Software for electricians
Electrician software for people who work for themselves
File an EICR against the address it belongs to, and see when the next one is due before a landlord rings you about it. Quote a job from the van, invoice it the day it is finished, and keep the receipts where your tax return can find them. Built for one-person electrical businesses, not for a firm with an office.
- 5 years
- The longest gap between EICRs in a rented home, in England, Wales and Scotland
- 28 days
- To get the report to an existing tenant in England, and to finish the remedial work
- £30,000
- The most a local housing authority can fine a landlord for a breach in England
What changes on 15 October 2026
Amendment 4 changes what you design and certify against, and it changes the model forms in Appendix 6 as well. The certificates you issued under the old edition do not stop existing, but the paperwork you produce afterwards is measured against the new one.
Which is the boring, expensive part of this trade in one sentence: the document you hand over is dated, the standard behind it is dated, and the clock on the installation is dated. Three dates per address, and no one date lives in the same place as the others.
The three documents, and when each applies
Three certificates cover almost everything a domestic electrician issues. They are routinely confused, including by the customer paying for one, and the difference matters because only one of them carries a renewal clock.
| What it covers | When it is issued | How long it lasts | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical Installation Certificate (EIC) | A new installation, or an alteration or addition that adds a new circuit. | Issued by whoever did the work, at the end of it. | It certifies the work. There is no expiry on the certificate itself, but the installation still gets inspected periodically. |
| Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate | Work on an existing circuit that does not add a new one. A socket added to a ring, say. | Issued by whoever did the work, at the end of it. | Same idea as an EIC, on a smaller scope. |
| Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) | An assessment of an existing installation against BS 7671, at a point in time. | Issued after a periodic inspection and test. | It reports a condition and names the date the next inspection is due. This is the one the rented-sector rules turn on. |
What the codes mean, and what just changed
An EICR records observations against classification codes. Whether the report comes out satisfactory or unsatisfactory follows from which codes are on it, and Amendment 4 changed that in a way worth knowing before the next one you write.
| What it means | Makes the report unsatisfactory? | |
|---|---|---|
| C1 | Danger present. Risk of injury, and immediate action is called for. | Yes |
| C2 | Potentially dangerous. Urgent remedial action is called for. | Yes |
| C3 | Improvement recommended. A departure from the current standard that is not a danger. | No |
| FI | Further investigation is advised. Amendment 4 softened this from 'required without delay'. | No, and that is the change |
What a landlord customer is actually required to do
This is the part worth being able to explain on the doorstep, because your customer usually cannot. In England the duties sit on the landlord, not on you, but the dates all run from the day YOU carried out the inspection, so your paperwork is what starts their clock.
The day of the inspection
The EICR is carried out. The report itself sets the date the next inspection is due, and that can be sooner than five years.
Within 28 days
A copy goes to every existing tenant of the property.
Before a new tenant moves in
A new tenant gets a copy of the most recent report before they occupy the property.
Within 7 days of a written request
A copy goes to the local housing authority. A prospective tenant who asks in writing gets one within 28 days.
Within 28 days of the inspection, or sooner if the report says so
Any remedial or further investigative work the report calls for is completed. The clock starts at the inspection, not at the quote.
Within 28 days of that work
Written confirmation that it is done goes to the tenants and to the local housing authority.
It is not the same in all three nations
The five-year interval is common ground. Almost nothing else is: the instrument is different, the deadline for getting the report to the tenant is different, and what happens when a landlord does not comply is different.
| England | Wales | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The rule | Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 | Renting Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) (Wales) Regulations 2022 | Housing (Scotland) Act 2006, sections 19A and 19B, with the Repairing Standard guidance |
| Longest gap between inspections | 5 years, or sooner if the report says so | 5 years, or sooner if the report says so | 5 years |
| Copy to the tenant | Within 28 days of the inspection | Within 14 days | See the statutory guidance |
| What non-compliance hangs off | A financial penalty of up to £30,000, imposed by the local housing authority | The dwelling is treated as unfit for human habitation while the landlord is not compliant | The Repairing Standard, enforced through the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland |
Where My Job Goblin fits
None of the above is software. It is the shape of the job, and it is why a filing cabinet in a van stops working somewhere around the fortieth address. What the app does is hold the documents and the dates in one place, against the property they belong to.
