Best job management software for electricians (UK, 2026)

Blake FolgadoCo-founder, Tradehand

Published 30 August 2026

A UK electrician shopping for job management software wants three things in one place: the diary, the quote, and the certificate. All seven products below do the first two. They separate on the third, and on what happens to the fault call that comes in while your hands are in a consumer unit.

Written for UK sole traders and small electrical businesses. Every price and capability below was checked against the vendor's own page on 30 August 2026, linked beside the claim.

Best job management software for electricians (UK, 2026)

The short answer

The best job management software for UK electricians is Tradify. On quoting, scheduling and accounting depth it beats everything else here, it produces the EICR, EIC and PAT on the same subscription, and it is the only app on this list with a true two-way Xero sync. Tradehand ranks second because Tradehand answers the fault call that Tradify sends to voicemail. Which one you want depends on whether you lose more money on admin or on missed calls.

Best overall: Tradify · £34–£44 per user a month for the deepest quoting and scheduling, with EICR, EIC and PAT certificates from the £37 Pro plan.
Best for missed calls: Tradehand · answers, quotes, books and chases as your own business, with no monthly fee and 5% of collected invoice payments after the fee-free allowance.
Best free option: ServiceM8 · free up to 30 jobs a month, with electrical forms buyable on every plan including the free one.
Best for certificates: Powered Now · electrical certificate templates from £32 a month, with automated expiry reminders.
Best for job margin: Fergus · £39–£45 a month for price books, materials and job-level profitability, with certificates free on both plans.
Best for a contracting team: Commusoft · multi-engineer scheduling, asset history and a customer portal, priced only on request.
Best for commercial contracts: Joblogic · from £45 per user a month billed annually, built around multi-site planned maintenance.

Comparison at a glance

Ranked on how much of an electrical business each one actually runs: the depth of the job management, whether the certificates are included, who answers the customer, and what it costs.

Software	Job management	Certificates	Who answers the phone	Price
1.Tradify	Quoting, scheduling, invoicing and job costing, all mature	EICR, EIC and PAT, from the £37 Pro plan up	You do, every time	£34–£44 per user per month
2.Tradehand	Quotes, booking, invoicing and payment chasing, done for you	BS 7671 certificates: EICR, EIC, minor works and more	Tradehand does, on call, text, email, WhatsApp and web chat	No monthly fee, 5% of invoices collected after the fee-free allowance
3.ServiceM8	Booking, scheduling, quoting and invoicing on every plan	Bought per form from the Form Store; custom forms need Growing	You do, unless you buy ServiceM8 Phone	Free up to 30 jobs/mo, then £25–£269/mo
4.Powered Now	Quoting, invoicing, scheduling and project tracking	Hundreds of electrical templates, plus expiry reminders	You do	£28–£40/mo; certificates need Professional, chasing needs Premium
5.Fergus	Quoting, price books, materials and job profitability	Included free on both plans	You do	£39–£45 a month, plus £12 a month per timesheet user
6.Commusoft	Deep scheduling, asset history and a customer portal	Customisable digital forms and certificates on every plan	You do; AI:den+ writes the admin, not the answers	No prices published; quoted per licence on request
7.Joblogic	Planned maintenance, asset history and multi-site contracts	Standard electronic forms; a custom builder on Enterprise	You do; helpdesk cover is bought separately	From £45 per user per month, billed annually

The ranking, one by one

The same seven in ranked order, each with its published price, its honest pros and cons, and the electrician it fits.

Tradify

Our pick

The deepest job management, with the certificates on the same bill

Best for an electrician who wants the diary, the quote and the EICR in one place£34–£44 per user per month

Job management: Quoting, scheduling, invoicing and job costing, all mature
Certificates: EICR, EIC and PAT, from the £37 Pro plan up
Who answers: You do, every time
Price: £34–£44 per user per month

Tradify pros

Tradify has the most complete quoting and scheduling of any app here
Digital EICR, EIC, PAT and other electrical certificates are built in
Two-way Xero sync, which nothing else on this list offers
Quote & Invoice Reminders chase for approval and for payment

Tradify cons

Tradify does not answer the phone, so the fault call at 2pm goes to voicemail
Certificates need the £37 Pro plan; the £34 Lite plan does not include them
£34–£44 per user per month, doubling the moment you take on a second spark

Tradify is the strongest pure job management app on this list for a UK electrician. Quoting, scheduling with Google Calendar sync, invoicing and job costing are all mature rather than bolted on, and Tradify creates, signs and sends digital EICR, EIC, PAT and other electrical safety certificates from the same subscription, so the compliance paperwork is not a second app and a second bill. Tradify UK publishes Lite at £34, Pro at £37 and Plus at £44 per user a month, with Compliance Certificates and Quote & Invoice Reminders starting on Pro, and syncs two ways with Xero. The gap Tradify leaves is the one every electrician knows: nobody answers the phone while your hands are in a consumer unit, so the call goes to voicemail and the customer rings the next sparky on the list.

