Crew-scale job management
Job management software for electrical contractors, judged on what can be verified
A contractor's problem is not the same as an electrician's. One truck needs scheduling and an invoice; a contractor running crews across service calls, subcontracted work and multi-week commercial jobs needs to know what each job cost after the dust settles. This page therefore ranks on job costing and crew-size fit — both recorded in the reviewed catalog — and says plainly where the catalog has nothing to say. If you are a one-truck operation, the sibling page for electricians is built around your constraints instead.
13 reviewed products serve electrical work; 10 of them also list job costing, which is the capability that separates job management from job scheduling. For a crew of two to fifty, start with the 4 that publish a real price and test job costing against a finished job during the trial. For commercial operations past fifty technicians, the field narrows to 4 platforms, all quote-only. The cross-trade picture is on job management software for trades.
Electrical products that can cost a job, cheapest published price first
Every product below serves electrical contractors and lists job costing in the reviewed catalog. GPS tracking is shown because it is the closest verified proxy for dispatch — the catalog records whether live technician location exists, not how good the dispatch board is. Prices appear only where a vendor publishes a real number and somebody checked the source.
| Software | Published entry | Pricing model | GPS tracking | 50+ technicians | Pricing source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ServiceM8 | $29/mo | tiered | Listed | Not listed | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| Fergus | $31/mo per user | tiered | Listed | Not listed | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| Tradify | $47/mo per user | per user | Not listed | Not listed | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| Service Fusion | $208/mo | flat | Listed | Not listed | Checked 2026-08-09 |
| Commusoft | Quote only | quote only | Not listed | Yes | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| FieldPulse | Quote only | quote only | Listed | Not listed | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| ServiceTitan | Quote only | quote only | Listed | Yes | Checked 2026-08-09 |
| ServiceTrade | Quote only | quote only | Not listed | Yes | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| Simpro | Quote only | quote only | Not listed | Yes | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| Workiz | Quote only | quote only | Listed | Not listed | Checked 2026-09-26 |
Serving electrical but without job costing listed, so ruled out here rather than quietly omitted: Housecall Pro, Jobber, Kickserv. They may schedule and invoice electrical work perfectly well; they will not tell you which of last month's jobs lost money, and for a contractor that is the question.
Why job costing is the contractor filter
A service electrician's margin lives in the price book: quote the call right and the job takes care of itself. A contractor's margin lives in the gap between the estimate and what the crew actually burned — labour at two or three rates, materials from more than one supplier, a rented lift, and the variation the general contractor approved verbally on a Tuesday. Without per-job cost attribution, that gap is invisible until the year-end accounts, which is far too late to fix the bidding. That is why this page filters on job costing rather than treating it as one feature among six: for crew-scale work it is the difference between managing jobs and merely recording them.
The quote-only platforms price by conversation, and that is a fact worth knowing
6 of the 10 candidates publish no dollar figure at all: Commusoft, FieldPulse, ServiceTitan, ServiceTrade, Simpro, Workiz. That is not an omission in our data — it is how these vendors sell, and it means a sales conversation before any number appears. What follows that conversation is only partly on record: Simpro's own pricing page discloses a separate implementation fee, and ServiceTitan is widely reported as heavy to implement; the records for the others say nothing either way. Of the 4 platforms fitting 50+ technician operations, all sit in this group (Commusoft, ServiceTitan, ServiceTrade, Simpro). Quote-only does not always mean commercial scale, though: FieldPulse, Workiz price by quote but are listed for small and growing teams, not 50+ operations. For a genuine commercial contractor the conversation can be worth having, and the catalog records where each platform's depth sits: commercial assets and contracts for ServiceTrade and Commusoft, multi-company workflows for Simpro, reporting and job-costing depth for ServiceTitan. For a ten-technician shop it usually is not. The three pricing states on this site — published, quote-only, and not verified — are kept apart deliberately; the reasoning is on the methodology page.
What the catalog cannot tell you, stated plainly
Electrical contracting has requirements this dataset has no field for, and nobody here has tested them side by side. So instead of a ranked opinion dressed as a fact, here is the honest list of what you must verify yourself in every trial: progress billing and applications for payment on longer commercial jobs; subcontractor handling, including retention; panel schedules and takeoff, which belong to estimating software — a separate tool category this site does not review; certificate and compliance paperwork; and the quality of the dispatch board itself, for which the GPS column above is only a proxy. A vendor demo will happily gloss all five. A trial with your own finished job will not.
Run this test
Rebuild one finished commercial job during the trial
Take a multi-day job your crews completed last quarter and rebuild it in each finalist: two crews at different labour rates, materials from at least two suppliers, an equipment rental, one approved variation, and a subcontracted portion if you carry one. Then compare what the software says the job cost against what your accounts say it cost.
The system should be able to
- Hold separate labour rates per crew member rather than one blended number.
- Attach supplier invoices and rentals to the job, not just to the month.
- Record the variation as a change to the job's value, not a new job.
- Show the running cost position while the job is still open.
Afterwards you should be able to
- See estimated against actual, split by labour and materials.
- Tell which crew, stage or supplier moved the margin.
- Report across jobs to find which work type quietly loses money.
- Reuse the actuals when bidding the next similar job.
Service work and project work pull the software in opposite directions
Most electrical contractors run both: reactive service calls that live or die on dispatch speed, and quoted project work that lives or dies on cost control. The products in the table lean different ways. The platforms with GPS tracking listed are generally built around the live day — who is where, which call is next — while the catalog's notes on the 50+ platforms cluster around the record: assets and contracts, multi-company operations, reporting depth. A shop that is mostly service with occasional installs should weight the first; a contractor whose revenue is mostly quoted jobs should weight the second. What the catalog cannot supply is a quality ranking: it records job costing as listed or not listed, nothing finer, and published-price products in this table list it just as the quote-only group does — a hidden price is not evidence of better costing. The trial above is the only ranking that counts.
What does job management software cost for an electrical contractor?
Among the 10 candidates here, 4 publish paid entry pricing, running from $29 to $208 a month — but 2 of those 4 published prices are per user, so multiply by crew size before comparing. The 6 quote-only platforms price by sales conversation; of those, Simpro's pricing page additionally discloses an implementation fee.
How is this different from the electricians page?
Intent. The electricians page is built for one truck or a very small team, where subscription cost and setup time dominate. This page assumes crews, mixed service and project work, and the need to know per-job profitability — so it filters on job costing and surfaces which platforms fit past fifty technicians.
Do any of these handle subcontractors and retention?
Unknown, honestly. The reviewed catalog has no field for subcontractor management or retention, and nobody here has tested those workflows side by side, so this page will not rank on them. Treat every vendor claim about subcontract handling as unverified until you have pushed a real subcontracted job through the trial.
Why is there no estimating or takeoff column?
Because estimate quality is not in the dataset and cannot be read off a feature list. Electrical takeoff belongs to estimating software, a separate tool category this site does not review; the products here are the operational system that tells you afterwards whether the estimate was right. That is what the job-costing filter is for.
Trades, job costing, GPS tracking and size fit come from the reviewed catalog, where they are editorially maintained and dated by review; every price carries a source URL and the date it was checked. Progress billing, subcontractor handling, takeoff and dispatch board quality are explicitly not rated here, because they have not been tested.