EICR Software UK: Best Electrical Certification Tools for 2026

What Is an EICR and Why Does the Software Matter?

An Electrical Installation Condition Report — EICR for short — is a formal inspection document that records the condition of a fixed electrical installation. Since June 2020, landlords in England have been legally required to have an EICR carried out by a qualified person at least every five years on rental properties. Scotland brought in a similar requirement even earlier. The certificate itself follows a standard layout set out by the IET and based on BS 7671, the 18th Edition of the Wiring Regulations.

For most of the trade's history, electricians filled in paper multi-part forms or downloaded PDFs from their competent-person scheme. You would complete the schedule of inspections, tick off the observations with their C1, C2, C3 and FI codes, sign the form, and hand a copy to the customer. It worked, but it was slow, error-prone, and a nightmare to store or search later.

EICR software digitises this entire workflow. You fill in the schedule on a tablet or phone, the app auto-populates repeating fields, flags missing data before you try to submit, and produces a clean, professional PDF the customer can keep. Most platforms also handle Electrical Installation Certificates (EICs), Minor Works Certificates, and Part P building regulation notifications — so you cover the full range of certification from a single tool.

The practical difference is time. A paper EICR on a three-bed house can take 30 to 45 minutes of writing alone once the inspection is done. Digital, using any of the tools below, it takes five to ten. Multiply that by three or four inspections a week and the software pays for itself before the first month is over.

What to Look for in Electrical Certification Software

Not every certificate tool is the same. Before you compare prices, check these five things:

• BS 7671 18th Edition compliance — the forms must follow the current edition of the Wiring Regulations. Any reputable tool updates its forms when amendments are published. If the software still references the 17th Edition, walk away.
• Competent-person scheme integration — if you are registered with NICEIC, NAPIT, ELECSA, or another scheme, check whether the software submits notifications directly. Certsure (NICEIC's own platform) does this automatically. Others may require a manual upload.
• Offline capability — you will be in loft spaces and basements with no signal. The app needs to let you complete and save a certificate offline and sync when you are back in range.
• PDF output quality — your certificate is a legal document and a piece of marketing. A clean, branded PDF with your logo, scheme number, and a professional layout builds trust. A form that looks like a 1990s spreadsheet does not.
• Job management integration — if you already use software for quoting and invoicing, a tool that plugs into it (or includes it) means you are not entering the same job twice. Powered Now, Tradify, and Joblogic are the main platforms that bundle certificates with broader job management.

The Best EICR Software in the UK: 2026 Comparison

Software	Starting Price	Certificate Types	Offline Mode	Scheme Integration	Job Management
iCertifi	~£15/month	EICR, EIC, Minor Works, Part P	Yes	NICEIC, NAPIT, ELECSA	No (certificates only)
Certsure (NICEIC)	~£25/certificate	EICR, EIC, Minor Works, Part P	Limited	NICEIC (automatic)	No
EasyCert	~£10/month	EICR, EIC, Minor Works	Yes	Manual upload	No
Certman	~£20/month	EICR, EIC, Minor Works, Part P	Yes	NICEIC, NAPIT	Basic job tracking
Powered Now	£28/user/month	EICR, EIC, Minor Works, Part P, gas, plumbing	Yes	NICEIC, NAPIT, Gas Safe	Full (quotes, invoicing, scheduling)

iCertifi — Best for Dedicated Certification

iCertifi has been around for over a decade and is probably the most widely used standalone electrical certificate app in the UK. It runs on iOS and Android, works offline, and covers every certificate type an electrician is likely to need: EICRs, EICs, Minor Works, Part P notifications, and electrical condition reports for commercial work.

The interface is built around the structure of the actual certificate forms. You step through each section — details of the installation, the schedule of inspections, test results, observations — and the app validates as you go. If you try to mark an EICR as satisfactory when you have logged a C1 code, it will flag the conflict before you generate the PDF. That kind of guardrail catches mistakes that slip through on paper.

Pricing starts at around £15 a month for a single-user subscription, with discounts if you pay annually. There are no per-certificate fees on the standard plan, which matters if you are doing high volumes of landlord EICRs. The PDF output is clean, professional, and can carry your logo and scheme registration details.

