Comparison
Omni Field and JobOS are both South African apps for tradespeople who quote, schedule and invoice from a phone. JobOS centres on voice capture, quoting and invoicing by speaking, and publishes a free tier. Omni Field covers the same admin and adds live GPS tracking, a client portal, recurring jobs and accounting integrations, priced per technician seat in Rand.
Information about JobOS comes from their public website, checked 2026-09-09. JobOS is based in South Africa and is A free tier that does not ask for a card, and one paid monthly subscription that unlocks the full voice capture. Their pricing page lists a Rand figure for the paid tier and a free tier above it..
JobOS is a South African job management, quoting and invoicing app for tradespeople, built around voice capture: the owner quotes, invoices and schedules by talking to the phone, and the site publishes trade and city pages for plumbers, electricians, painters and contractors.
| Capability | Omni Field |
|---|---|
| Countries priced for | Prices display in local currency for South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Egypt, Rwanda and Côte d'Ivoire at a fixed rate.Billing is processed in South African Rand, and the Rand amount is shown before payment. |
| Plans and entry price | Free at R0, PaYu at R149 per month plus R149 per technician seat, Growth at R349 per month including one technician plus R349 per extra seat, and Business is quoted.All advertised prices include 15% VAT. Viewer users are free; admin seats are R99 per month on PaYu and R199 on Growth. |
| Taking payment from customers | Card and bank payments through Paystack, with no separate merchant account to open. Payouts in 2 to 3 days, with a 1% transaction charge. |
| Customer notifications | Email and WhatsApp, sent from the job record so the thread stays attached to the work.There is no customer facing SMS channel. |
| Field app | An installable PWA for technicians that tolerates patchy signal, holding work in a sync queue until the connection returns.Offline tolerant with a sync queue, not a fully offline application. |
| Route planning | Multi-stop route optimisation that orders a technician's day around their appointment windows and time on site.Up to 60 stops per route. The ordering is solved on free-flow travel times; the times shown are traffic aware. |
| GPS and geofencing | Live technician tracking, geofence boundaries around sites with arrival and departure alerts, and clock-in that is verified against the site geofence. |
| Accounting | Xero and Sage Accounting South Africa, connected per account from system settings. |
| Client portal | Customers can see their jobs, quotes, invoices and documents in a portal on your own branded site. |
| Quoting and invoicing | Build a quote, convert it to a job, and invoice from the completed work without rekeying line items. |
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