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Accounting Problems with Jobber Payments
I saw a post that was voicing the same frustration that I have and it looks like none of the responses were truly helpful… so here’s my version and hoping Jobber will resolve it. (Yes, I have already spoken to Jobber representatives several times about the issue and they couldn’t do anything about it… other than change the program which is what I’m advocating for) We enabled Jobber Payments a while back because we rely pretty heavily on getting down-payments especially for bigger jobs. However, we quickly realized that ANY transaction going through Jobber payments didn’t match the invoice amounts. In short, we figured out that it was because it was taking the fees out BEFORE the money was deposited and it was an absolute NIGHTMARE to fix our books and match numbers. Made reconciling literally impossible. It also was difficult to match the payments to an account. We had to hire a separate accountant to fix it and we ended up shutting it down before it could do more damage. We have been sending payment links with the QuickBooks payment processor because it actually works without messing up the books, but it can be a pain to send the invoice twice. Not to mention once they actually pay we have to manually enter the payment into Jobber since the sync is only one-way. I now know that we aren’t the only ones with this experience. Please like this post so Jobber will do something about this. Any tips would also be appreciated in the meantime.
Invoice Frequency
Im almost positive im just missing it. Is there any way to change the default invoice setting. I bill per visit. Not monthly. Yes i can change it on the job screen. Just one less click. And basically for the very small few that i bill out monthly, it is a change from normal so i remember that part.
Changing Properties on Invoices
It's very cumbersome and difficult to change the property / address on an invoice if it is not correct from the very beginning. This is very annoying. Please add an option to choose a different property or add a new address in all areas an address is shown. Make it easy to change.Advice adding the credit card service fee to invoices
Hello Jobber Community! I'm an operations contractor for a Denver-based tree care company, and I'm hoping to crowdsource some insight... Does anyone have advice on how to best navigate charging clients for credit card processing fees? I actually just discovered today that it is not illegal in the state of Colorado (as well as many other states) to add that 2ish% credit card service fee to invoices, and I’m hoping to hear your experiences or strategies. Currently, Jobber doesn’t have a feature to automatically apply a designated service fee when clients choose to pay with a credit card through the digital invoices we send. This creates a few challenges: We’d need to ask the client ahead of time how they plan to pay so we can manually add the service fee to their invoice. Totally fine.. except... If they tell us they want to pay by credit, but decide to pay by debit after they've been invoiced, it creates an administrative mess—we’d have to issue a refund, send a new invoice, reverse transactions in QuickBooks, and add weeks to securing that revenue once and for all. Woof. How do you all manage this in your business? Do you: Absorb the cost of credit card fees as a business expense and increase the cost of your services? Offer a “cash discount” instead of a service fee? Use another tool or workaround to handle these situations? My goal is to make sure we're being as transparent as possible with our clients, continue offering competitive bids, protect our revenue, and keep our administrative overhead as lean as possible. Any advice or insights would be super helpful! Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts!Why does Jobber prompt me to add my email when sending invoices from my phone?
If I am sending an invoice or a job form via email on my phone, and I get to the screen that shows me the preview of the email, a prompt pops up that is asking me to add my email. Does anyone else see this message? I don't need to send that email to myself as all that information is saved in Jobber already. Do I have a setting turned on that maybe I need to change?How can businesses offer prepaid discounts without accepting card payments on specific quotes?
I offer prepayment for the season discounts to customers. as there is already a discount, i do not want to take a card payment as there are fees associated with that and i am not eating that on top of the discount. is there a way to make it where card payments are not accepted on individual quotes. I don't need or want to do it across the board.
