What electrical job management needs to cover

An electrician is judging two things at once: does the software run the business, and does the compliance paperwork come out clean. Six things separate a tool that fits electrical work from a generic diary app.

• Scheduling that survives a multi-visit job. An EICR with C1 or C2 observations becomes remedial work and a return visit for a Minor Works certificate. The diary has to hold that thread open, not close the job at the first callout.
• Test results captured on the job. EICR, EIC and Minor Works Certificates carry circuit-by-circuit readings and observation codes, so the useful tools record results, photos and notes on site rather than rebuilding them that evening.
• Quoting and invoicing that flow from the job, so a survey becomes a quote and a signed-off job an invoice without re-keying the customer twice.
• Part P and scheme evidence in one place. Most contractors self-certify notifiable work through NICEIC or NAPIT, and when the scheme audits a sample, one job record holding the certificate, readings, photos and sign-off beats a folder of loose PDFs.
• Offline that actually holds a certificate, since testing happens in risers, basements and half-built shells where software that cannot save a result until it finds signal is a liability.
• Accounting sync and honest pricing, with two-way Xero, QuickBooks or Sage to save the monthly re-entry, and per-user pricing that suits a three-van firm rather than a thirty-strong contractor.

How the options compare

The shortlist runs from tools built for sole traders through to platforms pitched at larger, multi-engineer contractors, a fair spread rather than a strict ranking.

Software	Scheduling & CRM	Electrical certificates	Offline on site	Accounting sync	Starting price	Best suited to
Checker	Diary, CRM, automated follow-up	Digital compliance certificates for electrical work	Yes, confirmed native	Xero, QuickBooks, Sage (two-way)	From £10.99/mo per sub-user + VAT, no lock-in	Small and growing electrical firms wanting compliance plus automated chasing in one app
Tradify	Diary, timesheets, purchase orders	Native EICR, EIC, PAT, Minor Works, emergency lighting (Pro tier)	No offline mode	Xero, QuickBooks (two-way), Sage (one-way)	Lite £34, Pro £37, Plus £44/user/month	Teams with dependable site signal wanting mature office tooling plus certificates
ServiceM8	Mobile-first dispatch board	Not confirmed; general form builder	Yes, confirmed native	Xero (two-way); QuickBooks/Sage not confirmed	Free to £269/month by job volume, no contracts	Sole traders running everything from the phone
Powered Now	Lighter, forms and quotes led	Native: EICR, EIC, MEIC, PAT, Emergency Lighting (Professional plan+)	Yes, confirmed native	Xero, two-way (Professional plan+)	£28/£32/£40 per user/month (ex VAT)	Sole traders prioritising offline certificate capture
Commusoft	Multi-engineer dispatch, portal, assets	Native: CP12 gas plus EICR, Minor Works, PAT	Partial: certificate step offline, full app not confirmed	Not publicly confirmed	Quote/demo only, designed for 6+ staff	Established teams with contract and asset work
Joblogic	Workforce scheduling, contracts, assets	Yes, dedicated certification modules	Not documented	Sage, Xero, QuickBooks + more (Xero partly two-way)	£45/user/month annual; Premium/Enterprise quote-only	Larger commercial and multi-trade contractors

Checker in depth

Checker is built around the working week of a trade business rather than around a single certificate. The job diary, a customer CRM, quoting, invoicing and digital compliance certificates for electrical work live in the same record, so a booked EICR, its test results, the invoice and the customer’s history are one thread instead of four apps. It comes from Daniel Sedgwick, a former gas engineer building trade software since 2012, and is now used by close to 19,600 engineers who have logged 6.88 million gas compliance reports between them.

For an electrician, the scheduling side keeps a two-visit job from slipping: the survey, the remedial work and the return trip for testing hang off one record rather than three diary entries nobody connects. Certificates are generated in the same place, so readings and photos stay attached to the job and reach the customer without a separate export step.

Where Checker pulls ahead is the follow-up, its Growth Engine, sent under your own logo and email address rather than Checker’s:

• Appointment Reminders go out 24 hours before a booked job, cutting wasted trips where nobody is home to give access.
• Quote Chaser follows up an unconverted quote up to three times, on a default day 7, 10 and 14 schedule, with a one-click “Accept Quote” button.
• Invoice Chaser starts the moment payment terms lapse, up to three chasers you can toggle independently, and stops as soon as the customer pays.
• Annual Service Reminder fires eleven months after a customer record is created, so a periodic inspection or a landlord’s renewal becomes next year’s booking.

Accounting is two-way with Xero, QuickBooks and Sage, so invoices and payments reconcile without monthly re-keying. Pricing is per sub-user with a master-user layer that lets an owner control every engineer’s jobs from one login: Lite £10.99, Pro £19.99 and Pro Plus £25.99 a month, all plus VAT, no lock-in contract. You can start at my.checker.app/register.