Sources: Tradify UK: Pricing (Lite, Pro, Plus per user per month), Tradify UK: Electrician software (EICR, EIC and PAT certificates), Tradify: Xero & Tradify accounting add-on (two-way sync)

Tradehand

The only one that answers the fault call

Best for an electrician losing fault calls while on the toolsNo monthly fee, 5% of invoices collected after the fee-free allowance

Job management: Quotes, booking, invoicing and payment chasing, done for you
Certificates: BS 7671 certificates: EICR, EIC, minor works and more
Who answers: Tradehand does, on call, text, email, WhatsApp and web chat
Price: No monthly fee, 5% of invoices collected after the fee-free allowance

Tradehand pros

Answers call, text, email, WhatsApp and web chat as your business, 24/7
Produces BS 7671 certificates: EICR, EIC, minor works and more
Quotes the job, books it and chases the invoice with nothing to configure
No monthly fee and no per-user seat, so a quiet month costs nothing

Tradehand cons

No two-way accounting sync for VAT-registered companies yet
Job costing is lighter than Tradify's and materials tracking lighter than Fergus's
Does not import historic jobs or certificates from your old app

Tradehand is software with an assistant in it, not an app you operate. Tradehand answers the fault call, text, email, WhatsApp or web chat itself, day or night, in your own name, then quotes the job, books it into your diary and chases the invoice afterwards, and it produces the BS 7671 certificates — EICR, EIC, minor works and more — around that work. There is no monthly fee and no per-user seat, and Tradehand takes nothing during the fee-free allowance. After that, Tradehand earns 5% of the invoices it collects, so a quiet month costs nothing, against the £25,000 a year an office admin costs whether the invoices land or not. Tradehand is second here rather than first because its job costing is lighter than Tradify's and it has no two-way Xero sync yet. Pick Tradehand if the jobs you lose are the ones you never heard about.

ServiceM8

The cheapest honest way to start

Best for a solo electrician testing job software for nothingFree up to 30 jobs/mo, then £25–£269/mo

Job management: Booking, scheduling, quoting and invoicing on every plan
Certificates: Bought per form from the Form Store; custom forms need Growing
Who answers: You do, unless you buy ServiceM8 Phone
Price: Free up to 30 jobs/mo, then £25–£269/mo

ServiceM8 pros

ServiceM8's free plan covers 30 jobs a month, enough for a quiet solo month
Electrical forms and certificates can be bought on any plan, free one included
Unlimited users on every paid ServiceM8 plan

ServiceM8 cons

ServiceM8 bills by jobs a month, so a busy month of small call-outs costs more
Building your own certificate templates needs the £59 Growing plan
No two-way Xero sync

ServiceM8 covers booking, scheduling, quoting and invoicing on every plan, including the free one. ServiceM8 UK publishes a free plan covering 30 jobs a month for one user, then Starter at £25, Growing at £59, Premium at £119 and Premium Plus at £269 a month, with unlimited users on every paid plan. Certificates work differently here: ServiceM8 says every plan, the free one included, can buy and use forms from its Form Store, but building your own form needs the Growing plan or higher, so an electrician with a house style of certificate is on £59 a month rather than £25. ServiceM8 also bills by jobs a month, which suits a few large installs and punishes a week of small call-outs. It is the cheapest honest way to find out whether job software changes anything for you.

Source: ServiceM8 UK: Pricing (free plan up to 30 jobs a month; Forms & Certificates)

Powered Now

Certificate templates and reminders on a flat bill

Best for an electrician whose week is certificate paperwork£28–£40/mo; certificates need Professional, chasing needs Premium

Job management: Quoting, invoicing, scheduling and project tracking
Certificates: Hundreds of electrical templates, plus expiry reminders
Who answers: You do
Price: £28–£40/mo; certificates need Professional, chasing needs Premium

Powered Now pros

Powered Now ships pre-built electrical certificate templates it keeps updated
Automated Certificate Reminders bring the customer back before an EICR expires
Flat monthly pricing that does not move with job volume

Powered Now cons

Certificates start on the £32 Professional tier, not the £28 Business tier
Automatic Invoice & Quote Chasing only exists on Premium at £40
Job management is lighter than Tradify's

Powered Now is built around the paperwork an electrician cannot avoid: it ships hundreds of pre-built electrical certificate templates it says it updates against current regulations, copies the customer and job details into each new certificate, and sends Automated Certificate Reminders so an expiring EICR becomes next year's job rather than a lost one. Powered Now publishes Business at £28, Professional at £32 and Premium at £40 per user a month, with Forms & Certificates and the Xero integration from Professional, and Automatic Invoice & Quote Chasing and the customer portal on Premium. Powered Now is the pick for a certificate-heavy round that wants the reminders included rather than configured.

