AceWatt Pricing 2026: Electrical Contractor Software Plan Costs

AceWatt pricing for electrical contractor software in 2026 runs $49 per month for Starter (1 user), $99 per month for Growth (up to 5 users), and $199 per month for Scale (unlimited users). Every plan starts with a 14-day trial and carries a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first subscription payment. Annual billing saves approximately two months versus paying monthly.

Before comparing plans line by line, run one calculation: your loaded shop rate. Most solo electricians bill between $75 and $150 per hour depending on market and license class, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational data shows median electrician wages vary widely by state, which drives what your administrative time actually costs. At a $100 shop rate, a $49 subscription equals about 30 minutes of billable time per month. That is the bar every plan has to clear, and it is a low one if the software removes rework from quoting and billing.

For wider benchmarks on what shops spend on software, the 2026 state of electrical contractor software trends covers adoption and cost data across the trade.

Starter Plan: What Solo Electricians Pay and Get

Starter costs $49 per month and supports one user. That user limit is the deciding factor: if you work alone, it fits. The moment an apprentice, office manager, or spouse doing the books needs a login, you belong in Growth.

Starter includes the core system: CRM covering jobs, quotes, and invoices, plus basic dispatch, calendar, email support, and an AI quote builder that drafts estimates from a job walk, photos, a typed description, or an uploaded PDF plan set, using your own pricebook and assembly templates. One workflow does most of the earning for a one-person shop: when a customer accepts a quote, AceWatt creates a draft invoice with the quote's line items already copied over, so nothing gets re-typed between estimate and bill. Automatic email reminders for overdue invoices go out at 1, 7, 14, and 30 days past due, backed by an invoice aging report.

The practical advice for solos: run your two slowest administrative tasks through the trial. For most one-person shops that is quoting panel upgrades and service changes, and chasing the one customer who always pays late. If the trial does not cut real hours off both, do not subscribe. And if your pricebook is thin or built from memory, fix that first, because an AI quote builder is only as good as the rates behind it. The guide on building an electrical contractor price book walks through the structure that makes estimating tools work.

For deeper coverage of collections, read how electrical contractors use AceWatt to get paid faster.

Growth Plan: What Small Electrical Shops Pay and Get

Growth costs $99 per month and supports up to 5 users, which works out to $19.80 per user at full seat count. This is the tier where the AI features land: AI Copilot & Voice, AI Job Walk, a schedule optimizer, an AI document scanner, commission tracking, a customer portal, priority support, and QuickBooks-ready exports. Growth also supports milestone billing, invoicing a project by percentage of completion, which handles progress billing on residential remodels and light commercial work.

One accounting caveat to check before committing: QuickBooks-ready exports means an invoice-list spreadsheet and a payroll-hours CSV in QuickBooks layout. A full QuickBooks sync is in development but not live today. If your bookkeeper expects a live two-way connection, plan around exports for now. The comparison piece on AceWatt versus QuickBooks for electrical contractors lays out the division of labor in detail.

A budgeting note for shops at this size: treat software as overhead recovered in your rates, not a hit to margin. If Growth plus your other fixed costs total $4,000 a month and you bill 120 productive hours, that is $33 an hour of overhead before labor and materials. The guide to pricing electrical work profitably shows how to bake that number into quotes so every job pays for the subscription, not your pocket.

Scale Plan: What Growing Electrical Companies Pay and Get

Scale costs $199 per month with unlimited users, plus route optimization and a dedicated support contact. The break-even versus Growth is 6 or more users; below that, Growth is cheaper. At 8 or 10 heads, the flat rate wins on seat math alone.

One honest caveat on routing: it sequences stops using straight-line distance between them, not road routing. It clusters service calls across a metro area usefully, but it does not account for highway legs, traffic, or tolls the way turn-by-turn routing does. Treat it as a sequencing aid, and keep your dispatcher's knowledge of the market in the loop.