Certificates filed by address
An EICR, an EIC or a minor works certificate, filed against the property it belongs to, with the date the next inspection is due. Each gets a number alongside your quote and job numbers, and you can record the number printed on the document too.
The renewal clock, on screen
Every address shows the date its next certificate is due, and flags one that has already gone past. The five-year clock is the thing that is easy to lose and expensive to lose, so it is the thing the list is built around.
It notices the gaps
Did electrical work at an address and filed nothing against it? The app says so, read from your own job history, and asks whether you hold the document. It reports what your records show. It does not tell you what the law requires.
The rest of the paperwork
Quote from the van in a couple of minutes, turn the job into an invoice with one tap, photograph receipts as you buy, and get a year-end summary mapped to the SA103F boxes your Self Assessment uses.
Just as usefully, what it does not do:
- It does not issue the certificate. It files the one you or your certification body produced.
- It does not email you when a certificate is close to expiring. The date is on the property list, and that is where you look.
- It does not notify building control, and it is not a competent person scheme.
What it works out once the jobs are in it
Everything above is the record: the documents, the dates, the money in and out. The record is table stakes, and every rival in this category stops there. The half that is worth having is the arithmetic on top of it, because a year of quotes and invoices is a description of how your business actually behaves and nobody reads it.
So this is business intelligence for a one-person trade, in the plainest sense: the same questions a hotel answers every morning about its rooms, asked about your working days. Not a dashboard of things you already knew. Nine figures, each of which can change what you do next week.
| What it tells you | Shown once you have | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue per available working day | Money received in a period divided by the working days that period actually held, taken from the working pattern the trader sets. The trades equivalent of a hotel's revenue per available room, and it decomposes the same way: effective day rate multiplied by utilisation. | 5 available working days and at least one booked day in the window |
| Why revenue moved | The change in invoiced revenue against the previous 30 days, split into ranked contributing factors: how many jobs were invoiced against what the typical job was worth, with quotes sent as upstream context. | 2 invoices in each period and a change of at least 15 per cent |
| Quote speed against win rate | Whether quotes the trader sends within 24 hours convert better than the ones they send later, measured on their own decided quotes rather than on a general rule of thumb. | 3 decided quotes in each bucket and a gap of at least 10 percentage points |
| Margin per job over time | One point per won job, priced against its materials and subcontractor cost, plotted by job date and split weekday against weekend so an out-of-hours premium can be checked rather than assumed. | 5 won jobs with a recorded cost, and 3 in each of the weekday and weekend buckets before the split is drawn; jobs with no recorded cost are excluded, not counted as zero |
| Quote win rate | The share of decided quotes that were accepted, shown with a Wilson score interval and the sample size, so the figure carries the range it could really be. | 10 decided quotes |
| Utilisation | Days booked against days available. Deliberately uncapped, so a weekend worked reads as over 100 per cent rather than being flattened to a full week. | a working pattern set, and 5 available working days in the window |
| Time to get paid | A value-weighted days-sales-outstanding figure, so one large invoice paid late moves it more than several small ones do. | 3 paid invoices |
| Typical job value | The median value of a won job, not the mean, so a single unusually large job does not redefine what typical means. | 3 won jobs with a recorded price |
| Time from quote to job | The median gap between sending a quote and the work starting, which is the lead time a trader is really working to when they fill a diary. | 3 won quotes with both dates recorded |
For an electrician specifically, the one to watch is margin per job. A rewire and a consumer unit swap can bill the same and earn nothing like the same, because the materials and the subcontracted bits move independently of the labour. Turnover hides that completely, and turnover is the only number most trades software can give you.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these. They are dated because they change.
- The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020, regulation 3The five-year interval and every deadline for supplying the report and completing remedial work.
- The same Regulations, regulation 11The financial penalty of up to £30,000, imposed by the local housing authority.
- The Renting Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) (Wales) Regulations 2022, regulation 6The Welsh five-year requirement and the 14-day deadline for giving the report to the contract holder.
- Repairing Standard: statutory guidance for private landlords, Scottish GovernmentThe Scottish position on periodic inspection under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006.
- IET and BSI publish Amendment 4 (2026) to BS 7671:2018Published 15 April 2026, with the previous edition withdrawn 15 October 2026.
