Connecteam Pricing for Electrical Contractors: What a 10-35 Person Crew Pays

You're pricing a time clock for the shop. The crew is 12 guys, maybe 20 by spring. Some of the work is T&M, and at least one customer has already pushed back on a labor line.

This guide works out Connecteam pricing for electrical contractors at real crew sizes, using the numbers on Connecteam's own pricing page as checked on October 27, 2026. It covers which tier an electrician actually needs and what the monthly bill looks like at 8, 12, 20 and 35 people. It also covers the question a pricing page never asks: once you have the hours, can you explain the invoice?

Prices change. Before you buy, check every figure here against connecteam.com/pricing.

What Does Connecteam Cost an Electrical Contractor?

Connecteam's time clock costs an electrical shop $29 to $99 a month billed yearly, or $35 to $119 billed monthly. That covers your first 30 users. Shops with 10 or fewer users can start on a free plan.

The thing that trips people up is that Connecteam sells three separate "hubs": Operations, Communications, and HR & Skills. Each one is priced on its own. The time clock, job tracking, scheduling and forms all sit in the Operations hub, and that is the only hub you need for time tracking.

If you also want the chat, announcements, or training features, those are separate hub subscriptions. Check their current prices on the pricing page before adding them to your budget.

Operations tier	Billed yearly (per month)	Billed monthly	Each user past 30 (yearly / monthly)

Small Business (free)	$0	$0	Up to 10 users only
Basic	$29	$35	$0.80 / $1.00
Advanced	$49	$59	$2.50 / $3.00
Expert	$99	$119	$4.20 / $5.00
Enterprise	Custom quote	Custom quote	Custom

Source: connecteam.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-27. Connecteam advertises "save 18%" for yearly billing. On the Operations tier fees above, it works out to about 17% ($29 vs $35, $49 vs $59, $99 vs $119). Its FAQ describes the annual price as about ten months of the monthly price.

What Each Operations Tier Gets an Electrical Crew

Basic covers GPS clock-in to a job, unlimited jobs, unlimited forms, and payroll integration. If that list matches how you run jobs, you don't need a higher tier. Advanced and Expert mostly add geofencing, automation, and API access.

Here is the feature list from the pricing page, restated in terms of jobsite work.

Tier	What it adds (per Connecteam's pricing page)	What that means on an electrical job

Basic	Real-time clock in/out with GPS, unlimited jobs (clients, projects), payroll integration, basic scheduling with open shifts, unlimited checklists/forms/tasks	Each electrician clocks in to a job from their phone. You can set up a job per customer or per project. The unlimited forms let you build an end-of-day T&M field-note form: job, what got done, which circuits or rooms, and status if it isn't finished.
Advanced	Full time clock customization, auto clock-out, up to 10 geofence sites, repeating shifts	Auto clock-out catches the electrician who forgets at 3:30. Ten geofence sites works if you run a handful of long jobs, but a service shop hitting new addresses every day will outgrow it.
Expert	Unlimited geofence sites, unlimited shift attachments, time clock and forms auto-reports, API access, webhooks	This tier makes sense when you want reports emailed on a schedule, or someone on staff will wire the data into other software.

A plain-language pick:

• Small crew, a few long commercial jobs, and you want payroll hours plus a daily T&M field note: start with Basic and build the field-note form.
• Lots of forgotten clock-outs, or you want location rules on a few big sites: look at Advanced.
• An in-house person who will use the API or webhooks: then Expert is worth it. Otherwise it usually isn't.

Worked Examples: What an 8, 12, 20, and 35-Person Electrical Shop Pays

Up to 30 users, every paid tier is a flat fee, so a 12-person shop and a 30-person shop pay the same. Past 30, you add a small per-user charge.

The table below is example arithmetic built from the published prices above. Swap in your own headcount. Remember to count the office: if your PM, estimator, dispatcher or service manager logs in, that's a user.

Example crew size	Basic (yearly / monthly)	Advanced (yearly / monthly)	Expert (yearly / monthly)

8 users	Free plan possible ($0); paid: $29 / $35	$49 / $59	$99 / $119
12 users	$29 / $35	$49 / $59	$99 / $119
20 users	$29 / $35	$49 / $59	$99 / $119
35 users (5 past 30)	$29 + 5 × $0.80 = $33 / $35 + 5 × $1.00 = $40	$49 + 5 × $2.50 = $61.50 / $59 + 5 × $3.00 = $74	$99 + 5 × $4.20 = $120 / $119 + 5 × $5.00 = $144

A few more labeled examples, using the same inputs:

• Example: a service-and-T&M shop with 14 field electricians, 2 apprentices, a PM, a dispatcher and an estimator has 19 users. On Advanced billed yearly, that's $49 a month. The 10-geofence cap matters for this shop: a service van running 3 to 4 addresses a day passes 10 sites in the first week (3 × 5 days = 15). If geofencing is the reason you picked Advanced, that shop is really pricing Expert.
• Example: 12 users on Advanced, billed yearly, is $49 × 12 months = $588 a year. That works out to $49 ÷ 12 users, about $4.08 per user per month.
• Example: the same 12 users on Advanced billed monthly is $59 × 12 = $708 a year. The $120 gap is the cost of being able to cancel any month.
• Example: 35 users on Basic, billed yearly, is $33 × 12 = $396 a year.

