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# 12 Best Electrical Contractor Software Platforms in 2026

_Published: September 3, 2026_  
_Author: Jeel Patel_  

![Shortlist of twelve electrical contractor software platforms with their published monthly prices, beside an electrician working at a residential service panel](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/PREVIEW-best-software-hero-1024x572.png)

Most shortlists for electrical contractor software are wrong before they start, because the phrase covers four different markets that get mixed into one list: estimating and takeoff, field service and job management, accounting, and construction project management. Buy from the wrong one and you find out at month four, not on the demo.

This guide compares twelve platforms on what each vendor publishes on its own site: what the software actually does, what it costs, and which of the four markets it is really in. For what our own platform does across the trade, start at [electrician software](/electrician-software/ "Electrician software"). For the field tools that sit alongside a platform rather than replace it, see [best electrician apps](/electrician-software/best-apps/ "Best electrician apps").

## What is the best electrical contractor software?

There is no single best electrical contractor software, because the answer changes with the work you do rather than the number of people you employ. Based on what each vendor publishes:

- **Best for residential service calls:** **Housecall Pro** from $59 a month and **Jobber** from $49 a month, or $29 on annual billing. Both publish full pricing and are built around booking, dispatching and getting paid on the same-day call.
- **Best for new construction:** **TurboBid** or **ConEst IntelliBid** for the estimating and takeoff, then **Knowify** from $99 for the contract billing, because Knowify includes AIA G702 and G703 with retainage from its entry plan.
- **Best for a mix of both:** **FieldCamp**, **BuildOps**, **ServiceTitan** and Simpro all hold service work and contract work in one system. FieldCamp is the only one of the four that publishes its pricing and the only one that models the permit and the inspection as records.
- **Best for the largest reporting depth:** **ServiceTitan**, which adds proposal, project management and marketing attribution modules on top of the field platform.
- **Best free and lowest cost:** **Contractor Plus**, at $0 for a real free tier and $29 a month for one user.
- **QuickBooks** belongs on the shortlist but not as a field platform. It holds the ledger and has no job or work-order object at all.

The single biggest mistake in this category is buying a field service platform to solve an estimating problem. They are separate markets from separate vendors, and a shop doing new construction usually needs one of each.

## Electrical contractor software is four markets, not one

Search this term and the results hand you an estimating package, a field service platform, an accounting product and a construction project management suite on the same page, as though they were alternatives to each other. They are not. They sit at different points in the same job, and most contractors end up owning two of them.

![Diagram of the four markets sold as electrical contractor software, showing estimating and takeoff, field service and job management, accounting, and construction project management as four stages of one job, with the vendors that sit in each stage](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/electrician-software-four-markets-scaled.png)- **Estimating and takeoff** is where a bid is built: counting devices off a set of plans, applying labour units, pulling current material prices and producing a number you are willing to sign. TurboBid, ConEst IntelliBid and McCormick live here. They do not schedule, dispatch or invoice anyone. The clearest tell is that none of the three has a mobile app.
- **Field service and job management** is where the work gets done: the schedule, the dispatch, the technician’s phone, the job record, the materials used, the invoice. Ten of the twelve platforms here are in this market, which makes it the most crowded of the four and the one most people mean by the term. Within it, the split that matters more than the brand names is whether a job that takes three visits stays one record or becomes three, worked through vendor by vendor in [best electrician job management software](/electrician-software/best-job-management/ "Best electrician job management software").
- **Accounting** is the ledger. [QuickBooks Online](https://quickbooks.intuit.com/pricing/) publishes list pricing of $0, $38, $85, $140 and $340 a month and has no job or work-order object at all, so something else has to hold the job and hand the numbers over. This is why the accounting integration is not a nice-to-have on the shortlist, it is the shortlist: FieldEdge and Knowify are both built around QuickBooks, and FieldCamp connects to QuickBooks, Xero and Wave through its [integrations layer](https://docs.fieldcamp.ai/integrations).
- **Construction project management** is the general contractor’s paperwork: RFIs, submittals, drawings and daily logs. [Procore](https://www.procore.com/subcontractors/electrical-contractor) is the name here, it publishes no pricing, and an electrical subcontractor on a large commercial job often has to work inside the GC’s copy whether or not the shop bought one. That is a coordination requirement, not a replacement for the platform that runs your crew.

There is a fifth category people occasionally mean, electrical design and analysis software such as AutoCAD Electrical, ETAP and SKM PowerTools. That is engineering software for designing the system, not business software for running the shop, and it is out of scope here.

