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Keep quoting, testing and invoicing in one place

Traddie is job management software for UK electricians and electrical contractors. Quote rewires and consumer-unit upgrades, schedule testing and remedial visits, and invoice the moment the EICR is signed off.

Photograph the consumer unit to build the circuit schedule, snap the tester screen instead of writing readings down, and issue EICRs, EICs and Minor Works from the job. Accepted quotes flow straight into jobs and invoices, and CIS is applied on subcontract work.

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  • Photograph the board
  • BS 7671 check before you issue
  • NICEIC assessment packs

The certificates you can issue from your phone

Filled in on site, checked before they go, sent as signed PDFs with the invoice, and each one sets its own renewal reminder.

EICR

Full 79-item schedule of inspection, circuit results, C1 to FI coding

EIC

New installations and alterations, with the circuit schedule

Minor Works

Single-circuit work, on and off the phone in minutes

PAT / in-service

Asset register from a handful of items to a few hundred

Smoke, heat and CO

BS 5839-6 grade and category, device schedule, interlink tests

Emergency lighting

BS 5266 luminaire schedule, duration tests and defects

Each one sets its own renewal date. See how certificate reminders work

Everything an electrician needs in one app

From the first quote to the final payment, Traddie keeps your whole job in one place.

Quote domestic and commercial work

Itemise rewires, board upgrades and remedial works with separate materials and labour lines, and send a link the customer can accept online.

Plan multi-day and testing jobs

Schedule installs, EICR inspections and remedials, assign engineers, and track progress from site.

Issue EICRs, EICs and Minor Works in the app

BS 7671 certificates with schedule of test results, observations and C1/C2/C3/FI coding, filled in on site and sent as a signed PDF with the invoice. PAT, smoke and CO alarm and emergency lighting certificates too.

Invoice from completed jobs

Convert a finished install into an invoice in one tap, with parts, labour and any extras carried over automatically.

Collect payment fast

Send a Stripe card link with every invoice, or set up direct debits for landlords and managing agents on regular testing.

Get the certificate checked before it goes out

A BS 7671 pass over your circuit schedule flags a Zs above the maximum for the device, a socket circuit with no RCD or an operating time out of range. Advisory only, so you stay the responsible person.

The certificate itself

What issuing an EICR in Traddie actually looks like

Most job software treats a certificate as a PDF you upload once the work is done. Traddie treats it as the job. Here is what you are actually filling in while you are stood at the board.

The whole schedule of inspection, not a summary of it

All 79 items of the BS 7671:2018+A4:2026 schedule, in the eight sections you already know, from intake equipment through to prosumer installations. Tick as you go and code what you find.

  • Intake equipment
  • Earthing and bonding arrangements
  • Consumer units and distribution boards
  • Final circuits
  • Locations containing a bath or shower
  • Other Part 7 special installations

A schedule of test results that behaves like the paper one

Circuit by circuit: R1+R2, insulation resistance, Zs, RCD operating times, polarity and ring final continuity. Columns that read the same the whole way down a sheet get copied down instead of typed out, which is the difference between a chore and a nightmare on a twenty-way board or a PAT register with two hundred assets.

A check before you send it, not a complaint after

Traddie runs a BS 7671 pass over the schedule before you issue and lists what will not stand up, worst first.

  • A Zs above the maximum for the protective device, taken from Table 41.3 and compared at 80% for temperature
  • A Zs lower than your own R1+R2
  • Insulation resistance under the limit, or missing
  • An RCD operating time out of range, or a socket circuit with no 30 mA RCD
  • Every finding is advisory. Nothing is auto-calculated and no reading of yours is ever quietly changed.

Observations that turn into priced work

Code an observation C1, C2, C3 or FI against the item it belongs to, then raise a remedial quote from the same job in a couple of taps. Unsatisfactory items stop being a report you posted and start being work you have booked.

Out the door signed, with the invoice behind it

The report goes out as a signed PDF carrying your scheme number, alongside the invoice, and sets its own renewal date from the interval you picked. Five years on a rental, ten on an owner-occupied property, or whatever you set.