- Implications of BS 7671:2018+A4:2026 on EICRs, IET Wiring Matters, July 2026The FI code moving to 'further investigation is advised', and C3 and FI decoupled from C1 and C2.
- Part P, England and Wales, IETWhich work is notifiable, and the competent person scheme and building control routes.
- BS 7671 model forms, IETThe Appendix 6 model forms for BS 7671:2018+A4:2026, free to download.
This page describes what the regulations say. It is not legal advice, and it is not a statement about your situation or your customer's: whether a duty applies turns on the tenure, on who the customer is and on exactly what work was done. Check the sources above, and take advice where it matters. Last reviewed 25 August 2026.
Put the certificates and the clock in one place
Free to start, no card needed. Certificate filing is on the Pro plan, and every new account starts on a full trial of Pro.
Frequently asked questions
Can I keep my EICRs and EICs in it?
Yes. File an EICR, an electrical installation certificate or a minor works certificate against the address it belongs to, with the date the next inspection is due. Each one gets its own number alongside your quote and job numbers, and you can still record the number printed on the document itself.
Does it produce the certificate for me?
Not today. It stores the certificate you or your certification body produced, and it keeps the renewal clock on it. The wording and the schedules on a BS 7671 form are the IET's, and its model forms are free to download, so building a rival version of them would help nobody.
Will I get a reminder when one is about to run out?
Every address shows the date its next certificate is due and flags one that has already passed, so it is in front of you when you open the app. To be straight about it: there is no email or push reminder yet, so the property list is where you look.
What if I did the work and never filed anything?
The app reads your own job records for that address and says so. If you did electrical work at a property and no certificate is filed against it, it points that out and asks whether you hold one. It is reporting what your records show, not telling you what the law requires.
Does an EICR always last five years?
No. Five years is the longest gap the private rented sector rules in England, Wales and Scotland allow, and the report itself can specify a shorter interval, in which case the shorter one is what counts. A home the owner lives in is not covered by those rules at all.
Do I have to move to Amendment 4 straight away?
BS 7671:2018+A4:2026 was published on 15 April 2026 and the previous edition, A2:2022 plus A3:2024, is withdrawn on 15 October 2026. During those six months both are current. After it, there is one current edition. Check the detail with your certification body, since it is your scheme that assesses you against it.
Does My Job Goblin tell me whether I am actually making money?
Yes, and that is the half most job software leaves out. It records the quote and the invoice like anything else, then does the arithmetic on top: revenue per available working day, margin per job against materials and subcontractor cost, quote win rate with the range it could really be, and how long customers take to pay weighted by the size of the invoice. Turnover on its own hides all four. No figure is shown on a sample too small to support it. Where there is too little history the card renders nothing, rather than a number with a caveat underneath it.
What is revenue per available working day?
It is what a day of your available time earned, rather than what you charged for a day you worked. Take the money received in a period and divide it by the working days that period held, from the working pattern you set. Hotels have measured this for decades as revenue per available room, because a room nobody booked is revenue that can never be recovered. A Tuesday you did not fill is exactly the same thing. My Job Goblin decomposes it the way a hotel does, into your effective day rate multiplied by your utilisation, so you can see which of the two moved.
Does it compare my prices against other tradespeople?
No, and that is deliberate. There is no benchmarking against other businesses. Trades publish no prices, day rates or availability in any machine-readable form, so a peer comparison in this market is either a very small sample or an invented one. Every figure compares a trader against their own history. A benchmark against a handful of unrepresentative businesses, or against a number nobody can source, is worse than no benchmark at all.
How much does it cost?
Pro is £29 a month or £290 a year, with no per-seat fees and no contract. Every new account starts on a 14 day free trial of Pro with no card needed, and drops to the free tier rather than switching off. The free tier runs 3 quotes and 3 invoices a month, end to end: build the quote, send the PDF, let the customer approve it in the portal, and invoice it. The AI pricing and description tools, expense tracking, certificate filing and reports are Pro. The HMRC year-end tools are Pro + Tax.
Why is the free tier so small?
The cap is small on purpose. A free tier big enough to run a trade on has to be paid for by the traders who do pay, and they are one-person businesses on a flat £29 a month with no per-seat fee. What the free tier proves is the whole loop rather than the volume: build the quote, send it, let the customer approve it, invoice it.