Guide
What a one-to-five-person electrical crew actually needs from scheduling software, what to look for, and what the big suites really charge at this size.
Electrical work is two rhythms at once: booked work (panel upgrades, remodel rough-ins, EV chargers) planned days ahead, and service calls that arrive this morning and matter by lunch. Your board has to hold both — planned jobs that sit still, and a day that can be rearranged in minutes when a no-power call comes in.
The journeyman-plus-apprentice shop is exactly the crew the big suites price hardest: Jobber Core cannot add the apprentice at all, and the two-person Connect bill is $128 a month before add-ons.
DayBoard's answer is a flat $36 a month for up to five people: the board with crew lanes, recurring jobs in your local time, job sheets with photos and checklists, quotes that become jobs, invoices with pay links on your own Stripe account, and reminders included. It does not sync with QuickBooks (it exports a QuickBooks-ready file) and it does not text clients — the pricing page prints the whole out-list. If those two gaps are fine, the math usually settles it.
For the board, job sheets, quotes, invoices and reminders, a fair 2026 range is $36–60 a month flat for up to five people (DayBoard at $36, Kickserv at $60 with QuickBooks sync). The big suites run $128–189 for a two-person crew once reminders and sync are included — worth it only if you use suite features.
Booking pages, GPS and price books help some shops. If your week is jobs, quotes and invoices, they are rooms you rent and never enter. Decide from your last month of real work, not from a feature list.
For your whole crew — up to 5 people. No tiers, no per-person charges, no job cap. Or $349 a year and be done with it.