If you are evaluating Scale, the decision should ride on seat count and billing volume, not the routing extras. When you run the comparison, also price the cost of dispatch errors at your size. A single misrouted day at a 10-crew shop burns more in unproductive labor hours than a year of the plan difference. For shops paying techs by the hour, the electrical contractor payroll and labor cost guide is useful context for what an hour of misallocated crew time costs.

AI Credits, Pay-As-You-Go Packs, and 2026 Promo Limits

AI features draw on credits. Plans include promotional allocations of 5,000 credits per month on Starter, 10,000 on Growth, and 25,000 on Scale, all running until November 19, 2026. If you exceed the allocation, pay-as-you-go packs cost $5 for 25 AI requests, $15 for 100, or $40 for 300. Purchased credits never expire and roll over month to month, and top-ups are billed once with no recurring charge.

The practical read: the promo allocations are generous relative to realistic use. An AI quote draft or a job walk report consumes a handful of requests, and even an estimator producing 30 quotes a month sits well inside the Growth allocation. Buy packs only when you see actual throttle in the account, and buy the $40 pack when you do, since the per-request price drops from 20 cents to about 13 cents. A budgeting habit worth keeping regardless of platform: log what you actually spend on AI-assisted work for 60 days before annualizing it, the same way you would track material costs on a time-and-materials job.

Trial, Guarantee, Annual Billing, and Payment Methods

AceWatt offers a 14-day trial and no permanent free tier. If you finish the trial and decline to subscribe, your account data is retained for 30 days, so a late decision does not cost you your setup. The 30-day money-back guarantee applies to your first subscription payment, and annual billing saves approximately two months compared to monthly.

You can pay by Visa, Mastercard, or American Express, or by ACH bank transfer on annual plans; enterprise customers can arrange to pay their subscription by invoice. Subscription management happens in the Stripe billing portal, opened from your account settings, so plan changes and card updates do not require a support call.

Use the trial correctly: put three real jobs through it, one service call, one remodel quote, one commercial walk-through. Demo data tells you nothing about whether your pricebook and your workflow fit the tool.

What AceWatt Pricing Does Not Include

Knowing the gaps prevents a bad fit, so weigh these before subscribing:

• No SMS messaging. Customer-facing automatic reminders are email only, for overdue invoices. If your customers respond to texts and ignore email, plan for that channel separately.
• No retainage or AIA G702/G703 pay applications. Milestone billing by percentage exists, but bonded public work with retainage tracking is not covered. Contractors bidding public jobs should confirm how the AIA contract documents they sign will be administered before relying on any field service tool for billing.
• One labor rate per job title. There are no automatic overtime or after-hours multipliers, so premium-time billing has to be handled on the quote itself. Overtime obligations under the FLSA still apply to how you pay your techs; the software simply does not split the billing rate for you.

If you are comparing platforms head to head, the breakdown of Housecall Pro versus AceWatt for electrical contractors covers the differences that matter to this trade specifically rather than to general home services.

FAQ

Does AceWatt have a free plan?

No. The 14-day trial is the only no-cost access, and there is no permanent free tier. The 30-day money-back guarantee on the first subscription payment is the safety net after the trial ends.

Which AceWatt plan is right for a two-person shop?

Growth, because Starter supports only one user and Growth supports up to five at $99 per month. Two users on Growth cost $49.50 each per month, which is at parity with Starter's single-seat price.

What happens to unused AI credits?

Purchased pay-as-you-go credits never expire and roll over month to month. A pack bought in a slow January is still available when the busy season starts.

Can I pay AceWatt by bank transfer?

Yes, on annual plans, via ACH. Cards accepted are Visa, Mastercard, and American Express, and enterprise customers can arrange subscription payment by invoice.

Does AceWatt sync with QuickBooks?

Not today. Growth and above include QuickBooks-ready exports, and a full sync is in development. If a live connection is a hard requirement for your bookkeeper, confirm timing before committing.

Start a 14-day trial and run your next three real jobs through it before choosing a plan.