The best quoting apps for UK sole trader electricians in 2026
There are dozens of quoting and job management apps aimed at UK electricians. Most were built for larger businesses. Here's an honest look at the main options and what each one is actually suited to.
slug: best-quoting-app-for-electricians-uk title: The best quoting apps for UK sole trader electricians in 2026 description: There are dozens of quoting and job management apps aimed at UK electricians. Most were built for larger businesses. Here's an honest look at the main options and what each one is actually suited to. date: 2026-05-08 tags:
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The market for electrician quoting software has grown significantly in the last few years. The problem is that most of it was designed for electrical contractors with teams, schedulers, and office staff — not for sole traders who need to send a quote from the van between jobs.
Here's an honest overview of the main options, what they're genuinely good at, and who each one suits.
Powered Now
Powered Now is one of the most established UK-built trade apps. It covers quoting, invoicing, job scheduling, customer communication, and digital forms. If you want a single platform that handles most of your business administration, it's a capable choice.
Good for: Electricians who want a full business management system — scheduling, customer records, invoicing, and quoting all in one place.
Worth knowing: The feature set is broad, which means there's a setup process and a learning curve. Pricing starts at around £19 per month for a sole trader plan. Some users find it more than they need for straightforward domestic quoting.
Tradify
Tradify is a New Zealand-built platform with a strong UK user base. It covers job management, quoting, invoicing, and timesheets. It's used widely across the trades and is a mature, well-supported product.
Good for: Small electrical businesses with one to five people, particularly those who need job scheduling and timesheet functionality alongside quoting.
Worth knowing: More feature-rich than most sole traders need for quoting alone. Monthly pricing reflects a multi-feature platform. Works well if you're growing a team.
ServiceM8
ServiceM8 is an Australian-built job management platform that's gained traction in the UK market. It's strong on scheduling, customer communication, and invoicing. Pricing is per-job rather than a flat monthly fee.
Good for: Businesses that do high volumes of reactive and repeat work, where scheduling and dispatch are the primary challenge.
Worth knowing: The per-job pricing model can add up for sole traders with steady work volumes. Feature set is heavier than most domestic sole traders require.
QuickBooks or Xero with invoice templates
Some sole traders use their accounting software to produce quote documents. It works — the output is professional, the records are in the right place for accounting purposes, and the cost is covered by software you're already paying for.
Good for: Electricians who are already organised around their accounting software and want quoting to live in the same place.
Worth knowing: General accounting software doesn't understand electrical terminology, scope-of-works structure, or scheme registration numbers. The quote looks like an invoice rather than a trade document. Manual to produce.
CircuitCapture
CircuitCapture is built for one specific problem: turning the information from a pricing visit into a professional job brief and client-ready estimate, as quickly as possible, without an app or setup.
You send a WhatsApp voice note after your pricing visit — describe the property, the scope, the details you'd normally write up later — and get a structured job brief and estimate back in under a minute. Your NICEIC, NAPIT, or SELECT registration number is stored once and appears on every document automatically.
Good for: UK sole trader domestic electricians who want to eliminate the write-up time after a pricing visit. No app to download, no training required, no scheduler or timesheet features included.
Worth knowing: CircuitCapture does one thing. It doesn't schedule jobs, track time, send invoices, or manage customers. If you want a full business management platform, look at Powered Now or Tradify instead. If the pricing visit write-up is the specific problem you want to solve, CircuitCapture is built for exactly that.
Pricing is £12.99 per month or £129 per year. Three free jobs, no card required to try.
Which one is right for you
The honest answer depends on what problem you're actually trying to solve.
If your main frustration is the time it takes to write up a pricing visit and send a quote, and everything else in your business runs fine, you don't need a full job management platform. You need a faster way to produce the quote.
If you want to consolidate scheduling, customer records, invoicing, and quoting into one system, Powered Now or Tradify are the most established UK options for that.
If you're a growing business adding staff and needing coordination tools, the feature-heavy platforms earn their monthly cost.
For most UK sole trader domestic electricians, the job management features go largely unused. The quoting problem is what drives the search in the first place.
For more on what a professional electrical estimate should contain, see What to include in an electrical estimate.