Website for electricians that separates the small jobs from the big ones
A socket in a back bedroom is twenty minutes and a price you could say in your sleep. A charge point on the drive is a survey, a look at the board and a written quote, and both of those people ring the same mobile on the same Tuesday morning.
The site runs on your own domain, with SSL, hosting and nightly backups in every plan. From €49 to €199 a month, excluding VAT.
One Tuesday, from the van
Same day, same handset, three conversations with nothing in common.
Ten past eight, still on the bypass
The first call is a landlord who needs an EICR before a tenancy starts on Friday. The second is somebody whose downstairs lighting has gone and who believes this counts as an emergency, which it might.
You are driving. You take both, remember neither properly, and write a postcode on the back of your hand at the next roundabout.
Half twelve, sandwich in the van
This one wants a charge point. Before anything useful can be said you need the make of car, where the meter sits, whether there is off street parking, how far it is from the board and whether the supply is single phase.
Twenty questions, every single time, and roughly half the people you ask them of are never heard from again.
Nine in the evening, kitchen table
The day belonged to customers, so the quoting starts now. Three of them: a rewire, that charge point, and a board change for somebody who wants it done before Christmas.
By the third you are copying and pasting, and you know perfectly well the rewire deserved better than what went out.
Four parts an electrician gets use out of
Chosen because the small work and the large work need opposite things from a website.
Fixed where it can be fixed
Adding a socket, changing a light fitting, fitting a smoke alarm: those have a number, and the number can go on the page. Fault finding is an hourly rate. A rewire is quoted. Each service carries its own pricing type, so nothing is promised that depends on what is behind the plaster.
People sort themselves out before they ring, and the small work stops needing a phone call to price.
Quotes that survive being read by three people
A board change gets shown to a partner and a rewire gets forwarded to a letting agent. Send it as a page of its own, with labour, materials, certification and making good on separate rows, and it still holds together after it has been passed on twice.
Approval happens on that page, with a date and a name against it, so there is no argument later about what was agreed to.
Ask the twenty questions once
The enquiry form collects what you always end up asking for anyway: what the job is, the address, whether there is parking, and a box where the customer describes it themselves. It arrives written down, which beats a voicemail with a number you cannot make out.
By the time you ring back you already know whether it is worth the drive.
Certification, written down
What your registration means, what a certificate actually covers, why a condition report is not a portable appliance test, and which work is notifiable. These come up on nearly every call and they read better than they explain.
Write them once. It is also the part of a site that letting agents go through hardest.
An electrician's list, priced the way the work is
You set the names and the numbers. The shape is the thing: small work priced, large work quoted, and nothing in the middle pretending to be either.
Categories keep them apart, so domestic, landlord and charge point work each read as their own thing.
What electricians want to know first
Yes, that is exactly what the pricing types are for. A socket can carry a fixed price while a rewire says quoted, and the list shows the difference plainly enough that nobody rings to argue about it.
Through the form, with the questions you always ask already on it. The address, the parking situation and their own description arrive in writing, and you decide whether it needs a survey before quoting.
Yes. The quote is a page of its own. They read it on a phone, approve it there, and you are told. Nothing has to be signed, scanned or posted back to you.
Into the questions section and onto the service pages. Agents and landlords look for that before they look at a rate, and having it written down saves the same call twice a week.
It can be imported, so the wording and the service names come with you instead of being retyped. Whatever is missing gets drafted, and you edit it on the page itself using the pencils.
Between €49 and €199, excluding VAT, depending on the plan. The site runs on a domain you own, with SSL, hosting, nightly backups and support on all four.
More trades
- Painters and decoratorsQuoted per room and surface, sold on photos.
- Flooring fittersPriced per floor type and square metre.
- Carpenters and joinersHourly rate and fixed price side by side.
- RoofersThe roof survey as the bookable way in.
- Tilers and bathroom fittersPackage prices per bathroom size, with a start date.
- Balcony glazingMeasure first, a quote that survives a board meeting.
- All trades
Put the rates up
Say what you do and which of it is fixed, or hand over the site you already have, and you get a draft with your services, your quote lines and a form that asks the questions you are tired of asking. You take it from there.
The site runs on your own domain, with SSL, hosting and nightly backups in every plan. From €49 to €199 a month, excluding VAT.