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The best estimating software for electricians (2026)

For the estimating job specifically, most residential and service electricians should build and send their quotes from Jobber. It turns out a clean, itemized quote a homeowner can read, supports good-better-best options, takes a deposit, and converts an approved quote straight to an invoice, which is the whole loop a service electrician runs. On annual billing it is $29/mo for one user, $149/mo for up to five (Grow), and $399/mo for up to fifteen (Plus), with extra seats $29/mo (as of August 2026, and a promo was running below list at checkout this month). A three-tech shop on Grow is $149/mo flat, and that is the number the others have to beat.

One thing to get straight before you buy: full commercial takeoff and bid estimating is a different category, and we do not cover it here. If you are hard-bidding six-figure commercial off a plan set, counting symbols and taking off conduit and wire against a supply-house price service, you want McCormick, Accubid, ConEst, or a takeoff tool like On-Screen Takeoff or Bluebeam, not a field-service platform. Electricians who do that work say it plainly: no tool in this roundup replaces a commercial estimating suite, and forcing one app to cover both a flat-rate service price book and commercial plan takeoffs is a fight you lose. For the residential and service majority, the estimating built into your field-service platform is the right tool, and this is the ranking.

Two readers should pass on our top pick. A large multi-crew residential and service operation that wants a dynamic price book, tiered proposals, and financing built into the sale should look at ServiceTitan, which is made for that scale and priced for it (a user-reported $235 to $325 per tech per month plus implementation). An established shop that keeps hiring should weigh Service Fusion, because it charges a flat rate with unlimited users, so adding a helper never raises the bill. Housecall Pro sits just behind Jobber for a service electrician who wants multi-tier estimate options and consumer financing in front of the customer, and FieldPulse is the step up a tier for assemblies and a price book, if you accept quote-gated pricing.

The category we cover, and the one we don't

Electricians use the word estimating for two different jobs, and the software splits along that line.

The first is field-service quoting: a line-item quote or proposal you hand a homeowner or property manager, ideally with good-better-best options, built off a flat-rate price book or saved assemblies, with a deposit and a one-click path from approved quote to invoice. That is what a service or residential electrician does all day, and every tool in this roundup handles it.

The second is commercial bid estimating: taking off a full plan set, counting devices and fixtures, measuring conduit and wire, and pricing thousands of line items against a live supply-house feed for a hard-bid job that can run into six figures. That is a specialist discipline with its own software, McCormick, Accubid, ConEst, Vision InfoSoft, and takeoff tools like On-Screen Takeoff and Bluebeam, and shops that bid this work often employ a full-time estimator. A field-service platform does not replace any of it, and the electricians who do both keep the two toolsets apart. If that hard-bid commercial work is your business, this is the wrong list, and no tool here changes that.

The estimate cost math, by crew size

Per-seat pricing is the trap. It looks cheap at one user and compounds every time you hire.

Solo, sending quotes. Jobber Core is $29/mo for one user (a promo ran lower at checkout this month), covering itemized quotes, options, deposits, and quote-to-invoice. Housecall Basic is $59/mo for one user and adds multi-tier estimate options plus consumer financing. FieldPulse is quote-gated and reported around $99 to $159 per seat, so it is the priciest way in for a one-person shop. See our Jobber pricing breakdown for the full tier map.

Three to five techs. Jobber Grow is $149/mo flat for ten users; Housecall Essentials is $149/mo for five. Jobber holds more seats for the money, and both are a fair number here. Service Fusion Starter is $208/mo but carries unlimited users, so a five-person shop is already close and a ten-person shop pulls ahead. FieldPulse at three full seats lands north of $300/mo reported.

Eight-plus, or a shop that keeps hiring. This is where flat, unlimited-user pricing starts to pay. Housecall Max is $299/mo for eight users and $35/mo per seat after that, so it climbs as you add crews; Service Fusion is flat and unlimited (Starter $208/mo, Pro $533/mo), and its Pro tier overtakes Housecall Max only once you push past roughly fifteen seats, while Starter can undercut it earlier if the lighter tier covers what you need. A large multi-crew residential and service operation that wants a dynamic price book and financing inside the proposal is the one case for ServiceTitan, at a user-reported $235 to $325 per tech per month plus implementation, a full salary a year at fifteen techs, so it only pencils out at scale. For the full picture see our ServiceTitan pricing breakdown. All figures are as of August 2026; ServiceTitan, FieldPulse, and Workiz are quote-gated, so those numbers are user-reported and labeled as such.

