Electrical contractor software for electricians and small electrical businesses.

Electrical contractor management software in one file: bids built from your own price book, a takeoff that adds the install labor, a dispatch board for your electricians, permits and inspections, real margin on every job and invoices that track themselves. Software for electrical contractors that you buy once, with no monthly fee.

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OwnDesk Electrical contractor software dashboard, showing jobs today, backlog to bill, revenue per labor hour and inspection first-pass rate

No subscription Bids from your price book Works offline One-time payment

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One-time payment

No monthly fee and no yearly renewal. The price you see is the whole price.

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Your price book, on every bid

Cost, sell price, margin and install hours for every item, added to an estimate in one pick.

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A dispatch board

Electricians by day, one card per job, emergency and urgent calls in colour.

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Real margin per job

Job price minus materials and electrician hours, from the records you already entered.

Electrical contractor business management software

Everything a small electrical contractor runs on, in one place.

Dashboard • dispatch board • calendar • reports • leads • estimates • price book • customers • service plans • jobs • field reports • tasks • change orders • callbacks • permits & inspections • safety • technicians • subcontractors • suppliers • tools & vehicles • parts & stock • invoices • purchase orders • expenses • timesheets • CSV export & JSON backup • English & Spanish.

Estimating software for electrical contractors

Set your services, panels, wire, devices and fixtures once, each with a cost and a sell price. Choose “Add from price book” on a bid and the line lands with your cost and the markup that reaches your sell price. Tax, cost and gross margin update as you build, and the estimate prints on your letterhead with a signature line. Bid tracking is just the status: draft, sent, accepted, rejected or expired, with a close rate on the dashboard.

An electrical takeoff that also counts the labor

Enter 600 ft of 12/2 cable, ten receptacles and twelve recessed lights, add a waste percentage, and the takeoff shows the quantity to order, rounded up to whole units. Give each item an install time and it adds one labor line at your own cost and billing rate. It is a quantity takeoff from your own price book; it does not read plans or drawings.

Electrical contractor scheduling software

One row per electrician and one column per day. Every job is a card with its arrival window, marked standard, urgent or emergency. Click the + in an empty cell to book a job into that slot, and see what is still unassigned. You enter and move the jobs yourself.

Invoicing and billing, including time and material

Service, deposit, progress, final, change-order and credit-memo invoices, with Paid, Partial and Overdue worked out for you. Bill labor hours at your rate plus materials with markup, or a flat price. Job price plus approved change orders, minus expenses and electrician hours, gives the margin, and a 0 to 100 health score flags the jobs going wrong.

Material management that does not rely on memory

Stock has a minimum level and a low-stock alert. A purchase order marked “Received” writes the cost to the right job and tops up the matching part, once. It is the difference between knowing what a job really cost and finding out at the end of the month.

Permits, inspections, service plans and callbacks

Permit numbers and inspection results with an alert on a failed inspection, and a first-pass inspection rate on the dashboard. Annual safety inspections, generator maintenance and infrared panel scan plans with renewal dates. Callbacks and punch lists, license expiry for every electrician, and safety records for lockout / tagout and arc flash reviews.

Electrical contractor job management software

From bid to paid in four steps.

Job management software for electrical contractors mostly has to keep four things in the same place: what you quoted, who is going, what it cost and what you are owed.

Bid it

Add the customer, then build the estimate from your price book. Use the takeoff for cable, devices and fixtures, and print it for the customer to sign.

Schedule it

Accept the estimate and it becomes a job with its price and cost budget. Put it on the dispatch board with an electrician, a day and an arrival window. Log the permit and the inspection date.

Do it and cost it

File the field report, log hours and expenses against the job, and record change orders. Margin and health score update themselves, so you see a job spending faster than it is being built.

Invoice and follow up

Raise the deposit, progress or final invoice, record the payment and see what is still owed. Backlog to bill, callbacks and service-plan renewals show up before they are forgotten.

Project management for longer jobs works at the level of a job: progress, tasks on a board, change orders and progress billing. It does not do Gantt charts, submittals or RFIs.

The electrical numbers, on the first screen

Twelve figures an electrical contractor actually steers by.

