Tools for Trades

Electrical Contractor Software

An electrical shop runs on three kinds of software: one to run the work, one to keep the books, and one to keep the phone ringing. Below is all three, with prices from the vendors' own pages and honest markers where they hide them.

Electrical field service management software

This is the system the day actually runs on: emergency calls scheduled around planned jobs, estimates for panel upgrades and rewires, dispatch, invoicing on-site, and getting paid before the truck leaves. One system instead of texts, paper and a whiteboard. Each tile shows what that platform emphasizes for electricians.

Run the Stack Builder

Jobber

$116–136/mo4-person crew, list · all tiers $29–499/mo

Residential electrical framing: panel upgrade, surge protection and dedicated-circuit estimates; Home Depot pricing integration.

Built forTeams of 1 to 15 people

Housecall Pro

$149–189/mo4-person crew, list · all tiers $59–329/mo

Electrical page schedules panel upgrades, EV installs and emergency calls from one dispatch board.

Built forTeams of 1 to 10 people

Service Fusion

$208–245/mo4-person crew, list · all tiers $208–627/mo

Electrical estimates with pre-populated line items; framed from small rewiring to large installations.

Built forTeams of 5 or more people (office-heavy shops)

QuoteIQ

$125–149.99/mo4-person crew, list · all tiers $25–699/mo

Quoting-first: four estimate types, e-signature and customer self-quoting; nothing electrical-specific is named on the page.

Built forTeams of 1 to 20 people

Kickserv

$48–60/mo4-person crew, list · all tiers $48–199/mo

Electrician landing page over the generalist feature set.

Built forTeams of 2 to 20 people

ServiceBox

On requestno published pricing

Commercial electrical: construction and upgrade projects, job costing, equipment history.

Built forTeams of 2 or more people (20 and up via Enterprise)

ServiceTitan

On requestno published pricing

Residential, commercial and construction electrical; estimating, flat-rate, dispatch and proposal modules named for electrical.

Built forTeams of 10 or more people

FieldEdge

On requestno published pricing

Electrician software page: dispatch, inventory, CRM, electrician pricing calculator resources.

Built forTeams of 5 or more people

FieldPulse

On requestno published pricing

Electrical page targeting 5-200 employee contractors; QuickBooks Online and Desktop named.

Built forTeams of 2 or more people

Workiz

On requestno published pricing

Multi-day electrical projects: non-consecutive scheduling, section management and milestone billing; flat-rate pricebook promoted on upper tiers.

Built forTeams of 2 or more people (20 and up multi-location)

Every price and every "on request" is documented in the pricing database; head-to-heads live under comparisons.

Three deeper guides cover the work itself: electrical estimating software for quoting and pricebooks, electrical job management software for dispatch, work orders and multi-day projects, and the electrician app guide for which field apps keep working in a basement with no signal.

Which field service platforms work as a CRM for electricians?

An electrical shop's next good job is often already in its customer list: the house with the old panel, the owner who asked about an EV charger, the commercial account due for its annual inspection. Most shops don't need a separate CRM to find them. Four of the platforms above have a CRM page written for electricians:

  • Housecall Pro keeps "panel amperage, breaker details, past repairs, and job photos" on each customer profile and lets you flag homes with aging panels or no surge protection for a follow-up offer. Its Pipeline lead tracker sits outside the plan columns on its pricing page, so ask which plan includes it.
  • FieldPulse marks each customer as a lead, opportunity, current customer or lost, records where they came from, and sends reminders for annual inspections like generator service. AI phone answering is an add-on.
  • QuoteIQ is built around not missing the call: a 24/7 AI receptionist, billed per minute below its Max plan, and a review request sent the moment an invoice is paid. Lead pipelines come with Elite and Max only.
  • Jobber keeps leads apart from existing clients and stores service history and electrical system information. Google review requests, service reminders and campaigns come with its Marketing Suite, a paid add-on.

Commercial shops have ServiceBox, which skips the sales pipeline and keeps panel details, circuit notes and diagrams per site, with several buildings under one customer. The plumbing CRM guide compares the same ten platforms on lead pipelines, review requests and call handling in more depth.

Accounting software for electrical shops

The books decide whether T&M work actually made money, and they only work if they reconcile themselves: invoices flowing from the field software into the ledger instead of lying around until tax season. That makes the sync question the deciding one, and it's covered in the accounting guide for electricians.

Xero

$25–90/molist price band

Cheapest full double-entry entry point at $25/mo

Works with1 field platforms

FreshBooks

$23–70/molist price band

Easiest invoicing-first bookkeeping for a solo operator

Works withno field platform we track

Wave

$0–19/molist price band

The only real free tier in the set

Works withno field platform we track

Marketing and review software for electrical shops

Repeat customers and referrals carry an electrical business, and reviews are where new customers check you out first. Before buying anything here, know what your field software already bundles; several sell review tools on their upper tiers. Two of the four below publish no prices at all, which is worth knowing before the sales call.

GoHighLevel

$97–497/molist price band

One subscription replaces a stack of marketing point tools

Rolereplaces separate review, SMS and funnel tools; overlaps with FSM marketing add-ons

Podium

On requestno published pricing

A reviews-and-messaging layer for local businesses

Rolereviews and messaging layer on top of your field software

Birdeye

On requestno published pricing

Deepest reviews-plus-listings platform in the set

Rolereputation and listings layer on top of your field software

NiceJob

$75–125/molist price band

Published prices in a category that hides them

Rolereview automation layer on top of your field software