Electrical Flat Rate Pricing App: 6 Options for 2027

The short answer: buy the price book inside a field service platform

An electrical flat rate pricing app is software that stores a fixed price for each electrical service in a price book and carries that price onto estimates, invoices and completed jobs. The category decision comes first. If you want one system for booking, quoting and invoicing, a field service platform with a built-in price book fits better than a standalone menu tool. Among the six options below, Housecall Pro is the only one whose public pricing page both names flat-rate pricing on a plan and prints that plan's price. The New Flat Rate also publishes a starting price, but its page prints only that one figure and describes menu pricing and training rather than dispatch or accounting, so it suits a different buyer.

TL;DR: Shortlist Housecall Pro for an all-in-one trial, get written quotes from ServiceTitan, Workiz and FieldEdge, and treat Jobber as a quoting and invoicing tool unless a demo shows a working price book.

Key Takeaways

• Housecall Pro's Essentials plan names flat-rate pricing and includes five users, and its pricing page prints the price.

• Housecall Pro's help article says webhooks are available only on the Max plan, which changes what any automation costs.

• ServiceTitan, Workiz and FieldEdge publish no plan prices, so their cost comparison needs a written quote.

• Jobber's pricing page shows quotes, invoices and QuickBooks Online sync on Connect, but it does not mention a price book or flat-rate pricing.

• The New Flat Rate's plan page starts at $99 a month and lists training tiers, but the pages we opened do not describe dispatch or accounting.

• A stale price book can cost more than the software in an illustrative calculation, so give one named owner the job of updating it.

How we evaluated these six tools

We read each vendor's public pricing and feature pages, checked webhook and run-status details against help documentation, and used trade press for market context. We did not run trials, and nothing here reflects hands-on testing. The weights below are our judgment about what a small electrical shop needs, not a vendor or industry standard.

We did not turn these criteria into a numeric score per vendor, because several vendors publish no prices or feature details. The matrix below shows what each public page confirms instead.

What the public pages confirm

The matrix records only what the pages we opened say. A "Not stated" cell means the page is silent, not that the feature is missing, so confirm those cells in a demo.

Read the matrix with one question in mind: which vendor names flat-rate pricing on the plan you would actually buy? Housecall Pro's Essentials and Max plans, Workiz's Ultimate tier and FieldEdge's three tiers do, and the FieldEdge and Workiz tiers are quote-based.

When NOT to use US Tech Automations. A custom workflow layer is the wrong purchase if you only need a price book, estimates and invoices. Housecall Pro's Essentials plan or FieldEdge's Select tier can cover that without a build project, as long as the built-in price book does what you need. It is also the wrong purchase for a one- or two-technician shop that wants menu pricing and coaching, where The New Flat Rate's Quick Start or Basic plan is simpler. And it is the wrong purchase if your current platform already sends the events you need to the other tools you use. A design layer earns its cost only once you can name an exception that the built-in price book does not catch.

What the price math looks like

Pricing checked October 18, 2026. The table lists only the prices we could read on each vendor's pricing page. ServiceTitan, Workiz and FieldEdge show quote-based plans, so their cells read Quote-based.

Essentials plan price: $149/mo billed annually according to Housecall Pro (2026). That plan covers five users and includes the flat-rate feature, and the same page shows $189 a month on monthly billing.

Jobber lists its Pipeline add-on at $49 a month, its Marketing Suite at $99 and its Receptionist at $29. Housecall Pro's add-ons, such as Payroll and Accounting, show no price on the page, so those are quote-based.

Take a five-technician electrical shop that wants every completed job checked against its price book. The Essentials plan on Housecall Pro costs $149 × 12 = $1,788 a year for five users. The help article says webhooks, which deliver events such as job.completed, are available only on the Max plan, according to Housecall Pro (current help article), and Max costs $299 × 12 = $3,588 a year for eight users. Now assume, purely as an illustration and not a measured figure, that an outdated book underprices 10 jobs a month by $75 each. That is $750 a month, or $9,000 a year, which exceeds the annual cost of either plan. On that math, keeping the book current matters more than the subscription line, and an automated check is worth configuring only if it catches those jobs.

Six vendor profiles, with the evidence behind each

Each profile separates what the vendor publishes from our read. Links go to the page that carries the claim.

Housecall Pro: the one platform that prints a flat-rate plan price

Vendor-published: The Essentials plan lists flat-rate pricing. The feature page says you can build a price book from scratch or import an existing one, and that technicians can view and update it in the mobile app (feature page). The page also says the book can pull industry averages from Profit Rhino; we did not verify that integration.

