Getting Started with WireWrite NZ

Creating your account

Sign up with your email address or use Google sign-in. You'll get a 30-day free trial to explore all features — for both Individual Pro and Company accounts. No card required to start.

Choosing your plan

WireWrite has two subscription tiers — Individual Pro for solo electricians and Company for teams. The two differ on price and team features (branding, shared clients, billing). See Pro vs Company — which to pick for a side-by-side comparison.

Manage your subscription anytime from Settings.

Setting up your profile

The quickest way is the Guided setup wizard — see below. However you do it, this is what a certificate needs:

• Your full name (as it appears on certificates)
• Your EWRB registration number, licence class, and expiry
• A digital signature (draw on screen or upload)
• A 4-digit signature PIN for security

EWRB verification

Enter your EWRB details in Settings — registration number, licence class, and expiry date. These details appear on all certificates you issue. This is required before you can issue any certificates. See the full guide on EWRB Licence Verification for prefix formats (E / EI / ES / EA / EM) and the 24-month renewal cycle.

Rather than hunting through Settings, let the wizard walk you through it. Open Settings and you'll see a Guided setup card at the top with a "3 of 4 done" style progress badge. Click Start setup — or Continue setup if you're partway — and it opens on the first thing still outstanding.

The four steps

• •Your details — name and contact number. These print on every certificate so clients and inspectors know who to contact.
• •EWRB registration — licence number, class and expiry, plus the declaration that they're current. A CoC must carry the registration of whoever did the work.
• •Signature and PIN — sign once and reuse it on every certificate. The PIN stops anyone else signing from your device.
• •Your logo — so certificates go out looking like your business. Sole traders upload their own; managers are sent to Company Settings where the company-wide logo lives. Employees don't see this step, because their branding is set for them.

Skip anything you like

Every step can be skipped and none of it locks you out of the app — each one explains what it's for and then gets out of the way. Two are worth doing before you issue anything, though: without a signature and PIN the Issue button stays disabled, and without your EWRB registration a Certificate of Compliance isn't valid.

Dashboard

Your Dashboard shows all your certificates — drafts, issued, and shared. Use the search bar to find certificates by client name, address, or certificate number. Filter by status or type.

Navigation

The top navigation bar gives you quick access to:

• •Dashboard — your certificate list
• •Calculators — cable sizing, voltage drop, maximum demand, and more
• •Settings — profile, signature, EWRB licence
• •Help — you're here

Mobile app

WireWrite works as a web app on any device. On mobile, tap the hamburger menu (three lines) in the top right to access all navigation options. You can also install WireWrite as an app on your phone for quick access — look for the "Install App" option in the menu.

Creating a certificate takes just a few minutes. Here's how:

1. 1

   Choose your certificate type

   Select from Certificate of Compliance (CoC), Electrical Safety Certificate (ESC), Record of Inspection (RoI), or Certificate of Verification (CoV). See EWRB CoC explained for when each applies.

2. 2

   Fill in the details

   The certificate wizard guides you through each section step by step — client details, job address, work description, compliance, and testing results. Move with the Previous and Next buttons, jump straight to any step using the numbered stepper at the top, or swipe left and right on a phone. Your work is auto-saved as a draft every time you change step, so you can stop and pick it up later.

3. 3

   Review and sign

   On the final step, review all your details. When you're ready, sign the certificate using your saved signature and PIN. You can preview the PDF before issuing.

4. 4

   Issue and share

   Once issued, download the PDF or email it directly to your client. The certificate is stored in your dashboard and can be accessed any time within the 7-year retention period required by regulation 73.

Two things worth knowing early

• •Copy certificate — doing the same install again at a different address? Copy a previous certificate and the work, supply and compliance details come across. The customer, address and test results stay blank for you to fill in.
• •Additional circuits — a job with an inverter, battery, EV charger or sub-board can carry a separate test sheet for each, printed as an annex to the CoC.

Both are covered in Creating Certificates.