Where iCertifi falls short is everything outside the certificate. It does not handle quotes, invoices, or scheduling. It is a certificate tool and nothing else. If that is all you need, it is excellent. If you want one app for your whole business, look further down this list.

Certsure — Best for NICEIC-Registered Contractors

Certsure is the digital certification platform run by NICEIC, the UK's largest competent-person scheme for electrical contractors. If you are already NICEIC-registered, Certsure is the most direct route between completing an inspection and having it logged on the national database.

The platform works on a pay-per-certificate model, starting at around £25 per certificate. That makes it expensive for high-volume work — ten EICRs a month would cost you £250, compared to iCertifi's flat £15 — but straightforward for electricians who only do occasional certification work alongside other jobs. The advantage is zero friction with your scheme: the certificate is submitted, validated, and recorded in one step.

Certsure's forms are always up to date with BS 7671 requirements because NICEIC publishes them. The PDF output carries the NICEIC branding, which some landlords and letting agents specifically look for. The platform also handles EICs, Minor Works, and Part P notifications.

The main downsides are the per-certificate cost and the fact that the web-based platform can be clunky on a phone compared to a native app like iCertifi or EasyCert. Offline capability is limited — you can start a certificate but need a connection to submit and generate the final document.

EasyCert — Best Budget Option

EasyCert is the entry-level option for electricians who want to move off paper without spending much. At around £10 a month, it is the cheapest subscription-based certification tool on this list, and it covers the essentials: EICRs, EICs, and Minor Works certificates.

The app runs on iOS and Android with full offline support. The form structure follows the standard IET layout, and the PDF output is decent if not as polished as iCertifi's. You can add your company logo and details, and the generated certificates meet BS 7671 18th Edition requirements.

EasyCert is deliberately simple. There is no scheme integration — you will need to upload certificates to NICEIC, NAPIT, or your provider separately. There is no job management, no quoting, no invoicing. It fills in certificates and produces PDFs, and it does that job well enough for the price.

The trade-off is polish and features. Power users who do dozens of EICRs a month may find the interface a little basic and miss the validation logic that iCertifi offers. But for a sole trader doing a handful of certificates a week, EasyCert is hard to argue with at a tenner a month.

Certman — Best Middle Ground

Certman sits between the pure certificate tools and the full job-management platforms. It handles all the standard electrical certificates — EICRs, EICs, Minor Works, Part P — and adds basic job tracking, so you can link a certificate to a job record, a customer, and a property address.

Pricing starts at around £20 a month. The app works on iOS, Android, and via a web dashboard, with offline support on mobile. It integrates with both NICEIC and NAPIT for scheme notifications, which puts it ahead of EasyCert on that front.

The PDF output is professional, and Certman includes a useful feature that lets you clone previous certificates. If you inspect the same block of flats every year, you can duplicate last year's EICR, update the test results, and save yourself twenty minutes of data entry. That alone can justify the step up from EasyCert for contractors who manage recurring inspection portfolios.

Certman does not try to be a full business platform. You will not find quoting templates, accounting integrations, or a customer portal. It is a certificate tool with just enough job context to keep your records tidy. For electricians who want more than EasyCert but do not need the weight (or cost) of Powered Now, it hits the sweet spot.

Powered Now — Best All-in-One for Electrical Businesses

Powered Now is not a certificate tool — it is a job management platform that happens to include electrical certificates. For an electrical business that wants one app for quoting, scheduling, invoicing, and certification, it is the strongest option in the UK market right now.

The platform starts at £28 per user per month and includes built-in certificate generation for EICRs, EICs, Minor Works, and Part P notifications. It also covers gas certificates (CP12s, landlord gas safety records) and plumbing certificates, which makes it relevant for multi-trade businesses. Scheme integration covers NICEIC, NAPIT, and Gas Safe.

The certification workflow is tied into the job. You create a job, assign it, complete the work, fill in the certificate on site, and the PDF is automatically attached to the job record and emailed to the customer. The quote, invoice, and certificate all live in the same place. If you are running a team, the office can see which certificates are complete and which are outstanding without chasing anyone.