Limitations: Webhooks and open API sit on Max only, per the webhook help article, and add-ons such as Payroll and Accounting show no price.

Our read: This is the strongest fit on the list for an owner who wants one system, but the automation cost starts at Max, not Essentials. For the head-to-head with Jobber, see our Housecall Pro vs Jobber guide for electrical contractors.

Jobber: strong on quotes and collections, silent on the price book

Vendor-published: Grow plan for five users: $229/mo billed annually according to Jobber (2026). Core covers online booking, quotes, invoices with online payments and 100+ app integrations, Connect adds QuickBooks Online sync and automated reminders, and Grow adds optional line items for upselling and job costing. The page describes a 14-day free trial with no credit card required.

Limitations: The page does not mention a price book or flat-rate pricing, and Plus has no one-user option. Extra users cost $29 a month each.

Our read: Choose Jobber if quoting and getting paid are the pain and you will build the price list yourself. Before you rely on line items as a price book, ask for a demo of that exact use.

ServiceTitan: a price book tied to a larger operation, with quotes first

Vendor-published: The pricing page lists Starter, Essentials and The Works, all per technician, with "Request Pricing" in place of figures (ServiceTitan pricing). A 2022 vendor blog says, according to ServiceTitan (2022), that pricebooks can be built from scratch, imported or started from a prebuilt book, and that Pricebook Pro covers electrical, plumbing, HVAC and drain/sewer work.

Limitations: The pricing page shows no figures, and the pages we opened do not say which plan includes Pricebook Pro. The electrical details come from a 2022 vendor post, so confirm them live.

Our read: A fit for a larger operation that wants the price book linked to dispatch, invoices and accounting. Expect a sales process rather than a self-serve start.

Workiz: flat rates sit on the top tier

Vendor-published: Workiz lists Standard, Pro and Ultimate. The price book is included on all three, and flat-rate pricing is included only on Ultimate, according to Workiz (2026). The page shows "Request pricing" rather than a figure and states no user limits.

Limitations: If you need flat rates, you must buy the top tier, and that tier's price is not published.

Our read: Standard or Pro can work if you only need a price book. Ask for an Ultimate quote only if flat rates are a requirement.

FieldEdge: electrical price books on every tier, quote-based

Vendor-published: Select, Premier and Elite each include the price book and flat-rate pricing, with 2, 4 and 6 mobile app licenses, according to FieldEdge (2026). Proposal Pro, MarketingEdge and the consumer portal are listed as "Call for Pricing."

Limitations: No plan prices are published. Third-party listings give conflicting per-work-order app fees, so we did not print one.

Our read: A strong candidate for an electrical shop that wants a price book on the entry tier, provided the quote fits. FieldEdge's own electrical price book page points readers to its electrical books and asks them to contact a representative for the full walkthrough.

The New Flat Rate: menu pricing with training, not a full office system

Vendor-published: Starting price on the plans page: $99/mo according to The New Flat Rate (2026). The page lists tiers from Quick Start for one to two techs through Platinum for 15 or more, each with training seats and coaching.

Electrical scope: The electrician page describes five-option menus for each task and says the menus cover electrical work. Its ticket-growth claims are vendor marketing we did not verify, so we leave them out. A 2019 ACHR News item on its 2.0 release named electrical service contractors as an audience but gave no electrical menu detail.

Limitations: The pages we opened cover training, coaching and menus. They do not describe dispatch, scheduling or accounting. Plans are sized by technician count, and only the starting price is shown.

Our read: A good fit for an owner who wants menus and sales training across several trades, paired with a separate scheduling and invoicing tool.

Who should choose which vendor

Keeping the price book current

Flat rates are only as good as their inputs. EC&M reported on September 11, 2025 that wire, cable and distribution equipment were already seeing noticeable increases, and that three-quarters of its Top 50 contractors expected tariffs to hurt their business in 2025, according to EC&M (2025). Our read is that a price book with no named owner drifts, so set a rule that any supplier cost change triggers a review of the affected lines the same week.

US Tech Automations could configure a proposed price-change workflow for this. The trigger is a supplier price file landing in a shared folder, or an owner logging a cost change. The action matches each affected price book line, applies the markup rule the owner wrote down, and calculates the new flat rate. The output is a change list showing the old price, the new price and the labor and material split, sent to the owner. The human review point is the owner approving each change before anything is imported. Prerequisites are a supplier file in a format the workflow can read, a written markup rule, and bulk import or API write access in your field service platform, which the pages we opened do not confirm for any vendor on this list. For a wider set of estimating tools, see our estimating software guide.

