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Electrical software with no per-technician tax
Panel upgrades, service calls, troubleshooting a dead circuit, rough-in on one job and finish on another — an electrical shop runs on requests that turn into jobs, and jobs that turn into invoices. MasterBuilds runs that whole line: a request becomes a work order on a status-first board, your crew captures photos and time from the field, and it ends in a clean invoice — one flat price no matter how many electricians you add.
The pricing problem
Electrical contractor software without the per-seat tax
Most field-service tools charge per technician. Every apprentice you bring on, every journeyman you add for a busy stretch, quietly raises the monthly bill — so the software gets more expensive at exactly the moment you are trying to grow the crew. You end up rationing seats or sharing logins to keep the cost down.
MasterBuilds does not work that way. Pricing is a flat rate for the whole workspace, with unlimited users, so the number of electricians on the job never changes what you pay. Hire for the season, add a helper, staff a second van — the bill is the same. The tool should not tax the thing you are trying to do.
Solo to operator
From the solo electrician to the multi-trade operator
It fits a one-person shop and it fits a growing one. A solo electrician gets the same board, the same intake, and the same invoicing a shop with five vans does — there is nothing to grow into and no seat to buy before it earns its keep. As you hire, the board is how the crew stays on the same page: everyone sees what is New, what is Waiting on parts, and what is Done, from their own phone.
And most electricians we talk to do not only do electrical. You might run an HVAC company on the side, take on general contracting, or handle maintenance for a few rental properties. Every other tool treats that as one business with a few service types, so the books blur together. MasterBuilds treats each as its own business in a single workspace — separate boards, separate books, one login. It is the whole idea behind running every business you own from one workspace, and if you work across trades, the multi-trade overview shows how it fits together.
The daily workflow
A status-first board, captured from the field
Electrical work is rarely one and done. A panel upgrade waits on the utility, a troubleshooting call turns into a return trip, rough-in on Monday becomes finish two weeks later. The status-first board puts that front and center: every job shows its state, not just its place in a list, so you can see at a glance what is blocked, what is waiting on parts, and what is ready to close.
The crew works it from the site: photos of the panel before and after, the hours on the job, all captured from a phone and attached to the card. When the work is done and the time is approved, it rolls straight into an invoice with a PDF you can send — no end-of-day catch-up, no retyping notes off a clipboard.
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Pricing
Flat $99/mo, unlimited users
One price covers all of it: $99 a month, flat, with unlimited crew and unlimited businesses. No per-technician fee, no charge for adding a second trade, no add-on you have to unlock to send an invoice. What you pay to run a two-person shop is what you pay to run a busy one.
If you have watched field-service tools get more expensive every time you hire, that is the model we built the pricing to avoid. Your bill is the same the day you land a full commercial fit-out as it was the day you signed up.
Comparison
How MasterBuilds compares for electrical contractors
Coming from another tool, or weighing a few? The honest version: the mature incumbents are deeper on scheduling and integrations, and for a single established shop that can be the right call. MasterBuilds is the better fit when you want flat pricing and you run more than one business. See the full breakdown on the comparison hub.
Questions from electrical contractors
- Does it work for a two-person electrical shop?
- Yes. A two-person electrical shop runs the same workspace a larger contractor does — a service call emailed to your intake address becomes a work order, the board shows what is New, what is Waiting on parts, and what is Done, and both of you capture photos and hours from your phones on site before approved time turns into an invoice. Because pricing is flat with no per-technician cost, it is the same $99 a month whether it is two electricians or twelve.
- How does a panel-upgrade request become a job?
- Your electrical business gets its own intake email address. When a panel-upgrade or service-call request is emailed to it, MasterBuilds turns it into a structured work order on its own — the subject becomes the title, the message becomes the notes, and any photos attach to the job — landing as a New card on your electrical board. Nothing gets retyped, and nothing sits buried in an inbox.
- What if electrical is one of several businesses I run?
- That is exactly what MasterBuilds is built for. Add each business as its own entity and its jobs get their own board and their own books, color-coded so electrical never blurs into your plumbing or HVAC work. You run every business you own from one login instead of paying for and switching between separate tools.
- Do I pay more per electrician?
- No. MasterBuilds is a flat $99 a month per workspace with unlimited crew and unlimited businesses, so hiring your second or your fifth electrician never adds a per-technician fee. Photos and video count toward a generous weighted usage meter, never a per-seat charge.
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