Electrician software: job management, quotes and invoicing

The best electrician billing software for an Australian sparky bills at the job rather than at the kitchen table, so judge it on five things: quoting from your own labour rates, a schedule you can assign work from, AS/NZS 3000 test readings captured on the Certificate of Compliance, state-regulator lodgement links surfaced where you actually need them, and one-tap conversion of the finished job into a GST invoice with an online pay link. simPRO and AroFlo are genuinely powerful for larger contracting firms but carry enterprise pricing and a steeper setup. OneBookPlus covers that whole loop from the free plan up, with your ABN and electrical licence number on every document.

Yes. OneBookPlus is a fair simPRO and AroFlo alternative for sole traders and small electrical teams. simPRO and AroFlo are genuinely strong for large commercial contractors with complex project accounting and inventory, and we won't pretend to match their depth at that scale. Where OneBookPlus wins is for residential and small-commercial sparkies who want quoting, CoC capture, GST invoicing, scheduling and a booking page in one affordable subscription that starts free, without enterprise onboarding or per-seat pricing.

Yes, our free plan includes 10 invoices a month, 5 quotes a month, and up to 250 contacts. Perfect for sole trader sparkies just getting started. Upgrade to Starter ($29/mo) for unlimited invoices and quotes as your electrical business grows.

Every invoice automatically calculates 10% GST, displays your ABN and electrical licence number, and meets ATO requirements. Attach Certificates of Compliance to any job record. At BAS time, export a GST summary in one click.

When you issue an Electrical CoC in OneBookPlus, the form surfaces one-tap links to your state's lodgement portal, Energy Safe Victoria (VIC), Fair Trading (NSW), Electrical Safety Office (QLD), Office of the Technical Regulator (SA), Building & Energy (WA), CBOS (TAS), Access Canberra (ACT), and NT WorkSafe. Each state has its own lodgement window (commonly 30 days), and we surface the link inline so you don't waste time hunting URLs.

Yes. One tap fills the certificate's structured-readings form with the AS/NZS 3000 fields every regulator expects: insulation resistance (MΩ), earth continuity (Ω), RCD trip time (ms) and trip current (mA), polarity test, and visual inspection. The readings print on the customer-emailed PDF with proper unit symbols, so your CoC is audit-ready.

Yes. Solar installs capture panel count, inverter kW, and STC quantity in a structured form. The cert workflow surfaces CEC-accreditation guidance and links to the REC Registry for creating STCs within the 12-month window. Quote presets, DNSP grid-connection reminders, and customer-handover emails are included.

Absolutely. Build itemised quotes for switchboard upgrades (single- and three-phase), safety switch installs, rewiring, smoke alarm replacement, EV charger installs, and any electrical work. Include labour, materials, and safety testing as separate line items. Customers accept online with one click.

Yes. Store your electrical licence details, Certificates of Compliance, test results, and CPD records against each job. Set reminders for licence renewals so you never lapse. Everything is documented and audit-ready.

OneBookPlus offers a Test & Tag Register marketplace pack ($15/mo) that stores each appliance with its category, last-test date, next-due date, pass/fail history, and the technician who tested it. Default retest intervals follow AS/NZS 3760:2022, 3 months for construction/demolition/hostile environments, 6 months for factory/workshop, 12 months for office/hire, 5 years for fixed equipment. The dashboard surfaces what's due this week, and tag PDFs are bulk-printable for on-site labelling.

Yes, the Emergency Lighting Compliance pack ($15/mo) tracks every exit sign and emergency luminaire in a building, runs the 6-monthly 90-second discharge test and the 12-monthly 90-minute full-duration test required by AS/NZS 2293.2, and emails a building-owner-ready compliance report. Test history is retained against each fitting, so when the building manager asks for proof at audit you can produce the dated log in a click.

