Bespoke software for electricians.

What software for electricians needs to do

An electrical job is never just a visit, it is a test result that has to be right, a certificate a landlord or a Building Control officer may one day read, and a set of readings an engineer taps in with cold hands in a loft. We build bespoke software for UK businesses that holds all three at once, the diary, the mobile capture on site, and the paperwork that proves the work was done to standard. In practice that means one record per job from enquiry to paid invoice, scheduling that matches engineers to work by qualification and area, a mobile app that captures structured test results rather than a free-text note, and a certificate that comes out the other end without an evening’s rekeying. A domestic rewire ends in an Electrical Installation Certificate, a rented flat’s periodic inspection produces an EICR with a coded schedule of observations, and a single added circuit needs a Minor Works certificate, each with its own fields and its own test-result grid, and a generic job app that treats all of this as a note leaves engineers keying the same results twice.

Why off-the-shelf apps start to strain

Apps such as Tradify, Commusoft, Joblogic and ServiceM8 are built for the whole trades market, plumbers, locksmiths, appliance engineers, where a job is a visit and a visit ends in an invoice, and for a small reactive electrical firm that is a perfectly good fit. Electrical work bends that model as a contractor grows: certificates live in a second system so results get typed twice and the two never quite reconcile, an EICR’s observations become a quote and a return visit that the app rarely links back to the original inspection, test data has nowhere structured to live so it ends up as a photo of a scribbled board schedule, and recurring rounds, landlord EICRs on a five-year cycle, PAT testing, emergency-light servicing, get tracked in a spreadsheet because the app only understands one-off bookings. None of that makes those products bad, it means the firm has outgrown the assumptions they were built on, see bespoke vs off-the-shelf software for how we weigh that decision, and this sits inside the wider world of field service software.

What we build

We build the system around how your firm actually wins and runs work. Job management, one record per job carrying the quote, property, assigned engineer, certificates produced and money owed, so nobody asks whether a job was invoiced. Scheduling and dispatch, a diary that slots reactive call-outs around booked installs and generates recurring inspection rounds automatically rather than relying on memory. A mobile engineer app, structured test capture per circuit, photos of the consumer unit, materials used and a customer signature, working offline in a basement or plant room and syncing when signal returns. And certificates as an output rather than a chore, EICRs, Electrical Installation Certificates and Minor Works generated from the test data already captured. Because the system is yours it speaks your language, Zs, RCBOs, boards, ways, remedials, so a new engineer learns your method rather than a product’s workarounds. Where testing extends into scheduled condition and safety checks beyond electrical work, our bespoke audit and inspection app captures the same structured evidence, and mobile capture for other trades is covered more generally in our job sheet software.

Compliance, connections and cost

Compliance is most of the reason this software exists rather than a feature bolted on, a system built for you makes good records unavoidable, an engineer cannot close an inspection without a result against every circuit, observations carry their correct classification codes, and each certificate references the right edition of the wiring regulations. Notifiable domestic work falls under Part P of the Building Regulations, and many contractors work under a competent-person scheme whose assessment and certification expectations your records need to satisfy, a bespoke build encodes those requirements into the workflow instead of trusting an engineer to remember them at six in the evening. Finished jobs and invoices can push straight into Xero or Sage, matched to your nominal codes, and quoting follows electrical estimating’s own logic, labour by the circuit or point, cable by the metre, which our quoting and estimating software is built to handle. A single-van reactive firm is usually better off on a boxed app, and we will say so, bespoke earns its place with a team of engineers and a growing book of inspections, cost follows scope, see our bespoke software cost guide and how long bespoke software takes for the fuller picture. If rekeyed test results or a landlord EICR list held together by memory are eating your office’s week, get in touch or call 01202 237027.