On cost alone, Connecteam is inexpensive for a crew in the 10-30 range. The bundling makes per-worker cost drop as you grow toward 30.

Is the Free Plan Enough for a Small Electrical Crew?

Connecteam's free Small Business plan can cover an electrical crew of 10 or fewer users, office staff included, but the pricing page marks the offer with an asterisk, so read its fine print before you build your clock-out routine on it.

The pricing page describes the Small Business plan as $0 "free for life" for up to 10 users, with all hubs and features. That claim carries an asterisk, so read the fine print before relying on it.

The 14-day trial runs Expert features with no credit card. After the trial, a team of 11 to 30 users can drop to a free Limited plan. Connecteam's page says that plan does not include everything from the trial.

Practical advice: during the trial, use only the features you'd actually pay for. If you build your whole clock-out routine on an Expert feature, it may vanish on day 15.

Cancellation terms, per the pricing page:

• Monthly plans cancel anytime, but there are no refunds on prepaid amounts.
• Annual plans get a prorated refund if you cancel in the first 30 days.
• Seats added mid-term are prorated.

Where QuickBooks Online Fits In

Connecteam lists "payroll integration" on Operations Basic and has a QuickBooks Online integration page. That page describes it as a "one-click timesheets to payroll export." It does not say which tier includes it or how jobs and customers carry over.

For an electrical contractor, "payroll export" and "job costing in QuickBooks" are different jobs. Payroll needs hours per person. Job costing and T&M billing need hours per person per job, ideally tied to the right customer.

The public pages don't answer this, so ask it during the trial. Run one real week through it and check these in QuickBooks:

1. Which plan tier was the integration available on?
2. What showed up in QuickBooks: payroll hours, time entries, or something else?
3. Did each entry land against the right customer or job, or only against the employee?
4. Did the crew's notes come across, or only the hours?
5. Does it push automatically, or does someone have to trigger it?

If the answer to #3 is "employee only," you'll still be assigning hours to jobs by hand at billing time. Example: 12 electricians × 5 entries a week = 60 entries to re-tag by job; at about 1 minute each, that's about an hour of office time a week. Either plan for that time or pick a setup that handles it.

The Question Pricing Pages Don't Answer: Can You Explain the Invoice?

Yes, if the hours come with a one-sentence note of what got done, written by the electrician who did the work. Hours alone can't explain a T&M charge, and no pricing tier changes that.

A typical T&M labor dispute goes like this: the customer sees "Journeyman, 8.77 hrs" and asks what that was. The charge was fair. The work happened. What's missing is the explanation.

Compare two lines on the same invoice backup:

What the customer sees	What happens next

8.77 hrs	"What did they do for almost nine hours?" You're defending your crew from memory.
Thu 7:02a–3:48p: pulled and terminated circuits 12–18, second-floor east wing	The customer can walk to the east wing and check the work itself instead of taking your word for the hours. The question shifts from "what did they do?" to "was that the right scope?", and that's a conversation you can have with the work in front of you.

That second line is the crew's field note. Getting clean hours from the crew and getting invoices your customer doesn't fight are the same mechanism. The note does both.

The note also protects the crew. When a GC's PM questions a Saturday, the electrician's own record of the work answers for him.

GPS helps, carefully. A clock-in location tells you the phone recorded a location at clock-in. That's useful corroboration next to a note. It doesn't replace the note, and it isn't a reason to watch anybody.

For the full billing side, see T&M billing best practices. You can also look at an annotated sample billing packet that shows what customer-ready backup looks like line by line.

How to Get Your Crew to Write the Note (Free Method, Any Software)

Make the note one sentence, ask for it at clock-out, and give the crew an example to copy. Don't ask for a report.

The hard part is never the software. It's getting a guy who just spent eight hours in a ceiling to type anything at 3:45. These steps keep it small enough that it gets done.

