Electrika was founded in Manchester in 1992 as a software consultancy serving the manufacturing industry. By 1996, we'd found our purpose — building estimating tools for UK electrical contractors and making them free.
The model was simple and it still is: manufacturers fund the platform by providing their product data and trade pricing. Contractors get a professional estimating tool at no cost. Everyone wins.
Over the past three decades, that idea has grown into the UK's most established electrical estimating platform. Thousands of contractors use Electrika to price jobs, build detailed estimates, and win work — with live prices from manufacturers like Schneider Electric, Hager, MK Electric, Ansell Lighting, Terasaki, and many more.
Electrika brings together two sides of the electrical industry:
For contractors, we provide a complete estimating platform — product search, kit building, labour and preliminary costing, professional PDF reports, and project management. All free, all accessible from any device.
For manufacturers, we offer a direct line to the contractors who specify and purchase their products. When a contractor builds an estimate in Electrika, they're choosing products by manufacturer and catalogue reference. That specification drives the purchase order. Manufacturers who partner with us get their products in front of thousands of contractors at the exact moment purchasing decisions are made.
We're a privately owned company based in Manchester. We've been doing this for 30 years because we believe the electrical contracting industry deserves better tools than spreadsheets held together with hope.
We move fast, we talk to our users every week, and we're investing heavily in making Electrika smarter, faster, and more useful than it's ever been.
Whether you're a contractor looking to streamline your estimating or a manufacturer wanting to reach more contractors, we'd like to hear from you.