What’s New in Certly: Desktop Access, Multiple QS Sign-Off & Part F Certificates
What’s New in Certly: Desktop Access, Multiple QS Sign-Off & Part F Certificates
Certly keeps evolving around the way electricians and electrical contractors actually work.
Several major updates are now live, expanding both where Certly can be used and what businesses can manage within the platform.
That includes desktop browser access, multiple Qualified Supervisor sign-off and the new Part F Ventilation Certificate.
For electricians already using Certly, these updates provide more flexibility. For electrical contractors managing engineers, certificates and QS workflows, they make Certly an even more complete electrical certification software platform.
Certly Desktop Browser Access Is Now Live
Electrical certification doesn’t only happen on a phone or tablet.
Engineers may complete certificates while working on site, but contractors, office teams and Qualified Supervisors often need to access those same records from a computer.
That’s why Certly desktop browser access is now live.
Certly can now be accessed from computers and laptops through a web browser, including Windows devices, alongside the existing iOS and Android apps.
That means you can:
- work on certificates using a phone or tablet on site
- access Certly from a Windows PC or laptop
- review electrical certificates from the office
- move between supported devices without being tied to one device licence
- keep your certification within the same Certly account and workflow
For anyone looking for electrical certification software for Windows, desktop EICR software or electrical certificate software that can be accessed across different devices, Certly now provides considerably more flexibility.
We've also looked at the wider features electricians should consider when choosing electrical certification software for electricians.
Electrical Certificates Across Mobile, Tablet and Desktop
The aim isn’t to replace mobile working with desktop working.
It’s to give electricians a choice.
You may prefer a tablet when completing an EICR on site, your phone when checking something quickly, and a larger computer screen when reviewing or managing certification later.
With Certly, those workflows can now sit together.
Your EICRs, EICs, Minor Works certificates and other electrical records aren't restricted to one physical device.
For contractors managing a larger volume of certification, desktop access also gives office staff and supervisors a practical way to work with the same certification records as the engineers in the field.
Multiple Qualified Supervisor Sign-Off Is Now Live
Certly's QC Relay was built to make the route between electrician and Qualified Supervisor cleaner.
Now that workflow has become more flexible.
Certly supports multiple Qualified Supervisors, making it better suited to electrical contractors with more than one QS responsible for certificate review and approval.
Rather than certification being dependent on a single supervisor, businesses can manage sign-off across their QS team.
This can help when:
- different QSs oversee different engineers
- responsibilities are split across teams or areas
- certificate volumes increase
- one QS is unavailable
- businesses need to distribute review workloads more efficiently
For larger electrical contractors, multiple QS sign-off can help reduce bottlenecks and keep certification moving.
We explain the wider workflow in Meet Certly QC Relay: The Cleanest Route to QS Sign-Off.
A Cleaner QS Workflow for Electrical Contractors
Certificate completion isn't always the end of the process.
For businesses operating with Qualified Supervisors, certificates may still need reviewing, correcting and approving before they can be issued.
That can easily turn into emails, messages, phone calls and certificate chasing.
QC Relay is designed to keep that process inside Certly.
With multiple QS support now live, the workflow can better reflect the way larger electrical businesses actually operate.
The goal remains the same:
less chasing, fewer bottlenecks and a smoother route to certificate approval.
Part F Ventilation Certificates Are Now Available in Certly
Certly has also expanded its range of available certificates.
The Part F Ventilation Certificate is now live, allowing relevant ventilation certification to be completed and managed digitally within Certly.
For electricians and contractors carrying out ventilation work alongside electrical installations, this means another area of certification can be kept within the same platform instead of relying on separate paperwork or disconnected systems.
The Part F certificate now sits alongside certificate types including:
- EICR
- EIC
- Minor Works
- Multiple Minor Works
- Domestic Fire Detection – Testing
- Domestic Fire Detection – Installation
- Domestic Visual Condition Report
- Part F Ventilation Certificate
And further certificate types continue to be developed.
You can see more of the certificates currently available in Electrical Certificate Software: More Than Just EICRs.
Why the Part F Ventilation Certificate Matters
Electrical contractors increasingly carry out work that goes beyond traditional electrical installation certificates alone.
Having Part F ventilation certification available within the same software helps keep customer records, jobs and certificates together.
Instead of switching between different platforms for different pieces of certification, the aim is to create one familiar Certly workflow across more of the work electricians carry out.
That makes certification easier to manage both for individual electricians and for contractors overseeing larger teams.
Built From Electrician Feedback
These releases also demonstrate something important about how Certly is being developed.
Desktop access was requested.
More flexible QS workflows were requested.
Additional certificate types were requested.
And they're now live.
We don't want Certly to develop in isolation from the people actually completing electrical certificates every day.
Electrician feedback continues to influence what we improve, what we simplify and what we build next.
That approach is covered in more detail in our article about how Certly is evolving from electrician requests
Electrical Certification Software That Keeps Evolving
Certly started with a simple aim: make electrical certification quicker, cleaner and easier to use.
That hasn't changed.
But the platform continues to grow.
With desktop and Windows access, multiple QS sign-off, Part F Ventilation Certificates and an expanding range of electrical certificates now available, Certly can support more of the certification workflow from site through to review and completion.
And there’s more still to come.
Built by electricians. For electricians.
