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.
PayStream Pro 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 Schedule C builds itself all year. No QuickBooks file to wrestle with, no bookkeeper to email receipts to.
Tag materials, sub payments, and permit fees to a job so you see real profit per project — not just total revenue.
Trips between sites, the supply house, and the bank logged at the 2026 rate of 70¢/mi for your Schedule C.
Snap a supply-house receipt, assign it to a job, and keep wire, breakers, and fixtures out of your taxable profit.
Track payments to apprentices and subs, and get flagged when someone crosses the $600 threshold.
Everything works from the truck on iOS. No desktop required, ever.
Export a clean Schedule C summary for your return or your CPA in seconds.
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.
With job costing, every dollar you spend gets tagged to the job it belongs to. At the end of a panel upgrade you see exactly what you cleared after the breakers, the wire, the permit, and the helper. After a few months you know which work to chase and which to price higher.
Driving between job sites, to the supply house twice a day, and to the bank stacks up. At 70¢ per mile for 2026, an electrician putting 12,000 business miles on the truck has an $8,400 deduction — money most contractors leave on the table because they never logged it. The app tracks trips automatically and tags them to the right job. 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. PayStream Pro 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 PayStream Pro 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, job tagging, and Schedule C export. Running a crew or multiple entities? Compare plans to find the right fit. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, no card required.
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Electricians need software that works from the truck, tracks job costs and materials per project, logs mileage automatically, and produces a Schedule C at tax time. PayStream Pro is built mobile-first for solo electricians and small electrical contractors who don't want desktop accounting software.
Tag every material purchase, sub payment, and mile to a specific job. At the end of each job you see true profit after materials, subs, and overhead — not just revenue. PayStream Pro lets you assign expenses to jobs from your phone as you spend.
Yes. The iOS app logs trips between job sites, the supply house, and the bank, and applies the 2026 standard mileage rate of 70 cents per mile. 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. PayStream Pro tracks sub payments and flags who crosses the $600 threshold so January isn't a scramble.
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, job tagging, and Schedule C export, all from your phone.