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This calculator vs. Jobber
Two different shapes: Jobber is an account-based platform for running a home service company's whole operation, including scheduling the crew and invoicing the customer once a job is priced. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this hardwood refinish cost, before you quote it.
What each tool is for
Jobber is a field service management platform used by home service businesses — flooring, cleaning, HVAC, plumbing, and lawn care among them — to run client management and online quoting, scheduling and crew dispatch, invoicing and online payments, and a client-facing hub, tied to one account used on an ongoing basis across every job the company runs. Jobber's own site is not reachable from this session to confirm today's specific feature list, plan names, or pricing, so only its well-documented identity and category are stated here: nothing about it is invented, and no dollar figure for it appears on this page. Public descriptions of that kind of field service software describe scheduling, invoicing, and collecting payment for a job once its scope and price already exist; none describe working out what a hardwood refinish should cost from field square footage, stair treads, and closets before you quote it — which is the one thing this calculator does.
This calculator does none of what Jobber does. It does not manage a client list, dispatch a route across a season, or collect a payment. It takes field square footage, stair treads, closets, a stain change, and extra coats as their own line items, plus loaded refinisher wage, payroll burden, travel, overhead, and target margin, and turns that into the price, the price per square foot, the share of hours eaten by stairs, the effective hourly rate, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money — plus, if you already have a price on the table, a check of whether it clears that walk-away floor, and a single printable customer proposal for that one job. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I need to manage clients, schedule routes, and invoice and collect payment for refinishing jobs and other flooring work across my whole season. | Jobber, or a comparable field service platform — running that ongoing operation is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this refinish, given its field, stairs, closets, and coats? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| How much do fourteen treads, two closets, and a stain change actually add over the same living-room field of screen-and-recoat? | This calculator's stair, closet, and stain-change line items, not a flat price-per-square-foot rule of thumb. |
| Is the price I'm about to quote still above my walk-away cost for this job? | This calculator's walk-away price check. |
| I already have jobs priced and need to schedule routes, invoice, and collect payment across many customers, over a season. | Jobber — built as an ongoing, account-based platform for exactly that job. |
| How does the math behind a hardwood refinishing bid actually work? | This calculator's own pricing walkthrough. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. Jobber's tools are used through a paid account. |
Most hardwood refinishing crews get different value from each: Jobber (or a comparable field service platform) for running the company's whole season — clients, routes, invoicing, and payment collection — as an ongoing subscription, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login answer to what one refinish should cost from its field, stairs, and closets before a business system is involved. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a client record, a scheduled route, or a signed proposal.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
Common questions
Should I use this calculator or Jobber?
They do different jobs, and a hardwood refinishing crew of any size will likely end up touching both eventually. Jobber is a field service management platform used across home service trades — flooring, cleaning, HVAC, plumbing, and lawn care among them — to run client management and online quoting, scheduling and crew dispatch, invoicing and online payments, and a client-facing hub, tied to one account used on an ongoing basis across every job the company runs. Jobber's own site is not reachable from this session to confirm today's specific feature list, plan names, or pricing, so only its well-documented identity and category are stated here: nothing about it is invented, and no dollar figure for it appears on this page. This calculator does one narrower thing: starting from field square footage, stair treads, closets, stain change, and extra coats, plus loaded refinisher wage, payroll burden, overhead, and target margin, it turns that into the price, the price per square foot, the share of hours eaten by stairs, the effective hourly rate, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money, before any of it touches a business-management system. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A crew that already manages clients, dispatches routes, and invoices and collects payment across a whole season is better served by Jobber or a comparable field service platform; a contractor who wants an instant, private answer to what one hardwood refinish should cost from its field, stairs, and closets before opening a business system is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with Jobber?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Jobber. Jobber is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
Open the Hardwood Refinishing Bid Calculator to price your own job.