Free to use, free to share, and built for the trade, the electrical estimating software from Electrika is providing electrical contractors with powerful tools to create accurate, professional quotes using real manufacturer pricing.
Electrika is the UK’s free electrical estimating software platform. Founded in 1992 and providing estimating tools to the trade since 1996, the platform gives contractors access to manufacturer trade prices from Schneider Electric, Hager, Ansell Lighting, MK Electric, and more than 25 other leading brands – at no cost, with no licence fees, and no limits on sharing.
What is Electrika?
Electrika is professional estimating software designed specifically for electrical contractors. It allows users to build detailed, accurate quotes using real manufacturer trade prices, complete with kits, templates, labour rates, equipment markups, and preliminaries. The output is a professional report that can be sent directly to a client or quantity surveyor.
What makes Electrika unique is that it is entirely free. There is no subscription, no per-seat licence, and no restriction on who can access a quote. Contractors can share their work with colleagues, clients, subcontractors, and their wider team – all without anyone needing to purchase software.
This model is funded by the manufacturers whose products appear on the platform. They provide their trade price data to Electrika, and in return their products are specified by thousands of contractors across the UK every week.
Who uses it?
Electrika is trusted by thousands of UK electrical contractors, ranging from sole traders pricing domestic work to mid-sized firms tendering commercial fit-outs up to £1 million. The platform is particularly valued by contractors who need professional-grade estimating but want the flexibility to share quotes openly – something that per-seat licensed software does not allow.
One freelance estimator working with more than 20 electrical contractors has completed over 2,200 estimates through Electrika. He builds each quote once, then shares it across his client base, with each contractor applying their own labour rates, overheads, and profit margins. His entire business model depends on the software being free and shareable.
Schneider Electric, Electrika’s longest-standing manufacturing partner, uses the platform so extensively that it has built a custom version – the Field Quote Tool – for its own internal quoting on buildings projects.
What’s new?
Electrika has recently completed its most significant platform upgrade in over a decade. The new platform delivers a fully mobile-responsive experience, allowing contractors to build, review, and amend quotes on any device – desktop, tablet, or phone – directly in the browser, with no app required.
The platform has also undergone a major security upgrade and a complete user interface redesign, while preserving the underlying database and estimating engine that thousands of users already depend on. Existing users will find all their quotes, kits, contacts, and data exactly where they left them.
For contractors who are increasingly working from site rather than an office, the ability to pull up a quote on a phone, check a price, or adjust a quantity on the move has become essential.
Electrika now delivers that seamlessly.
Later in 2026, Electrika will introduce AI-powered product assistants, enabling contractors to search, compare, and specify products using plain language rather than scrolling through catalogue pages. For example, a contractor could ask “What Schneider MCBs are available for a three-phase board?” and receive an accurate, contextual answer drawn directly from the manufacturer’s own technical data.
A Pro subscription tier is also in development, offering advanced features such as variation pricing, a business dashboard, and enhanced file management – all at a price point designed for small and medium-sized contractors.
Why Electrika?
In a market where commercial estimating software can cost thousands of pounds a year, Electrika occupies a unique position: professional enough to win work, yet free and open enough to share with everyone on your team.
It complements the tools that larger firms may already use, while giving smaller contractors access to the same quality of output – without the overhead.
Visit electrika.com to register for free and to start quoting today.
– This Who’s Who feature first appeared in the May 2026 issue of ECN, which is available in its entirety in our archives.
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