Yes. The Heat Pump HWS Install Pack ($19/mo) captures customer eligibility checks for the major Australian state schemes, Victorian Energy Upgrades (VEU), NSW Peak Demand Reduction Scheme (PDRS), and SA's Home Energy Equipment scheme (HEER), alongside Federal STCs created on the REC Registry. The job record stores the unit serial, scheme reference number, and pre/post-install photos required by the AGS or Accredited Person for the certificate to be issued.

Yes, the EV Charger Install Pack ($19/mo) walks you through the AS/NZS 3000 §4.5 requirements for every install: dedicated 32A circuit, Type B RCBO (mandatory for Mode 3 chargers without internal residual DC detection), weatherproof isolator, and the IEC 62196 Mode 3 commissioning handshake. The cert workflow captures insulation resistance, earth continuity, and the Type B RCBO trip-time reading on the same Certificate of Compliance you issue for any other electrical work, no separate paperwork. DNSP single-line diagram is attachable to the job for the supply-upgrade application when one is needed.

At minimum: quoting with labour and materials as separate line items, a schedule you can assign jobs from, a job record that carries site notes, photos, test readings and the Certificate of Compliance, recurring jobs for test and tag rounds and maintenance contracts, and one-tap conversion of the finished job into a GST invoice. OneBookPlus covers that whole loop on a published $0 to $69/month plan, where enterprise tools like simPRO cover it behind a contact-sales quote and a setup fee. If you run a multi-van crew across large commercial projects daily, evaluate both; if you run one to ten sparkies, the all-in-one is usually the better fit.

Yes. Set any job to repeat (weekly, fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, or a custom pattern) and it re-creates itself with the customer, site details and pricing attached, so quarterly test and tag rounds, 6-monthly emergency lighting tests and annual maintenance inspections book themselves. Combined with the Test & Tag Register pack, each appliance's next-due date follows the AS/NZS 3760:2022 retest intervals, and the dashboard shows what's due this week so recurring compliance work never slips.

It should get the extra work signed for before you do it. Raise the extra scope as a numbered variation against the job, V1, V2, V3, text the customer the approval link, and they draw a signature on the canvas on their own phone; the audit trail keeps the signature image, IP address, user agent and timestamp, and a reminder SMS goes out automatically after four hours if nobody has signed. How it bills depends on how you priced it: a variation with a fixed amount becomes an invoice line item automatically when the job is billed, while a time-and-materials variation carries no amount, so it is signed the same way for the approval trail and then bills through the job's own materials and labour. The On-Site Variations app is free on every plan, including Free. Job costing then shows labour plus materials against billed revenue per job with the margin colour-coded, on Starter and above.

Yes. Line items pull from your saved services and products catalogue, so your labour rate and the parts you fit every week drop into the quote at the price you set, and you never retype an hourly rate on a driveway again. GST calculates line by line with a tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive toggle, your electrical licence number prints beside your ABN, and the document renders in one of eight PDF templates with your logo and accent colour (custom branding is on Starter and above). The customer accepts on a secure link from any device with no login, and one click turns the accepted quote into a job and then an invoice, with the number reserved atomically in your own numbering format and a guard that stops the same quote converting twice. For a larger job you would rather build up line by line from first principles, OneBookPlus has a separate cost build-up tool for trades, linked from the section on pricing electrical work above.

No, and keeping them separate is what costs you the Saturday. Tradify, ServiceM8, AroFlo and simPRO all record the same limitation: they need Xero or MYOB underneath them for the books, which means two subscriptions, two logins and a sync that has to hold. In OneBookPlus the invoice you raise at the meter box, the wholesaler bill you record on Friday and the payment you make to a subbie all post to the same double-entry ledger, included from the Starter plan up. The BAS report calculates G1, 1A, 1B, G10, G11, W1, W2 and 5A straight from that ledger with a cash or accrual toggle, so the figures are BAS-ready when the quarter closes; TPAR contractor payments are auto-detected through the year, PAYG instalments have their own page, super guarantee is calculated at the 12% rate that applied from 1 July 2025 with the 28-day clearing-house deadline flagged, and the fixed asset register depreciates the van and the test set across four ATO methods.