Sources: Powered Now: Pricing (certificates from Professional; chasing on Premium), Powered Now: Electrician software UK (electrical certificate templates and reminders)

Fergus

The one that tells you what the job actually made

Best for materials-heavy install work where margin is the question£39–£45 a month, plus £12 a month per timesheet user

Job management: Quoting, price books, materials and job profitability
Certificates: Included free on both plans
Who answers: You do
Price: £39–£45 a month, plus £12 a month per timesheet user

Fergus pros

Fergus tracks materials, price books and supplier invoices against each job
Certificates are free on both Fergus plans rather than a paid tier
Monthly billing with no lock-in contract

Fergus cons

Automatic supplier integrations need the £45 Professional plan
Timesheet users are £12 a month each on top
Fergus does not answer calls, and there is no AI receptionist add-on

Fergus is the answer when the question is margin rather than diary. It carries price books, materials, supplier integrations, purchase orders and job-level profitability reporting, which is what a rewire or a commercial install needs and what the lighter apps here approximate. Fergus UK publishes Essentials from £39 and Professional from £45 a month, with a custom Enterprise plan above ten staff, timesheet users from £12 a month each and card payments at 1.6% plus 20p a transaction. Certificates are free on both plans. Supplier integrations are manual on Essentials and automatic on Professional, which is the line most electrical firms will cross. Fergus does not answer the phone either.

Source: Fergus UK: Pricing (Essentials from £39, Professional from £45 a month)

Commusoft

Built for a contracting firm, not a one-van sparky

Best for an electrical contractor running several engineersNo prices published; quoted per licence on request

Job management: Deep scheduling, asset history and a customer portal
Certificates: Customisable digital forms and certificates on every plan
Who answers: You do; AI:den+ writes the admin, not the answers
Price: No prices published; quoted per licence on request

Commusoft pros

Commusoft handles multiple engineers, asset history and service contracts
Customisable forms and certificates and an offline engineer app on every plan
Commusoft's AI:den+ writes job reports and drafts replies to long emails

Commusoft cons

Commusoft publishes no prices, so comparing it needs a sales call
Standard plans run on a 12-month contract
Far heavier than a one-van electrical business needs

Commusoft is field service software for contracting firms running several engineers, with drag-and-drop dispatch, asset history, service contracts, automated job costing, a self-service customer portal and customisable forms and certificates in an offline engineer app. Commusoft's AI:den+ summarises long customer emails, drafts the replies and compiles a customer-ready job report after each visit. What Commusoft does not do is answer an incoming call, and it publishes no prices on its UK plans page — licences are quoted per user on a 12-month contract — so a comparison means a sales call. It is the right shape once you have engineers to schedule and the wrong one while it is just you and a van.

Sources: Commusoft UK: Plans (no prices published), Commusoft: AI:den+, the intelligent copilot for field service management

Joblogic

Contract maintenance software, priced per engineer

Best for commercial electrical work on planned maintenance contractsFrom £45 per user per month, billed annually

Job management: Planned maintenance, asset history and multi-site contracts
Certificates: Standard electronic forms; a custom builder on Enterprise
Who answers: You do; helpdesk cover is bought separately
Price: From £45 per user per month, billed annually

Joblogic pros

Joblogic is strong on PPM contracts and asset history across many sites
An electrical industry pack sits in its 70-app marketplace
Suits facilities and commercial electrical contracting

Joblogic cons

Joblogic starts at £45 per user per month and is billed annually
Most customers commit to a 24 or 36-month term
A custom certificate builder is an Enterprise feature

Joblogic handles quotes, invoices, job costing and planning from £45 per user a month billed annually, with Premium and Enterprise priced on request, and is built around multi-site planned maintenance with PPM contracts, route scheduling and asset history on its higher tiers. Its marketplace carries an electrical industry pack alongside fire safety and HVACR. Two things to know before you call: Joblogic says most customers commit to a 24 or 36-month term, and the custom form builder an electrician would want for their own certificate layouts is an Enterprise feature. Joblogic is the right answer for commercial electrical work on maintenance contracts and the wrong one for a domestic round.

Source: Joblogic: Pricing (Standard from £45 per user per month, billed annually)

Which one fits your electrical business

The ranking above is the general answer. The honest answer changes with the size and the shape of the business, because three of these products are priced per engineer and sold through a demo.