Where the price book meets the invoice

A correct quote can still become a wrong bill, so the second gap is between the price book and the invoice. Housecall Pro's webhook help article lists 41 webhook events, including job.completed, and Max is the plan that can send them to a URL you control.

US Tech Automations could configure a proposed invoice check on that Max-plan webhook. The trigger is a job.completed event arriving at a receiving endpoint you run. The action pulls the job's invoiced line items and compares each one to a price book export, flagging any line that differs from the book by more than a threshold the owner sets. The output is a daily exception list in the office queue. The human review point is an office lead clearing each flag before the invoice goes out. Prerequisites are Max-plan webhook access, verification of the signing secret on incoming events, API read access to jobs and line items, and a current price book export. None of this is live for any customer; it is a design to confirm against the platform's documentation. For proposal-stage pricing, see our proposal software guide.

Building the same checks in Zapier, Make or n8n

Zapier, Make and n8n are fair alternatives, and each can carry these checks if you build them. Zapier's help center defines run statuses such as Errored, Handled error and On hold, and gives this rule: Auto-off threshold: 95% of runs erroring in 7 days according to Zapier (current help article). n8n's docs describe an error workflow that starts with an Error Trigger, which receives the failed execution's ID, error message and last executed node, according to n8n (current docs). Make's help center says scenario history retention depends on your plan and points to its pricing page for the periods, so check there before you rely on any number (Make scenario history).

Those tools can support run history, error branches and audit trails when configured. What you still own is the design: idempotency so a repeated event does not create a second invoice, escalation so an exception reaches a person, access controls on who can change a flat rate, and maintenance when the book changes. Most shops underestimate those four parts.

A proposed US Tech Automations design could configure those pieces in one place: a single approval queue for price changes, role-limited edit rights, and an exception log that keeps the flagged line, the old price and the reviewer's decision. The prerequisites are the same exports and APIs named above, plus a named owner for every review step.

Who this is for

This guide is for an owner or operations lead at a small electrical business who is close to choosing and needs a flat-rate price book that both the office and the field use. It is less useful if you are shopping for dispatch software alone or want an enterprise implementation partner.

Red flags: nobody owns the price book, the office and the field use different prices for the same service, or you expect one app to replace dispatch and accounting without any configuration work.

Glossary

• Price book: The master list of services, labor, materials and markups that sets what each job costs to quote.

• Flat-rate pricing: A fixed price for a defined service, set before the job rather than billed by the hour.

• Menu pricing: A set of good, better or best options for each service, the model The New Flat Rate sells.

• Line item: One priced row on an estimate or invoice.

• Webhook: A message the platform sends to a URL you control when an event such as job.completed happens.

• Idempotency: The design rule that a repeated event does not create a duplicate invoice or price change.

• Signing secret: A key that lets your receiving system confirm an incoming event came from the platform.

Buyer questions, answered

Is an electrical flat rate pricing app the same as a price book?

Not quite: the price book is the list of fixed prices and the costs behind them, and the app is the software that holds that list and puts it on quotes, invoices and jobs. Some vendors sell the book as a separate product, so check which one you are buying.

Which of the six prints a flat-rate plan price?

Housecall Pro is the only one whose pricing page prints a price for a plan that includes flat-rate pricing. The New Flat Rate prints a starting price for its flat-rate plans, but not a price for each plan.

Do I need the top plan to automate invoice checks?

On Housecall Pro, yes if you want webhook events, because the help article says webhooks are available only on the Max plan. Max is $299 a month billed annually for eight users, according to the pricing table above.

Can Zapier or n8n replace a price book?

No. They move data and run checks, but they do not hold your price list, so you still need one source of truth for prices.

How often should a flat-rate price book change?

Update the affected lines whenever a supplier cost changes, rather than on a fixed calendar. That keeps quotes and invoices aligned with what you actually pay.

Why does ServiceTitan's row say Quote-based?

Its pricing page shows "Request Pricing" in place of a figure for each plan, so the table cannot show a number without inventing one.

Shortlist and next steps

Start with two questions: who owns the price book, and which of your current tools must receive its prices. If the answer to the second is a platform you already pay for, ask that vendor for a live price book demo before you buy a second system. If you need a separate checking layer, see how US Tech Automations configures this for a proposed design, then test it against the platform's own documentation before you commit to anything.