Electrical estimating software that counts every device — perfectly.
Upload your electrical plan set and get back a counted, priced estimate in minutes — every receptacle, can light, switch, and panel, in your prices, with your name on it.
Counting devices across a 40-page electrical set with a highlighter is the job nobody wants — and the one where a missed home run or four skipped cans quietly turns a winning bid into a money-loser. Do it at 11pm after a full day in the field and the mistakes multiply.
Why electrical contractors switch to EstimateBy
Everything you need to bid faster and more accurately — and stop paying for the parts you can automate.
Every device and fixture is read straight off the plans, sheet by sheet, against the legend on each page. No skimming, no "close enough" — the count that leaves your desk is the count that's on the drawings.
A full-time electrical estimator runs $65,000–$95,000 a year. A takeoff service charges $150–$500 per plan set and takes days. EstimateBy does the same device takeoff in minutes for a flat monthly price — no salary, no per-plan invoice, no waiting.
The tedious part — counting device and pricing every line — is the part that eats your evenings and weekends. Drop the PDF, get a priced estimate back before your coffee's cold, and spend that time bidding more work or actually resting.
Load your own price book once and every takeoff comes back in your material and labor rates with your markup and margin baked in — never generic regional averages that leave money on the table or price you out of the job.
Send a branded proposal in one click, and EstimateBy follows up automatically until the customer views and accepts it online. The estimate that used to sit in your sent folder now closes itself.
Push every completed estimate into Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, QuickBooks or 6,000+ apps via webhook — automatically, the moment it's done. No re-keying line items into another system.
A real electrical estimate, start to finish.
Every line pulled off the plans and priced — this is what lands in your dashboard, ready to review and send.
Actual line items from a real electrical takeoff — exact counts and measurements, done in about 90 seconds.
What the electrical takeoff pulls off your plans
EstimateBy reads your electrical plan set sheet by sheet and takes off receptacles, GFCIs, weatherproof and quad boxes, single-pole/3-way/4-way switches, dimmers, 4" and 6" recessed cans, sconces, vanities, chandeliers, pendants, smoke and CO detectors, exhaust and ceiling fans, 240V ranges, EV chargers, main panels, and sub-load-centers — plus wire and rough-in. It uses the legend and schedule on each page, counts every symbol, and prices the whole estimate in your own catalog — so a electrical bid that used to take hours is done in minutes, and it's right.
Electrical estimating — questions
Yes. The engine classifies each sheet as power or lighting and counts with the right vocabulary for each — outlets and home runs on power plans, fixtures and switching on lighting plans — so nothing gets double-counted or invented.
It counts and measures directly from the plan sheets using each page's legend and schedule — not a rough guess. On real plan sets it matches a careful hand takeoff, and you review and adjust every line before anything goes to a customer, so you're always in control of the final number.
No. EstimateBy does the device-count takeoff and pricing that you'd otherwise pay a salaried estimator or a $150–$500-per-set service to do — for a flat monthly subscription, in minutes instead of days.
Yes. Add your material costs, labor rates, and markup once in your price book and every estimate comes back in your exact numbers with your margin applied.
Yes — completed estimates push automatically into Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, QuickBooks, and thousands of other tools through webhooks and Zapier, so you're not double-entering anything.
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