Jobber for a kitchen showroom: what fits and what doesn't
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Count the visits on a typical showroom kitchen. A field measure. Maybe a second measure after the plan changes. Install day, which might run three days. A punch list trip. That's four or five visits.
Now count the other stuff. A cabinet order, an ack to check, a hardware order from a second supplier, a backorder on two wall cabinets, a supplier balance due before the order ships, a countertop template that waits on the boxes. That's most of the job, and none of it is a visit.
Keep that ratio in mind for everything below.
What is Jobber built for?
Jobber is field-service management software: quotes, scheduling, invoicing and online payments for businesses that send people out to do work. Its industries page lists 48 trades, including Remodeling, Carpentry, Flooring, General Contracting, Handyman and Tiling. The product is shaped around the visit: book it, send the crew, finish the work, get paid.
The plans build on that. Core has online booking, quotes, invoices and online payments, a website and 100+ app integrations. Connect adds automated client reminders, automatic payments, checklists, quote and invoice follow-ups, QuickBooks Online sync and time and expense tracking. Grow adds visual quotes with optional line items, job costing, two-way SMS and workflow automations. Plus adds crew scheduling, unlimited photos and videos, custom reports and dedicated onboarding.
For a business that lives on visits, that's a lot of help.
Kitchen showrooms and cabinets aren't named on the industries page. That's not a knock. It just tells you who the product was designed around.
How is a showroom job different from a field-service job?
In field service, the visit is the job. In a showroom, the visit is the last step of a job that mostly happens on email and in supplier portals. A signed kitchen turns into several supplier orders, each with its own ack, lead time and payment, and the install can't be booked for real until the product is on the way.
So the questions a showroom asks every day are different:
- Did the ack from the cabinet line match the spec, or did they switch the finish?
- Which orders are on hold waiting for the client's selection?
- What do we owe the hardware supplier, and is it due before they ship?
- Is anything backordered that pushes install?
- Which jobs have a delivery date but no install date yet?
Jobber is good at the questions that start once a visit is on the calendar. These come before that.
Showroom job stage: Jobber concept or showroom tracker?
Jobber maps cleanly onto the stages where someone is on site or money changes hands. The stretch in between, ordering and waiting, is the part a showroom tracker is built for. Here's a stage-by-stage look, using Jobber's own concepts from its pricing page.
| Showroom job stage | Closest Jobber concept | Showroom tracker (like Salone) |
|---|---|---|
| Lead calls in, showroom appointment | Online booking; Pipeline lead tracking is a paid add-on | Meeting on the shared calendar, client record |
| Field measure | A scheduled visit | Meeting on the calendar, notes and photos on the order |
| Quote and client sign-off | Quotes, optional line items, quote follow-ups | Quote sent for online approval with a PDF; costs hidden |
| Deposit | Invoice and online payment | Not offered; Salone doesn't process payments |
| Orders to each supplier | Not something they list on their pricing page | One row per supplier: what was ordered, cost, paid, owed |
| Ack, lead time, backorder | Not something they list on their pricing page | Custom fields, ack file attached, HOLD status |
| Paying suppliers | Expense tracking and job costing (Grow and up) | Per-supplier payments; finance page shows what's owed now |
| Delivery | A visit, if your crew picks up or receives | Delivery date on the order and calendar |
| Install day | A visit, with crew scheduling on Plus | Install date on the calendar, status moves to Installed |
| Punch list, replacement door | A follow-up visit and invoice | Tasks on the order, or an add-on order |
| Final balance | Invoice, automatic payments, reminders | Not offered; track it in your accounting tool |
Notice where Jobber is strong: anything with a visit or an invoice. And notice the middle rows. That's often weeks of a semi-custom job, and how many depends on the manufacturer (our cabinet order tracking guide covers that stretch in detail).
What does Jobber cost for a 3-person and an 8-person showroom?
On Jobber's published prices, a 5-user Connect plan is $199 a month with no commitment, and a 10-user Connect plan is $299. Annual billing lowers those to $149 and $229 a month. Grow costs more at each size. Jobber's 14-day trial gives full Grow access with no card required.
