Invoice app for electricians in Edinburgh
Part P notifications, EICR-ready invoicing, and Gas Safe-style handling of your NICEIC details — every invoice branded, every job tracked.
£29.99/mo · 7 days free · no card needed
Start Free on WhatsAppA real Edinburgh electrician’s voice note:
"Mr Sinclair, Morningside Edinburgh, consumer unit rewire, Part P notified, labour eight hours."
What electricians in Edinburgh actually have to log on a job
- Part P notifications — Auto-flag notifiable jobs (consumer unit, kitchen, bathroom, outdoor) and attach the local-authority Part P certificate as a PDF.
- NICEIC / NAPIT / Stroma — Your scheme number is auto-prefixed on every invoice and Minor Works cert.
- EICR & Minor Works — Store the cert PDF inside the invoice thread; chase customer sign-off via WhatsApp.
- BS 7671 (18th Edition) line items — RCBO upgrades, SPDs, AFDDs each as their own line so the customer sees what they’re paying for.
- Calibration / test-equipment — Log MFT calibration date once a year; Holdfort reminds you 30 days before it lapses.
What electricians in Edinburgh actually deal with
Scottish Water across the entire city and surrounding Lothians
Edinburgh Low Emission Zone in force since June 2024 covering the Old Town / city centre area. Non-compliant vans are banned outright, enforced by ANPR cameras.
City of Edinburgh Council plus West Lothian, Mid Lothian and East Lothian. UNESCO-protected Old Town and New Town mean lots of listed-building consents and conservation-area restrictions.
Edinburgh is stone. Listed Georgian terraces in the New Town, medieval tenements in the Old Town, post-war bungalows out in Corstorphine and Portobello, and modern fit-out work in the mushrooming Waterfront and BioQuarter zones.
Serving Morningside, Leith, Stockbridge, New Town, Old Town and the rest of Lothian. Conservation area + listed building combo means even changing a back-door handle can need written consent. Quote the consent-chasing time, bill it, and have it on your PDF — customers who’ve just moved into a New Town flat don’t yet know the rules.
Edinburgh callout rates track Glasgow closely — £45–£80 typical — with a significant uplift for work inside World Heritage zones where access is harder. Holdfort doesn’t set your prices — your rates are yours — but it stops you from losing track of what’s owed, what’s paid, and what’s been expensed along the way. All through WhatsApp. No app to install, no portal to log into.
Questions from Edinburgh electricians
Yes. Say "Part P notified" in the voice note and Holdfort tags the invoice with the building-control reference field, ready for you to drop in the local-authority cert PDF when it comes back.
Yes — send the cert as a WhatsApp file reply and Holdfort attaches it to the invoice thread. The customer gets one PDF with the invoice and the cert.
Yes — it’s a line item. Voice-note "consent ref CEC-2026-12345" and it goes on. Some insurers and freeholders specifically require it be visible on the quote and the invoice.
Multi-month projects are a core Holdfort feature. Set up once ("New Town flat, listed refurb, 85k"), then voice-note stage invoices as you go — strip-out, first fix, second fix, final. Running totals tracked across months.
Yes — the whole of Scotland and the rest of the UK. Whether you’re in Princes Street or a Linlithgow new-build, it’s the same voice-note-to-PDF flow.
Yes — quarterly-ready breakdowns and sole-trader categories. Required for self-employed earners over the MTD threshold from April 2026. See the MTD guide.
£29.99 per month, all in. 7 days free, no card needed to start. Founding-member price locked for life.
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