Our picks, ranked

Core $29/mo (1 user), Connect $99/mo, Grow $149/mo (10 users), Plus $399/mo (15 users) on annual billing; extra users $29/mo each; month-to-month $49 / $139 / $199 / $499. A promo ran below list at checkout this run; card processing 2.9% + $0.30. As of August 2026.
Best for: Most residential and service electricians who need clean, itemized quotes with good-better-best options, deposits, and one-click quote-to-invoice.
The quote itself is the strength: it reads clean to a homeowner, options and deposits are built in, and the per-user math stays predictable through Grow. The catch: it is a field-service quoting tool, not a takeoff or assembly-estimating engine, and logging a lot of tiny jobs through it adds steps a spreadsheet skips.
Basic $59/mo (1 user), Essentials $149/mo (up to 5 users), Max $299/mo (up to 8 users) on annual billing; extra users $35/mo each; month-to-month $79 / $189 / $329. 14-day trial. As of August 2026.
Best for: Service electricians who want to put multi-tier estimate options and consumer financing in front of the customer at the door.
The good-better-best estimate options and built-in financing are the reason to pick it for selling bigger tickets. The catch: it leans hard toward flat-rate pricing, and shops that want true time-and-materials end up fighting the invoice, as one electrician found trying to load his hourly logic into it.
“Implementing this idealogy into a software(Housecall Pro in our case) is much easier said than done. Theoretically, I could do it. But it is barely quicker than just doing everything on paper.”
Jarvis12111, r/electricians (2024)
Quote-gated, no public tiers. User-reported ~$235-325 per tech per month plus onboarding/implementation and paid add-ons; small shops report a full salary a year in software. As of August 2026, reported.
Best for: Large multi-crew residential and service shops that want a dynamic price book, tiered proposals, and financing at scale, and can absorb the cost.
The dynamic price book and proposal engine are ahead of everything else here once you are at scale. The catch is cost and weight: it is too heavy and too expensive for a small shop, and it pays us no more to recommend than the cheaper picks, so we only send it to shops that have outgrown the others.
“For residential service it’s king but probably not the best for commercial and industrial”
Rough-Setting-5666, r/electricians (2025)
Quote/demo-gated, no public tiers. A '$159/mo' figure renders on the pricing page; third-party and owner reports put a starting seat around $99-159/user/mo, with full-access vs field-only seats and Price Book, Payments and Financing as paid add-ons. As of August 2026, reported.
Best for: Growing shops that want assemblies and a flat-rate price book a tier above Jobber without ServiceTitan's price.
Estimates with assemblies and a price book at a price between Jobber and ServiceTitan are the draw, and owners rate the value highly. The catch: pricing is demo-gated and the seat model plus add-ons make the true seat cost hard to pin down before a sales call, so get the full quote in writing.
Flat pricing, unlimited users on every plan. Annual (15% off): Starter $208/mo, Plus $325/mo, Pro $533/mo; monthly $245 / $382 / $627. As of August 2026.
Best for: Established shops that keep hiring and want estimates plus job costing without paying per seat.
Flat pricing with unlimited users is why it wins for a growing crew: adding a helper never raises the bill, and estimates flow into job costing. The catch: the interface is dated next to Jobber and Housecall, and it is more shop-management system than quick-quote tool, so a solo sending the occasional estimate is paying for scope they will not use.
Plans quote-gated with a 7-day trial (the old free Lite plan is gone). Reported Standard ~$200-230/mo including 5 users; extra member $55/mo (Standard) / $65/mo (Pro) shown on the page. As of August 2026, reported.
Best for: Service electricians who want quoting tied to a built-in phone system and payments in one place.
Quotes paired with call tracking and a phone stack are the reason to pick it over Jobber for a phone-heavy shop. The catch: the plan price is gated, it climbs once you add seats and the phone add-on, and cancellation terms have drawn complaints, so read the contract before you commit.

What owners actually say

“You aren't going to find much in the way of neutral third party reviews, because in order to be really review it, you've got to be an expert at each one of the software suites. Anyone who's been doing it long enough to be good with all of them is working as an estimator, not a youtuber or blogger.”
Quirky-Mode8676, Electrician who does takeoffs, on the commercial estimating suites, 2025 · r/electricians
“there is just almost no way to completely automate large scale estimating, it's literally why companies employ estimators.”
wirez62, Electrician, on automating commercial takeoff, 2025 · r/electricians
“McCormick and Accubid are both by far the best option in my opinion. I have used both extensively.”
401-Sparky, Electrician who has run both commercial estimating suites, 2025 · r/electricians
“Deposits. Clear payment terms. Don’t finance projects for customers. Early on especially.”
adamthekid, Electrician, on cash flow when quoting new work, 2025 · r/electricians

How we researched this

Pricing comes from each vendor's pricing page, or for quote-only tools from dated user-reported figures, current as of the review date. Owner quotes are verbatim, from real practitioner discussions, with the source linked. We don't take payment for placement or ranking.

Last reviewed: August 2026