Built for the realities of Electricians.

EICR cycles and Part P records, on the radar

Electrical work runs on cycles and notifications. EICRs come back round, typically every five years for rented homes, and the agent wants the report before the tenancy turns. Notifiable work under Part P reaches building control through your competent person scheme, and the record of that notification needs to be findable years later. Every consumer unit change adds another date to somebody’s list.

OptiTech Automation keeps that list for you. Each job holds its records: what was done, when, the report or notification reference and the next due date, with due dates surfacing before they slip. The platform does not issue an EICR or a Part P certificate and never will; your qualified electrician and your scheme do that. It makes sure the dates and records around them are never the thing that slips.

One honest limit, said now rather than later. Test instrument calibration is not something the platform tracks, so those dates stay wherever you keep them today. What it does hold is the qualification side: 18th Edition, ECS and scheme cards with their expiry dates and the certificate file, which is what dispatch reads before a job is offered to anyone.

Repeat work is the best work

The most profitable job an electrical firm does is the one it already did five years ago. The EICR you signed off then is due again, and the landlord will book whoever gets to them first. Firms that track this win the repeat work by default. Firms that keep it in a spreadsheet win it only when someone remembers to open the spreadsheet.

With due dates held against every property and customer, the renewal shows up on your radar before it expires, and the customer can book a real slot straight from your booking page, deposit paid. The calendar fills with the easiest work you will ever win.

The same cycle runs for smoke alarm checks in rentals, emergency lighting tests on commercial contracts and PAT rounds where you still do them. Anything with a due date behaves the same way: recorded once, against the job and the customer, and searchable by name when you need it.

A deposit at booking changes the no-show maths

Domestic electrical work suffers from the polite no-show: the customer who books a fault-find, quietly fixes it with a new fuse or a cousin, and never rings to cancel. Your electrician arrives to a closed door and the morning is gone. A card deposit taken at booking, into your own Stripe account, changes that completely.

It also changes the shape of enquiries. Online booking on your own site means the customer commits to a slot and a deposit in one sitting, at 9pm, without a phone call. You are no longer the firm that calls back on Thursday. You are the firm that was already booked by Thursday.

For quoted work like consumer unit changes and EV charger installs, the deposit does a second job: it filters tyre-kickers before you burn an evening on a detailed quote. The customer who pays a deposit on a survey visit has already half decided you are the firm.

Dispatch by qualification, not by who answers first

Testing and inspection needs your inspector, not your newest improver. Three-phase commercial work needs the engineers who hold the right experience. You mark who does what once, and jobs are assigned to the electricians who can actually take them, with you keeping the final say.

The engineer app carries the job history, photos, notes and signatures. In plant rooms and basements where signal goes to die, the rota stays readable and a status change or a note queues on the phone and sends when they surface. Photos need a connection to upload.

Commercial clients feel this too. When the same engineers keep turning up to the same site with the site history in the app, the client stops asking for your best bloke by name and starts trusting the firm. That is how the owner takes a holiday.

One flat price

From £199 a month plus a one-off £129 Onboarding Investment on the Start-up Stage, for up to five on the tools, or £599 plus £249 on Standard for up to fifteen. Flat within the stage, not per user: take on two more electricians this year and the bill stays exactly where it was. Past fifteen you move up to the Growth Stage, never onto a per-seat meter. No per-lead fees, no charge per booking, invoices raised on completion included.

There is no contract. Cancel any month with 30 days notice and take your data with you as CSV. The pricing is public because quote-based software pricing is a game electricians should not have to play.

Who this is not for

If you are a sole trader doing mostly day-rate work for one builder, with no certificates to chase and no team to schedule, you may genuinely not need this yet. A paper diary that works is not a problem to solve.

OptiTech Automation earns its keep when there are EICR cycles to track, a team to dispatch and no-shows costing van days. One van about to become two is exactly the right time. Ten vans drowning in paper is overdue.