## Electrical contractor software at a glance

| Platform | Market | Why you would consider it | Published price per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| **FieldCamp** | Field service and job management | Service and contract work on one record, with the permit and inspection modelled as records | Custom quote |
| ServiceTitan | Field service and job management | Proposals, project management and marketing attribution on top of the deepest reporting layer in the category | Not published |
| Housecall Pro | Field service and job management | The widest residential toolkit: booking, call answering, payments, payroll and financing in one place | Basic $59, Essentials $149, Max $299 annual |
| Jobber | Field service and job management | The simplest complete path from quote to payment, with job costing and automatic quote follow-ups | From $29 for one user to $529 for fifteen, annual |
| BuildOps | Field service and job management | Commercial service and project work in one system, with project financials above the work orders | Not published |
| Knowify | Field service and job management | AIA G702 and G703 pay applications with retainage and change orders, from the entry plan | Core $99, Advanced $329, billed yearly |
| Service Fusion | Field service and job management | Unlimited users on every plan, plus GPS fleet tracking and flat-rate pricing | $208, $325, $533 annual |
| FieldEdge | Field service and job management | Real-time QuickBooks Desktop connection, built for multi-truck service operations | Not published |
| Contractor Plus | Field service and job management | A genuine free tier, the lowest paid entry price, and automated job costing on paid plans | $0 free tier, $29 one user, $58 two users |
| QuoteIQ | Field service and job management | Quote-led workflow with property measurement, customer self-quoting and an AI call assistant | $25 to $582.50 billed annually |
| TurboBid | Estimating and takeoff | Electrical and plumbing estimating you buy outright, with on-screen takeoff and live material pricing | TurboCloud $99, licence quoted at checkout |
| ConEst IntelliBid | Estimating and takeoff | Automatic labour factoring and live material price feeds for large commercial and industrial bids | Not published |

Prices are the figures each vendor publishes on its own site, read 3 September 2026. Five of the twelve publish nothing.

## How we picked these platforms

- **The vendor’s own site is the only source for a claim about the vendor.** Every capability listed below is named on the vendor’s own product pages. Where a vendor does not claim something, this article says so rather than filling the gap.
- **Published pricing counts as a feature.** A platform that will not show a number before a sales call is harder to shortlist, and that is recorded as a fact about the product rather than a complaint about it.
- **User ratings come from the platform holder, not an aggregator.** Where a field app rating is quoted it was read from Apple’s own lookup service on 2 or 3 September 2026, with the sample size attached so you can judge it yourself.
- **The market is stated for every entry.** An estimating tool is not a worse field platform. It is not a field platform at all, and mixing the two is the most common error in shortlists for this term.
- **Work type decides fit, not headcount.** Two shops the same size with different work mixes need different software.

## The twelve platforms in detail

### 1. FieldCamp

**Market:** field service and job management. **Price:** Custom to your team and workflow.

#### What FieldCamp does

FieldCamp runs the whole job from the first request to the last payment on one record. A job is a container that carries distinct [visits](https://docs.fieldcamp.ai/job-management/understanding-visits) rather than being cloned every time a crew has to come back, multi-day work is a modelled case rather than a workaround, and the [permit is a record](https://docs.fieldcamp.ai/data-model/permits) with a number, a status and a fee, with the inspection attached to that permit.

Around that record sits the rest of the shop. The [estimate becomes the job and then the invoice](https://docs.fieldcamp.ai/estimates-invoices/estimate-to-job-to-invoice) without anyone retyping line items, and a price book with bundles and smart kits turns a recurring scope like a subpanel install into one selection instead of fourteen typed lines. Technicians complete job forms and checklists on site. Panels, circuits and site assets exist as real records through custom objects and fields rather than as text in a notes box, which is the test our [electrician CRM](/electrician-software/crm/ "Electrician CRM software") is built around, and billing works the way our [electrician invoicing](/electrician-software/invoicing/ "Electrician invoicing software") page describes: built from the job, not retyped from it.

Dispatch runs on the [AI Dispatcher](/ai-dispatcher/ "FieldCamp AI Dispatcher"), assigning on skills, capacity, service areas and time windows, handling multi-day work, rerouting dynamically and catching conflicts before they reach a customer, with route optimisation and live team tracking alongside. On the money side, [labour profitability](https://docs.fieldcamp.ai/timesheet/labor-profitability) reports margin per job off the timesheet rather than at month end off a spreadsheet, payments run through Stripe with deposits and saved cards, and workflow automation sits over all of it. Customers book themselves and track arrival. If you want to see the document side before booking anything, our free [electrical estimate template](/estimate-template/ "Free electrical estimate template") and [electrical invoice template](/invoice-template/ "Free electrical invoice template") show the line-item structure the platform produces.

![FieldCamp Command Center answering which permitted electrical jobs are still waiting on a final inspection, listing three jobs with their permit numbers, inspection status and a failed re-inspection](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/electrician-software-fieldcamp-scaled.png)

#### Why you would consider FieldCamp

Because electrical work does not respect the shape of a service call, and most of this market is built for a service call.

A panel upgrade needs a quote, a permit pulled before anyone drives out, a rough-in visit, an inspection booked around the utility’s window, a scope change when the mast turns out to be undersized, a second crew day, a final inspection, and an invoice that reflects all of it. On most platforms that job stops being one record somewhere around the permit: it becomes a job, plus a second job for the return visit, plus a permit number in a spreadsheet, plus a change order nobody billed. FieldCamp is built so that it does not, and no other vendor in this comparison claims permit fee pass-through on its own site.

