A quote app for electricians who get 'while you're here' every day

Sparkie maths: small extras, big leakage

No trade accumulates small extras faster than electrical. Each one is only a hundred dollars or three — which is exactly why they don't get written down, and exactly why they add up to real money by the end of a fit-off:

• Room-by-room additions. You're roughing in and the owner follows you through the house: another double in the study, two more downlights in the hall, "can we get a point behind the TV so the cables hide". Say yes to six of those without a record and your invoice becomes a negotiation.
• Switchboard surprises. You open the board for a simple circuit addition and find an asbestos panel, ceramic fuses and not an RCD in sight. Now the right job is a board upgrade — a four-figure conversation that has to be scoped, priced and agreed before you touch it, not recalled from memory later.
• The EV charger add-on. Quoted the garage GPOs, and mid-job the customer asks what a 7kW charger would take. Dedicated circuit, protection, maybe supply upgrade implications — a genuine second job that deserves its own priced scope, not a mumbled ballpark that hardens into a promise.

TradieCue is built for that cadence: a ten-second voice note per change, a written draft on the job, your approval before the customer sees anything.

“Two more doubles in the garage”

The variation sits on the Kowalski job next to the original quote, so at invoice time the total isn't a surprise — it's the quote plus two documents the customer already saw and agreed to. That's the difference between getting paid for the extra points and shouting them.

Quoting electrical jobs without the night shift

For quotes, talk the job through the way you'd count it: points, switches, circuits, the board work, what the customer is supplying, what's excluded (patching, painting, anything above the ceiling insulation grade you didn't agree to move). Whether you price per point or as a lump sum is your call — Timmy structures your words and your numbers into an itemised, customer-readable quote draft. Review it on the preview, adjust, share. The quote that goes out the same afternoon usually beats the better quote that goes out on Sunday night; voice-to-quote covers how the drafting works.

What Timmy asks when the note is thin

When an important detail is missing (a price, a customer, a scope item), Timmy asks rather than making it up. For electrical notes the usual gaps look like:

• No price on the add-on. "They want an EV charger too" without a number — the draft carries the scope with the price open and Timmy asks you for the amount. It will never guess what a dedicated circuit costs.
• Ambiguous location or count. "More downlights upstairs" — how many, which rooms? Vague scope gets queried so the customer-facing draft says something checkable, not something fuzzy.
• Supply of fittings. Customer-bought oyster lights and fans are a daily reality. If the note doesn't say who's supplying the fittings, Timmy asks rather than baking the wrong assumption into the price.
• Which job. Same builder, three townhouses? Timmy confirms which unit the variation belongs to instead of guessing.

Honest fit for an electrical business

TradieCue is aimed at solo tradies and small owner-operated trade businesses (roughly 1–5 people) in australia — the sparkie who quotes, installs and invoices personally. It is not service-dispatch or job-management software: no scheduling board, no timesheets, no van tracking. And to be clear about the regulatory side: your licence and compliance paperwork stays yours. TradieCue doesn't produce electrical safety certificates or test records — it handles the commercial documents around the work: quotes, variations, job notes and payment follow-ups, all as drafts you review. Nothing is sent automatically. Every quote, variation and follow-up is a draft the user reviews, edits and shares themselves.

iPhone (iOS) today. Free to download and try. TradieCue Pro is a subscription through Apple: A$24.99/month or A$239.99/year with a 30-day free trial. Apple confirms before any charge.

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