Electrician software for UK service and contracting teams
Call it electricians software, software for electricians or electrical contractor software — Opsler organises the customer, the call-out, the quote and the invoice for a UK electrical contractor's day-to-day work. It does not generate an EIC, an EICR or a Minor Works Certificate, and it does not check anything against BS 7671 — that stays with your own competent-person-scheme process.
Opsler makes no certification or compliance claim.
Electrical certificates and Part P notification are set by official regulation and your competent-person scheme, not by field-service software. Whatever your scheme requires, assume Opsler does not produce it and keep using your existing certification process alongside Opsler. Everything below is about the administrative side of the business.
Manage enquiries, customers and site details
Every enquiry becomes a customer record with the site address, access notes and the full history of every job done there. When a repeat customer calls — a fault, a new circuit, a periodic inspection — the electrician picking up the job sees what the last visit found, not just a name and a phone number.
Plan call-outs, inspections and installation visits
A drag-and-drop board handles same-day emergency call-outs alongside planned inspection and installation work, with fixed or flexible timing depending on which the job needs. Recurring inspection visits — a periodic inspection due on a cycle — can be generated as a repeating schedule rather than tracked on a separate spreadsheet.
Give electricians a clear digital job record
The job carries the address, the access notes and the customer’s history to the field, so the electrician arriving isn’t the least informed person at the property. This is a job record, not a certification record — it doesn’t replace whatever system your scheme requires for test results and sign-off.
Capture notes, photos and customer approvals
Before-and-after photos and completion notes attach to the job as part of finishing it. For a quote on the spot — a consumer unit upgrade, an additional circuit — the customer approves with a one-time code and a signature before the electrician leaves, rather than a verbal yes that nobody wrote down.
Create quotes and invoices in the field workflow
Quotes build on site from your own price book — single-price or three tiers if you want to offer options on a bigger job — and the invoice comes from the completed job with the line items already on it. Nothing about the electrical work itself is quoted or invoiced differently to any other trade in Opsler.
Track materials, time and job status
Parts used against the job, time recorded per visit, and a status that moves the job from booked through to invoiced — all on the one record, so nothing needs re-entering into a second system at the end of the week.
Electrical certificates, test results and Part P boundaries
This is the largest functional gap for an electrical contractor and it deserves a straight answer. Opsler does not produce an Electrical Installation Certificate, an Electrical Installation Condition Report, or a Minor Works Certificate. There is no test-instrument integration, no BS 7671 compliance check, and no notification to a competent-person scheme.
If you need those, your scheme’s own certification software or process is the right tool — and it can run alongside Opsler, with Opsler handling the customer, the schedule, the quote and the invoice around it.
VAT, MTD and Xero workflow boundaries
Opsler doesn’t calculate VAT or file anything for Making Tax Digital — that stays with your accounting software. There is no live Xero or QuickBooks sync; what Opsler produces is a formatted CSV export for manual import, which is a real time-saver over re-typing but a genuinely different thing to a live connection. And pricing itself is in US dollars, not GBP — worth knowing before you budget in pounds.
Electrician software evaluation checklist
Six questions Opsler answers yes to, three it answers no to. Take the same nine to any electrician job management software you’re evaluating.
| Capability | Opsler | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Customer and site records with history | Yes | Every past job at that address, in one place |
| Scheduling call-outs, inspections and installs | Yes | Drag-and-drop board, fixed or flexible jobs |
| A digital job record for the electrician | Yes | Address, access notes and history travel with the job |
| Photos and customer approval on site | Yes | Before/after evidence and a one-time-code sign-off |
| Quotes and invoices from the same job | Yes | Single-price or three-tier, invoiced without re-typing |
| Time and materials tracked per job | Yes | What was used and how long it took, against the record |
| EIC, EICR or Minor Works Certificate generation | No | Not a certification tool. Use your scheme's own process |
| BS 7671 compliance checking or Part P notification | No | Software cannot certify the work or the electrician |
| VAT calculation, MTD filing or a live Xero sync | No | Accounting stays with your accounting software; CSV export only |
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Electrician software questions
It depends whether your bottleneck is administration or certification. If it's the former — customers, scheduling, quotes and invoices for call-outs, inspections and installs — a field-service tool like Opsler is built for exactly that, and is worth trialling on a real job before you commit. If your bottleneck is generating EICs, EICRs or Minor Works Certificates, or managing your competent-person-scheme paperwork, that's a different category of software built specifically for electrical certification, and no general field-service tool — Opsler included — replaces it.
Not this kind, and it's worth being direct about it. Opsler doesn't generate an Electrical Installation Certificate, an EICR or a Minor Works Certificate, doesn't check work against BS 7671, and doesn't notify a competent person scheme on your behalf. Those stay entirely with your own scheme membership (NICEIC, NAPIT or similar) and whatever certification process it requires. What Opsler handles is the administration around the job — the customer record, the schedule, the quote, the invoice — not the electrical sign-off itself.
Four, on a real job rather than a demo. First, how a new enquiry becomes a scheduled call-out or install. Second, whether a quote can be built and approved on site from your own price book. Third, whether photo evidence and job notes are genuinely fast enough to use on every job, not just the demo. Fourth, exactly what the accounting export gives your bookkeeper — a real CSV they can import, or something less than that. Do all four before you trust a vendor's marketing page, this one included.
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