Two smaller things that matter more than they sound. Invoice payment reminders are anchored to the due date rather than the send date, re-anchor if the invoice was already overdue when it went out, stop when the invoice is paid or the customer replies, and keep chasing a partial payment. Estimate follow-ups work the same way and stop on a reply. None of Jobber, ServiceTitan or BuildOps markets that behaviour. And every plan is [published with its price](/pricing/ "FieldCamp pricing"), which puts FieldCamp in the minority of this list before you look at a single feature.

#### What sits inside the product, and what sits beside it

- **AIA payment applications.** Progress billing against a schedule of values on G702 and G703 forms is a Knowify and Contractor Foreman capability. FieldCamp bills from the job, the visits and the materials on it.
- **Takeoff and estimating from plans.** Counting devices off a PDF is what TurboBid and ConEst are for. FieldCamp picks the job up from the accepted estimate onward.
- **Stock control.** The products layer covers the catalogue, kits, deduction rules and vendors. Warehouse stock management is a different product category.
- **Connectivity.** FieldCamp is cloud-based. The mobile app tolerates brief loss of signal, with GPS queuing and syncing when the connection returns, but there is no offline working mode.

### 2. ServiceTitan

**Market:** field service and job management. **Published price:** none.

#### What ServiceTitan does

[ServiceTitan](https://www.servicetitan.com/industries/electrical-software) is an all-in-one platform covering scheduling, dispatching, work order management and billing, with a technician mobile app carrying real-time job data, GPS tracking, SMS arrival alerts, customer financing and a payment portal. On top of that core it sells three named modules that most of this market does not have: Electrical Proposal Software for building and presenting good-better-best options in the home, Electrical Project Management Software for multi-day and multi-phase work above the job, and Electrical Marketing Software that ties a booked job back to the campaign and the phone call that produced it. Reporting runs on real-time profit, technician performance and cost data, and the platform integrates with QuickBooks.

![ServiceTitan billing screen listing customer invoice balances and ageing buckets, with an invoice open on the technician app showing line items and the total](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/electrician-software-servicetitan.png)

#### Why you would consider ServiceTitan

Because nothing else in the category reports and attributes like it, and it holds the top of the organic results for this search almost every time it is run for exactly that reason. If you are running a large residential or commercial service operation and your real problem is that you cannot see which half of your marketing works, which technician converts, or which job type is quietly losing money, this is the product built for that problem. It also has the largest partner ecosystem in the trade, which matters if you are buying a spine rather than a tool, and the proposal module is a genuine revenue lever on high-ticket electrical work.

#### Why you might not

There is no published price and no plan structure. A tier called Starter appears in their copy with no figure attached, so budgeting means a sales cycle. The bigger practical caution is that ServiceTitan is running two technician apps at the same time, ServiceTitan Field at 3.42 from 4,732 Apple ratings and the older ServiceTitan Mobile at 2.95 from 1,644. That is a migration in flight, so ask which one you are being demonstrated and which one your crew will get. Depth also costs implementation time, and shops that buy it for the reporting sometimes never switch the reporting on.

Our full assessment is in the [ServiceTitan review](/reviews/servicetitan/ "ServiceTitan review"), and what people move to is in [ServiceTitan alternatives](/alternatives/servicetitan/ "ServiceTitan alternatives").

### 3. Housecall Pro

**Market:** field service and job management. **Published price:** Basic $59, Essentials $149, Max $299 a month annual, or $79, $189 and $329 monthly.

#### What Housecall Pro does

[Housecall Pro](https://www.housecallpro.com/industries/electrical-contractor-software/) is the widest toolkit here for a residential service business, and unusually it reaches past the job in both directions. Ahead of the job: a built website, call answering, online booking, a pipeline dashboard for turning leads into sales, and quotes and proposals. During it: scheduling and dispatch, a technician mobile app, vehicle GPS, time tracking and automated customer contact. After it: invoices, card payments, consumer financing for bigger-ticket work, business financing, expense cards, payroll, accounting and real-time reporting. It also sells an AI customer service rep that answers calls and books jobs around the clock. Basic covers one user, Essentials five, Max eight.

![Housecall Pro payment screen taking a card on file, beside the customer-facing invoice on mobile with tip options and payment methods](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/electrician-software-housecall-pro.png)

#### Why you would consider Housecall Pro

Because it is the closest thing on this page to buying the whole back office at once, and it publishes what each tier costs. For a residential electrical business whose real problem is that leads are lost between the phone ringing and the technician arriving, the booking-to-payment chain is tight and finished. Its field app also carries 4.65 from 29,338 Apple ratings, the largest sample of any platform in this comparison, and scale usually drags a score down rather than holding it above 4.5. If your crew has rejected software before, that number is evidence.

#### Why you might not

There is no AIA billing and no retainage, which is the hard boundary between this product and contract work, and no permit or inspection record. Their own pricing page contradicts itself on the extra-user fee for the Max plan, so get that figure in writing before signing. See the [Housecall Pro review](/reviews/housecall-pro/ "Housecall Pro review") and [Housecall Pro alternatives](/alternatives/housecall-pro/ "Housecall Pro alternatives").