Here's a worked example from the published numbers. A 3-person showroom fits in Jobber's 5-user tier. An 8-person showroom fits in the 10-user tier. Jobber also lists extra users at $29 a month each, so a 1-user Connect plan plus two extra users ($139 + $58 = $197 with no commitment) comes out about the same as the 5-user tier. Check their pricing page for your exact headcount.
| Team | Jobber Connect (no commitment / billed annually, per month) | Jobber Grow (no commitment / billed annually, per month) | Salone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 users (5-user tier) | $199 / $149 | $299 / $229 | Studio, $99 a month |
| 8 users (10-user tier) | $299 / $229 | $399 / $299 | Showroom, $139 a month |
Over a year on annual billing, that's $1,788 for Connect at 3 users and $2,748 at 8 (Grow is $2,748 and $3,588). Salone is $1,188 a year at 3 users and $1,668 at 8. Jobber's annual payment is non-refundable and auto-renews, per its pricing page. Salone bills monthly and you can cancel any time from the account.
The numbers aren't a like-for-like comparison. Jobber includes invoicing, card payments, client reminders, two-way SMS and QuickBooks sync, depending on plan. Salone includes none of those. It's a cost figure for budgeting, not a verdict.
When is Jobber the right pick?
Jobber is the right pick when your business is mostly visits. If you're an installer crew doing several installs, measures and service calls a week for showrooms, builders and homeowners, Jobber's scheduling, reminders, invoicing and card payments fit how you work.
It also makes sense if:
- You're a showroom where install is a big, separate line of business with its own crew and calendar.
- Getting paid by card on the spot, with automatic reminders, matters more than tracking supplier orders.
- You already run your books on QuickBooks Online and want quotes and invoices to sync.
If those describe you, start with Jobber's trial. Fourteen days is enough to book a week of real visits through it.
Do some showrooms run both?
Yes. A common setup is Jobber for the install crew and the client invoicing, and a showroom tracker for supplier orders and lead times. The tracker answers "where is this job's product?" and Jobber answers "when are we on site and has the client paid?" The cost is keeping the client and job in two places.
That split works best when the handoff is clear. Say the order moves to Delivered in the tracker; that's the signal to book install in Jobber. If you're sorting out how deposits and balances should be timed across those stages, our guide to deposits and payment schedules lays out the usual structures. And for the full picture of who uses what, see the software showrooms use, by job.
Where Salone fits
Salone covers the ordering-and-waiting middle of a showroom job: a row per supplier with cost and what's owed, the ack attached to the order, a status board with HOLD and Order Placed, and delivery and install dates on a shared calendar. It doesn't take payments, send texts or invoice clients, so if those matter, keep Jobber for them. Salone is $99 a month for up to 3 users and $139 for 4 or more, flat, with a 14-day trial.
Questions people ask
Does Jobber work for cabinet installers?
Yes, it fits that work well. Jobber lists Carpentry, Remodeling and Flooring among its industries, and an install crew's week is visits: measures, installs and punch list trips. Scheduling, client reminders, invoicing and card payments are what it's built around. Cabinets aren't named on its industries page, so test it on your real jobs during the trial.
How much does Jobber cost?
Its pricing page lists Core at $49 a month for one user with no commitment, Connect from $139 and Grow from $199 for one user, and Plus from $499 for 5 users. Annual billing saves up to 25%, but annual payment is non-refundable. Extra users are listed at $29 a month each, and there's a 14-day trial.
Can Jobber track supplier orders and lead times?
Supplier orders, acks and lead times aren't something Jobber lists on its pricing page. It does list expense tracking and job costing on Grow and up, which help you see what a job cost. If you need to know what was ordered from each supplier and when it lands, most showrooms add a separate order tracker.
Should a showroom use Jobber and Salone together?
It can make sense if install is a big part of your business. Jobber handles visits, invoices and card payments. Salone holds the supplier orders, what you owe each supplier, the acks and the delivery and install dates. You'll enter each client in both, so it pays off mostly when both halves of the job are busy.
Facts about other products were read from each vendor's own website on . Prices and plans change, so check their site before you decide. Jobber is a trademark of its owner; Salone is not affiliated with it.