We scored 7 plumbing platforms on ease, price, field features and support. Jobber leads at 8.8 from $49/mo. Prices verified 24 August 2026.
No plumbing specialist owns this category, and the two products ranking highest are not what a residential shop needs. Seven platforms scored on four criteria, with prices verified today.
Every page ranking for this term was written by a vendor or an aggregator. Search best plumbing software and you get Software Advice and Capterra, then BuildOps, Knowify, Workyard and QuoteIQ — four software companies publishing lists that include themselves. There is no independent editorial result in the top eight. That is the first thing worth knowing before you trust any ranking, including this one, which is why our scoring page exists.
Jobber at 8.8 remains the highest-scoring platform on this site and the cheapest serious entry at $49 a month. But its annual rate has a catch we had not previously recorded: the advertised $21 a month is a twelve-month promotional price that reverts to $29. BuildOps ranks second for the term and is built for commercial contractors. Workyard ranks seventh and is not field service software at all.
Plumbing is the largest trade we cover by search volume and it has no vertical specialist. Roofing has Roofr, JobNimbus and AccuLynx. Pools have Skimmer and Pool Brain. Moving has seven specialists and not one generalist in the top results. Plumbing has none. What fills the gap instead is worth naming, because two of the highest-ranking products solve a different problem than the one you came here with.
BuildOps, Knowify, Workyard and QuoteIQ all publish a best plumbing software article. Each list includes the publisher. None of them says so at the top. This is not fraud — it is ordinary content marketing — but a list where the author is also a candidate is a different kind of document from a comparison, and it should be read as one.
BuildOps ranks second and is a serious product. Its own pricing page is titled Custom BuildOps Pricing for Commercial Contractors and claims 1,500-plus commercial contractors across North America. Commercial means office towers, service agreements, multi-trade projects and a back office to run them. If you do residential service calls and repipes, you will sit through a discovery call, a personalised demo and a quote for a system built around a problem you do not have.
Workyard ranks for the term and is genuinely good at what it does: GPS-verified time, mileage, labour cost reporting and payroll integrations. What it does not do is run your business. It will not send a quote, take a card payment at the kitchen sink or dispatch the nearest van. If your problem is that you do not know what your crew is really costing you, Workyard is an excellent answer. If your problem is quoting and getting paid, it is not the product and no amount of ranking changes that.
Two other things are sometimes called plumbing software and are not on this page. Pipe sizing and hydraulic calculation tools are engineering software for designing a system, not for running a company. Estimating-only takeoff packages price a job from a drawing and stop there. Nothing below will do either job.
Seven platforms. Jobber leads at 8.8 from $49 a month and Housecall Pro follows at 8.0. Knowify, ServiceTitan and Workyard all land on 6.8 by three different routes. BuildOps takes 6.3 and FieldPulse 6.0, both held down by publishing no pricing at all.
Scores are issued once per product and reused across this site, not re-scored per industry. The fit column is what changes. Prices verified against each vendor’s own pricing page on 24 August 2026, in USD.
| Software | Price | Score | Fit for plumbers |
|---|---|---|---|
| JobberBest overall | $49/mo, $21 annual | 8.8/10 | Quoting, on-site invoicing and card payment done well, at the lowest serious entry price. Read the annual rate twice: $21 is a twelve-month promotion that becomes $29. |
| Housecall ProRunner-up | $79/mo, $59 annual | 8.0/10 | Best consumer-facing booking and reminders, which suits a repair-heavy residential list. Extra seats cost $100/mo on Essentials. |
| KnowifyMost transparent | $149/mo, $99 annual | 6.8/10 | The deepest job costing and QuickBooks work here, built for contract jobs. Service dispatch is a $99/mo add-on, so a service shop pays $198. |
| ServiceTitanEnterprise | Not published | 6.8/10 | Built and priced for forty trucks. Flat-rate pricing books and call centre tooling are best in class if you are big enough to need them. |
| WorkyardNot an FSM | From $6/user/mo | 6.8/10 | Excellent GPS time tracking and labour costing. It does not quote, invoice or dispatch, so it is a companion to this list rather than a member of it. |
| BuildOpsCommercial only | Not published | 6.3/10 | Strong commercial platform ranking second for a residential search. Its own pricing page says commercial contractors. Believe it. |
| FieldPulseMixed trades | Not published | 6.0/10 | Reasonable if plumbing is one of several trades you run. Quote only, with add-ons sold separately. |
Jobber scores 8.8 out of 10, the highest on this site, and for a one-to-five van plumbing shop it is still the recommendation. Quoting is fast, the invoice can be raised and paid at the customer’s door, and the mobile app is the one your technician will actually open. None of that has changed. The pricing page has.
Core is $49 a month month-to-month for one user. Prepaid annually it is $21 a month — for twelve months, then $29 a month. That last clause is printed on the pricing page and is easy to miss. Over two years the annual plan is $600, not $504, and the headline saving is smaller than it looks. It is still the cheapest serious option here; it is just not the number most articles quote.
