Best Electrical Certification Software for UK Electricians in 2026: EICR, EIC and Minor Works Compared

It’s gone 6pm, you’ve just finished a 12-way consumer unit change and re-wire on a rental in three different postcodes today, and now you’re sat in the van trying to remember which app has the EICR template with the right observation codes. Sound familiar?

Every electrician we talk to has the same evening ritual — paperwork after the last job, not before bed. And with landlords needing an EICR every five years (or at change of tenancy), letting agents chasing you for certificates before they’ll release keys, and BS 7671 amendments landing every few years, the certification side of the job has become almost as much work as the electrical work itself.

This is the actual comparison — not a features list copied off five vendor homepages, but what EICR software, EIC software and minor works certificate software actually do differently, and which one fits a one-man band versus a 6-van outfit.

What “electrical certification software” actually needs to do

Before we get into named products, let’s be clear on what you’re buying. Good electrical cert software should:

• Generate BS 7671-compliant EICRs, EICs (Electrical Installation Certificates) and MEIWCs (Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificates) without you re-typing circuit details every time
• Auto-populate schedules of inspection and test results from readings you punch in on-site (or better, pull from a test instrument)
• Store your previous certificates against the property, so a re-inspection five years later isn’t a blank page
• Let you email a signed PDF to the landlord or letting agent before you’ve left the van
• Flag C1/C2/C3 observation codes correctly and won’t let you file a cert with a dangerous defect uncoded

Everything below is judged against that bar.

The dedicated certification tools: Clik Compliance, EasyCert and Megger CertSuite

Clik Compliance is built specifically for regulated certificate work — electrical, gas, fire — which is why it’s a common shortlist name for sparks doing EICRs alongside PAT and fire alarm testing. Pricing is published: Entry is £20/user/month for 5 certificate templates and up to 30 certificates a month, Advanced is £25/user/month for 12 templates and up to 80 certificates. Comprehensive is quote-only. If you’re doing high certificate volume — think a firm doing landlord EICRs at scale — the tiered cap on certificate numbers is worth checking against your actual monthly output before you commit.

EasyCert is the old guard — Windows desktop software purpose-built for BS 7671, BS 5839 and BS 5266 certs. It’s a one-off licence rather than a subscription: EasyCert Pro is £174.95 one-off for a single PC, EasyCert Mobile is £224.95 one-off and adds an iOS/Android companion to the desktop app. No monthly fee sounds appealing for a sole trader doing a handful of certs a month. But it’s desktop-first — you’re still tied to one PC for the Pro tier, and the annual Customer Care renewal (which covers updates when BS 7671 amendments land) is sold separately and isn’t priced on their page, so the sticker price isn’t the whole story.

Megger CertSuite (formerly Vespula) comes from the test-instrument side of the business — Megger makes the multifunction testers half the industry already owns — so there’s an obvious pull if you want your readings to flow straight from tester to certificate. It’s cloud-based and covers 18th Edition installation certs, PAT and asset reports. Pricing isn’t published; you’ll need to get a quote.

The job management platforms that also do certs

Tradify is job management first — quoting, scheduling, invoicing — with certificate templates bolted on. Pricing is published per user: Lite £34, Pro £37, Plus £44 per user, per month. That’s meaningfully more than Clik’s certification-only tiers, which makes sense — you’re paying for the whole job lifecycle, not just the paperwork. Worth it if you want one login for quoting, scheduling and certs. Less worth it if certification is genuinely all you need software for.

Commusoft, Joblogic, Simpro, Payaca and ServiceM8 all sit in the same bracket — quote-only pricing, so we can’t tell you what they cost without a sales call. Commusoft leans mid-market heating, plumbing and electrical with CP12 and Gas Safe cert handling baked into the job record, which is useful if you’re a multi-trade firm doing gas and electrical work under one roof. Joblogic is asset-management and planned-maintenance heavy, which suits commercial maintenance contracts more than domestic EICR work. Simpro is built for bigger contractors running projects, not sole traders doing rewires. Payaca is renewables-focused — solar, heat pumps, EV chargers — so if that’s where your work is heading it’s worth a look, but it’s not really an EICR tool. ServiceM8 is a general job app that a lot of small trades use for scheduling and invoicing, with certification as one feature among many rather than the main event.

Where does per-user pricing actually bite?

Here’s the thing nobody puts on the pricing page: per-user, per-month pricing punishes you for growing. Take on an apprentice or a second electrician and your software bill jumps — whether or not they’re issuing certificates yet. On Clik’s Advanced tier that’s another £25/month per new hire before they’ve filed a single EIC. On Tradify’s Pro tier it’s £37. Multiply that by a busy year of hiring and your back-office software costs more than your test instrument did.

	Clik Compliance	Tradify	EasyCert	Hero365
Pricing model	Per user/month	Per user/month	One-off licence	Flat monthly
Published price	£20-25/user/mo	£34-44/user/mo	£174.95-224.95 one-off	From £15.99/mo
Adding a team member changes the bill?	Yes	Yes	New licence needed	No
Handles EICR/EIC/MEIWC certs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Via app + admin
Also books jobs, chases invoices, answers calls	No	Partial	No	Yes

What the certificate can’t do — and what Hero AI can

None of the tools above will answer your phone when a letting agent calls wanting to know if the EICR’s ready, book the re-inspection onto your schedule, or chase the invoice for last month’s rewire that’s gone quiet. That’s the gap around the certification work that quietly eats your evenings.

Hero AI keeps your job records tidy so when a landlord asks for the last certificate on a property, it’s not buried in an old email thread, and it starts at £15.99/month as a flat rate — no per-user pricing that punishes you the moment you take on an apprentice. Compare that to stacking two or three seats on Clik or Tradify and the flat-rate model starts to look a lot more sensible for a growing firm.

We covered the flip side of this — landlord gas certification specifically — in our CP12 landlord gas safety certificates guide, and if you’re running the whole electrical business (not just the certs) our electrician scheduling and billing guide is worth a read too.

So which one do you actually pick?

If certification is genuinely your only software need and you’re a sole trader doing a modest number of EICRs a month, EasyCert’s one-off licence keeps the ongoing cost down — just budget for that unpriced renewal. If you’re doing high certificate volume across electrical, gas and fire, Clik Compliance’s per-template tiers are worth costing out against your monthly output. If you want quoting, scheduling and certs under one login and don’t mind per-user pricing, Tradify covers the ground. And if what’s actually costing you time isn’t the certificate itself but everything around it — the missed calls, the chasing, the invoices that go quiet — that’s the gap Hero AI is built to close.

Check the Hero365 pricing for UK electricians or download the Hero365 app and let Hero AI handle the calls and admin while you handle the wiring.