The same treatment for the rest of them

EICs and Minor Works share the circuit schedule and the same pre-issue check. PAT gets a full asset register with visual checks, earth continuity, insulation resistance and retest intervals. Smoke, heat and CO alarm records to BS 5839-6 and emergency lighting certificates to BS 5266 are built in too.

Traddie is not a scheme notification tool. Part P notifications still go through NICEIC, NAPIT or whichever scheme you are registered with.

Time back

The small things that take an hour off a test

Nobody switches software because of a feature list. They switch because typing out a twenty-way board twice a day is a waste of a qualified person’s afternoon. These are the bits that give that time back.

Photograph the board and it writes the schedule

Point your phone at the consumer unit, or just at its schedule label, and Traddie reads the board: way number, circuit description, MCB curve and rating, RCBO or RCD type and mA rating, the BS EN printed on the device, even the breaking capacity. Handwritten schedule cards included. Every circuit is put in front of you to confirm or correct before it goes anywhere near the certificate.

Photograph the tester screen instead of writing it down

Snap the MFT display and Traddie pulls Zs, R1+R2, R2, insulation resistance and the RCD trip time off it. They come back as suggestions you confirm, never committed for you, and the raw text it read is always shown so nothing is hidden behind a tidy number.

Turn C2s into a priced quote

Unsatisfactory items on the EICR become a follow-on quote from the same job, rather than a report that got posted and a phone call next week. The customer accepts a figure, not a conversation.

BPG4 coding at your elbow

Observation wording transcribed from Electrical Safety First Best Practice Guide 4, Issue 7.3, the guide your assessor will measure the report against. It includes the rows that say do not code this at all, which is half the argument on any EICR. Suggestions only. The code that goes on the report is yours.

More than one board on one certificate

A commercial job with DB1, DB2 and a sub-main stays on a single report. Every circuit carries its own board reference, so you are not running three certificates for one building.

Copy a column down instead of typing it twenty times

Hold a cell and copy it down the rows below. The columns that read the same the whole way down a board, or the whole way down a PAT register, become one action instead of twenty.

Last visit fills in what has not changed

Earthing arrangement, MPAN, number of phases and premises type carry over from the last certificate at that property, because they were true of the building before you arrived. Nothing measured, observed or decided ever carries. Copying last year’s Ze onto this year’s report is not a shortcut, it is a fabricated test result under your registration number.

Every one of these shows you what it read before it lands on a certificate. Traddie suggests, you confirm, and the report goes out under your name because you are the one who signed it. See how a job runs end to end

Why UK electricians choose Traddie

Quote rewires, board upgrades and remedial works professionally
Photograph the consumer unit to build the circuit schedule
Photograph the tester screen instead of writing readings down
Issue EICR, EIC, Minor Works, PAT and emergency lighting certificates
Check every circuit schedule against BS 7671 before you issue it
Turn C1, C2 and FI observations into a priced remedial quote
Track multi-day installs and assign jobs to your team
Flow accepted quotes straight into jobs and invoices
Walk into an NICEIC or NAPIT assessment with the evidence already gathered
Send agents one link proving your registration and your cover
Apply CIS deductions automatically on subcontract work
Keep digital records and quarterly totals ready for Making Tax Digital
Monitor the VAT threshold as the business grows
Sync to Xero, QuickBooks, Sage or FreeAgent automatically

Made for BS 7671 electrical contracting

Electrical work lives and dies by its certification. Traddie keeps the commercial paperwork in step with your scheme registration so reports, invoices and remedial quotes all join up.

  • Issue EICRs, EICs and Minor Works certificates to BS 7671 from the job, with your scheme (NICEIC, NAPIT, etc.) on every PDF, so landlords and agents get the report and the invoice together.
  • Also covered: PAT / in-service equipment testing records, smoke, heat and CO alarm installation records, and emergency lighting certificates.
  • Every EICR you issue sets its own renewal reminder, so the five-yearly or annual re-test comes back to you.
  • Turn EICR remedial codes (C1, C2, FI) into a follow-on quote in a couple of taps so unsatisfactory items become booked work.
  • Apply 20% / 30% CIS deductions automatically on subcontract installs, with materials excluded per HMRC rules.
  • Keep customer records, certificate history and quote history in one searchable place per property.
  • Track turnover against the £90k VAT threshold as commercial work grows.
  • Keep income and expenses as digital records with quarterly totals, ready for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax.
Assessment ready

Turn up to your assessment with the folder already built

Scheme assessments get failed on admin, not on skill. Traddie is already holding your certificates, your insurance and your qualifications, so it can tell you in March what the assessor is going to ask for in April.