Jobs today, open estimates, revenue for the last 30 days, backlog still to bill, outstanding invoices, callback rate, estimate close rate, gross margin, revenue per labor hour, inspection first-pass rate, service plan revenue and plans renewing.

Backlog to bill

The price of signed work, change orders included, that you have not invoiced yet. It tells you how much work is already sold before you look at the phone.

Revenue per labor hour

Thirty days of billing divided by every hour logged in the timesheets. If it slips toward your labor cost, the dashboard warns you.

Accounting and field service, honestly

The business side of an electrical contractor, without the monthly fee.

An electrical business lives out of vans, phone calls and permit offices. Software for electrical contractors should keep the jobs, the money and the paperwork straight. It should also tell you where its limits are.

Accounting software for small electrical contractors?

It covers the job side: invoices, payments, expenses, timesheets, job costing and margin, with every list exportable to CSV for your accountant. It is not a general ledger. There is no payroll, no bank feed and no tax filing, so keep your bookkeeping program for those.

Field reports that print

The electrician’s work performed, materials used and findings on one page, printable with a customer signature line, and linked to the job for costing.

Works with no signal

The file runs offline in your browser, on a laptop or tablet, in a basement panel room or a crawl space. Nothing needs a connection once it is downloaded.

What it does not do

No GPS tracking, no route optimisation, no customer self-booking, no automatic texts or emails, no card processing, no plan reading, no load calculations or code checks, and no two people editing at once. It is the office record of the operation, not a live field service platform.

Choosing the best software for electrical contractors

You are not really choosing between two software packages.

Most electrical contractor software is rented by the month, and the records live on somebody else’s server. Spreadsheets are free but cannot build a bid from a price book or keep a dispatch board. This is software you own, with the electrical-specific parts built in.

	OwnDesk Electrical	Subscription electrical software	Paper & spreadsheets
Price	$ 49.00 once	Monthly fee, for as long as you use it	Free, but it costs your evenings
Bids from a price book	Built in	Usually	By hand, every quote
Quantity takeoff with waste and install labor	Included (not plan-based)	Varies	Your own formulas
Electrician dispatch board	Included	Usually	No
Permits and inspection tracking	Included	Varies	A list you keep up
Works offline	Yes	Often needs a connection	Yes
Your records if you stop paying	Still yours	Access ends	Still yours
GPS tracking, route planning, customer texts	Not included	Often included	No
Several people at once	Not included — one computer at a time	Usually included	Only through a cloud drive

The subscription column is a general description of electrical contractor and field service software sold by the month, not a claim about any single company — features and pricing differ, so check each site. OwnDesk Electrical is single-computer software: it does not sync between devices, track vehicles, send messages, read plans, do load calculations or process card payments.

From payment to your first bid

Three steps, about two minutes.

Pay with card

Checkout runs on Stripe. Your card details never touch this site.

Download and open

The link appears the moment payment clears. Double-click the file — it opens in your browser, no install, no internet needed after that.

Look around, then start fresh

It opens with a sample electrical company already loaded. Clear it from Settings, which keeps your company name, logo and tax rate, then add your own price book, labor rates, customers and jobs.

14-day money-back guarantee Plus support from Adrián, usually the same working day

If OwnDesk Electrical isn't right for how you run your electrical business, email me and you get a refund — no questions. If something's confusing, you're writing to the person who built it, not a queue. English and Spanish, both spoken here.

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Questions

Before you buy.

What is electrical contractor software?

Electrical contractor software is the program an electrical business runs its bids, jobs, schedule, costs and invoices in. The parts that matter for electrical work are a price book with your cost and sell price for every service, panel, length of cable and fixture, a way to work out material quantities and install time, tax, permits and inspections, and a printed bid the customer can sign. This one adds a dispatch board, job costing and invoicing, so an accepted estimate carries straight into a job.

Is this electrical contractor job management software?

Yes, for a small shop. Every job has a customer, an electrician, a scheduled date and arrival window, a price, a cost budget, change orders, field reports, permits and invoices, and the job cost sheet shows price against cost and the margin so far. It is a one-computer tool, so it suits an owner-operator or a crew of a few trucks with one office computer, not a company that needs the whole team editing at once.

