Electrical contractor software
A dead outlet Tuesday, a rough-in Thursday, one way of billing
Price the forty minute service call standing at the panel, quote the basement in stages, and invoice both without keeping two sets of paperwork.
A service call and a rough-in are not the same job
One is priced in minutes and paid in days. The other runs for a week and pays at the end, unless you arrange otherwise.
- Service prices agreed after the work, if at all
- A rough-in quoted as one number and thought about for a fortnight
- Nothing invoiced until the last fixture is on
- Panel photos in a camera roll you cannot search
- Call-out and rate agreed at the panel, before the cover is off
- The project quoted as a sequence they can follow
- The rough billed when it passes inspection
- Photos on the address, findable in two years
What actually keeps an electrician's money out of reach
The margin on electrical work is decided less by the rate you charge than by how long the money sits somewhere else. A service call that waits three weeks to be invoiced and a rough-in that waits a fortnight to be paid are the same problem twice.
Electrical contractor software is what shortens both. It holds your rates, turns a job into an invoice, and lets a longer job pay in pieces.
StrikeHoney runs on the phone you already carry and installs from the browser, so there is nothing to download between calls.
- 01Saved call-out and hourly rates
- 02Project quotes broken into stages
- 03Invoices raised before the job ends
- 04Photos kept with the address
- 05One business number for the callbacks
Built for a mixed week
Price the service call at the panel
Your call-out, your hourly and the common parts are already saved, so the number is agreed before you pull the cover. There is no version of this conversation that goes better after the work is finished.
Quote a rough-in the way it gets built
Rough-in, inspection, finish and fixtures go on as their own lines, so the customer sees a sequence instead of one intimidating figure. What they queried is one line, not the whole quote.
Bill the rough-in before the drywall
Invoice the rough when it passes and the finish when the fixtures go on, and the balance recalculates itself. Waiting for a whole basement to be done before you see any money is a cash flow decision nobody actually chose.
Keep the panel photos with the address
The picture of the panel before you touched it lives on that customer, not in a camera roll with four thousand others. When they call in two years about a tripping breaker, you can see what was there.
- 01
Price the service call at the panel
Your call-out, your hourly and the common parts are already saved, so the number is agreed before you pull the cover. There is no version of this conversation that goes better after the work is finished.
- 02
Quote a rough-in the way it gets built
Rough-in, inspection, finish and fixtures go on as their own lines, so the customer sees a sequence instead of one intimidating figure. What they queried is one line, not the whole quote.
- 03
Bill the rough-in before the drywall
Invoice the rough when it passes and the finish when the fixtures go on, and the balance recalculates itself. Waiting for a whole basement to be done before you see any money is a cash flow decision nobody actually chose.
- 04
Keep the panel photos with the address
The picture of the panel before you touched it lives on that customer, not in a camera roll with four thousand others. When they call in two years about a tripping breaker, you can see what was there.
The habit that pays
Bill the stage, not the building.
A rough-in billed on the day it passes is money in this month rather than next. Nothing about the work changes. Only when you asked.
Sound like your week?
One van, sometimes an apprentice. No estimator writing up the bigger jobs while you are on the tools.
- Your week mixes short service calls with jobs that run for days.
- You want the bigger jobs to pay you before the last fixture goes on.
- You take photos of panels you will need to look at again.
- You would rather not keep one way of working for small jobs and another for large.
Service and project work, side by side
The work gets inspected, and asked about years later
Very few trades get asked, years later, exactly what was put in and where.
Photos that stay findable
The panel as you found it sits on that address, not in a camera roll you scroll through hoping.
Stages the customer follows
Rough, inspection and finish as lines, so a large number reads as a sequence.
Agreed before the cover is off
The rate is accepted in writing at the panel, which is the only time that conversation is easy.
Parts, hours and a rate that has to be right
An electrical invoice usually carries materials and labour, and the tax sits across both. On a project billed in stages you are applying it several times on the same job, which is several chances to be inconsistent.
Your province decides the rate and it goes on for you, at the rough and at the finish, and the totals collect in the tax report.
Not signing up today? Put a real rough-in through the free calculator and see what the customer owes at each stage.
| Province | Tax | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Ontario | HST | 13% |
| British Columbia | GST + PST | 5% + 7% |
| Saskatchewan | GST + PST | 5% + 6% |
| New Brunswick | HST | 15% |
A separate provincial tax is opt in, because whether it lands on labour or only on materials depends on the trade. Rates checked against the Canada Revenue Agency in August 2026.
One plan. Choose how often you pay.
Less than a single service call a month, and the first stage you bill early pays for the year.
- Leads, quotes, jobs and invoicing
- Your own business phone number
- GST/HST worked out by province
- Cancel any time, export any time
Before you ask
Electrical contractor software is how an electrician prices service calls and project work, tracks what was done at an address, and gets paid for both. It stands in for the pad in the van and a separate spreadsheet for the bigger quotes.
Yes. Put rough-in, inspection and finish on as separate lines and the customer can see how the job is sequenced. It also means a query lands on one line rather than on the whole number.
Yes. Bill the rough when it passes and the finish afterwards, and what is still owing is recalculated for you. You are not funding somebody's basement until the last fixture is on.
On the job, which sits on the customer. The photograph of the panel as you found it stays attached to that address instead of disappearing into your camera roll.
Yes. Each account gets its own business number for calls and texts, and everything on it stays tied to the customer it came from. Your personal number stops being the after-hours line.
Both. It is built for one person first. Bring someone on and they get a stripped-down view of the jobs they are on, with the money hidden.
$24/mo CAD, everything included. Pay six months ahead and it works out to $21/mo CAD; pay for the year up front and it is $19/mo CAD. Same product, less money. One plan, no tiers, no add-ons.
Quote the next rough-in from the basement
Come in as one of the Founding 30 for 90 days free, and bill the rough before the drywall goes up.