JOBBER VS SERVICETITAN FOR PAINTERS

For most owner-run painting companies (a solo painter up to a few crews doing repaints) Jobber is the easier fit: its prices are on its website, you can start a trial without a card, and one plan covers quotes with options, scheduling, invoices and job costing. ServiceTitan is worth a demo when you run several crews, an office that books calls, and sales staff, and you want payroll, commission tracking and deeper reporting in the same system. It does not list prices: you get a quote per technician.

ServiceTitan says its painting software serves "companies of all sizes", and its site lists painting among many trades, next to HVAC, plumbing, electrical and roofing. The packages read like a call-center and dispatch business: call booking, payroll, commissions, memberships. Jobber's plans are sized by users, starting at one.

If you are still running jobs off paper, you can stay there a while longer: the free estimate, proposal and invoice templates carry a small company until booking and chasing payments by hand starts losing you work.

The two vendors sell in different ways. Jobber prints a price for every plan and team size, with three billing options. ServiceTitan names three packages and asks you to request a price, which it bases on your number of technicians.

Jobber also lists Connect and Grow at 5, 10 and 15 users, and extra users at $29 a month each. Core is sold for one user; teams of 16 or more go to its sales team.

ServiceTitan's page also lists separate "Pro" products (Marketing Pro, Pricebook Pro, Scheduling Pro, Dispatch Pro and others) without prices. It does not state onboarding costs or contract length, so ask for both in writing with the quote.

A four-painter company, priced both ways

An owner plus four painters is five users. On Jobber that is the Grow plan for 5 users: $299 a month with no commitment, or $229 billed annually, about $2,750 a year. On ServiceTitan the sum is the quoted per-technician price times your technicians, plus any Pro products the demo leaned on and any onboarding fee. Divide either yearly bill by your crew's billable hours in the painting overhead calculator: that is what every hour on a wall now has to carry.

A painting job is not a service call: it is quoted with options, takes a deposit, runs several days, often changes scope and closes on a walkthrough. Here is what each vendor's own painting and pricing pages say about those steps.

Sources: Jobber for painting contractors, ServiceTitan painting software and ServiceTitan's accounting integrations, read November 2, 2026.

Neither painting page we read mentions measuring rooms or working out gallons, so your rates are the engine of both systems. In Jobber they go in as quote line items, and saved quote templates keep your per-room or per-square-foot prices one tap away. In ServiceTitan they live in the pricebook, which every package includes. Work the rates out once from your own production numbers with the labor cost calculator before you load either one. If you want a tool that measures and prices a painting bid for you, those are compared in painting estimating software.

You test Jobber yourself: sign up, pick a plan later, and run your own jobs through it for 14 days. ServiceTitan starts with a demo run by its team, so you see the software on their terms. Its packages are built around an office, so the demo should prove the office side works for a painting company, not for an HVAC service call.

1. Call to estimate: follow one painting lead from the booked call to the estimate your estimator opens on a tablet at the house.
2. Your rate card: load per-room and per-square-foot interior rates into the pricebook and watch an estimate pull them.
3. A crew week of payroll: one crew on a multi-day exterior, hours in, payroll and any sales commission out.
4. Margin by job: the job-costing report for a finished repaint, labor and materials against the price.
5. The Pro line: stop at each screen and ask whether it is in your package or a separate Pro product.