Tradify

Tradify has long been a small-team favourite for the office side of a trade business: a clean job diary, timesheets, purchase orders and a quick path from quote to invoice. It now adds native UK electrical certificates too, EICR, EIC, PAT, Minor Works, emergency lighting and isolation certs, so certification is no longer a reason to rule it out. Two things to weigh. Those certificates only unlock on the Pro tier at £37 per user per month (Lite is £34, Plus £44), and there is no offline mode at all: both apps need a live connection at all times, so a result written up in a signal-dead riser cannot be saved until you are back in coverage. Accounting is strong, with two-way sync to Xero and QuickBooks Online and a one-way push to Sage.

ServiceM8

ServiceM8 comes at job management phone-first: the whole workflow, a visual dispatch board, quoting and invoicing, lives in a mobile app aimed at sole traders who want to run everything from the van. Its offline handling is genuinely good, an engineer can open jobs, add notes and take photos with no signal, and it all syncs the moment the device reconnects. The gap for electricians is certification. ServiceM8 ships a general custom-form builder rather than named UK statutory templates, so there is no confirmed EICR or EIC format out of the box, and anyone who needs those outputs should test what the builder produces first. Pricing scales by job volume rather than seats, from free (30 jobs a month, one user) up to £269 a month, unlimited users on paid plans, no contract. Xero sync is native and two-way; QuickBooks and Sage are not confirmed on ServiceM8’s own site.

Powered Now

Powered Now leans hardest into paperwork and offline reliability, which is why it keeps surfacing for electricians who spend their days in basements and plant rooms. Its electrical certificate library is one of the broadest here, covering EICR, domestic and commercial EIC, the Minor Electrical Installation Certificate, PAT, Electrical Danger Notices and Emergency Lighting inspections, and its offline mode is a flat vendor promise, “no signal, no problem,” with data syncing on reconnect. The job management around that is lighter than the bigger platforms, which suits a sole trader over a growing contractor. Certificates sit on the Professional plan and above (Business £28, Professional £32, Premium £40 per user per month ex VAT), and Xero sync runs two-way from Professional up.

Commusoft

Commusoft is field service management for firms that have already scaled. Its scheduling and dispatch keep several engineers moving across multiple sites in a day, backed by a customer portal, contract and asset tracking and reporting aimed at an owner running a team. Certificates are native rather than an add-on: CP12 gas records plus electrical certificates including EICR, Minor Works and PAT, with the certificate step completable offline on mobile. The catch for smaller firms is the entry point: Commusoft publishes no self-serve pricing, and its own booking page states the product is designed for businesses with six or more staff, so a sole trader or two-hander is screened out before pricing enters the conversation.

Joblogic

Joblogic is the heavyweight here, a long-running UK platform spanning gas, electrical, HVAC, fire and security work, with certification modules and the workforce scheduling, contract and asset management larger commercial contractors lean on. Standard is £45 per user per month billed annually, with Premium and Enterprise quote-only and pitched at teams of fifty and up; there is a 30-day trial and a monthly rolling option if a year feels too soon. Its accounting integrations are the deepest here, Sage, Xero, QuickBooks and more, though the Xero link is only partly two-way: customers sync both ways, but invoices and payments push one-way from Joblogic to Xero. Its own site does not document an offline mobile mode, so confirm that directly if low-signal sites are a daily reality.

Part P, NICEIC and NAPIT: where software helps

No app on this list makes you compliant on its own. That rests on the engineer doing the test correctly and on the scheme membership behind the certificate. What software removes is the admin risk around that work.

Notifiable electrical work in England and Wales falls under Part P of the Building Regulations, and most contractors self-certify through a competent person scheme such as NICEIC or NAPIT rather than notifying building control job by job. Those schemes periodically audit a sample of a member’s work, checking whether the paper trail matches what happened on site. When the certificate, the test data, the photos and the sign-off all hang off one job record, that audit is a five-minute retrieval rather than an afternoon reconstructing it from a certificate app, an inbox and a filing cabinet.

The same record earns its keep at handover. A landlord, letting agent or main contractor increasingly wants the EICR or EIC in their inbox the day the job finishes, not a week later. Tie the certificate to the job and the invoice and that handover becomes part of closing the job on site.

Which one fits your firm

For a sole trader or small firm wanting certification, scheduling, invoicing and automated follow-up without an annual commitment, Checker and Powered Now are the closest fits, the deciding question being whether automated chasing (Checker) or the broadest certificate library (Powered Now) matters more. Prefer to run everything from the phone? ServiceM8 is worth a trial, once you have proved its output covers the certificates you issue. Reliable signal on every site? Tradify earns its place, with the offline gap the one thing to weigh. And once you are dispatching six or more engineers against service contracts, Commusoft and Joblogic bring the depth scale needs, at a step up in price and setup.

For a certificate-first look at the same market, see our comparison of EICR and electrician software. Weighing a move off Joblogic specifically? We make the case for a leaner alternative in best Joblogic alternative for compliance-heavy trades, and our Tradify alternatives comparison covers the field from that angle.

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