Plumbing operations
Plumbing job management software, judged on the job record
Job management is the record half of running a plumbing business: the quote, the parts that left the van, what the labour actually cost, and whether the 2am call-out made money once the invoice cleared. This page compares the 12 plumbing-capable platforms in the reviewed catalog on the parts of that record the dataset tracks — sourced published pricing, plus catalog-listed job costing, inventory and offline support — and labels plainly the parts nobody here has tested.
12 of the 15 reviewed products serve plumbing. If your work is mostly emergency and service calls, start from the cheapest published options and check parts tracking during the trial — 7 of the 12 list an inventory module. If your work is scoped installs and repipes, restrict the shortlist to the 9 products that list job costing. This page is the plumbing cut of job management software for trades; the ranked trade shortlist is at plumbing field service software.
Every plumbing-capable platform, cheapest published price first
7 of the 12 products below publish a real entry price that a human has checked against the source. The rest genuinely price by sales call — a fact about the vendor.
| Software | Published entry | Pricing model | Job costing | Inventory | Pricing source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jobber | $29/mo | tiered | Not listed | Not listed | Checked 2026-08-18 |
| ServiceM8 | $29/mo | tiered | Listed | Not listed | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| Fergus | $31/mo per user | tiered | Listed | Listed | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| Tradify | $47/mo per user | per user | Listed | Not listed | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| Housecall Pro | $59/mo | tiered | Not listed | Not listed | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| Kickserv | $60/mo | tiered | Not listed | Not listed | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| Service Fusion | $208/mo | flat | Listed | Listed | Checked 2026-08-09 |
| Commusoft | Quote only | quote only | Listed | Listed | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| FieldPulse | Quote only | quote only | Listed | Listed | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| ServiceTitan | Quote only | quote only | Listed | Listed | Checked 2026-08-09 |
| Simpro | Quote only | quote only | Listed | Listed | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| Workiz | Quote only | quote only | Listed | Listed | Checked 2026-09-26 |
Serving plumbing but without job costing listed, so worth naming rather than quietly omitting: Jobber, Housecall Pro, Kickserv. That absence cuts one way only. It says nothing about how these products run the live day — scheduling and dispatch quality are not facets this catalog rates, so nobody here has tested them. It does mean no job-costing module is on record for any of them, so what a finished job made is a question the catalog cannot show these products answering.
Job management, dispatch, or full field service management?
The three labels describe emphases, not fenced-off categories. Dispatch tooling is about the live day: who takes the burst-pipe call, whether the arrival window still holds. Job management leans toward the record: quote, costs, parts and profitability per job. Full field service management covers both plus the customer and accounting sides. Nobody here has audited which of those labels each product in this table markets itself under, so this page does not sort them into boxes; the honest position is that this catalog tracks the record side — costing, inventory, agreements, pricing — but has no facet for how fast a dispatch board reassigns a technician mid-morning. If you are shopping across trades rather than for plumbing specifically, start from the umbrella page on job management software for trades.
Two kinds of plumbing day
Emergency calls and installs stress opposite ends of the job record
A burst-main call-out and a three-week repipe are both jobs, but they lean on different capabilities. The call-out lives or dies on what is already on the van and whether the app still works in a basement; the repipe lives or dies on whether the final numbers can be compared against the quote. The lists below are drawn straight from the catalog's feature records.
Parts on the van (7 list inventory)
Truck stock and warehouse tracking, so the fitting used at the door is deducted, billed and reordered instead of vanishing.
- Fergus — $31/mo per user
- Service Fusion — $208/mo
- Commusoft — Quote only
- FieldPulse — Quote only
- ServiceTitan — Quote only
- Simpro — Quote only
- Workiz — Quote only
What the job made (9 list job costing)
Labour, parts and overhead attributed per job — the capability that turns a finished repipe into a better next quote.
- ServiceM8 — $29/mo
- Fergus — $31/mo per user
- Tradify — $47/mo per user
- Service Fusion — $208/mo
- Commusoft — Quote only
- FieldPulse — Quote only
- ServiceTitan — Quote only
- Simpro — Quote only
- Workiz — Quote only
One more record worth checking for emergency work: offline mode. Plumbing happens in basements and crawl spaces where the signal dies, and only 4 of the 12 plumbing-capable products list it: Jobber, Housecall Pro, Commusoft, Workiz. For the rest, assume the app needs a connection until your own trial in your own worst basement proves otherwise.
What this page will not claim
Two things matter enormously in plumbing job management and are missing from this dataset, so they are labelled here instead of ranked. First, flat-rate price books: pricing a known task at the door in under a minute is the heart of emergency work, but price-book quality is not a facet in the catalog and nobody here has timed one product against another — the closest coverage is the flat rate pricing software guide. Second, estimate builders: quoting scoped work is covered separately at plumbing estimating software, and the same caveat applies there — job costing is verified, estimate quality is not. A comparison site that ranked on either of these would be publishing opinions as facts, which is the failure mode this site exists to avoid.
Fit by size still disqualifies first
Before any of the record-keeping matters, headcount rules products out. 7 of the 12 plumbing-capable products list a fit for one-truck operations. Of the 5 quote-only platforms at the bottom of the table, 3 — Commusoft, ServiceTitan, Simpro — carry size-fit records that begin at the 11-to-50-technician bracket, and the catalog's review notes go further on two: ServiceTitan's calls it genuinely wrong for shops under roughly ten technicians, and Commusoft's calls it likely too involved for a solo operator. If you are a single operator, cross-check against field service software for solo operators before falling in love with a feature list, and if the deciding constraint is your accounting system rather than your trade, start from QuickBooks support instead.
What does plumbing job management software cost?
Among the plumbing-capable products here that publish pricing, paid entry tiers run from $29 to $208 a month, and the model matters as much as the number: per-user pricing scales with the crew while flat and job-volume pricing do not. 5 of the 12 publish no figure at all: their records show pricing quoted by sales and scaled by technicians, seats, licenses or team size (Workiz does not say how its plans are priced), and one of them, Simpro, additionally discloses a separate implementation fee on its pricing page. Every number in the table links to the page it was read from and the date it was checked.
Is job management software different from field service management software?
As vocabulary, the two names describe different emphases of the same category: job management stresses the per-job record — quote, costs, parts, margin — while field service management stresses scheduling and the live dispatch day. The catalog records no vendor-site language, so no claim is made here about which label each product markets itself under. Every product on this page appears in the wider field service management comparison too; this page simply weighs the record side for one trade.
Can these products track parts on the van?
7 of the 12 list an inventory module in the catalog. Listed means the capability appears in the reviewed catalog's records — editorially maintained and dated by review, not a judgement of depth — and inventory is frequently the weakest module in otherwise strong products. Test it with your own top twenty fittings during the trial before believing it.
Why do some products show no price at all?
Because their vendors publish none: Commusoft, FieldPulse, ServiceTitan, Simpro, Workiz route pricing through a sales quote, so the table says "Quote only" rather than repeating a number from a third-party roundup. Workiz was the last product here marked "Not verified", because its pricing page returned an error to our earlier checks; its plans page has since been checked and lists every plan as "Request pricing". "Quote only" is a fact about the vendor, "Not verified" a fact about this catalog, and the distinction is kept deliberately; see the methodology.
Trades, job costing, inventory, offline support and size fit come from the reviewed catalog, where they are editorially maintained and dated by review; every price carries a source URL and the date it was checked. Price-book quality, dispatch speed and estimate builders are explicitly not rated here, because they have not been tested.