### 4. Jobber

**Market:** field service and job management. **Published price:** from $29 a month for one user to $529 for fifteen, annual, extra users $29.

#### What Jobber does

[Jobber](https://www.getjobber.com/industries/electrical-contractor-software/) runs the standard service cycle end to end and does a few things around it that most entry-priced platforms skip. Quoting carries optional line items so a customer can add a surge protector or a whole-home surge package to their own quote, plus quote drafts, reusable templates and **automatic quote follow-ups** that chase an unanswered estimate without anyone remembering to. Scheduling is a drag-and-drop calendar with smart dispatch and a technician mobile app. Billing covers invoicing, card processing and multiple payment options, with **job costing** reporting what a job actually made against what it was quoted at, and business health insights on top. There is an electrical CRM holding client and property history, online requests and booking, automatic review requests, referral tracking and email marketing, plus a receptionist service and a developer API.

![Jobber prompting a technician to close the job and invoice now, with an automated follow-up two days after the invoice is due and a panel repair invoice open on mobile](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/electrician-software-jobber.png)

#### Why you would consider Jobber

Because it is the shortest distance between a phone call and money in the account, and it is finished. For a growing electrical shop that is currently quoting in a notes app and invoicing in a spreadsheet, this replaces the whole chain for $29 a month at one user and does not ask you to configure a platform first. Job costing at that price point is genuinely unusual; most products at this tier tell you what you invoiced, not what you kept.

It also has the best-rated large-sample field app in this comparison, 4.81 from 20,724 Apple ratings, with over a million Android installs alongside it. If the reason your last system failed is that technicians would not use it, that is the number to weigh, because software the crew avoids is software you pay for twice.

#### Why you might not

Jobber’s published pricing is dynamic and varies by visitor, so the figures you are shown may not be the figures someone else is shown. Screenshot the plan you were quoted. There is no project layer above the job, no AIA and no retainage, so staged commercial work outgrows it, and there is no permit or inspection record. Detail in the [Jobber review](/reviews/jobber/ "Jobber review") and [Jobber alternatives](/alternatives/jobber/ "Jobber alternatives").

### 5. BuildOps

**Market:** field service and job management. **Published price:** none.

#### What BuildOps does

[BuildOps](https://buildops.com/resources/electrical-construction-software) is organised as two products sharing one database. Service Management runs first call to final invoice: dispatch, work orders, asset and equipment history on commercial sites, service agreements and preventive maintenance. Project Management runs bid to closeout: phases, submittals, change orders and closeout documentation. Above both sits a Financials layer tracking cost and margin per job across service and project work together, plus a Sales and CRM module, Payments, a technician mobile app, reporting and analytics, and an operations AI assistant. It is the only vendor in this comparison whose own pages claim that time, materials and photos all arrive attached to the invoice.

![BuildOps maintenance schedule for a commercial property showing due dates and completion status, with the asset service history for a UPS unit open on mobile](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/electrician-software-buildops.png)

#### Why you would consider BuildOps

Because it is built for the hardest shape to buy for: a commercial electrical contractor running a service department and a projects department out of the same business, where the two halves want opposite things from software. Most platforms make you pick a side. This one holds both, and the financial reporting spans them, which is the part that usually breaks when a shop runs two systems. If you maintain equipment on commercial sites under agreements and also bid fit-out work, this is the shortlist entry that was designed for you.

#### Why you might not

No price, no plan structure, no user counts, so the whole evaluation runs through a sales cycle. The technician app carries 3.10 from 467 Apple ratings against ten thousand-plus installs, which is middling for a product sold on field execution, so put the mobile experience in front of two of your own technicians before signing. Our full write-up is the [BuildOps review](/reviews/buildops/ "BuildOps review").

### 6. Knowify

**Market:** field service and job management. **Published price:** Core $99 and Advanced $329 a month billed yearly, or $149 and $399 monthly.

#### What Knowify does

[Knowify](https://knowify.com/electrical-contractor-software/) is built around the contract rather than the call. Budgeting and estimating produce a job budget you then track against; proposals and client management handle the front end; project scheduling with task lists and team scheduling handle the work; inventory and expense tracking catch what gets spent. The core of it is cost tracking and profitability reporting against the original budget, and a billing module covering invoices, change orders and pay applications, which means AIA G702 and G703 progress billing with retainage. Service calls and projects run on the same platform, and Knowify markets its QuickBooks integration as the deepest of any electrical contractor product, eliminating double entry between the job and the ledger.

#### Why you would consider Knowify

Because it is the clearest published answer to contract work in this market, and it holds the top organic position for this search for that reason. AIA billing with retainage is available from the $99 entry plan rather than gated behind an enterprise tier, and Knowify is one of only two platforms in the electrical market publishing both together. If your billing is a percentage of a contract rather than a completed job, and you have been running that out of Excel next to your field software, most of this page is irrelevant to you and this is the row that matters.

