- Confirm panel access the day before; a blocked panel turns a one-hour call into a second trip.
- The core of electrical scheduling is on Koira's Front Office plan, $499 flat, with no per-person fee.
- Customers book online and stops sorted by the drive decide most of it for electricians.
How a electrical contractor's calendar works
An electrician's week is short service calls around a few longer installs. The service calls keep money coming in; the installs need a full day and sometimes an inspection date.
Scheduling for a small electrical shop means fitting the short calls around the long ones, in driving order, and confirming the homeowner is home with the panel accessible.
What lands on a electrical calendar
- Service calls for outlets, breakers and lights
- Panel upgrades that hold a day
- EV charger installs
- Remodel rough-in and trim-out
- Inspection appointments
- Generator hookups
- Estimates for panel and service work
- Commercial service visits
What scheduling software should do for electricians
- Bookings only into times that fit the day
- Every stop in driving order
- Day-before reminders the customer can answer
- Each person's stops on their own phone
- Customer page or portal, which matters for electricians
How Koira does it
In Koira, every booking for a electrical contractor, from a call, a text or your site, lands on Today in driving order on its own, whether it is service calls for outlets, breakers and lights or panel upgrades that hold a day. Koira only offers customers times that fit the route, and the day before it texts them to confirm or move. That is on Office, the free plan.
On Grow, calls are answered on a Koira number and booked into your real day. On Front Office, $499 flat, each person gets a lane with their stops on their own phone and clocks in and out of jobs.
Side by side
The features that matter for electrical scheduling, where each first appears on each company's public pricing page, then the people, usage, card and add-on rows every company gets.
| What you need | Koira | Jobber | ServiceM8 | FieldPulse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customers book online | Office (free) | Core | Every plan (online bookings) | Core platform (booking portal) |
| Stops sorted by the drive | Office (stops sorted by the drive) | Connect | Not listed | Not listed |
| Day-before reminders | Office, the day before | Connect (automated client notifications) | Not listed | Not listed |
| Crew scheduling | Front Office | Plus (crew scheduling) | Every plan (scheduling) | Core platform (scheduling and dispatch) |
| Calls answered by AI | Grow | Receptionist add-on, $29 a month, included on Plus | Not listed | Operator AI, a premium product |
| Customer page or portal | Office (free) | Core (client hub) | Not listed | Core platform (customer portal) |
| People, usage and card fees | ||||
| Extra people | No per-person fee; one or fifteen people, the same price | $29 a month each | No per-user fee on paid plans | Priced per seat, on request |
| Usage or credits | None on Office, at cost on Grow, included on Front Office | None on the pricing page | New jobs a month: 30, 50, 150, 500, or 1,500 and up (20¢ per added job on Premium Plus) | Engage phone lines and licenses, priced on request |
| Card payments | 2.9% + 30¢ (Stripe) plus 2%, 1% or 0.5% by plan (Koira) | 2.9% + 30¢ online, 2.7% + 30¢ Tap to Pay, 1% bank (ACH) | Not published on its pricing or payments page | Not published; FieldPulse Payments is an optional product |
| Add-ons | None; postcards are a flat price per card | Receptionist $29, Pipeline $49, Marketing Suite $99 a month (all three in Plus) | ServiceM8 Phone from $19 a month | Engage, Operator AI, Chat AI, Pricebook, Payments, Financing, Fleet Tracking, Custom Forms, priced on request |
From Jobber pricing, checked October 8, 2026; ServiceM8 pricing and FieldPulse pricing, checked October 9, 2026. Jobber's pricing page blocks a plain fetch and changes its prices with a team size picker, so we read it in a real browser. The $29 a month per added user is in the note behind each plan's user count. ServiceM8's prices fill in by script, so we read the page in a real browser. FieldPulse's pricing page fills in by script, so we read it in a real browser. It shows no prices. A cell names the lowest plan that lists the feature; "Not listed" means we did not see it, so ask. Prices change often, so check the page before you buy.
What each one costs
Every plan in the same columns: price, people, usage, card rates and add-ons.
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | People included | Usage or credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Koira | ||||
| Office | $0, free | Monthly, no contract | One or fifteen, the same price | None charged on Office |
| Grow | $249 a month | Monthly, no contract | One or fifteen, the same price | Texts, call minutes and emails at cost, nothing added |
| Front Office | $499 a month, flat | Monthly, no contract | One or fifteen, the same price | Included in the $499 |
| Jobber | ||||
| Core | $49 a month | $29 a month billed yearly | 1 user | None on the pricing page |
| Connect | $139 a month for 1 user, $199 for 5 | $99 a month for 1 user, $149 for 5, billed yearly | 1, 5, 10 or 15 users | None on the pricing page |
| Grow | $199 a month for 1 user, $299 for 5 | $149 a month for 1 user, $229 for 5, billed yearly | 1, 5, 10 or 15 users | None on the pricing page |
| Plus | $499 a month for 5 users | $399 a month for 5 users, billed yearly | 5, 10 or 15 users | None on the pricing page |
| ServiceM8 | ||||
| Free | $0 | No yearly price published | 1 user | 30 new jobs a month |
| Starter | $29 a month | No yearly price published | Unlimited users | 50 new jobs a month |
| Growing | $79 a month | No yearly price published | Unlimited users | 150 new jobs a month |
| Premium | $149 a month | No yearly price published | Unlimited users | 500 new jobs a month |
| Premium Plus | $349 a month | No yearly price published | Unlimited users | 1,500 jobs a month, then 20¢ a job |
| FieldPulse | ||||
| Custom quote | Not published, quoted per seat | Not published | Office seats and field seats | Engage phone lines and licenses, priced on request |
What comes on top: people, card payments and add-ons
| Company | Each extra person | Card payments | Add-ons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koira | No per-person fee on any plan | 2.9% + 30¢ (Stripe) plus 2% on Office, 1% on Grow, 0.5% on Front Office (Koira); on Office that share replaces a monthly fee | None; postcards are a flat price per card |
| Jobber | $29 a month each | 2.9% + 30¢ online, 2.7% + 30¢ Tap to Pay, 1% bank (ACH) | Receptionist $29, Pipeline $49, Marketing Suite $99 a month (all three in Plus) |
| ServiceM8 | No per-user fee on paid plans | Not published on its pricing or payments page | ServiceM8 Phone from $19 a month |
| FieldPulse | Priced per seat, on request | Not published; FieldPulse Payments is an optional product | Engage, Operator AI, Chat AI, Pricebook, Payments, Financing, Fleet Tracking, Custom Forms, priced on request |
From Jobber pricing, checked October 8, 2026; ServiceM8 pricing and FieldPulse pricing, checked October 9, 2026. Jobber's pricing page blocks a plain fetch and changes its prices with a team size picker, so we read it in a real browser. The $29 a month per added user is in the note behind each plan's user count. ServiceM8's prices fill in by script, so we read the page in a real browser. FieldPulse's pricing page fills in by script, so we read it in a real browser. It shows no prices. A cell names the lowest plan that lists the feature; "Not listed" means we did not see it, so ask. Prices change often, so check the page before you buy.
Card rates as each company publishes them (also ServiceM8 payments), checked October 9, 2026. Koira's is Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢ for a US card plus Koira's share, which pays for Office in place of a monthly fee.
Sources, each checked October 8, 2026: Jobber pricing, Jobber industries, ServiceM8 pricing (checked October 9, 2026), ServiceM8 payments (checked October 9, 2026), FieldPulse pricing (checked October 9, 2026), Stripe pricing (checked October 9, 2026), and Koira pricing. We read each page's own text; we did not use summaries or third-party price lists.