Residential electrical framing: panel upgrade, surge protection and dedicated-circuit estimates; Home Depot pricing integration.
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.
Running the workCRMThe booksMarketing and reviews
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.
Electrical page schedules panel upgrades, EV installs and emergency calls from one dispatch board.
Electrical estimates with pre-populated line items; framed from small rewiring to large installations.
Quoting-first: four estimate types, e-signature and customer self-quoting; nothing electrical-specific is named on the page.
Electrician landing page over the generalist feature set.
Commercial electrical: construction and upgrade projects, job costing, equipment history.
Residential, commercial and construction electrical; estimating, flat-rate, dispatch and proposal modules named for electrical.
Electrician software page: dispatch, inventory, CRM, electrician pricing calculator resources.
Electrical page targeting 5-200 employee contractors; QuickBooks Online and Desktop named.
Multi-day electrical projects: non-consecutive scheduling, section management and milestone billing; flat-rate pricebook promoted on upper tiers.
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.
Every field-service platform we track syncs with it
The only QuickBooks Desktop product still sold to new buyers
Cheapest full double-entry entry point at $25/mo
Easiest invoicing-first bookkeeping for a solo operator
The only real free tier in the set
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.
One subscription replaces a stack of marketing point tools
A reviews-and-messaging layer for local businesses
Deepest reviews-plus-listings platform in the set
Published prices in a category that hides them