#### Why you might not

Service work is an add-on rather than the product, at $99 to $149 for Service Pro, so a service-led shop is paying for structure it will not use. The technician app is the weakest here at 2.71 from 17 Apple ratings and 2.77 from 118 on Google Play. Core covers one user and Advanced covers ten with extra users at $29, so the ninth user is a crossover point: nine on Core costs $331 against $329 for Advanced. Enterprise is unpriced. See the [Knowify review](/reviews/knowify/ "Knowify review") and [Knowify alternatives](/alternatives/knowify/ "Knowify alternatives").

### 7. Service Fusion

**Market:** field service and job management. **Published price:** $208, $325 and $533 a month annual, or $245, $382 and $627 monthly.

#### What Service Fusion does

[Service Fusion](https://www.servicefusion.com/electrical-contractor-software) covers customer management, estimating, scheduling and dispatch, work orders, invoicing and payments, with a technician mobile app. Around that it sells the pieces a multi-truck service business usually buys separately: GPS fleet tracking, an AI phone answering service that books calls when nobody picks up, flat-rate pricing integration so technicians quote from a priced task list rather than guessing, homeowner financing to close larger jobs, and online reputation management. The distinguishing commercial fact is that all of it is sold on a company plan with unlimited users rather than per seat.

![Service Fusion dashboard showing new customers, jobs, invoices and payments, with an estimate being emailed and a service agreement ready to sign on mobile](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/electrician-software-service-fusion.png)

#### Why you would consider Service Fusion

Because unlimited users is not a feature, it is a different pricing model, and for the right shop it beats every feature comparison on this page. If you have office staff, apprentices, a part-time bookkeeper and subcontractors who all need to see a schedule but do not need a full licence, a per-seat platform punishes you for every one of them. Against a $29-per-user product, the arithmetic flips somewhere around the tenth light user, and it keeps improving from there. Flat-rate pricing is the second reason: it is the cleanest way to stop two technicians quoting the same panel change two different ways.

#### Why you might not

The entry price is high relative to per-user products, so the model only pays back above that crossover. There is no AIA billing, no retainage and no permit or inspection record. The current mobile app, released under EverPro in March 2026, sits at 2.52 from 21 Apple ratings, which is a new app on a very small sample rather than a settled verdict, but it is worth asking about. More in the [Service Fusion review](/reviews/service-fusion/ "Service Fusion review") and [Service Fusion alternatives](/alternatives/service-fusion/ "Service Fusion alternatives").

### 8. FieldEdge

**Market:** field service and job management. **Published price:** none.

#### What FieldEdge does

[FieldEdge](https://fieldedge.com/electrician-software/) is built for multi-truck electrical service operations and organises itself around five things: dispatch, QuickBooks, customer management, invoicing and the technician app. Dispatch is a live board showing who is where and what state each job is in. Customer management holds full service history and equipment records so a technician arrives knowing what is already installed. Proposals and quoting support good-better-best options in the home, and FieldEdge Flat Rate gives technicians a priced task list to quote from. Payments are taken in the field, invoices are raised on site, and the whole thing writes back to QuickBooks. The vendor also still sells ESC, its older desktop product, alongside FieldEdge.

![FieldEdge customer record showing open jobs, work orders, invoices, quotes and agreements, with the Pricebook panel open on the Electrical category](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/electrician-software-fieldedge.png)

#### Why you would consider FieldEdge

Because it is the most QuickBooks-native product in this comparison, built around the ledger rather than integrated with it afterwards, with a real-time QuickBooks Desktop connection rather than a nightly export. If the immovable constraint in your business is that the accounting stays exactly where it is and the field system reports into it, that is a genuine reason to shortlist it, and it is why FieldEdge holds a consistent top-ten organic position for this term after forty years in the trade.

#### Why you might not

There is no published pricing and no plan structure, and no published AIA or retainage capability. The bigger caution is the technician app: FieldEdge Mobile carries 1.78 from 423 Apple ratings, the lowest score of any platform in this comparison and not a small sample. The accounting benefit lands in the office and that experience lands on your crew, so weigh the two against each other and demo the app first. See the [FieldEdge review](/reviews/fieldedge/ "FieldEdge review") and [FieldEdge alternatives](/alternatives/fieldedge/ "FieldEdge alternatives").

### 9. Contractor Plus

**Market:** field service and job management. **Published price:** $0 free tier, $29 a month for one user, $58 for two, additional users $20.

#### What Contractor Plus does

[Contractor Plus](https://contractorplus.app/pricing/) covers CRM, estimates and invoices, scheduling and a technician app on web, mobile and tablet. The free tier is a working product rather than a trial: 250 leads and clients and five estimates or invoices a month. Paid tiers add unlimited clients and documents, optional line items and add-ons on estimates, an AI estimate builder, automated job costing and profitability tracking, team and client chat, a self-hosted client portal on your own URL and branding, card payments with client financing, a bundled website, QuickBooks Online, and a Zapier integration with a developer API.