Connect is $139 month-to-month, $70 annually, then $99. Grow is $199, $105, then $149. Those are single-user figures. Jobber now prices by team size as well as tier, so a two-to-five person shop pays $199 month-to-month for Connect and $299 for Grow, with the annual rates at $105 and $161 reverting to $149 and $229.
The Plus tier now includes five users, not fifteen. And the current promotion — up to 40% off, badged on the page — carries an explicit expiry: offer ends 31 August. Every annual figure on this page is inside that window. If you are reading this in September, check the page again before you budget from it.
Add-ons are priced separately and quietly: Marketing Suite $99 a month, AI Receptionist $29, Pipeline $49. For a plumbing shop, the Receptionist is the one worth pricing, because a missed call at 7pm is a burst-pipe job that went to somebody else.
Knowify scores 6.8 out of 10 and publishes more detail than anyone else here: both billing terms, user counts on every tier, every add-on and even a per-vehicle rate. After a run of pages that say request pricing, that deserves saying plainly.
Core is $99 a month billed annually, $149 month-to-month, and includes one user. Advanced is $329 annually or $399 monthly and includes ten. Enterprise is unlimited users and a conversation. Live Equipment Tracking, if you want GPS on the vans, is $25 per vehicle per month.
Knowify’s base plans are built for contract work — bidding, AIA billing, fixed-price jobs, job costing against a budget. Real-time dispatching, equipment history, inventory and automated appointment reminders are not in them. They are in an add-on called Service Pro, $99 a month on top.
For a new-construction or commercial plumbing contractor, that split makes sense and the job costing is the best on this page. For a service shop doing callouts, it means the features Jobber includes at $49 cost $198 a month here. Same product, two completely different bills, depending on which half of plumbing you do.
Housecall Pro scores 8.0 and is the strongest choice if most of your work arrives from homeowners rather than builders. Online booking, automated reminders and review collection are its best features, and a repair-driven plumbing business lives on repeat customers and referrals.
Basic is $79 a month month-to-month or $59 billed annually, one user. Unlike Jobber, that annual rate is not time-limited. The step to watch is Essentials at $189 monthly or $149 annually for five users, where each additional user is $100 a month — more than an entire Basic subscription. Max is $329 or $299 for eight, with extras at $75. If you are hiring your sixth plumber this year, price both tiers at your real headcount before committing.
Four criteria, each scored 1-10, averaged with no weighting. Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan and FieldPulse carry the scores already published elsewhere on this site. Knowify, Workyard and BuildOps are scored here for the first time and will keep these numbers on every page they appear on.
| Software | Ease | Price/value | Field | Support | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jobber | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8.8/10 |
| Housecall Pro | 8 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 8.0/10 |
| Knowify | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 6.8/10 |
| ServiceTitan | 5 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 6.8/10 |
| Workyard | 8 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6.8/10 |
| BuildOps | 5 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 6.3/10 |
| FieldPulse | 7 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 6.0/10 |
Knowify, ServiceTitan and Workyard all land on 6.8 from three different directions. Knowify publishes everything and keeps half the product behind an add-on. ServiceTitan takes a perfect 10 on field features and loses it on cost and complexity. Workyard is easy and excellent in the field but is solving a narrower problem and will only tell you a starting price. Three identical numbers, three unrelated products. We do not nudge decimals to separate them, and this is exactly why the fit column exists.
Answer one question before you look at a single feature list: is your plumbing business service work or contract work? Callouts, repairs and replacements are service. New build, repipes and commercial fit-out are contract. Almost every wrong purchase on this page comes from a service shop buying contract software or the reverse.
Jobber, on our scoring, at 8.8 out of 10 from $49 a month month-to-month. It has the best combination of quoting, on-site payment and published pricing for a one-to-five van residential shop. Housecall Pro at 8.0 is the better choice if your work comes mainly from homeowners and online reviews.
Between $49 and $149 a month for a single-user plan, from the vendors that will say. Jobber is $49 month-to-month or $21 annually for the first twelve months and $29 after. Housecall Pro is $79 or $59 annually. Knowify is $149 or $99 annually, plus $99 if you need service dispatch. ServiceTitan, BuildOps and FieldPulse publish nothing. All checked on 24 August 2026.
No vertical specialist owns this category the way Roofr and AccuLynx own roofing or Skimmer owns pool service. Every platform ranking for the term is either a general field service system with a plumbing landing page, a commercial contractor platform, or a time-tracking tool. Plumbing is large enough to attract everyone and specific enough for nobody to have cornered.
Because most sites quote the promotional rate without the expiry. Jobber’s pricing page states the annual figure applies for twelve months and then rises: $21 becomes $29 on Core, $70 becomes $99 on Connect, $105 becomes $149 on Grow. There is also an up-to-40% promotion on the page that ends on 31 August 2026.
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Last reviewed 24 August 2026. Every price on this page was checked against the vendor’s own pricing page on that date.
Ask Knowify whether Service Pro is included in the quote you are given, because the base plan will not dispatch a callout. Ask BuildOps and ServiceTitan for a written price at your exact truck count before the demo, not after. And if you prepay Jobber annually, put a note in the calendar for month thirteen.
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