Electrical flat rate pricing software: what actually fits an electrical shop

Every flat-rate vendor sells to HVAC first. Plumbing gets the second catalog, and electrical is usually the third, which shows in the product: the demo is a condenser, the sample tasks are tune-ups, and the electrical library is the one nobody on the sales call has open. If your day is panels, circuits, and service calls, it’s worth knowing what you’re actually buying before you sign up at $129+/month to $179+/month.

This page covers the published prices as of July 2026, how flat rate software differs from electrical estimating software and what each one costs you, what an electrical task list has to get right that an HVAC one doesn’t, and the cheaper route when the problem is the prices in your book rather than the book itself.

What the subscription is really renting you

Strip the marketing off and every flat-rate product sells the same three parts: a priced task catalog, the math that holds those prices at your labor rate and margin, and a tablet screen for presenting options to the homeowner. The catalog is the piece you keep paying for. The math is the same formula a free calculator runs. The presentation app is the part multi-truck shops genuinely use every day.

The trade-generic version of this breakdown, with every vendor side by side, lives on the flat rate software comparison. What follows here is the part that changes when the trade is electrical.

Flat rate software vs electrical estimating software

Electricians shop for two different products under one search, and the vendors are happy to let them blur. It’s worth separating them before you compare prices, because the cost structures aren’t alike.

• Estimating software is built for bid work. It counts devices and wire off a set of plans, applies a labor unit to each, and produces a proposal for a new build or a remodel. It lives in the office, is generally sold per user, and its cost scales with how many people write bids.
• Flat rate pricing software is built for service calls. It holds a fixed catalog of tasks with prices already attached, so a tech can show a homeowner a number for a panel upgrade or a dead circuit without calling the office. It lives in the truck, is generally sold per tech or per shop, and its cost scales with the truck count.

A service-and-repair shop needs the second one. A shop bidding commercial tenant fit-outs needs the first. A shop doing both often ends up paying for both, which is the honest reason electrical software costs more than the HVAC guy down the street pays. Vendors in both categories quote on a sales call rather than publish a price list, so the figures below are what the flat-rate vendors publish, not a promise of what you’ll be invoiced.

Why an HVAC-built catalog fits an electrical book badly

The flat-rate math is identical across trades — loaded labor cost times task hours, plus marked-up material, priced to your target margin. What differs is how the tasks are cut, and a catalog built around HVAC equipment cuts them wrong for electrical work:

• Circuits and amperage, not tonnage. HVAC tasks fan out by equipment size and refrigerant. Electrical tasks fan out by circuit count, breaker size, and wire gauge. A dedicated 20-amp circuit and a 50-amp range circuit share almost no material and not much labor, and a book that has one “add circuit” line will underprice the second every time.
• Access decides the hours.A furnace sits in a closet. A new run goes through finished drywall, an attic in August, or a slab, and that’s the biggest swing in an electrical task’s labor. A good electrical book prices the same run two or three ways by access, not once.
• Device counts multiply. Much of electrical service work is quantity: six recessed cans, twelve outlets, a whole-house of smoke detectors. An HVAC-shaped catalog assumes one unit per task. An electrical book needs a first-unit price and an each-additional price, or the tech is doing the arithmetic on the porch.
• Permits and inspections are tasks. Panel upgrades and service changes carry a permit, an inspection visit, and often a utility coordination call. HVAC-shaped catalogs tend to fold that into the flat price or leave it out, and either way the shop eats the second trip.

None of that is a reason the software can’t work. It’s a reason to open the electrical library before you buy, and to count how many of its tasks you’d actually dispatch. The electrical flat rate pricing guide walks the per-task math number by number if you want to check the vendor’s work.

The options and their published prices

Published list prices as of July 2026. None of these vendors prices electrical separately — you buy the same subscription and pick the trade library — and final quotes are typically set on a sales call based on plan and tech count, so read these as floors.

The three questions to ask on the demo

Every one of these vendors will show you a good demo. These are the questions that separate an electrical catalog from an HVAC catalog with electrical bolted on:

• How many distinct panel and service-change tasks are in here, and do they split by amperage, meter location, and whether the permit and inspection trip are priced in?
• Does a new circuit price differently through finished drywall, an attic, and an open basement, or is it one line item?
• Is there an each-additional price on outlets, switches, and fixtures, or does the tech multiply the single-unit price on the porch?

When the catalog isn’t the problem

Here’s the case the vendors won’t make. If you already have an electrical service list in Housecall Pro, you don’t have a catalog problem — you have a pricing problem. Prices set three years ago, copper wire and breakers up since, nobody checking what each task clears. Renting a new catalog doesn’t fix that. It swaps your task names for the vendor’s, hands you the same rate-and-margin setup work, and adds a bill.

That audit is what an unwatched book looks like from the inside. The Margin-Right Rebuild fixes exactly that: your existing price book, every task recalculated at your target margin, delivered as import-verified CSVs for $249 one time. You keep the files. Optional continuity software is $299/yr ($199/yr founding) only if you want ongoing help. Other trades and head-to-head vendor matchups are on the comparison hub.

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