Every price on this page was read directly from the vendor’s own pricing page on August 23, 2026. Contractor software pricing changes often, and several vendors run limited-time promotions — confirm the current number on the vendor’s page before you buy.
Most software sold to electrical contractors is service software — dispatch a tech, close a ticket, take a card. That is the right tool if you run residential service calls. It is the wrong tool if you are bidding a 40,000 square foot tenant fit-out, submitting a pay application on the 25th, and carrying 10% retainage across four active jobs.
Project management software for electrical contractors is a different category, and the dividing line is specific: does the tool understand that a job has a contract value, a schedule of values, change orders, and money being held back? If it does not, you will end up running the real job in a spreadsheet and using the software to send invoices.
Here is what the credible options actually cost, read from each vendor’s own pricing page today.
Project management software for electrical contractors, compared
| Tool | Entry price | Billing basis | Users included | Best fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knowify | $99/mo | Billed yearly ($149/mo billed monthly) | 1 | Contract and AIA-billed electrical work |
| Contractor Foreman | $49/mo | Annual only ($588/yr); quarterly also offered, no month-to-month | 1 | Cheapest real PM feature set |
| Projul | $4,788/yr | Annual only | Unlimited — vendor states no per-user fees | Growing crews who hate seat math |
| Jobber | $29/mo | Annual ($49/mo month-to-month) | 1 (“Just me” band) | Service-led shops, light PM |
| Buildertrend | Not published | — | Vendor states unlimited | Electrical subs on residential builds |
| ServiceTitan | Not published | — | — | Large service organizations |
All figures read from the vendors’ own pricing pages on August 23, 2026. Note the billing basis column carefully — Projul and Contractor Foreman do not offer a month-to-month plan at all, so converting their prices to a “per month” figure for comparison is misleading unless you are prepared to commit for the year.
Best overall for electrical contract work: Knowify
Knowify is not one of our affiliate partners. It is still the first tool we would put in front of an electrical contractor doing contract work, because it is one of the few products in this price range built around the way that work actually gets billed rather than around dispatch.
What it costs (read August 23, 2026): Core includes 1 user at $99/mo billed yearly, or $149/mo if you pay monthly. Advanced includes 10 users at $329/mo yearly or $399/mo monthly, and adds project management and job costing on top of Core. Enterprise, which Knowify describes as unlimited users plus inventory, is quote-only.
The seat structure is the story. Notice the jump: 1 user, then 10. There is no published per-additional-seat rate, which means a three-person office is stuck either paying for a single seat and sharing a login — do not do that — or jumping straight to Advanced. If you are a two-to-four person operation, price both and be honest with yourself about how many people genuinely need to be in the system versus how many just need to see a schedule.
Add-ons to budget for: Service Pro, which brings dispatching and payment processing for shops that run a service department alongside contract work, is $99/mo. Equipment tracking is $25 per vehicle per month.
Skip it if: you are purely residential service. You will be paying for contract-billing machinery you never touch.
Best when seat count is the problem: Projul
Projul takes the opposite approach to almost everyone else on this page. Instead of charging per user, it charges a flat annual platform fee and states plainly on its pricing page that there are no per-user fees and unlimited projects.
What it costs (read August 23, 2026): Core is $4,788 per year. Core+ is $7,188 per year and adds cost tracking, progress billing, time tracking, and a QuickBooks Online integration. Pro is $14,388 per year. Projul is annual-only — there is no monthly plan, so the real question is whether you can commit $4,788 up front, not whether you can afford $399 a month.
Run the crossover. Core at $4,788/year works out to $399/month equivalent. Knowify’s Advanced tier — 10 users — is $329/mo billed yearly, or $3,948/year. So for a team of about ten, Knowify is cheaper. Projul’s model wins when your user count keeps climbing and you are tired of every new hire costing another line item. Below roughly eight or nine people who need real access, the flat fee is money you are not using.
Worth noting: Projul lists a Premium Support Package at $4,500 and states it is included free with an annual plan. That is a large number attached to a support tier, and it is worth asking on the call exactly what it covers and whether it stays free at renewal.
Skip it if: you are under five people. The math does not work yet.
Cheapest way to get real project management: Contractor Foreman
Contractor Foreman, another non-affiliate, is the value play. For $49/mo it gives a single user a genuine project management feature set rather than a dispatch board.
What it costs (read August 23, 2026): Basic $49/mo for 1 user, billed as $588 annually at renewal. Standard $105/mo for up to 3 users ($1,264/yr). Plus $166/mo for up to 8 users ($1,997/yr). Pro $221/mo for up to 15 ($2,654/yr). Unlimited $332/mo for unlimited users ($3,984/yr). The page offers annual and quarterly billing only — there is no month-to-month option, so treat the monthly figures as an annualized rate, not a cancel-anytime price.