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  1. 1

    Pick the scheme and the window

    Choose your scheme and the period the assessor will sample, normally the twelve months since the last visit.

  2. 2

    Read the gap report

    Traddie works through what that assessment needs and splits what is missing into blockers and warnings. An expired public liability policy stops the visit. A missing 2391 record is a conversation, not a dead end.

  3. 3

    See the sample before they do

    The pack gathers the EICs, EICRs and Minor Works you issued inside the window, so the records the assessor pulls at random are records you have already been through.

  4. 4

    Keep the version you showed them

    It comes out as a PDF with its figures frozen as they read on the day, so a pack you generated in March still says the same thing when it is opened in April. Generating it again makes a new one rather than rewriting the old one.

Traddie is not a certification body. The pack is your own preparation for your own assessment. Nothing in it claims a scheme has approved anything, or that you will pass.

One link, no chasing

Prove you are registered before you have done anything

Letting agents and commercial customers want your scheme number and your public liability before they will let you near a quote. Keep them in one place and send one link.

  • Store your NICEIC or NAPIT registration, 18th Edition, 2391, public liability and employers’ liability with their expiry dates, and get a reminder before any of them lapse.
  • Send an agent one link. It is revocable, so you can switch it off the day the relationship ends.
  • Nothing on that page is labelled verified, because Traddie has not verified it. A row is either checkable, with a deep link to the official register so the reader checks the source of truth themselves, or self-declared, with your own document attached as the evidence.
  • Expired credentials never render. Not on the page, and not in the footer of a quote you send tomorrow.
  • Switch on the document footer and your registration number and cover level ride along on every quote and invoice.

Different pack, different reader. This one is for your customer; the assessment pack above is for your assessor. Expiry reminders for both

How it runs for an electrician

From enquiry to paid in four steps

  1. 1

    Quote

    A landlord needs an EICR and any remedials. You send a quote for the inspection with remedial work priced as options.

  2. 2

    Schedule

    Booked in and assigned to an engineer, with the property details to hand.

  3. 3

    Test & report

    Carry out the inspection, issue the EICR from your phone, and raise a follow-on quote for any C1/C2 items.

  4. 4

    Invoice & get paid

    Invoice on completion with a card link; the agent pays without chasing.

Quote Q-0926: built on siteAccepted from a link, straight into the diaryEICR issued, remedials quotedInvoice INV-0216: paid

Quote Q-0926

Draft

Priya Nair · EICR and remedials

EICR, 2-bed flat (8 circuits)

£180.00

C2 remedial: replace damaged socket

£65.00

C2 remedial: earth bonding to gas

£95.00

Total inc. VAT

£408.00

Automations

Testing, remedials and re-tests, on autopilot

An EICR is the start of a relationship, not the end of one. These keep the remedial quotes, the invoices and the five-year re-test moving without you.

Invoice INV-0216 goes out, due in 14 daysDay 3 past due: first nudge, on its ownFive years on: the re-test comes back to youPaid, and the chasing stops itself

Invoice INV-0216

Sent

Priya Nair

EICR and remedials

£408.00

Due 14 days from today. Chasing is on.

  • Certificate renewals

    Every certificate you issue sets its own renewal date. Before it expires Traddie drafts the quote and reminds the customer, so the annual work comes back to you.

  • Quote follow-ups

    An unanswered quote gets a polite nudge on day 3 and day 7 without you remembering to send it.

  • Invoice chasing

    A reminder before the due date, then nudge, firm and final letters on a ladder you set. Late-payment interest and the statutory fee can be added for business customers.

  • Appointment reminders

    Customers get a text or email the day before so you stop turning up to empty houses.

