An electrician loses the most time quoting blind: a request with no photo of the switchboard and no site address means a phone call before you can price anything. The build that pays first is a quote form that captures the photos and the address up front. One build, $4,000 to $8,000, on the Microsoft 365 you already pay for.
Electrical contractors with under 20 staff, running Microsoft 365, who already have a job management tool for scheduling and invoicing. The time goes on the quote before it: requests that arrive without a photo or a site address, so someone rings back just to find out what the job is. Website enquiries that sit until tomorrow and jobs that finish without a review request are the same gap. A Power Platform build fixes that gap, not the job tool itself.
Most of this work is scoped on one call, priced flat before anything starts, and built without needing you to be in Christchurch. See who Kove is for and who it is not for the wider fit. Rostering the crew is usually the pain that gets there first; what Deputy costs is in Deputy pricing NZ, weighed against two alternatives in PayHero vs Smartly vs Employment Hero.
From the NZ small business software census, Kove's observed-signal tables on 5,357 NZ firms with a website on file, collected June to September 2026:
| Signal | Firms identified | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Mail platform | 118 electricians | 53% Microsoft 365, 47% Google Workspace |
| Website platform | 153 electricians | WordPress 65%, other platforms 35% |
Just over half of electricians Kove has a mail signal for already run Microsoft 365, which means they already own the seeded Power Platform rights every Business plan carries: a canvas app or a flow against SharePoint, Outlook and Excel with standard connectors, plus Dataverse for Teams free up to 2 GB. The build below runs on that, no extra licence, unless it needs a premium connector such as a third-party Xero one (plus the vendor's own licence). Across the wider census, WordPress runs 65% of the electrician websites with a detected platform, which says nothing about whether the enquiry form behind it actually notifies anyone; that gap is usually the cheaper problem to fix first.
A quote-request form on your website that asks for photos, the site address and a rough description before it lands in your inbox, so you can price or decline the job before you dial. It is a single build, $4,000 to $8,000. Full detail in how to get photos and the address with a quote request.
A flow that watches the contact form and Outlook inbox, sends an immediate acknowledgement, and posts the enquiry to a Teams channel or your phone so it cannot sit unread until tomorrow. Detail in answering website enquiries the same day.
A flow triggered when a job is marked complete in your job management tool, that waits a day and then sends one review request. No spreadsheet, no reminder to yourself. Detail in Job Wrap-Up, with a review request you check and send.
Usually only if it cannot take a quote request properly, is unreadable on a phone, or was never told to Google that you exist. Detail in is my business website outdated.
Rarely, for a firm under 20 staff. Job scheduling, invoicing and van stock live in a trade tool like Tradify, ServiceM8 or Fergus; the Power Platform build sits around it, chasing quote details, replies and reviews, which SharePoint lists and standard connectors handle at no extra licence.
If your job tool already schedules the van run, invoices the job and tracks stock well, do not rebuild any of that as a Power App. That is a build to refuse, and I will say so on the call. Power Platform earns its keep in the gap around the job tool, not as a replacement for it. If the fix is switching on a feature you already pay for in Tradify or Fergus, that is what you hear first; see Tradify vs Fergus for what each already does. And if you are a sole trader with no staff, the reply-time and review-request gaps this page covers usually are not costing enough hours yet to justify a $4,000 build; a cheap subscription tool is the answer until the business grows past that point. Choosing the job software itself is a different question, covered in job management software for electricians.
Job Wrap-Up, from $2,000, starts when a job is marked paid: it drafts a thank-you email with the next-service date and a review request, and you approve every email before it sends. The $4,000 to $8,000 band below is a separately scoped build: enquiry routing, quote intake, or a review request that goes out on its own after a completed job.
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