#### Why you would consider Contractor Plus

Because it is the lowest-risk way to stop running an electrical business off a phone and a spreadsheet. A real free tier means you can put it in front of your own crew on live jobs before spending anything, and $29 a month for a single user with job costing included is the cheapest entry point on this page by a wide margin. Its field app is also the highest rated in this comparison at 4.83 from 1,867 Apple ratings, which for a product at this price is the surprise of the set.

#### Why you might not

It is general contractor software rather than electrical software, so panel, circuit and load records do not exist, and there is no AIA, no retainage and no permit record. The top MAX tier is described as unlimited users for contractors above $1m in revenue, but the price does not render as a figure on their own pricing page, so treat it as unpriced until they quote you.

### 10. QuoteIQ

**Market:** field service and job management. **Published price:** five tiers from $25 to $582.50 a month billed annually, or $29.99 to $699 monthly.

#### What QuoteIQ does

[QuoteIQ](https://myquoteiq.com/pricing/) puts the quote at the centre instead of the dispatch board. Estimates, invoicing, scheduling, inspection forms and a job photo tool cover the work itself, and a property measurement tool prices from satellite and map data before anyone visits. Around that sit the demand-side pieces: customer self-service quoting and self-scheduling, a 24/7 AI call assistant, a client messaging hub, automated email and text follow-ups, mass campaigns, automated review requests, a deal pipeline with revenue forecasting, an AI website builder and inventory tracking across trucks and warehouse. Tiers are Essentials $25 for one user, Beginner $62.50 for two, Pro $125 for four, Elite $249 for ten and Max $582.50 for unlimited, each with a monthly AI credit allowance and a 14-day trial.

![QuoteIQ customer self-service quoting flow where the homeowner picks services and answers property questions, with an estimate-accepted notification](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/electrician-software-quoteiq.png)

#### Why you would consider QuoteIQ

Because if your bottleneck is turning enquiries into signed work rather than moving vans around, this is the right shape and most of this page is not. Letting a customer build and accept their own quote, then book their own slot, removes two phone calls from every job, and the whole tier ladder is published so you can see what the next stage costs before you get there. The field app is well rated at 4.72 from 3,320 Apple ratings.

#### Why you might not

It is not electrical software. There is no panel, circuit or load record, no permit, no inspection, no AIA and no retainage. It is a cross-trade home service platform that ranks strongly for electrical searches because it publishes a great deal of content about them, which is a point worth returning to at the end of this article.

### 11. TurboBid

**Market:** estimating and takeoff. **Published price:** TurboCloud at $99 a month, averaging $89 on a six-month subscription and $79 on a one-year; the estimating licence is sold as a one-time purchase, four monthly payments or a monthly subscription, with the figure shown at checkout.

#### What TurboBid does

[TurboBid](https://www.turbobid.net/) builds the bid. It handles both new construction estimates and service work estimates, pairs with PlanSwift for on-screen takeoff so you count devices off the PDF rather than a printed set, and carries assemblies so a recessed can or a receptacle circuit is one item with all its material and labour behind it. Estimates can be grouped by category, job phase, manufacturer or price source, quantities are separated into bid quantity, order quantity and package quantity so you order what you can actually buy, and it produces purchase orders at the end. TurboCloud is the subscription layer that keeps material pricing current through vendor price update files and synchronises assemblies and items.

![TurboBid TurboCloud item library browsing electrical assemblies by category, showing manufacturer catalogue numbers and flat-rate prices per item](https://cms.fieldcamp.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/electrician-software-turbobid.png)

#### Why you would consider TurboBid

Because it is the only traditional estimating package in this comparison that publishes any figure at all, and because you can buy it outright instead of renting it forever. For a shop that bids steadily but does not want another monthly subscription, that commercial model is genuinely different from everything else on this page. The bid-versus-order quantity handling is the practical detail worth noticing: it is the difference between an estimate that prices the job and an estimate that also tells you what to buy.

#### Why you might not

It does not schedule, dispatch or invoice, because it is not that kind of product, and there is no mobile app. Budget for it alongside a field platform, not instead of one. The Software Upgrade and Support plan is stated as required, TurboCloud is priced on top, and the one-time licence figure is not on the marketing pages, only in the cart.

### 12. ConEst IntelliBid

**Market:** estimating and takeoff. **Published price:** none.

#### What ConEst IntelliBid does

[ConEst IntelliBid](https://www.conest.com/) is estimating, takeoff and bid reporting for large electrical work. Automatic labour factoring applies condition-based labour adjustments so a ceiling at twenty feet does not get priced like a ceiling at eight. Material pricing stays current through the NetPricer, EPIC and TRA-SER pricing services, or you import your own from a spreadsheet. SureCount handles digital takeoff off the drawings. It ships in Standard, Plus and Pro editions, running either on-premises or on ConEst’s own cloud, and it covers commercial, industrial and solar work.

#### Why you would consider ConEst IntelliBid

Because on large commercial and industrial bid work the estimate is the whole business, and this is the heavyweight built for it. Automatic labour factoring is the reason: on a big package, labour is where the money is lost, and applying those adjustments by hand across thousands of items is how a bid goes wrong quietly. Contractors quoted on ConEst’s own site describe bidding ten million dollar public works packages with it. If you are pricing that work in a spreadsheet, the risk you are carrying is much larger than the licence.

