Electrical contractor software in 2026: which product fits which kind of electrical shop

An electrical shop runs two kinds of work through one office. Service calls (an outlet gone dead, a breaker that keeps tripping, lights that flicker) need fast booking, dispatch and payment on site. Planned work (panel and service upgrades, EV chargers, generators, tenant buildouts) needs quotes with options, permit numbers, inspection dates, utility coordination and often billing in stages. The right software depends on which side pays your bills. Below are eight products that market to electrical contractors on their own websites, ordered from small residential service shops to commercial project contractors, plus a ninth option: building your own. Every price is as listed on the vendor's site in October 2026, and four vendors publish none. For the website, phone and CRM side of an electrical business, see our electrical contractor page.

1. Jobber: owner-operators and small residential crews

Who it suits: a one-truck electrician or a small crew doing residential service and quoted upgrades who wants to start on a free trial this week.

Pricing: for a single user, Jobber's pricing page listed these monthly rates in October 2026 when paid yearly: Core $29, Connect $99, Grow $149. Paying month to month raises them to $49, $139 and $199, and a third option bills monthly on a one-year commitment. Team prices rise with headcount, so check the live page for yours.

Electrical features: Jobber's electrical page shows extra services offered inside the estimate, using surge protection, dedicated circuits, panel upgrades and safety inspections as examples. It also lists reusable estimate templates in the mobile app, job costing from labor, materials and expenses, and card, ACH or Tap to Pay at the job site. On the pricing page, optional line items and job costing start on Grow.

Trial and terms: a free 14-day trial runs on the Grow plan and needs no card. Per Jobber's pricing FAQ, a monthly plan with no commitment can be cancelled at any time. On the one-year commitment, cancelling mid-year still leaves you billed monthly until the 12 months are up, and an annual prepayment is non-refundable.

Check in the demo: where a permit number and inspection dates would live on a panel upgrade, and how that job shows while it waits on the inspector. Our Jobber alternative page goes further.

2. Housecall Pro: residential shops selling upgrades between service calls

Who it suits: residential electricians who split the day between repairs and planned installs such as EV chargers and panel upgrades, and who want booking, review requests and follow-up campaigns in the same app.

Pricing: in October 2026, Housecall Pro's pricing page put the one-user Basic plan at $59 a month on a yearly plan and $79 on a monthly one. The five-user Essentials plan was $149 yearly or $189 monthly, and the eight-user MAX plan was $299 or $329, with each extra seat beyond eight costing $35 a month. Prices exclude sales tax, which may apply depending on your state.

Electrical features: its electrical page describes one dispatch board for panel upgrades, EV installs and emergency calls, good, better, best proposals on panels and chargers, closing out a multi-phase panel upgrade from the same screen as a service call, job and safety checklists, and follow-up campaigns for annual inspections and panel checks. On the pricing page, flat-rate pricing starts on Essentials, and the sales proposal tool and recurring service plans are included on MAX.

Trial and terms: fourteen free days, no card needed. Per its pricing FAQ, there is no long-term contract, and cancelling is described as simple.

Check in the demo: which plan you really need once the office counts as users, and how a staged upgrade bills (deposit, rough-in, final). See Jobber vs Housecall Pro.

3. Workiz: phone-driven service shops with multi-day jobs

Who it suits: service shops where nearly every job starts with a phone call, and where some jobs stretch across several days that aren't back to back.

Pricing: the Workiz pricing page shows three plans (Standard, Pro and Ultimate) with "Request pricing" where a price would be, as of October 2026. An FAQ on that page says yearly subscriptions are discounted against monthly billing.

Electrical features: the Workiz electrical page describes non-consecutive multi-day scheduling with costs, materials and milestone billing to keep a project together "from rough-in to trim-out", required checklists for things like mislabeled panels, circuit checks and lockout/tagout, an industry-maintained flat-rate pricebook, and AI call answering. On the pricing page, multi-day jobs, flat rate and checklists all sit under Ultimate, and AI call answering is the Genius Answering add-on, sold separately.

Trial and terms: seven free days, and no card is required to start. Contract terms aren't on the pricing page, so ask.

Check in the demo: get the Ultimate price in writing if the multi-day and checklist features are why you're looking. More on our Workiz alternative page.

