Does TradeCert do gas certificates?

No. TradeCert is electrical certificates only: EIC, EICR, Minor Works, Emergency Lighting and Fire alarm, to BS7671 18th Edition. Tradehand includes ten certificate types free, for any trade, and runs the rest of the job around them.

TradeCert has a free tier for trying the app, but its pricing page says a subscription is required to download PDFs. Paid use is per user per month, with extra users on top and AI tokens metered. Tradehand has no monthly fee and includes certificates.

Does TradeCert quote, invoice and chase payments?

No. TradeCert makes electrical certificates, and markets no call answering, quoting, scheduling, invoicing or payment chasing. Tradehand does all of that around the certificate, so the job is booked, quoted, invoiced and paid.

What does TradeCert cost a three person firm?

TradeCert bills per user per month, so a three person firm pays for the first user and again for each of the other two, plus AI tokens over the allowance. Tradehand has no per user fee, includes certificates, and earns 5% of collected invoice payments after the fee-free allowance.

What is the best TradeCert alternative for UK electricians?

It depends what you want. If you only need a better certificate editor, little beats TradeCert. If you want software that also wins and runs the job, answering the missed call, quoting, scheduling, invoicing and chasing payment with certificates included, Tradehand is the alternative.

Can I use TradeCert and Tradehand together?

Yes. Plenty of electricians love the TradeCert editor, so keep it and let Tradehand handle the calls, quotes, bookings, invoices and chasing around it. Tradehand includes its own certificates, so you can drop TradeCert later.

What does Tradehand not do?

Tradehand does not import historic jobs, and its accounting push into Xero and QuickBooks is one way, not a sync, and not yet open to VAT registered companies. Its certificate editor is plain: no reading circuit data off a board photo.

How does Tradehand charge for certificates?

It does not. Tradehand includes ten certificate types free, digitally signed and countersigned, with no per certificate fee, no per user fee and no token metering. Tradehand only earns when a customer pays you, at 5% of the invoices Tradehand collects after the fee-free allowance.

Tradehand vs TradeCert

TradeCert makes the certificate. Tradehand runs the whole job.

TradeCert is a good electrical certificate app, and that is all it sets out to be. Tradehand answers the missed call, quotes, schedules, invoices and chases payment, with certificates included.

Blake FolgadoCo-founder, Tradehand

Published 10 July 2026Updated 24 July 2026

The short answer

If you only need beautifully produced electrical certificates and the work is already booked, TradeCert is excellent. It stops the moment the PDF is signed. Tradehand runs everything around the certificate, and includes certificates free, for 5% of collected invoice payments after the fee-free allowance.

Are you buying a tidier certificate, or more work won?

A certificate app makes the paperwork faster once the job is yours. It does not fill a thin diary. The office job is answering, quoting, booking and chasing, and that is a person's job.

An office admin

£25,000 /year

UK office manager starter salary, before NI and pension. Paid whether or not the invoices land.

Source: Office manager salary (National Careers)

Tradehand

£0 /month

Certificates included. No monthly fee, no per user fee, no metered tokens. 5% of what Tradehand collects after the fee-free allowance.

Salary: National Careers Service. TradeCert bills monthly per user, with each extra user added on top and AI tokens metered beyond a monthly allowance. Its free tier lets you try the app, but a subscription is required to download PDFs.

Side by side

	Tradehand	TradeCert
Electrical certificatesSource: TradeCert features and certificate types	Tradehand✓ Ten types, free, signed and countersigned	TradeCert✓ Its specialism: EIC, EICR, Minor Works and more
Depth of the certificate editorSource: TradeCert features and certificate types	TradehandPlain and quick, no board photo reading	TradeCert✓ Best in class, AI reads circuit data off a board photo
Answers the phoneSource: TradeCert features and certificate types	Tradehand✓ Included, and it quotes and books too	TradeCertNot marketed on tradecert.app
Quotes, scheduling and invoicingSource: TradeCert features and certificate types	Tradehand✓ All included, with a card payment link	TradeCertNot marketed on tradecert.app
Chases the moneySource: TradeCert features and certificate types	Tradehand✓ Chases the invoice, and the customer who went quiet too	TradeCertNot marketed on tradecert.app
Trades it coversSource: TradeCert features and certificate types	Tradehand✓ Any trade, gas and plumbing included	TradeCertElectrical certificates only, by design
How you are billedSource: TradeCert pricing	Tradehand£0 a month, 5% of collected invoices after the fee-free allowance	TradeCertMonthly per user, plus extra users, plus AI tokens

Where TradeCert stops and Tradehand keeps going

TradeCert's job starts once the work is booked and ends when the certificate is signed. Here is the Tuesday around that certificate: the calls, the quotes and the chasing.

TradeCert makes a superb certificate. Tradehand makes sure there is a booked, quoted, paid job for that certificate to belong to.

An honest recommendation

Choose TradeCert if…

·You only need electrical certificates and the work is already booked
·You want the deepest cert writing experience, and its AI board photo reading
·You already have something for calls, quoting, invoicing and payment

Choose Tradehand if…

✓Your problem is a thin diary, not slow paperwork
✓You want calls answered, quotes sent, jobs booked and payment chased without you
✓You would rather pay nothing in a quiet month, with certificates included

Be fair to TradeCert. On certificate writing alone it beats us, and by a clear margin: its AI reads circuit data straight off a photo of the board, which Tradehand cannot do.

Trying Tradehand takes a week

Keep TradeCert if you love it. Run Tradehand alongside it and see what it does that a certificate app cannot.

Day 1
Keep your certificates
Nothing to migrate. Carry on writing certs in TradeCert if you prefer its editor, and keep your history there.
Day 1
A person sets up your assistant
A person imports your customers and price list, then sets up your number, rates and diary. Historic jobs do not import.
Day 2 to 7
Judge it on jobs won
Missed calls forward to Tradehand, which answers, quotes and books as your business while you keep certifying in either app.

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See what happens around the certificate

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