#### Why you might not

No price, no editions comparison with figures, no trial and no mobile app. Every route is a demo request. The same is true of McCormick, its closest competitor, which has been selling electrical estimating for over 45 years and publishes no pricing either.

### Also considered and not ranked

- **Simpro and Contractor Foreman.** Both are strong on staged work and both are ranked in [best electrician job management software](/electrician-software/best-job-management/ "Best electrician job management software"). Contractor Foreman is the only platform other than Knowify publishing AIA and retainage together.
- **Procore.** Construction project management, not a trade platform, and no published pricing.
- **FieldPulse and Workiz.** Both are credible service platforms, and FieldPulse in particular is worth a look for a growing shop that wants configurability, covered in our [FieldPulse review](/reviews/fieldpulse/ "FieldPulse review"). Workiz is excluded from the ranking because it has stopped publishing prices: its pricing page now 404s and the replacement is quote-only, so any figure quoted elsewhere is stale.
- **electricaltakeoffsoftware.com.** An AI takeoff tool that reads symbols off vector PDFs, worth watching, but its own site quotes three different prices: $7 per project in the hero and the FAQ, $7 per month in the pricing block, and $49 per month after the trial in one call to action. Get the figure in writing.
- **Calculators, NEC reference and conduit-bending apps.** A different category again, covered in [best electrician apps](/electrician-software/best-apps/ "Best electrician apps").

## Which platform fits the work you actually do

Almost every shortlist you will be handed sorts these products by how many electricians you employ. That is the wrong axis. A ten-person shop doing tenant improvement work with progress claims and retainage needs a fundamentally different product from a ten-person shop doing residential service calls, and no amount of headcount matching will surface that.

The useful question is not how big the shop is. It is [what the work looks like when it goes wrong](/electrician-software/when-to-switch/ "Signs you have outgrown your software").

### If most of your work is residential service calls

Same-day calls, one visit, paid on site. The deciding factors are booking, dispatch, the technician’s phone and taking payment before leaving the driveway. Housecall Pro and Jobber both publish full pricing and are built for exactly this: Housecall Pro if you want the wider back office including call answering, payroll and financing, Jobber if you want the tightest quote-to-cash path at the lowest entry price. Contractor Plus is the option if the constraint is budget, with a free tier to test on live jobs first. You do not need AIA billing, retainage or a project layer, and paying for them is the most common overspend in this segment.

The one case where a service-only shop should look further is permitted work. A service call that needs a permit pulled and an inspection passed before you can bill it stops being a one-visit job, and none of the three products above holds the permit as a record.

### If most of your work is new construction

Plans, bids, phases, progress claims and retainage. This is the case where you are buying two products, not one, and the estimating tool comes first because money lost at bid time is not recoverable downstream. TurboBid, ConEst IntelliBid or McCormick handle the takeoff and the labour units. Then Knowify handles the contract billing, because AIA G702 and G703 with retainage is available from its entry plan, or Contractor Foreman if the deciding factor is the lowest published price for that capability.

The trap here is buying a field service platform and discovering it has no concept of a progress claim. Scheduling technicians and billing a percentage of a contract are different problems, and most of this market only solves the first.

### If you run a mix of both

This is where most electrical contractors actually sit, and it is the hardest shape to buy for, because the two halves of the business want opposite things. Service wants speed and a short path from call to cash. Contract work wants structure, phases and a paper trail. Run them in two systems and the crew ends up in both on the same day.

There is a pattern worth knowing before you choose. The platforms built hardest for contract work are rated markedly worse by field users than the service-first ones: BuildOps at 3.10 and Knowify at 2.71 against Jobber at 4.81 and Housecall Pro at 4.65. That is a trade-off, not a coincidence. The more structure a platform imposes to hold a contract together, the more taps it costs the person holding the phone, so whichever way you go, demo the mobile app with your own technicians rather than with the salesperson.

The platforms that hold both in one place are BuildOps, Simpro, ServiceTitan and FieldCamp. Three of those four publish no pricing. FieldCamp is the one to evaluate if the mixed work is also permitted work, because the [permit and the inspection exist as records](https://docs.fieldcamp.ai/data-model/permits) rather than as a note on a job, and because the [job carries several visits](https://docs.fieldcamp.ai/job-management/job-management-a-complete-guide) without being cloned.

## What electrical contractor software costs in 2026

Published prices in this comparison start at $0 a month and spread widely from there. Underneath that spread, three things distort the comparison.

