Electrician invoice software comes in two shapes: a generic invoicing app any trade could use, and the invoicing inside an electrical job management product. The generic app is cheaper and faster to start; the trade product is where the invoice stops being a document and becomes the end of a job record. These six checks apply to either, and the free invoice tool on this site is the place to start without buying anything.
One to three: lines, book and estimate
Material and labor on separate lines, always, because the accountant needs them apart and the customer wants to see what they paid for. A price book, so tasks are tapped rather than typed on a phone in a panel room. The approved estimate carried forward as the invoice, so the customer sees the number they said yes to. A generic app usually passes the first; the trade products are built for the other two.
Four to six: signature, payment and the exit
A signature and a photo attached on site settle most disputes before they start. Payment on the phone with the invoice marked paid in the same record removes the reminder cycle. And an export of every invoice with its lines and payments if you ever leave, which is the check vendors like least and the one that protects the business.
What the trade products charge
From the vendors' own pricing pages on the day they were read: Tradify's Lite plan is $47 USD per user per month, with Pro at $51 and Plus at $61; Jobber's Core plan is $49 a month including one user, with additional users at $29 a month each; Housecall Pro's Basic plan is $59 a month billed annually, or $79 billed monthly. Multiply the per-user line by everyone who needs a login, because that is what a plan actually costs a shop. Every one of them includes invoicing inside a job management subscription, so the comparison against a generic invoicing app is job management against invoicing alone.
When the generic app stops being enough
A one-truck shop that quotes by phone and bills at the door runs on a generic app for a long time. It stops being enough when the invoice needs to remember the customer: the second visit to the same panel, the property manager with twelve units, the generator service due next spring. Then the invoice needs a record behind it, and the record is the product.
Questions people ask about electrician invoice software
What should an electrical invoice always include?
Your business name, licence number and contact, the customer and property, the date, material and labor on separate lines with quantities and prices, any tax, the total, the terms and the payment status.
Is it worth paying per user for invoicing?
Only if every electrician invoices from the truck. If one office person raises every invoice, a single-user plan or the free tool is enough until the truck becomes the bottleneck.
Can I export invoices if I change software?
Check before you sign up. A product that cannot export invoices with their lines and payments is holding your records; that matters more than any feature.