Track job costs, materials, mileage, and 1099 subs from the truck — not from a desktop you never sit at. Schedule C ready every April. Built for solo electricians and small electrical crews.
Electricians spend the day on job sites, in the truck, and at the supply house — not in front of a computer running desktop accounting software. By the time you sit down at night to "do the books," you've forgotten which materials went to which job and which receipt was for the panel upgrade on Tuesday.
Fast Pay Books is a mobile-first bookkeeping app made for exactly this. You log income, expenses, materials, and mileage from your phone in the moment, tag each one to a job, and your expenses stay categorized and tax-ready all year. No QuickBooks file to wrestle with, no bookkeeper to email receipts to.
Categorize materials, sub payments, and permit fees, and tag them to a client so your costs are captured as you spend.
Trips between sites, the supply house, and the bank logged at the 2026 rates of 72.5¢/mi through June 30 and 76¢/mi after for your Schedule C.
Snap a supply-house receipt, categorize it, and keep wire, breakers, and fixtures out of your taxable profit.
Track payments to apprentices and subs, with running totals so you can see who crossed the $600 threshold.
Everything works from the truck on iOS. No desktop required, ever.
Export a clean categorized income and expense summary as PDF or CSV for your return or your CPA.
Two service calls can bill the same and earn wildly different profit once you account for materials, drive time, and an apprentice's hours. If you only track total revenue, you never learn which kinds of jobs are worth your time.
When every dollar you spend is categorized and tagged to a client as it happens, you have an accurate record of the breakers, the wire, the permit, and the helper instead of a shoebox of receipts. Paired with the profit & loss and sales-by-customer reports, you can see which work is worth chasing and which needs to be priced higher.
Driving between job sites, to the supply house twice a day, and to the bank stacks up. At the 2026 rates (72.5¢ per mile through June 30, 76¢ after), an electrician putting 12,000 business miles on the truck has an $8,910 deduction — money most contractors leave on the table because they never logged it. The iOS app can detect and log trips automatically. Run the numbers on our mileage deduction calculator.
If you pay an unincorporated sub or 1099 apprentice $600 or more during the year by cash, check, or bank transfer, you're required to issue a 1099-NEC in January. Fast Pay Books tracks those payments all year and tells you who needs a form, so you're not reconstructing it from your checkbook at the deadline. Our 1099-NEC guide walks through exactly who gets one.
Most solo electricians file a Schedule C with their personal return. Every expense you tag in Fast Pay Books maps to a Schedule C line, so the form is essentially done before you start it. Tools, supplies, vehicle costs, insurance, phone, and licensing all land where the IRS expects them.
A solo electrician is fully covered on the Basic plan at $24.99/mo — income and expense tracking, mileage, expense categorization, and tax-ready reports. Running a crew or multiple entities? Compare plans to find the right fit. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial — a card is required to start, but you're not billed until the trial ends.
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Electricians need software that works from the truck, captures materials and sub payments as they happen, logs mileage automatically, and produces tax-ready reports. Fast Pay Books is built mobile-first for solo electricians and small electrical contractors who don't want desktop accounting software.
Categorize every material purchase and sub payment as it happens and tag it to the client it belongs to. Fast Pay Books lets you snap a receipt and record the expense from your phone, so your material and labor costs per client are accurate instead of reconstructed at year-end.
Yes. The iOS app logs trips between job sites, the supply house, and the bank, and applies the 2026 standard mileage rates of 72.5 cents per mile through June 30 and 76 cents per mile after. That deduction flows straight onto your Schedule C.
If you pay an unincorporated subcontractor $600 or more by cash, check, or bank transfer during the year for services, you must issue a 1099-NEC. Record every sub or helper payment in Fast Pay Books as you make it, categorized and tied to the vendor, so you have a clean payment history to work from at 1099-NEC time instead of reconstructing it from your checkbook.
Yes — it's designed for owner-operators and small crews. The Basic plan at $24.99/mo covers a solo electrician: income and expense tracking, mileage, expense categorization, and tax-ready reports, all from your phone.