MyRenewals for Trade Businesses

The Problem It Solves

Trade businesses run on dates that matter: when an EICR needs renewing, when a Gas Safety Certificate expires, when a boiler service is due, when a customer's fire alarm or emergency lighting test is coming up. Miss one and the consequences range from an awkward phone call to a landlord losing their legal right to let a property, or a business operating without valid gas safety cover. Most sole traders and small firms track this in a spreadsheet, a paper diary, or memory — all three fail quietly, usually right when it matters most.

MyRenewals is built around one job: hold every renewal date across every client in one place, and alert you with enough notice to actually act on it, not just log that it happened.

For Electricians

An EICR (Electrical Installation Condition Report) typically needs renewing every 5 years for a rented property, and every 10 for an owner-occupied home, with shorter cycles for commercial and HMO properties. Add PAT testing on a separate cycle, and a firm with even a modest client base of landlords is juggling dozens of dates that don't line up with each other.

In MyRenewals, each property or client gets its own renewal record: what it is, when it expires, and how much notice you want before it does. Group renewals by client so a landlord with 15 properties shows as 15 tracked dates under one name, not 15 separate unrelated entries you have to remember to connect.

For Plumbers & Gas Engineers

Gas Safety Certificates (CP12s) are annual, and boiler services often run on their own separate schedule tied to warranty terms rather than the certificate date. Landlords in particular expect their gas engineer to know when their certificate is due before they have to ask — being the firm that reaches out first, rather than the one that gets a panicked call after the fact, is a genuine point of difference.

Boiler manufacturers' warranties frequently require an annual service to stay valid, so tracking service dates isn't just good practice, it protects the customer's warranty too — another renewal date worth having tracked automatically rather than left to a sticky note.

What It Actually Does

Underneath, MyRenewals is deliberately simple rather than industry-specific software with a learning curve:

• Smart alerts — set how many days' notice you want before a renewal is due, per renewal if needed, so a 5-year EICR and an annual gas certificate can each get sensible warning periods.
• Client grouping — every renewal is tied to a client, so a landlord's whole portfolio of properties and certificates is visible in one place.
• Cost tracking — log what each renewal costs, useful for quoting repeat work and seeing where recurring revenue actually comes from.
• Audit history — a record of when each renewal was created, renewed or updated, useful if a customer ever disputes when a certificate was actually issued.
• CSV import — bring an existing spreadsheet of clients and dates in directly rather than re-typing everything by hand.

None of this is specific to electrical or gas work by design — it's a general renewal tracker, which is exactly why it fits: an EICR, a gas certificate, a boiler service and a public liability insurance renewal are all, underneath, just a date that matters and a client it belongs to.

Worth A Look If

• You're currently tracking renewal dates in a spreadsheet, a diary, or from memory.
• You manage certificates or services across more than a handful of clients or properties.
• You want to be the one reminding a landlord their EICR is due, rather than the one they call after it's already lapsed.

Current pricing and a live look at the product are on the MyRenewals site itself.