Crm and price list for electrical service company

[bsingh5]

To my fellow service contractors
I have a small electrical service company that focuses on residential and light commercial. I typically only like to have 3 to 6 techs it seems to be manageable and still fun! I currently use quickbooks online so my techs can estimate , invoice and receive payments... my problem is keeping updated materials priced accurately. I have always line itemed my estimates so my techs can view it and gather materials before arriving to the job site.. I can't stand lost time running to homedepot. There are a ton of handbooks and large desktop software that cost a ton of money and our company doesn't need or I am to cheep to pay! I only have around 700 line items in quickbooks. It's not everything we use but probably 85% .it's nice to not have to call the parts house on romex and thhn and conduit... obviously if we need a transformer we need to call for price and availability... so my question is to you all is have you tried this company accupricelists.com? I Like the idea of being able to bake in the profits per my business model and it seams like it a has all the material I currently have and more. And its seems to be the right fit for me.. the company looks new and for the price it seams to good to be true....
If you have not used this but have something similar can you share???? If you could give me a pro vs con .
Thanks everyone

 

[Cebu]

There is so much automation out there these days via AI that you can probalby have a solution built. Almost all can integrate with just about any SAAS (like QBO, CRMs, etc) that you can think of.

A lot of the pre packaged solutions are expensive and don't fill all voids or are not capable of filling all voids with expansion.

 

[bsingh5]

Thank you for your reply I have started using accupricelists and it seems to be working great it's free until 2025 March so as of now this seems to be the solution. Love to hear what other people are using or if they have accuprice experience.

 

[Omid]

I use maralm.com for my own electrical contracting business. I have developed it over many years. It does not integrate with QBO since it has its own built-in accounting and time-tracking modules. It regularly updates material prices and is also free to use.

 

[bsingh5]

Interesting I just went to that website and it looks like it's just a login page

 

[bsingh5]

There is so much automation out there these days via AI that you can probalby have a solution built. Almost all can integrate with just about any SAAS (like QBO, CRMs, etc) that you can think of.

A lot of the pre packaged solutions are expensive and don't fill all voids or are not capable of filling all voids with expansion.

Thank you cebu what are you using?

 

[Omid]

Interesting I just went to that website and it looks like it's just a login page

Click on "New account " just below the login form or visit maralm.com/mysite/register/.

 

[bsingh5]

That's cool but I'm not looking for new crm ! How long have you been working on this looks nice??? How many electrical material items do you have available??

 

[Omid]

That's cool but I'm not looking for new crm ! How long have you been working on this looks nice??? How many electrical material items do you have available??

Thanks, It's about 6 years and It has around 1540 electrical items (public). I am not sure but I think this is in a manageable range for both users and admin (if they are quality items and easy to search).