Vento vs Joblogic

What Joblogic is built for

Joblogic is field-service management software, and it’s a solid one. It’s aimed at multi-trade and commercial maintenance contractors who need to schedule engineers, manage planned maintenance contracts, track SLAs, and keep an asset register across sites. If you’re running PPM contracts across dozens of buildings, or you’ve got engineers covering several trades on the same day, that’s the territory it’s built for.

What it isn’t built for is the engineering step before any of that admin happens: working out what size system a room actually needs, designing the split or multi-split layout, and turning that design into a quote without re-keying it somewhere else.

The difference is the engineering, not the admin

This is the actual gap, and it’s worth being specific about rather than just saying “design tools”.

Vento calculates room-by-room heat loss and uses it to select equipment against the load, not against a guess. From there it produces a split or multi-split system design — a real scaled layout, not a placeholder — and the quote comes directly out of that design. There’s no separate re-keying step where the numbers from the survey get typed into a different system to raise the quote.

This isn’t part of what general field-service platforms are built around, as far as they advertise — worth confirming with Joblogic directly if you think otherwise. But if you’re currently sizing jobs on a spreadsheet or by experience and then raising the quote separately, that’s the exact gap Vento closes. See everything Vento includes for how the design-to-quote flow works.

You don’t give up the job management to get it

A fair question at this point is whether choosing an air-con-specific tool means losing the day-to-day running of the business. It doesn’t, and it’s worth being plain about that rather than letting the engineering story imply otherwise.

Vento runs jobs, scheduling and CRM, quotes and invoicing, recurring service and maintenance plans with certificates, and a full mobile workflow for engineers on site. It has a drag-and-drop dispatch board, van and store stock, purchase orders with invoice matching, per-job subcontractor access, lone-worker check-ins, a customer portal, Schedule of Rates pricing you can import from NHF, PSA or your own, and batch billing for maintenance contracts. Route planning is included from the Professional plan up.

That list is parity, not a claim to beat anyone. Joblogic and the other general platforms do most of this too, and they’ve been doing it for a long time. The honest position is that Vento does the admin as well, and does the engineering they don’t attempt.

F-Gas and REFCOM: the compliance thread

F-Gas record-keeping isn’t really about ticking a compliance box once a year. It’s about whether the record sits against the physical unit or floats around as a note on a job.

In Vento, every installed system carries its refrigerant type, charge size and CO₂ equivalent, and leak-check dates are scheduled from that charge size. When an audit asks about the system, the answer is already attached to it rather than buried in a job history. See how Vento handles F-Gas record-keeping for the specifics.

Joblogic’s F-Gas capability isn’t something to state definitively here — general comparison sources mark it as varying by plan. If REFCOM certification and asset-level F-Gas tracking matter to your business, put that question directly to any vendor you’re evaluating, Joblogic included. Ask to see the actual record a leak check gets tied to, not just a feature name on a brochure.

Switching from Joblogic: migration and retraining

The honest objection to switching software isn’t features, it’s hassle — moving your data across and getting engineers used to something new mid-season.

The practical answer is that you don’t have to migrate your entire job history to start. You can begin on your next survey and leave historical jobs where they already sit. There’s no requirement to import everything on day one.

That won’t suit everyone. If your whole operation is built around multi-trade scheduling and an asset register spanning trades Vento doesn’t cover, that’s a real reason to stay where you are, and this page isn’t trying to talk you out of it.

Pricing

Vento’s pricing is published and flat: plans start at £49 a month, with the Professional plan at £149 a month including 3 seats and extra seats at £25. There’s a 14-day free trial on every plan, and no long contract — you’re not locked into a multi-year term. See the full pricing for what each plan includes.

Joblogic doesn’t publish a flat, comparable figure in the same way, so check their current pricing directly before comparing the two on cost, and ask specifically about contract length — that’s a place general field-service platforms sometimes differ from a rolling monthly plan.

Which should you pick?

If you run several trades and your asset register spans plumbing, electrical and general M&E as well as air conditioning, a broad platform like Joblogic covers ground Vento doesn’t, and that’s the right trade for you.

If air conditioning and heat pumps are the business — if your day starts with a heat load calculation and ends with a quote — then Vento gives you the same job management plus the engineering that decides what the job is in the first place. Compare Vento against the other options, or read our guide to the best air conditioning software in the UK if you’re weighing up more than these two.