Gaffer for
fire alarm engineers.
BS 5839 fire alarm installation, commissioning, maintenance, and risk assessment workflows. Quote, schedule, certify, invoice and get paid — with the 19 documents fire alarm engineers actually use already in the account.


Priced quote templates for fire alarm engineers, your own price book and good-better-best options. Customers accept and pay a deposit from their phone.
19 certificates and forms specific to fire alarm engineers, filled in on the phone, signed on site and emailed as a PDF before you leave.
One tap raises the invoice from the accepted quote, nets off the deposit and sends a Pay Now link. Reminders chase for you.
Certificates and services with an expiry date become next year's work. Gaffer texts the customer a booking link before it lapses.
19 documents, ready for fire alarm engineers.
Each one is a proper digital form — the fields the regulations expect, signature capture, photo attachments, a PDF the customer can keep and an expiry date Gaffer tracks. Completed on the phone, offline if it has to be.
- Acceptance / handover certificate
- BS 5839-6 domestic certificate
- Cause & effect matrix
- Commissioning
- Design certificate (BS 5839-1:2025)
- Fire Alarm Engineer — Credentials & Accreditation Record
- Fire Alarm Engineer — Emergency Callout Record
- Pre-commissioning test record
- RRF(SO) fire safety compliance record
- System handover
- System modification certificate
- Variation record
- Weekly test
- Zone plan / equipment schedule
- False alarm report
- System survey
- Installation certificate
- Service record
- Risk assessment
Certificates are the start. The whole operation runs here.
Leads, quotes, scheduling, the field app, invoicing, payments, reminders, reports and your accounts sync — all in the same login as the paperwork.

Run the next fire alarm engineer job on Gaffer.
Free for 14 days, no card. Pick "Fire Alarm Engineer" at sign-up and the 19 documents above are switched on before you finish your tea.
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