QuickBooks screwing HVAC bookkeepers with $75/month hikes?

Just got hit with another price bump on QuickBooks Online, now it's $75 a month for the essentials plan we need to track all our Trane installs and R-410a refrigerant costs. Switched from desktop last year thinking it'd be easier for service calls but damn, this inflation is killing small shops like mine. Who's got a better alternative that actually integrates with Jobber without breaking the bank?

FML, same here - been paying through the nose for years and they just keep jacking it up on us independents.

Tried ditching it for FreshBooks but lost half my time on payroll for the techs.

SharkBite for bookkeeping? Nah, but seriously, QuickBooks ain't the only game - Wave is free and handles most HVAC invoicing fine.

Boss called me at 3am to fix a frozen coil job, and now I'm buried in receipts trying to code it right in QB. What a life.

I feel your pain, been using it 5 years and every update breaks the integration with our Carrier parts database.

Wave works great until you hit 100 invoices a month, then it's throttled and you're back to square one.

Hit 6 figures last year by dumping QB for a simple Excel setup tied to Housecall Pro - saved $500 easy.

Private equity vultures buying up software like ServiceTitan and hiking prices to squeeze us dry. Time to unionize the trades or something.

Remember that time I entered a whole duct replacement wrong and owed taxes on phantom income? Classic QB glitch, laughed it off with a beer.

Same boat, my mini-split installs are killing me on the tracking side - anyone else buried under paperwork?

Tried Zoho once, free tier was decent for quoting but premium hit like a refrigerant leak - avoid.

Upgraded to QB Premier for $120/month thinking it'd fix everything, nope - still a crap-show for zoning system bids.