A free alternative to Pro Certs

Yes. Tradehand carries no monthly fee, no setup fee, no add-ons and no charge per certificate, and no trial clock sits behind any of it. Write and export as many as the job list demands for £0. Tradehand's income is 5% of an invoice after the fee-free allowance, taken once the customer has paid.

No. Tradehand certificates are free, so there is no subscription to lapse and no trial clock to run down. Pro Certs is a subscription product with a seven day free trial.

Tradehand covers ten types: EIC, EICR, minor works, EV charge point, PAT, gas safety, domestic fire alarm, boiler service, earth bonding and EPC. Pro Certs adds BS 5266 emergency lighting, BS 5839-6 fire alarm and Part F ventilation.

Pro Certs markets certificate creation, customisation and management. The Pro Certs site does not market call answering, quoting, booking or payment chasing. Tradehand does all four, and takes nothing for them until an invoice has been collected.

Your customer list and your price list come across, moved by a person at Tradehand rather than by you on a tablet between jobs. Historic jobs and certificates already issued in Pro Certs stay where they are today, so keep that account, or export the records you want for reference. New certificates start in Tradehand on day one.

Yes. A Tradehand certificate is digitally signed on the tablet in your hand, and a second person can countersign that same certificate, so a supervising electrician signs off work someone else carried out. Countersigning is free, as are all ten Tradehand certificate types.

Nothing per month. Tradehand charges no monthly fee, no setup fee and no add-ons, and earns 5% of an invoice after the fee-free allowance only after it has collected it for you, so a week of small jobs costs 5% of what actually came in and a quiet week costs nothing. Hiring an office admin for the same work runs to roughly £25,000 a year.

No. Nothing to sign, no minimum term and no cancellation fee, so you can stop the office work whenever you like and carry on writing certificates without a software bill. Tradehand takes nothing during the fee-free allowance. After that it earns 5% only once it has collected the invoice.