Tradify Review 2026: Job Management for Electricians With AI Locked in the Top Tier

Updated November 1, 2026 – Tested Intelligence

Quick verdict: Tradify is a clean, trade-built job management app for small electrical shops: inquiries, quotes, scheduling, timesheets, invoices and payments in one place, with Xero and QuickBooks Online sync on every plan. Its AI — SmartRead for Bills and SmartWrite — exists only on the $61-per-user Plus plan, and per-user pricing means that upgrade multiplies across your crew. A strong pick for a solo electrician or small team; a growing crew should do the per-head math first.

What it is

Tradify is job management software built in New Zealand for trade businesses; electricians are first on its own list of trades served, ahead of plumbing and gas, HVAC and refrigeration, and property maintenance. It follows a job’s paperwork lifecycle: inquiry to quote, quote to job with time and materials logged, job to invoice built from what was consumed. Its homepage leads with electrical-contractor testimonials, including James Brunton of JJ Electrical and Mike Renwick, whose team was running on day one.

Its home page rates it 4.8 out of 5 from 9,000+ ratings — a vendor-reported figure. It is not a dispatch platform: a scheduler with Google Calendar sync and staff locations on a map is the extent of the routing. What it sells is a small shop’s admin spine, handled from a phone, with a 14-day free trial, no card required.

Key features

• Full job lifecycle: inquiries, quotes, jobs, timesheets, invoices and payments in one app
• Quoting: templates, price lists, quote options with online acceptance, self-chasing reminders
• Scheduling: Google Calendar sync, recurring jobs, job templates and subcontractor scheduling
• Job costing and bill tracking, with a profit view per job
• Progress invoicing: deposits, progress payments and retentions, from the Pro plan up
• Accounting sync on every plan: Xero and QuickBooks Online, not paywalled to a top tier
• SmartRead for Bills (AI, Plus only): captures supplier bill costs automatically
• SmartWrite (AI, Plus only): generates job descriptions and improves written text

Pricing

Tradify publishes three self-serve plans, per user per month in US dollars on its own pricing page: Lite $47, Pro $51, Plus $61. Lite covers job management, scheduling with Google Calendar sync, quoting and invoicing, markups, online payments, email tracking and accounting sync. Pro adds custom branding, the inquiry form and inbox, job photos and files, recurring jobs, appointment reminders, quote options with online acceptance, progress invoicing, timesheets and subcontractor scheduling. Plus adds the AI SmartTools, service reminders, purchase orders, bulk invoicing, kit bundles and reporting. A Custom plan is priced by request; an Instant Website add-on is $12 a month on any plan.

What the pricing page doesn’t make obvious: the AI is not an add-on decision, it is a tier decision. SmartRead and SmartWrite sit on Plus only, so AI costs $10 more per user per month than Pro — trivial for one user, $600 a year for a five-person crew, charged for every login whether that person scans a bill or not. The pricing page also publishes no usage limits for either AI tool. Compare Jobber, reviewed here under Electricians, which prices by plan and team-size band and sells its AI receptionist as a flat $29-a-month add-on.

Who it’s for

Solo electricians and small crews — roughly one to four people — who quote constantly and still run quotes in Word and jobs in a spreadsheet. If your books are in Xero or QuickBooks Online, you bill by the job, and you want the margin on every job without a dispatch platform’s complexity or price, Tradify is built for you.

Who should skip it

Crews past about five users should price the per-head total honestly: at Plus, a growing team can pay far more than plan-based rivals charge a similar crew. Shops that mainly want AI should look elsewhere too — Tradify’s AI is bill capture and writing help, with no AI answering or dispatch; for an AI receptionist, see Jobber in this section. Businesses living on optimized routing will outgrow its scheduler.

Pros

• Trade-specific from the ground up, with electricians a named, first-class trade
• Xero and QuickBooks Online sync included on the cheapest plan
• Per-job costing and profit visibility is the core product, not an afterthought
• Published pricing and a free 14-day trial with no card required
• Progress invoicing for deposits and retentions arrives at the mid Pro tier

Cons

• Per-user pricing scales steeply: every tier is charged for every login
• AI SmartTools are Plus-only, with no usage limits published
• The AI itself is modest — bill reading and writing help, no AI answering or dispatch
• Dispatch depth is light: a calendar, a map and reminders, not route optimization
• Prices differ by country and currency; confirm your regional figure first

FAQ

How much does Tradify cost for a small electrical shop?

Lite $47, Pro $51 and Plus $61 per user per month on its US pricing page. A three-person crew pays $153 a month on Pro, $183 on Plus. Prices vary by region; the Instant Website add-on is $12 a month.

What AI does Tradify actually offer?

Two tools, both Plus-only: SmartRead for Bills, which captures supplier bill costs with AI instead of manual keying, and SmartWrite, which generates descriptions and improves writing. No usage limits are published for either.

Does Tradify work for electricians specifically?

Yes. Tradify names electrical and AV contractors first among its trades, features electrical contractors as customers, and its workflow — quote, job, timesheets, progress invoice, accounting sync — matches how small electrical shops bill. It is job management, not estimating: for drawing-based AI takeoff, see Bobyard or Trimble Accubid Anywhere, both reviewed here.

Bottom line

Start the trial at Pro, not Plus: it covers the reminders, timesheets, job photos and progress invoicing most small shops feel daily, at $51 a head. Upgrade only if supplier bills are a real weekly time sink — with per-user pricing, the AI decision is never $10; it is $10 times every login.