Step 1: Ask at clock-out, not end of week. Friday recall is guesswork. Ask "what did you work on?" at the moment the electrician clocks out, while it's fresh. Step 2: Give them a four-part format. Print it on a card or pin it in the group chat:

Part	Example

What	Pulled and terminated
Which	circuits 12–18
Where	2nd floor, east wing
Status (if not done)	19–22 tomorrow, waiting on breakers from supply house

Step 3: Show three good ones. Post real examples in the format your shop uses:

• "Set panel LP-2A, landed feeders, torqued and labeled."
• "Trenched and ran 2" PVC to the pole base, 140 ft. Inspection scheduled."
• "Change order #4: added 3 dedicated 20A circuits to break room per GC walk."

Step 4: Accept short. "Rough-in, units 4–6" is enough. One honest sentence beats a paragraph nobody writes. Step 5: Use it once, out loud. The first time a note settles a customer question, tell the crew. That does more for the habit than any rule. Step 6: Put it on the invoice backup. List date, worker, times, the note, hours, and bill rate. Keep your cost rate and margin off anything the customer sees.

Any capture method works if it asks at clock-out: a paper sheet in the truck, a shared spreadsheet, an end-of-day form (Connecteam's Basic tier includes unlimited forms), or a time clock that prompts for a note at clock-out, such as FieldTimesheet.

Checklist: Comparing Connecteam Against Other Options

Compare on four things: total monthly cost at your real headcount, whether hours land against the right job, whether crew notes travel with the hours, and what reaches QuickBooks.

Run this list against every tool on your shortlist during the trial. Use the same week of real work for each.

Question	How to check it

What's my monthly total at my headcount, including office users?	Do the arithmetic from the vendor's pricing page, as in the table above
Can each worker pick the job at clock-in?	Clock in on a phone in the truck and see
Is there a prompt for "what got done" at clock-out?	Clock out and see whether it asks
Do notes appear on a report I could hand a customer?	Print one week for one job
Can the customer report hide cost rates and margin?	Look at the printout as if you were the customer
What lands in QuickBooks Online, and against which customer?	Push one week and open QuickBooks
What happens when I add worker 31?	Read the per-user line on the pricing page

Feature-by-feature comparisons: Connecteam, Workyard, and ClockShark. For other vendors' current prices, check their pricing pages directly. If you've already decided Connecteam isn't the fit and want options, see Connecteam alternatives for electrical contractors.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does Connecteam cost for 15 electricians?

Example arithmetic from the October 27, 2026 pricing page: 15 users on the Operations hub costs $29/mo (Basic), $49/mo (Advanced), or $99/mo (Expert) billed yearly. Billed monthly, it's $35, $59, or $119. All three tiers include the first 30 users in the flat price, so 15 and 30 users cost the same.

Is Connecteam's free plan enough for a 10-person electrical crew?

It may be. The Small Business plan is listed as free for up to 10 users, with the details behind an asterisk. Count office staff as users too. If you're at 11 or more, the free option after the trial is a Limited plan that doesn't include everything from the trial.

Does Connecteam's QuickBooks integration require a paid plan?

Connecteam's integration page doesn't name a tier. The pricing page lists "payroll integration" under Operations Basic, the lowest paid tier. Confirm with Connecteam or in the trial before you count on it.

Does Connecteam sync hours to QuickBooks by job or customer?

Its QuickBooks page describes a timesheets-to-payroll export and doesn't say whether job or customer data maps over. Test it: push one real week and check in QuickBooks whether each entry sits against the right customer or only against the employee.

What happens when an electrical shop goes past 30 users?

You pay the flat tier price plus a per-user charge for each user past 30. Billed yearly, that's $0.80 on Basic, $2.50 on Advanced, or $4.20 on Expert. Example: a 35-user shop on Advanced yearly pays $49 + 5 × $2.50 = $61.50 a month.

Should I pay Connecteam monthly or yearly?

Yearly is cheaper, about ten months of the monthly price, but you can only get a prorated refund in the first 30 days. Monthly costs more and cancels any time, with no refund on the prepaid month. If you're not sure the crew will use it, run the trial and a month or two monthly first.

Can any time clock produce T&M billing backup my customer can check?

It gives you a much stronger position if it captures a one-sentence note of what got done alongside the hours, and you put that note on the backup. List date, worker, start and end times, the note, hours, and bill rate. Leave cost rate and margin off. Paper, a spreadsheet, or a form all work if the note gets written at clock-out.

Which Connecteam tier does an electrical contractor need?

Basic covers GPS clock-in to a job, unlimited jobs, forms, and payroll integration. If that list matches how you run jobs, you don't need a higher tier. Move to Advanced for auto clock-out or up to 10 geofenced sites, and to Expert if you need unlimited geofences (a service shop with new addresses daily), scheduled auto-reports, or API access.