Five Jobber Alternatives for UK Gas and Electrical Reporting
A practical test plan for comparing five options when UK gas or electrical reporting is central to your move from Jobber.
A polished diary is not enough if an engineer still has to open a separate tool, retype the customer details and manually file the finished paperwork. The useful comparison is the complete journey from booked job to completed report, customer copy, quote or invoice and future follow-up.
This guide narrows the field to products worth testing for that workflow. It does not assume one option is right for every firm. A sole trader doing domestic inspections has a different buying job from a contractor managing assets, planned maintenance and several engineers.
Why might Jobber users need a more specialised option?
Choosing a replacement should begin with your documents, not assumptions about Jobber’s feature set. Ask each shortlisted provider to demonstrate the named UK gas or electrical reports your business actually issues.
Test a completed output rather than treating a generic feature label as proof that the workflow fits. Check mobile completion, customer delivery, record retrieval and the handoff to quoting or invoicing.
Use one genuine job during every trial. Enter the readings, collect the signatures, create the customer PDF, retrieve it from the job history and pass the record to whoever checks or invoices the work.
Which Jobber alternatives belong on the shortlist?
| Option | Put it on the shortlist when | Test before choosing |
|---|---|---|
 | Your team spans gas and electrical work. | The precise form names, versions and subscription level. |
 | You want a short route from job to report to invoice. | Which plan matches your reminders, accounts and team needs. |
 | You want trade paperwork inside a general job workflow. | Whether every document your business issues is present. |
 | Almost all of your certification work is gas or oil. | Your route for any electrical work. |
 | Contracts, assets and larger service operations shape the decision. | Implementation effort and the package needed for your forms. |
Shortlist whenYour team spans gas and electrical work.
TestThe precise form names, versions and subscription level.
Shortlist whenYou want a short route from job to report to invoice.
TestWhich plan matches your reminders, accounts and team needs.
Shortlist whenYou want trade paperwork inside a general job workflow.
TestWhether every document your business issues is present.
Shortlist whenAlmost all of your certification work is gas or oil.
TestYour route for any electrical work.
Shortlist whenContracts, assets and larger service operations shape the decision.
TestImplementation effort and the package needed for your forms.
What do the shortlisted options publish about pricing?
Pricing checked on 24 September 2026. Compare the subscription level, user count, billing frequency and VAT treatment alongside the workflow test.
Powered Now lists Business at £28/month for one user, Professional at £32 per user/month and Premium at £40 per user/month, excluding VAT. Check current official pricing.
Checker lists LITE at £10.99/month, PRO at £19.99/month and PRO+ at £25.99/month, plus VAT. Check current official pricing.
Tradify lists Lite at £34, Pro at £37 and Plus at £44 per user/month. Check current official pricing.
The Gas Engineer Software pricing page shows a four-user Core plan example at £100/month, or £25 per user, excluding VAT. Check current official pricing.
Joblogic lists Standard from £45 per user/month, billed annually; Premium is priced on request and Enterprise uses custom pricing. Check current official pricing.
1. When should you trial Powered Now?
Powered Now supports Gas Safety records and electrical certificates in a library of trade-specific forms. Its wider platform combines scheduling, paperwork, invoices and payments.
That makes it a sensible first trial for a mixed-trade business that wants broad paperwork coverage without moving straight to a contract-management platform. Ask the salesperson to identify every form you use by name, then produce and inspect the PDFs during the trial.
Best trial question: can both your gas and electrical engineers finish their most detailed real-world document without a workaround?
2. When should you trial Checker?
Checker includes gas reports and records, the Electrical Installation Certificate, Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate and Electrical Installation Condition Report. It keeps jobs, customer history, reports, quotes, invoices and reminders in the same app.
Checker is especially worth testing when the handoff matters: create the job, finish the report, send the customer copy and raise the quote or invoice without rebuilding the record elsewhere.
Explore the full Checker feature set, its electrical workflow and the plan comparison.
3. When should you trial Tradify?
Tradify says users can digitally distribute the Landlord/Homeowner Gas Safety Record, CD/10 and other oil and gas safety certificates. It also provides digital versions of the EICR and EIC.
Tradify belongs on the list when you want both job management and a published UK form library, but you should still check breadth rather than stopping at the headline certificate names. Compare your less common documents, signature flow, office review and PDF layout as well as the everyday forms.
Best trial question: does the built-in library cover the awkward ten per cent of your paperwork, not only the reports you issue every week?
4. When should you trial Gas Engineer Software?
Gas Engineer Software positions itself around gas, heating and plumbing, with UK gas and oil certificates. Its platform combines jobs, quotes, invoices, payments and automated reminders.
This is the specialist shortlist choice when gas and heating work dominates the diary. If electrical reporting is also part of your offer, map that requirement separately and decide whether a second tool creates acceptable admin or defeats the reason for leaving Jobber.
Best trial question: is specialist gas depth more valuable to your business than keeping every trade in one application?
Review Gas Engineer Software’s official product information.
5. When should you trial Joblogic?
Joblogic’s enterprise forms library includes Gas Safe and OFTEC Certificates. It also includes Water Hygiene Workflows and Electrical Certificates.
Put Joblogic into a deeper evaluation when your buying decision reaches beyond individual reports. Bring a real job and document history to the demonstration so the team can show how paperwork moves through the whole system.
Best trial question: will the additional operational structure remove admin at your present scale, or create more setup than the team needs?
How should you test a replacement before moving your records?
Use the same completed job for every trial. A controlled comparison reveals far more than five different sales demonstrations.
- List the exact documents you issue. Include occasional commercial, commissioning, warning and remedial paperwork, not only the common report.
- Complete one demanding job on the device used in the field. Test long schedules, signatures, photographs, interruptions and weak connectivity.
- Inspect the finished PDF. Compare its headings, fields, continuation pages and signatures with the output your business currently accepts.
- Follow the record through the business. Find it from the customer, property and job, then create the next quote or invoice without retyping.
- Test review and permissions. Give an engineer and an office user realistic access and check how corrections, approval and history are handled.
- Test your exit before your entry. Ask for a sample customer, job, document and invoice export so you understand what can be recovered later.
Questions tradespeople ask about replacing Jobber
Does a Jobber alternative need named UK gas and electrical reports?
If those reports are central to your work, ask every shortlisted provider to demonstrate your exact documents. Complete one on the field device, inspect the customer PDF and confirm that you can retrieve the record later.
Which option should I test first for both gas and electrical paperwork?
Start by trialling the first three options in the comparison above against the precise forms you use. The right choice depends on the documents, team workflow and subscription your business needs.
Which option should a gas-focused heating business test?
Gas Engineer Software is the specialist shortlist choice here. Also test any broader platform that could remove a second system from your workflow.
What should I test before moving from Jobber?
Complete one real report on a phone, send the PDF, find it from the customer and property record, create the follow-on quote or invoice, and export the data you may need later.
Want to test a connected report workflow?
Use one real customer and one real job to see whether the paperwork, job history and commercial follow-up stay connected.
Get Started FreeAuthoritative sources
- Powered Now product overview
- Powered Now certificates
- Powered Now pricing
- Checker product overview
- Checker app features
- Checker electrical software
- Checker pricing
- Tradify forms and certificates
- Tradify UK pricing
- Gas Engineer Software overview
- Gas Engineer Software pricing
- Joblogic enterprise field service
- Joblogic pricing
- Checker guide to UK trade compliance certificates