Can it be used as electrical contractor project management software?

For jobs that run a few days or a few weeks, yes: progress, a task board, change orders, deposits and progress billing, and a cost budget checked against the spend. It does not do Gantt charts, submittals or RFIs, and it is not meant to coordinate a large multi-trade project. If that is what you need, a dedicated construction project management platform is the right tool.

What is the best software for electrical contractors?

It depends on the size of the shop. A contractor with a back office and a crew in the field needs a cloud platform where several people edit the same record, and pays a monthly fee for it. An owner-operator or a small crew is usually better served by something they own: one payment, no account, the records on their own computer. This is built for that second case, and it says plainly what it leaves out.

How does the estimating software use my price book?

Each service, panel, run of cable, device or fixture in the price book has a cost, a sell price and, if you want, the hours one unit takes to install. On a bid you choose "Add from price book" and the line arrives with your cost, the markup that lifts it to your sell price and the right line kind, such as labor, materials or subcontractor. Change a price and every new estimate uses it.

Does it do an electrical takeoff?

It does a quantity takeoff, not a plan-reading one. You choose items from your price book, type the feet of cable or the count of devices and fixtures, and add a waste percentage (wire defaults to 10%, devices, boxes and conduit fittings to 5%). It shows the quantity to order rounded up to whole units and adds the lines to the estimate. If the items carry an install time, it also adds one labor line at your labor cost and billing rate. It does not measure drawings, and it does not come with a published labor-unit book: the hours are your own.

Is it electrical contractor scheduling software?

It has a dispatch board that lays jobs out by electrician and day, each with an arrival window and a priority of standard, urgent or emergency, and a month calendar that also shows tasks, inspections, invoices due and service-plan visits. You create and move the jobs yourself. It does not optimise routes, track a van by GPS, let customers book themselves or text a customer that the electrician is on the way.

Does it work as invoice software and billing software for electrical contractors?

Yes. Invoices can be service, deposit, progress billing, final, change order or credit memo, and Paid, Partial and Overdue are worked out for you. You can bill time and material, with labor hours at your rate plus materials with markup, or a flat price per job. Every estimate and invoice prints on your own letterhead with your license number, and your browser saves it as a PDF you can email.

Is it accounting software for small electrical contractors?

It covers the job side of the books: invoices, payments, expenses, timesheets, job costing, margin and a dashboard of what is outstanding. Every list exports to CSV for your accountant. It is not a general ledger. It does no payroll, no bank feeds and no tax filing, and it does not sync with accounting programs, so keep your bookkeeping software for those.

Can it manage materials and stock?

Yes. Parts and stock have a minimum level with low-stock alerts, and purchase orders write the cost to the right job when you mark them received, topping up the matching part in stock once. It is material management for the shop and the vans, so a job stops quietly eating margin because a delivery was never costed. It is not a warehouse system.

Can I track permits, inspections and callbacks?

Yes. Permits record the number, type, who issued it, the inspection date, the result and the expiry. A failed inspection raises an alert until it is re-inspected and passed, and the dashboard shows the share of inspections that passed first time. Callbacks, warranty returns and punch-list items have an owner and a due date and feed the callback rate.

Can it work as field service management software for electricians?

For the business side of field service, yes: customers, estimates, jobs, field reports with a customer signature line, callbacks, electrician hours, job costing, invoices and payments. What it cannot do is let an electrician in the van update the same record live, because there is no cloud sync. If you need that, a cloud field service platform, and its monthly fee, is the right tool.

Can several electricians or office staff use it at the same time?

No, and this is the honest limit worth knowing before you buy. There is no cloud sync and no shared database, so it is one computer at a time. A second office computer can work from a copy by restoring a backup file, but the two copies do not merge.

Where are my records stored, and is there a subscription?

Records live inside your browser, on your own computer, and nothing is uploaded anywhere. Settings has a backup export and, in Chrome and Edge, an automatic backup file. Keep a backup somewhere else. There is no subscription: one payment for the file, no account, no server, no monthly fee.

Build a bid in it before you decide.

The live demo has real screens and a sample electrical company loaded — no sign-up, no credit card. If it fits, buying takes about a minute.