Easy Cert Or Castline Formfill?

[northernspark]

Been looking at both of these program's and was wondering what everyone else uses and their opinions/experiences before I part with my hard earned.

Every firm I've worked for in the past has stuck to pen and paper then the office has written the Certs up but now I'm out on my own I'm looking to reduce office/paperwork time as much as possible and will be doing the Certs as I go on my iPad and these two program's are the ones that have stood out when looking on the net.

 

[pewter]

I use easy cert, it's fantastic.

 

[Steve3948]

The NICEIC software is easy, but if your wealthy them Amtech has everything, but at a price.

 

[steptoe]

I'll vote for Rutts certs,

thing is though with them, you have to have a modicum of actually knowing what you are doing/testing, as they are not auto-fill,

so not made for most of the numpty 5WW that are all over the place, 

 

[Steve3948]

I'll vote for Rutts certs,

thing is though with them, you have to have a modicum of actually knowing what you are doing/testing, as they are not auto-fill,

so not made for most of the numpty 5WW that are all over the place,

I don't think any are Auto-Fill to be honest, maybe drop down menu with a list of known devices, or Max Zs for device.

For me it's about time saving, the less I need to type the better, as I'm a one finger merchant you know and the less typing the better

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

I don't think any are Auto-Fill to be honest, maybe drop down menu with a list of known devices, or Max Zs for device.

For me it's about time saving, the less I need to type the better, as I'm a one finger merchant you know and the less typing the better

I've been called a 5 finger merchant on a fair few occasions.

 

[steptoe]

I've been called a 5 finger merchant on a fair few occasions.

Boaster .  !!!  

 

[northernspark]

Thanks for the recommendations 

had a look at rutts Certs they look well thought out and just the thing you need when your starting out price wise 

autofills just a pain and something I tend not to use, I prefer to fill a whole form out myself then I know it's been done right 

 

[Phoenix]

We have castline formfill at work and while its ok, it has strange quirks/bugs in some areas, you get used to them though. Technical support appears to be a single person though. I'd guess that castline appears to be a one man band, alright except for when he goes on holiday and there is no support available.

We also have amtech office (needed for the design side - nothing comes close to amtech for designing) I had high hopes for the fast test software, however I find it too restrictive. (e.g. you can't seem to list a way as spare but with a breaker fitted. When you have a submain you simply select submain without saying what it feeds, you then go to the board fed by it and select the submain which feeds it, and it fills in the supplying protective device etc automatically, there is an option for a looped supply to multiple boards, but if you have a TPN board with a SPN DB looped off it, you cant do it, it insists the second board has to be TPN as the submain is TPN. Also the EICR part of the program is separate from the EIC / minor works / em lighting cert part, and while the later has validation, the former does not.

A.

 

[amo]

Definitely easy cert hands down

 

[user 15807]

Used Amtech in the past now use Easy Cert, tried formfill and Icertifi demos.

Amtech did everything, I spent most time having probs with database and backups or waiting for (very efficient) support to bail me out again (i am not pc illiterate)  Amtech software was bloated and over complicated (1 man band, maybe 5 certs a week)

Easycert is priced fairly and works year on year without any more money if you dont need support, update or rely on their cloud backup.  Favourite feature is pulling addresses from outlook without any sychronising.

Formfill and Icertifi didnt seem intuitive to me and therfore didnt work out.

I believe Tysoft (Easycert) is a forum sponsor and may offer a discount

Dave