Four subscriptions, one card statement
A salon owner checks the bank statement and finds Smallpdf, TinyPNG, Bitly and Invoice Simple all billing monthly, four small charges for four jobs that each take a minute. Each one started as "just this once" during a deadline and never got cancelled.
What Jobbit offers instead
Jobbit compared what these subscriptions actually cost against its own free tools. It runs the same four jobs, PDF compression, image resizing, QR codes and invoices, from one account with no daily task cap on any of them, so the subscriptions stop being necessary rather than merely getting cheaper. The catch with most free tiers is not price, it is timing: the cap always seems to bite on the day you actually need three files done instead of two.
What the subscriptions actually cost
| Job | Paid tool | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PDF compression | Smallpdf Pro | $15 a month, or $108 a year |
| Image resizing | TinyPNG Web Pro | $39 a year |
| QR codes and links | Bitly Core | $10 a month, billed annually |
| Invoices | Invoice Simple Essentials | $6.99 a month |
Add the cheapest paid tiers together and a one-person business pays roughly £30 a month for jobs that each take a minute to do.
Three steps to cut the subscriptions
- List which of the four jobs your business actually pays for, and check which plan it is on and what it is really being used for.
- Try the matching form on Jobbit's tools page: compress a PDF, generate a QR code, resize a batch of photos or write an invoice.
- Cancel the subscription once a normal week fits inside the free plan's daily credits, and keep it only where a paid feature genuinely earns its place, an audit-trailed signature, for example.
Where the free tool stops
Jobbit's free plan gives 100 credits a day, no card, which covers a shop or salon's usual mix of these jobs comfortably, and there is no watermark and nothing published anywhere without you asking. Scan analytics across many campaigns, or a full design suite beyond simple resizing, is where a paid tool still wins over the free form, and there is no shame in keeping that one subscription while dropping the other three.