- **Five of twelve publish nothing.** ServiceTitan, BuildOps, FieldEdge, ConEst and McCormick all require a sales conversation before a number. Procore, Simpro and Workiz are the same. This is the norm in the category, not the exception, and it means the cheapest-looking shortlist is often just the shortlist of vendors willing to show you a price.
- **The unit being metered is not the same across products.** Jobber, Knowify and Contractor Plus meter users. Service Fusion meters nothing and gives you unlimited users on a company plan. QuoteIQ meters users and AI credits. TurboBid sells a licence with a separate support plan and a separate cloud subscription. Comparing headline figures across those models tells you very little.
- **The second product is usually missing from the budget.** A shop doing new construction needs an estimating package as well as a field platform. A shop keeping its books in QuickBooks needs that licence too, at $38 to $340 a month. The realistic number is the sum, not the headline.

For the invoicing and payment side specifically, including which platforms build the invoice from the job record rather than making someone retype it, see [best electrician invoicing software](/electrician-software/best-invoicing/ "Best electrician invoicing software"). For whether the property, panel and circuit exist as real records or as a notes field, see [best CRM software for electrical contractors](/electrician-software/best-crm/ "Best CRM software for electrical contractors"). FieldCamp’s own plan structure is set out in the [plan and billing documentation](https://docs.fieldcamp.ai/getting-started/plan-and-billing-fieldcamp-pricing-plans-and-subscription).

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## Frequently asked questions

**What is the best app for electrical contractors?**

If you mean the business platform, the strongest published options for residential service work are Housecall Pro from $59 a month and Jobber from $49 a month, or $29 on annual billing, both of which include a technician mobile app covering scheduling, job details, on-site quoting and card payments. If you mean the tools on the truck, calculators, NEC references and conduit-bending apps are a separate category from the platforms compared here, and both matter. See [best electrician apps](/electrician-software/best-apps/ "Best electrician apps") for the field-tool side.

**What is the best software for electrical contractors?**

It depends which of four markets you are buying from. For residential service calls, Housecall Pro from $59 a month and Jobber from $49 a month, or $29 on annual billing publish full pricing and cover booking through to payment. For new construction, the estimating tool comes first, which means TurboBid, ConEst IntelliBid or McCormick, with Knowify from $99 for the contract billing. For a mix of both, the platforms that hold service and contract work in one system are FieldCamp, BuildOps, Simpro and ServiceTitan, and FieldCamp is the only one of those four publishing its pricing.

**What is the best bidding software for electrical contractors?**

Bidding and estimating is its own market, separate from field service software. TurboBid, ConEst IntelliBid and McCormick are the three names most often shortlisted for electrical work, all of them offering plan takeoff, assemblies and live material price updates. Only TurboBid publishes any figure: TurboCloud at $99 a month, with the estimating licence sold as a one-time purchase, four monthly payments or a monthly subscription, priced at checkout. ConEst and McCormick both require a demo request, and none of the three has a mobile app.

**What is the best billing software for electrical contractors?**

For contract billing with AIA G702 and G703 forms and retainage, Knowify and Contractor Foreman are the only two platforms in the electrical market publishing both together, and Knowify includes AIA and change orders from its $99 entry plan. For service billing, the more useful test is whether the invoice is built from the job record or retyped from it, which is compared vendor by vendor in [best electrician invoicing software](/electrician-software/best-invoicing/ "Best electrician invoicing software").

**What is the best ERP software for electrical contractors?**

ERP is a fifth category again, above all four markets in this comparison. The names that come up for electrical and mechanical contractors are Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate, Viewpoint Vista and Acumatica Construction Edition, and none of them publishes pricing. An ERP replaces the accounting and financial backbone rather than the field system, so most contractors running one still buy a separate platform for scheduling, dispatch and the technician’s phone, and connect the two.

**What is the best software for contractors generally, not just electrical?**

The cross-trade platforms in this comparison are Jobber, Housecall Pro, Service Fusion, Contractor Plus and QuoteIQ, all of which publish pricing and none of which is electrical-specific. The trade-specific capabilities that separate electrical from general contracting are panel, circuit and load records, permit and inspection tracking, and AIA progress billing on electrical subcontracts. If you need none of those, the general platforms are usually cheaper.

**What are the top 5 electrical design software?**

Electrical design and analysis software is engineering software for designing the system, not business software for running the shop, so it sits outside this comparison entirely. The names most commonly used by electrical engineers and design-build contractors are AutoCAD Electrical, ETAP, SKM PowerTools, EasyPower and Revit for the modelling side. None of them schedules a technician or raises an invoice.

**Can electrical contractor software track permits and inspections?**

Almost none of it can, as records. Contractor Foreman tracks permit fees as fields but does not bill them through to the customer. FieldCamp models the [permit as a record](https://docs.fieldcamp.ai/data-model/permits) with a number, a status and a fee, with the inspection attached to that permit. No other vendor in this comparison claims permit fee pass-through on its own site, which is why permitted work is the case where a service-first platform most often breaks down.

**What is the difference between electrical contractor software and electrical estimating software?**

Estimating software prices the job before you win it: takeoff, labour units, assemblies and material price updates. Contractor or field service software runs the job after you win it: scheduling, dispatch, the technician’s app, job costing and invoicing. They are separate purchases from separate vendors in almost every case. The clearest tell is the mobile app: none of the three traditional estimating packages in this comparison has one, and every field platform does.


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