NICEIC Cert Software Compared: Clik, Megger CertSuite, EasyCert and Hero365 for 2026

If you’re NICEIC registered (or NAPIT, ECA, whoever your scheme provider is), you already know the drill. Every EICR, every EIC, every minor works certificate has to be right — right template, right observation codes, right signature — or it’s not worth the paper it’s printed on come assessment time. And if you’re still filling in BS 7671 certificates by hand or bashing them out on a laptop between jobs, you know exactly how much of your evening that eats.

This is the bit nobody warns you about when you go self-employed or start taking on your own contracts: the paperwork is half the job. So we’ve had a proper look at the NICEIC cert software actually available to UK electricians in 2026 — Clik, Megger CertSuite (the software formerly known as Vespula), EasyCert, and where Hero365 fits into all this. No fluff, just what each one actually does and what it costs.

What NICEIC Cert Software Actually Needs to Do

Before comparing anything, it’s worth being clear on the job. NICEIC cert software isn’t just a form-filler. For it to actually save you time, it needs to:

• Produce BS 7671-compliant certificates (EIC, EICR, MEIWC) that pass scheme assessment
• Let you fill them in on-site from a phone or tablet, not back at the kitchen table at 9pm
• Store completed certs somewhere you can actually find them again — for the client, the letting agent, or your assessor
• Ideally, tie the certificate to the job itself — the quote, the invoice, the site notes — so you’re not juggling three separate bits of kit

Miss any of those and you’re back to double entry: certificate in one place, job records in another, invoice chasing in a third.

Clik Compliance — Built for Regulated Certificates

Clik Compliance is squarely aimed at electrical, gas, fire and HVAC contractors who need to produce properly regulated certificates day in, day out. It’s a solid choice if certification is genuinely the core of what you do.

Pricing is tiered by how many certificates you’re producing a month: Entry is £20/user/month and covers 5 certificate templates up to 30 certificates a month. Advanced steps up to £25/user/month for 12 templates and up to 80 certificates monthly. Go beyond that and you’re on Comprehensive, which is quote-only.

The catch for a small outfit — a sole trader or a two-man team — is that it’s priced per user. Take on an apprentice or a second electrician and your bill doesn’t just go up a bit, it doubles. For a growing sparky business, that’s a tax on hiring.

Megger CertSuite — From a Name You Trust on the Meter

Megger CertSuite (most electricians who’ve been in the trade a while will remember it as Vespula) comes from the test-instrument people, which is a genuine point in its favour — if you’re already testing with a Megger multifunction tester, there’s an obvious appeal to keeping your certification in the same family. It’s cloud-based and covers the usual suspects: 18th Edition installation certs, PAT reports, asset reports.

Megger doesn’t publish pricing on its site, so you’re into a quote conversation before you know what it’ll cost your business. For a one-man band trying to compare options on a Sunday night, that’s friction you don’t need.

EasyCert — The One-Off Licence Option

EasyCert is the odd one out here because it’s genuinely a one-off purchase rather than a subscription — a proper throwback for anyone who’s tired of software rental fees stacking up month after month.

EasyCert Pro is £174.95 as a perpetual licence for one PC, covering BS 7671, BS 5839 (fire alarm) and BS 5266 (emergency lighting) certificates. Want it on your phone too? EasyCert Mobile is £224.95 one-off, which bundles the desktop Pro software with an iOS/Android app on a single device.

Sounds great until you clock two things. First, it’s desktop-first software — the “mobile” tier still needs the PC licence underneath it, so you’re not getting a lightweight phone-only option. Second, there’s an annual Customer Care renewal sold separately, and it’s not priced on the page — so the headline one-off figure isn’t really the full annual cost of ownership. If you’re comparing it against a subscription, get that renewal price in writing before you commit.

Where Hero365 Fits — Certification Is Only Half Your Week

Here’s the thing all three of the above have in common: they’re built to solve the certificate. None of them are built to solve the rest of your week — the calls you miss while you’re up a loft doing an EICR, the quote you meant to chase, the invoice sitting unpaid for six weeks.

Hero365 is Hero AI — your AI staff. It’s not certification software; it’s the teammate that handles the jobs around the certificate. While you’re on-site doing the testing, Hero AI answers your phone, books the callout straight onto your diary, and follows up afterwards so the customer isn’t left wondering if their EICR came back clean. It drafts a Good/Better/Best estimate from a voice note in under a minute if a client wants extra work quoting on the spot — say a consumer unit upgrade flagged during the inspection — and it chases the invoice once the cert’s issued, instead of you doing it from your phone at 10pm.

Picture this: you’ve just finished a CP12-adjacent job — sorry, wrong trade, but the same headache applies to a periodic inspection on a rental property. Letting agent wants the report today, tenant’s ringing about a different fault, and a new enquiry’s come in for a rewire quote. You physically can’t do all three at once. Hero AI answers the new enquiry, books a survey slot, and lets the tenant know someone’s on it — while you finish the paperwork that actually needs your qualification and your signature.

We’re not trying to replace your certification software — if Clik or EasyCert is doing right by your regulated certs, keep it. Hero AI is the layer around it: the front desk, the invoice chaser, the quote drafter. As we covered in our guide to electrician scheduling and billing, the biggest time drain for most sparkies isn’t the wiring — it’s everything admin-shaped wrapped around it.

Side-by-Side: What You’re Actually Comparing

	Clik Compliance	Megger CertSuite	EasyCert	Hero365
Built for regulated certs	✅	✅	✅	❌ (pairs with your cert software)
Published pricing	✅ (£20-£25/user/mo)	❌ quote-only	✅ (£174.95/£224.95 one-off)	✅ (from £19.99/mo)
Per-user pricing penalty	✅	Unknown	❌ (per device/PC)	❌ — flat plans
Answers calls & books jobs 24/7	❌	❌	❌	✅
Drafts quotes from voice notes	❌	❌	❌	✅
Chases overdue invoices	❌	❌	❌	✅
Mobile-first (no desktop needed)	✅	✅	❌	✅

What This Means for Your Business

If certification volume is genuinely your bottleneck — you’re a multi-electrician firm churning through EICRs for landlords all week — Clik’s tiered-by-volume pricing or Megger’s meter-tied ecosystem might be worth the per-user cost. If you’re a sole trader who does maybe a couple of dozen certs a month and hates subscriptions, EasyCert’s one-off licence (just get that renewal price confirmed) could work out cheaper over three years.

But if the real drag on your business is the admin around the certificate — missed calls while you’re testing, quotes that never get chased, invoices going stale — that’s not a certification problem, and no cert software is going to fix it. That’s a staffing problem, and it’s one you can hire Hero AI to solve from £19.99/month, no per-seat penalty for taking on an apprentice, no long onboarding call.

Worth also checking our free tools if you want a quick gut-check on where your own admin time is actually going before you commit to another subscription.

Get Your Evenings Back

You didn’t get your 18th Edition qualification to spend your nights chasing invoices and re-typing the same job details into three different apps. Sort your certification software for the regulated stuff — Clik, Megger, EasyCert, whichever suits your volume and your budget — then let Hero AI handle the calls, quotes, and follow-ups that eat the rest of your week.

Download the Hero365 app and see what a day looks like when someone else is answering the phone.