before they enter your pipeline. Our automations recover and qualify leads so Jobber has more to manage.
3. Jobber is US-first software adapted for the UK market
The software works fine in the UK, but pricing, support hours, and default assumptions reflect its origin. ProWebsite Co is built from the ground up for UK trades — plumbers, electricians, gas engineers, heating engineers, roofers, builders.
4. The two tools don't compete — they cover different parts of your business
ProWebsite Co gets the enquiry and converts it into a booked job. Jobber manages that job through scheduling, invoicing, and completion. Together they give you front-to-back coverage.
Who ProWebsite Co is best for
UK trades who need more enquiries captured and acknowledged, not only better scheduling.
Jobber and ProWebsite Co solve different problems. You probably need both.
If you're managing 5+ active jobs and struggling with scheduling and invoices, Jobber is probably worth it. If you're losing work to missed calls and cold quotes — or you don't have a website that ranks for your trade in your city — ProWebsite Co fills the gap Jobber doesn't cover.