Your business	Start with	Why
Just you, mostly domestic call-outs	ServiceM8 free, or Tradehand	ServiceM8 costs nothing up to 30 jobs a month. Tradehand costs nothing until it collects, and picks up the calls you miss on a board change.
Just you, certificate-heavy (EICRs, landlord work)	Tradify Pro, or Powered Now Professional	Both put the EICR and the EIC on the same subscription as the diary. Powered Now adds expiry reminders that turn a certificate into next year's job.
Two or three sparks, domestic and small commercial	Tradify, or Fergus for materials	Tradify is the better diary and quoting; Fergus is the better answer if materials and job margin are what you cannot see.
Six or more engineers, contracts and asset history	Commusoft, or Joblogic for PPM	Both are priced per engineer and sold through a demo. Joblogic leans planned maintenance and multi-site; Commusoft leans service delivery and the customer portal.
Any size, and the phone is the problem	Tradehand	It is the only product on this page that answers the call, texts and web chat itself and books the job, rather than logging one you already took.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best job management software for electricians in the UK?

Tradify, on job management depth. Tradify has the most complete quoting, scheduling and invoicing of any app here, produces EICR, EIC and PAT certificates from its £37 Pro plan, and is the only one with two-way Xero sync, at £34 to £44 per user per month. Tradehand ranks second and answers the call for you rather than leaving it to voicemail, with no monthly fee and 5% of collected invoice payments after the fee-free allowance. ServiceM8 is the cheapest start at free up to 30 jobs a month, Powered Now suits certificate-heavy rounds, Fergus suits materials-heavy installs, Commusoft suits multi-engineer firms and Joblogic suits commercial maintenance contracts.

Which electrician software produces EICR and EIC certificates?

Tradify creates, signs and sends digital EICR, EIC, PAT and other electrical certificates from its Pro plan at £37 per user per month. Powered Now includes hundreds of electrical certificate templates from its Professional tier at £32, with automated expiry reminders. Fergus includes certificates free on both plans. ServiceM8 sells forms individually through its Form Store on any plan but needs the £59 Growing plan to build your own. Tradehand produces BS 7671 certificates including EICR, EIC and minor works, with no subscription. Sources: each vendor's own UK pricing and trade pages, checked 30 August 2026.

How much does Tradify cost for a UK electrician?

Tradify UK publishes three plans: Lite at £34 per user per month, Pro at £37 and Plus at £44, all billed monthly per user with a 14-day free trial. Compliance certificates, quote and invoice reminders, job costing and timesheets start on Pro, so most electricians are on £37 rather than £34. That is per user, so a second spark doubles the bill. Source: Tradify's own UK pricing and electrician pages, tradifyhq.com, checked 30 August 2026.

Is there free job management software for electricians?

ServiceM8 has a genuinely free UK plan covering 30 jobs a month for one user, and any plan including the free one can buy electrical forms from its Form Store. Above that ServiceM8 charges £25 a month for Starter and up to £269 for Premium Plus, billed by jobs a month. Tradehand has no monthly fee at any volume and instead earns 5% of the invoices Tradehand chases and collects after the fee-free allowance. Source: ServiceM8's own UK pricing page, servicem8.com/uk/pricing, checked 30 August 2026.

Which electrician software answers the phone?

Tradehand answers call, text, email, WhatsApp and web chat itself, as your business, then quotes, books and chases. Jobber's AI Receptionist answers calls and texts around the clock and can book visits or take a message, but Jobber is built North-America-first and publishes plans from $29 a month in US dollars, with the Receptionist included on its Plus plan. Tradify, ServiceM8, Powered Now, Fergus, Commusoft and Joblogic all leave the answering to you unless you buy a separate answering product. Sources: Jobber's own pricing and AI Receptionist pages, getjobber.com, checked 30 August 2026.

What is the best job management software for a sole trader electrician?

ServiceM8's free plan if you want to spend nothing while you find out, at 30 jobs a month for one user. Tradify Pro at £37 if you issue certificates and want the strongest diary and quoting. Tradehand if the problem is the calls you miss on site rather than the admin you do in the evening, because there is no monthly fee to justify in a quiet month. Avoid Commusoft and Joblogic at this size: both are priced per engineer, sold through a demo and built for teams.

Which software suits a commercial electrical contractor?

Joblogic for planned maintenance: PPM contracts, route scheduling, engineer tracking and asset history across multiple sites, from £45 per user per month billed annually, with most customers on a 24 or 36-month term. Commusoft for service delivery at the same size, with drag-and-drop dispatch, automated job costing and a customer portal, priced only on request. Fergus sits below both and is the cheaper answer if the gap is materials and job margin rather than contracts. Sources: Joblogic, Commusoft and Fergus's own pricing pages, checked 30 August 2026.