Jobber got your diary and invoicing in order — a solid start. Growing means you need more: local pages that bring the work in, a price in pounds that doesn’t charge you per head, and RAMS and compliance built in. That’s SwarmCatcher — the whole life of a job, on your own UK server.
As you grow you need all three of these working together. Most job software gives you the middle one. SwarmCatcher gives you all three, in one system on your own server.
Local town landing pages built from your real completed jobs, town-by-town rank tracking, and enquiries that land straight in your pipeline — photos attached. This is the layer that brings the work in.
Estimate, schedule, crew app, photos and native invoicing — the day-to-day, with unlimited users included and no per-seat charge.
RAMS packs signed on a phone or tablet, compliance registers, renewal reminders and a full audit trail — the safety and paperwork side a job manager alone leaves to you.
Less about what you’re leaving, more about what you gain. Here’s what a growing specialist trade picks up on day one.
The jobs have to arrive before anything else. You need local pages built from your real work, rank tracking town by town, and every enquiry landing straight in your estimating pipeline with photos attached — so your diary fills itself, with no per-lead fees.
You want predictable cost in your own currency, and every hire to add capacity, not cost. One flat price in pounds with unlimited users — no exchange-rate surprises, no per-seat fee for the life of the account.
RAMS and compliance built in, and a sandbox that holds back outbound emails and messages so you can trial a full job — estimate, chase, dispatch — without ever testing on a live customer.
An honest side-by-side. Jobber figures are from their own current pricing page; the pound figures are our dated approximation — see the note under the table.
| Capability | Jobber | SwarmCatcher |
|---|---|---|
| Getting found (demand generation) | ✗ No native local SEO or rank tracking. Marketing is a paid add-on plus a basic website. | ✓ Local SEO landing pages built from your real jobs, town-by-town rank tracking, and integrated intake. |
| Currency & billing | ✗ Listed and billed in US dollars; UK businesses carry the exchange rate and usually foreign-card fees. | ✓ Billed in pounds, on a server in the UK. |
| Indicative monthly price | ✗ Core ≈£37, Connect ≈£106, Grow ≈£151, Plus ≈£380 (converted — see note). | ✓ One flat price in pounds, unlimited users included. |
| Cost per extra user | ✗ ≈£22 (US$29) per user per month on every plan, including Core. | ✓ None. Unlimited users included. |
| Estimating | ✗ Line items and flat rates. | ✓ Precision estimating with zone, parking and access adjustments built for field trades. |
| Compliance & safety | ✗ Not built in. | ✓ RAMS packs signed on a phone or tablet, compliance registers, renewal reminders and a full audit trail. |
| Safe testing | ✗ Changes act on live customers. | ✓ Sandbox and rehearsal mode hold back outbound emails and messages. |
| Where your data lives | ✗ Shared multi-tenant cloud. | ✓ Your own private server, fully isolated. |
| Built around you | ✗ Shared product backlog. | ✓ A defined process to build what your business actually needs. |
Jobber prices from getjobber.com/pricing, checked 31 August 2026 (standard monthly, listed in US dollars: Core $49, Connect $139, Grow $199, Plus $499; additional users $29 each). The pound figures are our approximation at 1 USD = 0.739 GBP on 31 August 2026, including a typical 3% card FX fee. Jobber bills in US dollars, so the actual pound cost moves with the exchange rate — treat these as a guide, not a fixed price.
On price, the flat unlimited-user model overtakes Jobber’s per-seat pricing at around ten people — and Jobber bills in dollars. But you don’t need to wait for that to be better off.
From the first month you’re ahead: priced in pounds with no per-user fee, one integrated system instead of a diary manager plus bolt-ons, estimate → schedule → crew → invoice in one flow, and RAMS and compliance built in. Simpler to run, and no exchange-rate surprises.
And that price comparison is software cost only — it ignores the work your new local pages bring in, something Jobber can’t do at all. Win one extra job a month — around £400 — and the whole system is paid for. A single £100 job a week more than covers it.
Every job you complete feeds the local pages that win the next one — more real-job proof, stronger rankings, more enquiries. It’s a self-feeding cycle: the longer it runs, the harder it works and the less the monthly fee matters.
You don’t rip anything out on day one. Your private instance is built alongside Jobber, and you switch over only once it’s proven.
We stand up your own private instance while Jobber keeps running. Nothing is disrupted.
Clients, estimates and job history are imported so you carry on where you left off.
Go live when your pages and pipeline are proven — on your timeline, not a deadline.
A full data-export guarantee, so your business is never locked in — with us or anyone else.
Yes, Jobber is used in the UK. But its pricing is set and billed in US dollars, so as a UK business you carry the exchange rate and usually foreign-transaction card fees on top. SwarmCatcher is billed in pounds, on a server in the UK.
Jobber lists prices in US dollars, so there is no fixed pound price — it moves with the exchange rate. As a guide, at 1 USD = 0.739 GBP on 31 August 2026 and including a typical 3% card FX fee, Jobber’s monthly plans work out around £37 (Core), £106 (Connect), £151 (Grow) and £380 (Plus), plus about £22 per extra user per month. SwarmCatcher is one flat price in pounds with unlimited users.
Yes. Jobber charges US$29 per additional user per month on every plan, including the entry-level Core plan, for as long as that person works for you. SwarmCatcher includes unlimited users at no extra cost.
Yes. We import your clients, estimates and job history during a parallel onboarding, and SwarmCatcher gives you a full data-export guarantee so you are never locked in.
Click through the live demo and see the working pipeline — estimate, schedule, crew app, photos, invoicing and compliance, all in pounds and all in one place. The local-SEO engine that wins you the work is built around your own business, from your real completed jobs.
If you want a system that does all this, and more — talk to us and tell us what’s stopping you. No hard sell, no obligation — just a straight conversation.