4. Service Fusion: growing shops that would rather not pay per user

Who it suits: a shop with several techs plus a dispatcher and office help, where per-user pricing climbs every time you hire.

Pricing: paid yearly in one charge at sign-up (a 15% discount), Service Fusion listed Starter at $208 per month, Plus at $325 and Pro at $533 in October 2026. Month-to-month billing lifts those to $245, $382 and $627. Users are unlimited on all three.

Electrical features: the electrical page lists estimates with pre-populated product and service line items, automated pre-job texts, job photos and notes, fleet tracking and automatic QuickBooks sync. Service Fusion's pricing page puts job costing and inventory in Plus and Pro, and progress billing, eSign documents and a customer web portal in Pro; Starter and Plus can add them for a fee. GPS fleet tracking and ServiceCall.ai are add-ons on every plan.

Trial and terms: Service Fusion says all plans run month to month with no contract requirement and include personalized onboarding. The pricing page points you to a free demo.

Check in the demo: if you bill panel or remodel work in stages, compare Pro, where progress billing is included, against a lower plan with progress billing added on. See our Service Fusion alternative page.

5. FieldEdge: multi-truck service companies on QuickBooks

Who it suits: FieldEdge's electrician page is headlined "The Electrician Software That Scales Multi-Truck Operations" and addresses small and mid-market electrical companies. It fits an established service shop that sells from a flat-rate book and keeps its books in QuickBooks.

Pricing: no public prices. The pricing page names three tiers (Select, Premier and Elite), asks you to request a price for every one, and says the cost varies with the size of your team and the add-ons you choose.

Electrical features: dispatch that assigns the electrician by skills, location and availability, GPS tracking, flat-rate tools, good-better-best options through Proposal Pro, job-level profitability and QuickBooks sync. Select includes the pricebook and flat-rate pricing; Premier adds multi-option quotes and advanced service agreements; Elite adds Proposal Pro, outbound call recording and marketing with two-way texting, and FieldEdge says Proposal Pro can be added to the lower tiers.

Trial and terms: FieldEdge states that it does not offer a free trial, explaining that it prefers to walk new members through onboarding, which includes moving your data over and training. Its FAQ allows a downgrade once the current contract period ends, so there is a term length to ask about.

Check in the demo: contract length, any onboarding cost, and which tier holds the quoting tools you'd use on every upgrade. See our FieldEdge alternative page.

6. ServiceTitan: larger shops mixing service, agreements and construction

Who it suits: an electrical company with a real office (dispatchers, customer service reps, someone on accounting) running residential service, maintenance agreements and commercial or construction work in one system.

Pricing: not published. The pricing page lists Starter, Essentials and The Works with a Request Pricing button on each in place of a number, and describes the model as "per-technician pricing".

Electrical features: the electrical page lists multi-option proposals, job costing for commercial electrical work, automated service agreements, project management for construction jobs, phased billing, inventory and crew management.

Trial and terms: the pricing page shows no trial and no contract terms.

Check in the demo: the price per technician, the contract length, any implementation or training fees, and how many weeks pass before your techs use it on real jobs. Compare notes with our ServiceTitan alternative page.

7. Knowify: smaller commercial and project electrical contractors

Who it suits: an electrical contractor working for general contractors and building owners on fixed-price and AIA jobs, taking some service calls on the side, with the books in QuickBooks.

Pricing: as listed on Knowify's pricing page in October 2026: Core is $99 a month on yearly billing ($149 monthly) with one user; Advanced is $329 ($399) with ten users; each additional user is $29 a month; Enterprise is quoted. The Service Pro add-on (dispatching, payment processing, equipment history, inventory and appointment reminders) is $99 a month yearly or $199 monthly.

Electrical features: the electrical page covers invoices from AIA pay applications to time and materials, change orders, job costing by job and phase, and long projects alongside smaller service calls on one platform. On the pricing page, Core covers bidding and invoicing fixed-price and AIA jobs, with change orders and QuickBooks Online sync; Advanced adds project management, job costing and real-time WIP reporting. Prevailing wage tracking and the QuickBooks Desktop integration are listed with Enterprise, prevailing wage at extra cost.

Trial and terms: a free trial button sits on each published plan. Enterprise, which adds unlimited users and inventory, is priced through sales.