The comparison that matters: Contractor Foreman Unlimited at $3,984/year versus Projul Core at $4,788/year. Both are flat, both are unlimited users. That is a real head-to-head, and it should be decided on which product your foremen will actually open on a phone, not on the $804 difference.
Skip it if: your team has low tolerance for a dense interface. Contractor Foreman packs a lot in, and that is both the reason it is cheap and the reason some crews abandon it.
Best for electrical subs on residential builds: Buildertrend
Buildertrend is not an affiliate partner of ours and does not publish pricing — its pricing page is a custom-quote form. What it does state publicly is unlimited users, unlimited projects, and 10% off when you pay annually upfront.
The honest case for it is not the feature list, it is the network. If the general contractors you sub for already run Buildertrend, being inside their system removes a category of friction — schedule changes, selections, and daily logs arrive where you are already looking. That is a real operational argument, and it is the only one we would put weight on here.
Skip it if: none of your GCs use it. Buying into someone else’s ecosystem for its own sake is not a strategy.
The service-first options
Jobber is a strong service tool with light project management. Read August 23, 2026: on the “Just me” band, Core is $29/mo billed annually or $49/mo month-to-month, Connect is $99/$139, and Grow is $149/$199. On the 2–5 people band, Core is not offered and you start at Connect for $149/mo annual or $199/mo monthly with 5 users included. A promotion was running at the time we checked — advertised as up to 40% off, ending August 31, 2026 — which discounts the first 12 months on annual plans; the figures above are the rates you revert to afterward. Take Jobber seriously for a service-led electrical shop and not seriously at all for plan-and-spec work.
ServiceTitan is quote-only — four tiers named on its pricing page, no dollar figures anywhere. It is built for large service organizations, and if you are reading an article about electrical project management software you are probably not its buyer.
How to choose without a three-month evaluation
- Sort yourself first. Contract work with pay applications and retainage, or service calls? If you do both, the tool has to handle the contract side, because service is the easier problem to solve separately.
- Count the seats that matter. The single biggest cost driver on this page is user count, and the pricing models split cleanly into per-seat (Knowify, Jobber, Contractor Foreman tiers) and flat (Projul, Contractor Foreman Unlimited, Buildertrend). Somewhere between eight and twelve users, flat starts winning.
- Confirm the commitment. Projul and Contractor Foreman have no month-to-month plan. Jobber’s advertised price may be a first-year promotional rate. Know what year two costs.
- Test it on a job you already lost money on. Rebuild a job that went sideways — a change order that never got signed, a T&M ticket that never got billed. If the software would have caught it, that is your ROI. If it would not, keep looking.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between project management and field service software for electrical contractors?
Field service software organizes around the visit: schedule a tech, complete a work order, collect payment. Project management software organizes around the job: contract value, schedule of values, change orders, progress billing, retainage, and job costing across months. Residential service electricians want the first. Commercial and new-construction electricians need the second.
Do I need AIA billing?
If you sub to general contractors on commercial work, almost certainly yes — G702/G703 pay applications are how you get paid on those jobs. If you are residential service and remodel, almost certainly no.
Is the cheapest option good enough?
Contractor Foreman at $49/mo genuinely includes project management features that cost far more elsewhere. The trade-off is interface density and the annual commitment. “Good enough” here usually comes down to whether your field crew will use it.
Can I just use QuickBooks and a spreadsheet?
Plenty of profitable electrical contractors do, up to a point. The point is usually somewhere around three concurrent jobs or the first time an unbilled change order costs you five figures.
Related reading
- Best Software for Electrical Contractors — the pillar this spoke sits under.
- Accounting Software for Electrical Contractors
- Mechanical Contractor Software
- Contractor Software Pricing — our running, source-linked price reference.
- Free Job Costing Template
Sources
- Knowify pricing — knowify.com/pricing/ (read 2026-08-23, both yearly and monthly toggle states)
- Projul pricing — projul.com/pricing (read 2026-08-23)
- Contractor Foreman plans — contractorforeman.com/plans/ (read 2026-08-23, annual tab)
- Buildertrend pricing — buildertrend.com/pricing/ (read 2026-08-23)
- Jobber pricing — getjobber.com/pricing/ (read 2026-08-23)
- ServiceTitan pricing — servicetitan.com/pricing (read 2026-08-23)
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Michael is the founder of Augmented Trades, an independent site that compares AI and software tools for trade contractors on published pricing, contracts, and real feature limits. Tools are recommended on fit for your shop — affiliate partnerships never decide coverage.