  • Review requests

    A day after an invoice is paid the customer gets one message asking for a Google review, with your link in it.

  • Accounting sync

    Invoices, payments and expenses land in Xero, QuickBooks, Sage or FreeAgent as they happen, VAT and CIS included.

Every automation is off until you switch it on, and each one has a test-send so you can see exactly what the customer gets. See how chasing works

FAQ for UK electricians

Can accepted quotes become jobs automatically?+
Yes. An accepted quote can flow directly into a scheduled job and then into an invoice, so you never re-key the same details three times.
Can I track multi-day electrical jobs?+
Yes. Schedule jobs across several days, assign team members, and update progress from site so everyone knows where each install is up to.
Does Traddie produce my EICRs and certificates?+
Yes. EICR, EIC and Minor Works certificates are built in, with the schedule of test results, observations and coding, plus PAT records, smoke/heat/CO alarm records and emergency lighting certificates. You issue them from the job on your phone, they go out as signed PDFs alongside the invoice, and each one sets a renewal reminder. Traddie is not a scheme notification tool, so Part P notifications still go through your scheme.
How do I turn EICR remedials into more work?+
When an inspection flags C1, C2 or FI items, you can raise a follow-on quote from the same job in a couple of taps and send it for online acceptance.
Does it handle CIS for subcontract installs?+
Yes. When you work as a subcontractor, Traddie applies the correct 20% or 30% CIS deduction and excludes materials automatically, then produces a payment and deduction statement.
Can landlords and agents pay online?+
Yes. Every invoice can carry a card payment link, and you can set up direct debits for agents who book regular testing across a portfolio.
Do I have to type every circuit in by hand?+
No. Photograph the consumer unit, or just its schedule label, and Traddie reads the board into the schedule: way number, description, MCB curve and rating, RCBO or RCD type and mA, the BS EN on the device and the breaking capacity. Handwritten schedule cards work too. Everything it reads is shown to you to confirm or correct before it lands on the certificate. Importing an old EICR PDF or CSV is built but not launched, so it is not in the product you would use today.
Can I get test readings off the tester instead of writing them down?+
Yes. Photograph the MFT screen and Traddie pulls Zs, R1+R2, R2, insulation resistance and the RCD trip time from it. They arrive as suggestions you confirm rather than values committed for you, and the raw text it read is always shown, so you can see exactly what it thought it saw. Test results are safety-critical, so nothing is ever auto-committed to a certificate.
Will Traddie check a certificate before I issue it?+
Yes. Before you issue an EICR, EIC or Minor Works, Traddie runs a BS 7671 pass over the circuit schedule and lists what will not stand up: a Zs above the maximum for the protective device, a Zs lower than your own R1+R2, insulation resistance under the limit, an operating time out of range, or a socket circuit with no 30 mA RCD. Maximum Zs values come from Table 41.3 and are compared at 80% of the tabulated figure for temperature. Every finding is advisory. Traddie never calculates a reading for you and never quietly changes one, because you are the responsible person, not the software.
Can Traddie get me ready for my NICEIC or NAPIT assessment?+
Yes. Pick your scheme and the period the assessor will sample, and Traddie produces an assessment pack: a gap report splitting what is missing into blockers and warnings, the certificates you issued inside that window, and your insurance and qualifications, all in one PDF. Traddie is not a certification body, so nothing in the pack says a scheme has approved anything or that you will pass. It just means the admin is done before the assessor arrives.
How do I prove to a letting agent that I am registered and insured?+
Keep your scheme registration, 18th Edition, 2391 and insurance in Traddie with their expiry dates, then send the agent one revocable link. Nothing on that page is labelled verified, because Traddie has not verified it. Each row is either checkable, with a deep link to the official NICEIC or NAPIT register so the agent checks the source of truth themselves, or self-declared, with your own document attached as the evidence. Expired credentials never appear, on the page or in the footer of a quote.
Does Traddie handle Making Tax Digital for Income Tax?+
Traddie keeps your income and expenses as digital records and totals them by quarter, which is the part MTD for Income Tax actually changes for a sole trader electrician. Quarterly updates became mandatory from April 2026 for sole traders over £50k.

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