Electrical trade
Job management software for electricians, compared on what can be verified
13 of the 15 products in the reviewed catalog serve electrical work, and 9 of those fit a solo operation or a small team of up to ten technicians. This page ranks them by published entry price, shows the source and check date behind every number, and says plainly where the catalog has no data — including the electrician-specific paperwork that none of these products has been tested on here.
For a small electrical outfit doing mostly service and small works, start with the cheapest published options below and test quoting a real job during the trial. If your work is project-heavy commercial contracting with progress billing, the electrical contractors page covers the platforms built for that scale. If you are still deciding what category of tool you need at all, the umbrella guide to job management software for trades compares across trades rather than within one.
Electrical products that fit a solo or small shop
Every product below lists electrical among its trades and fits solo operators or small teams of up to ten technicians in the reviewed catalog. Prices show only where a vendor publishes a real number and somebody opened the page and checked it; the pricing model matters as much as the number, because a price marked per user grows with every electrician you add, and even a flat entry price can cover a single user — the source behind each number spells out what is included.
| Software | Published entry | Pricing model | Job costing | Free trial | Pricing source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jobber | $29/mo | tiered | Not listed | 14 days | Checked 2026-08-18 |
| ServiceM8 | $29/mo | tiered | Listed | 14 days | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| Fergus | $31/mo per user | tiered | Listed | 14 days | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| Tradify | $47/mo per user | per user | Listed | 14 days | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| Housecall Pro | $59/mo | tiered | Not listed | 14 days | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| Kickserv | $60/mo | tiered | Not listed | 30 days | Checked 2026-08-10 |
| Service Fusion | $208/mo | flat | Listed | Not published | Checked 2026-08-09 |
| FieldPulse | Quote only | quote only | Listed | Not published | Checked 2026-09-24 |
| Workiz | Quote only | quote only | Listed | 7 days | Checked 2026-09-26 |
Serving electrical but built for bigger operations, so excluded from this table rather than quietly omitted: Commusoft, ServiceTitan, ServiceTrade, Simpro. They are not worse products; they are wrong at this headcount, where their implementation and administrative overhead lands on the person who should be on the tools. They reappear on the electrical field service software shortlist, which ranks the full segment without the size cut.
“Job management” and “field service management” are the same shelf
If you search either phrase you land on largely the same products, so it is worth being honest about the difference: it is vocabulary more than category. The emphasis differs slightly. Job management leans toward the record of the job — the quote, the materials, the hours, whether it made money. Field service management leans toward the live day — who takes the call, where the vans are, whether the arrival window still holds. A small electrical outfit mostly needs the first: at that size the schedule may still fit in one person’s head, but the paperwork — quotes built from memory, second-fix materials nobody logged, invoices that go out weeks late — is exactly what a job record exists to catch. If dispatch is genuinely your bottleneck, the category overview ranks all 15 platforms on the operational side instead.
Electrical job management software, ranked on job costing
Because job management is about the record, the one catalog capability worth ranking on is job costing: labour, parts and overhead attributed per job, so you can tell whether that consumer-unit change actually made money. 6 of the 9 small-shop electrical products list it: ServiceM8, Fergus, Tradify, Service Fusion, FieldPulse, Workiz. For electrical work this matters more than in route trades, because the spread between a forty-five-minute fault-find and a three-day rewire is wide enough that averaged margins tell you nothing — profitable service calls can subsidise losing project work for years without anyone noticing.
Serving electrical at this size but without job costing listed: Jobber, Housecall Pro, Kickserv. They will schedule, quote and invoice perfectly well; they will not tell you afterwards which jobs were worth doing.
Run this test
Rebuild one completed job during the trial
Take a job you have already finished and billed — a consumer unit replacement or a partial rewire works well — and rebuild it end to end in each finalist: quote with materials at your real supplier prices, two labour rates, the variation that came up mid-job, and the final invoice. Then compare what the software says the job cost against what it actually cost you.
The product should let you
- Quote from a price list that holds your real material costs, not list prices.
- Record a variation without rebuilding the quote from scratch.
- Convert quote to job to invoice without re-keying line items.
- Raise the invoice from the van the day the job finishes.
Afterwards you should see
- Estimated against actual cost for that job, split by labour and materials.
- Where the variation landed — on your margin or on the customer.
- Whether your labour rate survived the hours actually worked.
- A number you would trust when pricing the next similar job.
What this catalog does not record about electrical work
Electrical work carries a heavy compliance load: installation and condition-report certificates, test results, and a paper trail an inspection can demand years later. The reviewed catalog has no field for any of it, because nobody here has tested certificate workflows side by side — so this page makes no claim about which products handle them, and you should treat any comparison site that confidently ranks “certificate support” without showing its testing with suspicion. The same applies to estimating from drawings and takeoff: that is a separate tool category this site does not review. Both belong on your trial checklist precisely because no table here can answer them for you.
What does job management software cost for a small electrical business?
Among the small-shop electrical products here that publish pricing, paid entry tiers run from $29 to $208 a month, and the model matters as much as the number: a price billed per user — whatever the vendor calls the plan structure — multiplies by every electrician you put on the tools, and even a flat entry price can cover a single user, with extra seats priced separately. Billing cadence varies too: some published figures are annual-prepaid rates that cost more billed monthly, others are month-to-month, so check the source behind each number before comparing.
Is electrical job management software a different product from field service management?
No. The vendors on this page appear under both labels. The useful distinction is emphasis — the job record versus the live schedule — not the shelf the product sits on. Pick by trade fit, headcount fit and pricing model, not by which phrase the vendor uses.
Which of these handles electrical certificates and test reports?
Unknown, honestly. The reviewed catalog has no certificate or test-report field because that capability has not been verified here for any vendor. It is exactly the kind of claim this site refuses to publish untested. Verify it yourself during the trial with a real certificate from a recent job.
Why does Workiz show no price?
Because Workiz publishes none. Its plans page lists Standard, Pro and Ultimate, each marked “Request pricing”, so the table shows “Quote only”, the same as other vendors that price through a sales call. It used to show “Not verified” instead, because the vendor’s pricing page refused our automated checks; the page has since been checked. That earlier label was a fact about our verification, not about the product, and this site keeps the two states distinct.
Trades, size fit and job costing 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. Certificate handling, test-report output and estimating quality are explicitly not rated here, because they have not been tested.