Software for Electrical & Power Contractors
One system for every job: estimating and bidding, crew scheduling and timesheets, switchgear and cable procurement, test records, variations, applications for payment. You can see where every job stands, every day, from first bid to final account.
You win the job on price. Then you deliver it with crews spread across sites, switchgear on long lead times and a scope that never stops moving.
Plan crews across all your live jobs instead of one whiteboard per site. Timesheets and progress flow back from the field daily, so labor burn against estimate is something you check, not something you reconstruct at month end.
Boards, switchgear and cable hit the budget as committed cost the moment the PO is raised. Deliveries sit on the tasks they gate, so a slipping panel delivery shows up in the program weeks before it stalls a site.
Design changes and site instructions get captured, priced and approved with the paper trail attached. They carry straight into your application, so you get paid for every circuit you actually installed.
Archdesk is built for electrical and power contractors delivering commercial installation, industrial power and infrastructure work, whether you work direct for clients or as a subcontractor to a main contractor. Estimators, project managers, site supervisors and the commercial team work from the same records, so the estimate you won with becomes the budget you track against, the hours your electricians book land on the job the same day, and the work you record on site becomes the application you get paid on.
Delivering other trades alongside electrical? Archdesk also serves:
Labor is your biggest cost. Hours from every site land against each job's budget lines daily, so you see labor burn against estimate while you can still act on it.
The bid built from real cost data on jobs like this one, with the exclusions and assumptions on the record.
The estimate you won with becomes the budget you track against. Crews and program planned across your live jobs.
Switchgear, boards and cable ordered as committed cost, deliveries tracked against the tasks they gate.
Hours, progress and site records flow back from the field daily, landing against each job's budget lines.
Test results and inspection records captured as circuits complete, building the handover pack as you go.
Applications built from substantiated records, retention tracked to release, and the margin already known.
What you priced is what you track. The winning estimate becomes the budget, actuals land against it line by line, and what jobs really cost feeds the next bid.
Explore Job Costing
The schedule connected to what it depends on: long-lead deliveries on the tasks they gate, crews planned across every live job, slippage shown with its cost.
Explore Scheduling
Buy-out without the gaps: RFQs from your BOQ lines, bids back comparable, exclusions visible before award. Then every PO and subcontract lands on the budget the moment it's raised.
Explore Procurement
Committed at the PO, earned as work is delivered, invoiced months later. See all three stages against every budget line, so variance is a decision you make, not a number you explain.
Explore Cost Controlling
Certify subcontractor valuations down, build client applications up, from the same records. Invoices, payment notices and retention on statutory time, with the audit trail attached.
Explore Financials
The schedule, the progress and the money in one system. When a task slips you see what it costs, and when scope changes you see what it does to the schedule. 'On track' means the Gantt chart and the bank account.
Explore Project Management
Nobody builds from a superseded drawing. Revision control, approvals and distribution with proof of who received what, when. The record that wins the dispute instead of losing it.
Explore Document Management
Every project's position, live, from the data that ran the work. Cost, schedule and cash agree with each other because they're the same records. There's nothing to assemble and nothing to reconcile.
Explore Live Data
Construction Volume
£10M
Average Administrative Cost
£500k
From small residential jobs to the world's largest infrastructure projects
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Archdesk helps electrical and power contractors manage estimating and bidding, crew scheduling and timesheets, switchgear and material procurement, drawings and site records, test and inspection documentation, variations, payment applications, and job costing in one connected platform.
Yes. Electricians and supervisors record timesheets, complete site forms, log test results and capture progress from their phones. What they record lands against the project in real time, so the office sees hours and progress without chasing paperwork at the end of the week.
Timesheets from site land against each project's budget lines daily. Labor is usually an electrical contractor's biggest cost, so you see labor burn against estimate for every live job, week by week, instead of finding out at the final account.
Purchase orders for switchgear, boards and generators hit the project budget as committed cost the moment they are raised. Deliveries are tracked against the installation tasks they gate, so a slipping delivery shows up in the program early, not on site.
Yes. Because every order is committed cost against the budget line it was estimated on, you see the gap between the price you allowed and the price you paid as it opens, job by job, rather than discovering it in the final account.
Yes. Site instructions and design changes are captured, priced and pushed through approval with the record attached. Approved variations carry into your payment application, so unpriced work stops leaking margin.
Yes. Test results, inspection records and site forms are captured in the field as circuits complete, and every record lives against the project. The documentation you need at handover builds as you go instead of being assembled in the final week.
Yes. Applications for payment are built from the same records as your measured work and approved variations, and retention is tracked through to release. Everything you apply for is substantiated, which shortens the argument with the main contractor's QS.
Yes. Archdesk integrates with Xero (as a certified partner), Sage, QuickBooks and other accounting systems, so invoices, payments and costs flow between commercial and finance teams without re-keying.
In the demo we walk you through a fully worked project in Archdesk, from the first estimate, through scheduling and delivery on site, to the final account. Book a demo and see.
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