Check in the demo: how a service call flows with and without Service Pro, and how pay applications and retainage come out in your QuickBooks.

8. BuildOps: commercial electrical contractors with service and project divisions

Who it suits: BuildOps describes its electrical product as "built for commercial electrical", naming switchgear, tenant buildouts and data center installs. It suits commercial contractors running a service department and a project side under one roof. Its pricing and product pages are written for commercial contractors.

Pricing: not published. The pricing page says the cost depends on your headcount in the field and the office, which trades you operate and the modules you pick, and that implementation and onboarding support come with every plan.

Electrical features: dispatch matched to each electrician's skills, certifications and availability; live labor and material tracking that flags margin drift on active jobs; work order closeout, asset management, preventive maintenance, purchasing and inventory. Its pricing FAQ says contractors moving into projects get tools such as RFIs, submittals, change orders, daily reports and job costing added to the plan.

Trial and terms: the pricing page lists no trial or contract length.

Check in the demo: how it connects to your accounting system, how certifications are stored and kept current, and the contract term.

9. A custom CRM: shops whose process doesn't fit the box

Who it suits: an electrical company whose real process keeps hitting workarounds. EV charger leads that need panel photos before anyone quotes. A service upgrade that waits on a permit, a rough-in inspection, the utility and a final. Generator installs that should turn into maintenance visits. Or a company running electrical next to another line of business. It also suits owners who want customer and job records in a database in their own company's name.

Pricing model: a build cost, then hosting and upkeep. We publish no prices, because scope drives the cost.

What it does well: the permit and inspection steps, the photo intake and the owner reports follow your process instead of a vendor's template. We wrote one for the service companies we run ourselves before offering it to anyone else, so we know where packaged field software pinches.

When it doesn't fit: a solo electrician or a small crew with an ordinary workflow is better off on a subscription with a free trial this week. If you need an industry-maintained flat-rate pricebook, or AIA pay applications and WIP tracking right away, products above already list them. Custom software takes weeks of discovery and build, costs more up front, and depends on whoever maintains it.

Ask before signing: does the code belong to you, does the database sit in your company's account, and who keeps it running if the builder walks away. See our custom CRM service and the signs you've outgrown your CRM.

The nine options side by side

How to choose electrical contractor software

Start with where your money comes from. If most of it is residential service and upgrades, items 1 to 5 are written for you. If you bill general contractors with pay applications, change orders and retainage, start with items 6 to 8. If you need both and your permit, inspection and billing steps keep landing in custom fields and notes during demos, read item 9.

• Count every user. Techs, the estimator, the person answering phones, the bookkeeper and you. Then price each product your way: by user count (Jobber, Housecall Pro, Knowify), per technician (ServiceTitan), unlimited users at a flat rate (Service Fusion), or quoted (Workiz, FieldEdge, BuildOps).
• Run one real job through the demo. Pick last month's service upgrade and make the salesperson build it live: panel photos, the quote with options, deposit, permit, rough-in inspection, utility disconnect and reconnect, final inspection, last invoice. Watch where it gets awkward. If this kind of software is new to you, start with our CRM explainer for service businesses.
• Decide how you price before you pick. A flat-rate book and good, better, best options matter more to a service shop than to one quoting time and materials. See how to price electrical service jobs.
• Read the exit terms. Annual prepayment, contract periods and data export decide how hard it is to leave later. Ask for a sample export of customers, jobs and invoices. Read how to move CRMs without losing records for the exact export list to ask for.
• Remember where the work comes from. Field software runs the jobs you book. The calls still have to come from your website, your Google profile and a phone that gets answered.

Where to start

Three steps, in this order:

1. Write down your job types and your user count. Service calls, upgrades, EV chargers, generators, commercial projects, and how many people need a login. That list narrows the field to two or three products.
2. Test with real jobs. Load last week's jobs into whichever trial fits (14 days on Jobber or Housecall Pro, 7 on Workiz) and work them as if they were live. For the quote-only products, book demos and bring the same service upgrade to each one.
3. Get the terms in writing before you sign. Price at your headcount, contract length, onboarding fees and how to export your data. If every option needs workarounds, or you want to see how your leads reach the software in the first place, ask us for a free system quote first.

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