The trade-off is cost and complexity. At £28 per user per month, a three-person team is paying £84 a month — significantly more than a standalone certificate tool. And because Powered Now tries to do everything, the certificate forms themselves are not quite as deep as iCertifi's dedicated interface. But for a business that wants to stop juggling three or four different apps, the consolidation is worth it. We covered this in detail in our Powered Now vs Tradify vs Joblogic comparison.

Digital vs Paper Certificates: Why It Matters in 2026

The shift from paper to digital is not just about speed. Three practical changes make digital certificates the obvious choice in 2026:

1. Legal storage requirements — landlords must keep EICRs for the duration of their validity (five years for a satisfactory report). Tenants can request a copy at any time. A digital certificate stored in the cloud means neither you nor the landlord has to dig through filing cabinets. Most platforms keep a searchable archive of every certificate you have ever issued.
2. Error reduction — paper forms are forgiving in the wrong way. You can leave a field blank, tick the wrong box, or record a test result that contradicts your overall assessment without anything stopping you. Digital forms validate as you go. If your observations include a C1 code but you have marked the installation as satisfactory, the app will catch it before you hit generate.
3. Professional image — a clean, branded PDF with your logo, scheme registration, and a consistent layout tells the customer you are organised and serious. It is a small thing, but it is the kind of thing that gets you recommended to the next landlord in the portfolio.

Paper still works legally. Nobody is going to reject a correctly completed paper EICR. But the time cost is real, the error risk is real, and the professional gap between a handwritten form and a polished digital certificate is widening every year.

BS 7671 and 18th Edition Compliance

Every certificate tool on this list generates forms that comply with the 18th Edition of the IET Wiring Regulations (BS 7671:2018, including Amendment 2:2022). The forms follow the model layouts published by the IET and used by the competent-person schemes.

When an amendment is published — as happened with Amendment 2 in 2022, which brought in requirements for arc fault detection devices and updated the EICR observation coding — the software vendors update their forms. This is one of the underappreciated advantages of digital: you always fill in the current version. With paper, you could easily be using a stock of forms printed before the latest amendment and not realise the layout has changed.

If you are preparing for any future amendments, using a digital tool means the update happens in the background. You open the app, the forms are current, and you do not have to check whether your stack of blank certificates is still valid.

Integrating Certificates with Your Job Management

The biggest productivity gain is not filling in the certificate faster — it is connecting the certificate to the rest of the job. When your EICR lives inside the same system as your quote, your schedule, and your invoice, three things happen:

• You stop entering the customer's name and address twice (or three times).
• Your office can see at a glance which jobs have certificates complete and which are still outstanding, without phoning the electrician on site.
• When a landlord calls a year later asking for a copy, you search by property address and have it in ten seconds.

Powered Now is the strongest option here for electrical businesses. If you already use Tradify or Joblogic for job management, check whether they support certificate attachments — you may be able to use iCertifi or Certman alongside them and link the PDF to the job manually. It is not as slick as a built-in integration, but it beats filing certificates in a separate app with no connection to the job record.

For businesses looking at how AI and automation can further streamline electrical admin, our guide on AI automation for electricians covers the broader workflow — from quoting to scheduling to follow-ups — that wraps around certification.

Which EICR Software Should You Pick?

The decision tree is simpler than the comparison table makes it look:

• You just want to fill in certificates faster — start with EasyCert at ~£10/mo. It does what it says, cheaply.
• You do high volumes of EICRs and want the best dedicated tool — iCertifi at ~£15/mo. More validation, better output, worth the extra fiver.
• You are NICEIC-registered and want zero scheme friction — Certsure at ~£25/cert. Expensive at volume, but seamless if you do a few certificates a month.
• You want certificates with basic job context — Certman at ~£20/mo. The middle ground that keeps your records tidy.
• You want one platform for your whole business — Powered Now at £28/user/mo. Quotes, invoices, scheduling, and certificates in one place.

Most electricians should start with iCertifi or EasyCert, get comfortable with digital certification, and upgrade to an all-in-one platform when (or if) they need it. You can always export your certificate archive and move to a new tool later — the PDFs are yours.

If you are also exploring how AI tools can handle the admin around your electrical work — writing quotes, chasing payments, explaining EICR findings to customers — our 12 AI prompts for UK electricians guide is a practical starting point that pairs well with any certificate tool.

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