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Electrical Estimating Software Built for Contractors

Build accurate electrical bids from reusable assemblies and labor units, then turn them into a branded proposal with financing before you leave the site — and push the signed job straight into scheduling and invoicing.

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Electrical estimating software dashboard showing job pricing and proposal status

Price the Job Once, Use It Everywhere

Assemblies & labor units

Build a reusable library for receptacles, fixtures, panels, circuits, and EV chargers. Drop an assembly into a bid and the labor hours and material come with it, priced at your current rates.

Overhead & margin control

Set your loaded labor rate, overhead recovery, and target margin once and apply them to every bid. See the margin on a job before you send it, not after the invoice clears.

Proposals with financing

Turn the estimate into a good-better-best proposal with monthly payments shown next to the total. Embedded GoodLeap, Sungage, and LightReach financing makes a panel upgrade an easy yes.

Straight through to invoice

The accepted estimate becomes the scheduled job and then the invoice, on one record. Change orders update the same job, so what you billed always matches what you sold.

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Electrical estimating software showing assemblies, labor units, and job pricing

Spreadsheet Bids Are Costing You Margin

Most electrical contractors still bid from a spreadsheet built years ago. Labor units drift out of date, material pricing is whatever the last invoice said, and overhead recovery is a number someone picked once and never revisited.

The result is predictable: bids that are too high get lost, bids that are too low get won. SubcontractorHub keeps assemblies, labor units, and rates in one place so every estimator prices the same job the same way, at today's numbers.

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Electrical proposal with good-better-best options and monthly financing

Win the Job Before You Leave the Driveway

A panel upgrade, a service change, or an EV charger install is a considered purchase. When the customer waits three days for a PDF, they spend those three days collecting other bids.

Present on a tablet instead: three options side by side, monthly payments under each, and a signature line at the bottom. The estimate you just built becomes the proposal, and the signed proposal becomes the scheduled job.

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SubcontractorHub is the right fit if:

The platform is built for electrical contractors who sell and install projects — especially those doing EV chargers, panel upgrades, and solar or battery-adjacent work.

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You bid panel upgrades, rewires, or EV charger installs

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Estimates live in a spreadsheet only one person understands

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Proposals go out days after the site visit

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Financing would help close bigger tickets

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You also do solar, battery, or HVAC work

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What you invoice does not always match what you bid

Common Questions

What is electrical estimating software?

Electrical estimating software helps contractors price jobs by building takeoffs from plans, applying labor units to each device and circuit, and adding material costs, overhead, and margin to produce a bid. The better platforms carry the accepted estimate straight through to a customer-facing proposal, the job schedule, and the invoice, so nothing is priced twice or re-keyed.

How do electrical contractors estimate a job?

Most electrical estimating uses labor units — a standard install time assigned to each device, fixture, and length of wire. You count the items in a takeoff, multiply by the labor unit to get hours, apply your loaded labor rate, add material at current supplier pricing, then layer on overhead and profit. The count is the easy part; keeping labor units and material prices current is what separates a bid that wins from one that loses money.

What should electrical estimating software include?

At minimum: a reusable assembly and labor-unit library, current material pricing, configurable overhead and margin, and clean bid output. What most tools miss is everything after the bid — SubcontractorHub also turns the estimate into a branded proposal with financing options, captures a signature on site, and pushes the signed job into scheduling and invoicing on the same record.

Can electrical estimating software handle service work and projects?

It should do both. Service calls need fast flat-rate pricing a technician can present at the door, while panel upgrades, EV charger installs, and rewires need a full takeoff and a multi-option proposal. SubcontractorHub supports flat-rate service pricing and project estimating in one system, so both revenue streams run through the same pipeline.

How does estimating software help win more electrical bids?

Two ways. Speed — getting an accurate proposal in front of the customer the same day rather than three days later measurably raises close rates. And presentation — good-better-best options with monthly financing shown alongside the total consistently outperform a single-price PDF, because the customer chooses between your options rather than between you and a competitor.

Does SubcontractorHub work for electrical contractors?

Yes. Electrical is one of the trades SubcontractorHub is built for, alongside solar, roofing, HVAC, and plumbing. That matters for contractors doing EV chargers, panel upgrades, and battery or solar-adjacent work, because the same platform handles the electrical scope and the renewable scope on one job record with one financing flow.

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Book a demo and see how SubcontractorHub takes an electrical estimate from takeoff to signed proposal to invoice — with financing built in.

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