What it finds in an electrical list
None of this is a lead problem. You already paid to win these people.
Unsold panel and service upgrades
The biggest ticket you ever quote and the one most often deferred. Usually the largest single number in an electrical list.
Repairs they put off
Your tech wrote it up, the customer said not today, and six months later only the customer remembers.
Panels past their service life
The install dates are already in your system. Nobody sorts by them, so nobody calls before the breakers start tripping.
Quotes that never got scheduled
Generators, EV chargers, lighting retrofits — priced, sent, and never chased because the next job started that morning.
Customers who stopped coming back
Past their usual interval and drifting. They trusted you once and nobody asked for a second job.
What is probably in yours
Four numbers you already know, and no file to find first. The scorer does this properly on your real export — this is the back of an envelope.
Run your own numbers
Every system judged against its own service life
Most “ageing equipment” reports flag everything at one number, which makes them useless. These are the ranges the scorer actually uses on your file — ordinary trade service life, not a manufacturer promise.
Electrical is the one trade here that Backlog does not weight by season, because the honest answer is that a panel upgrade sells about as well in February as it does in July. Nothing on an electrical board gets a seasonal lift, and nothing gets a seasonal penalty either. What is left is the ticket, the age and the odds — which is all it ever should have been.
The trades that do move with the calendar are set out month by month on the seasonal calendar, and the arithmetic behind the whole ranking is on the model page.
Ranked by dollars, not by date
Every record gets an expected value — what it is worth times the odds of closing it. You can open the maths on any record and see exactly how it got there. Then it tells you whether to call, text or email, and writes the message.
A panel that starts tripping on a Friday night gets replaced by whoever answers the phone. Calling at year twenty-six is the whole difference.
The scorer runs in your own browser — your customer file is never uploaded, and there is no account to make. If the number is real, the board keeps it ranked every morning as quotes age and equipment gets older. See what it costs.
What electrical shops ask
How old does an electrical panel have to be before it is worth a call?
Backlog treats twenty-five years as the point a replacement conversation becomes reasonable and thirty-six as the point replacement is the normal recommendation, and it uses a three-thousand-five-hundred-dollar default ticket when your file carries no price. Those are ordinary trade ranges, not a claim about any particular panel. The point of judging a panel on its own numbers is that most ageing-equipment reports flag everything at a flat twelve years — which makes a twenty-year panel look urgent when it is not, and buries the twenty-year water heater that genuinely is.
Does the season change what an electrical job is worth chasing?
No, and Backlog does not pretend otherwise. HVAC, plumbing and roofing records are weighted up and down through the year because that work really is seasonal. Electrical is not, so an electrical board carries no seasonal multiplier in any month — not a lift, not a penalty. If a tool tells you your panel upgrades are worth more in October, ask it why.
Do I have to connect it to ServiceTitan or Housecall Pro?
No. There is no integration to set up and nothing gets access to your system. You export a CSV or an Excel file from whatever you already use, drop it in, and the column headings are matched automatically. The free scorer reads the file inside your own browser and never uploads it.
What if my export has no install dates on it?
Then nothing is called old — it will not guess an age. You still get the unsold quotes, the deferred repairs, the lapsed plans and the dormant customers, which is usually the bigger number anyway. Two columns are the true minimum: a customer name and an amount.