Yes, pricing and repair isn't known until the job is diagnosed.
And we have to invoice the service first and seperate for several reasons. The client, unless they are an established customer, doesn't receive the quote until they pay the service fee. We had too many instances where the client would say, "Send me the service call, I'll get it paid." and we never hear from them again and not get paid.
Also when charging a service in Florida there is no tax, so it helps the accounting side of things some.
When we started with Jobber in 2025 it was only one invoice per job and we've continued that work flow. Maybe we need to look back into it now.
