Estimated Time or Duration of Jobs
How are others scheduling jobs without any duration or estimated time fields in Jobber? When creating a new job, it simply prompts us to put in the exact day and time of the job we are creating.. as...
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Hi ProperGuy and travisshepherd
Thanks for taking the time to lay this out in so much detail. The examples you shared really help illustrate the workflow you're trying to accomplish and, more importantly, why having duration available before a job is scheduled matters for your business.
At this time, Jobber doesn't have a dedicated estimated duration field at the job level that works in the way you've described—where you could enter the expected duration of an unscheduled job and have that information carry into tools like Find a Time when you're ready to schedule it.
Travis shared some helpful workarounds for managing this with the tools available today, but I also recognize that those still require additional manual steps and aren't the same as the workflow you're describing.
We really appreciate you sharing the use case behind the request. Understanding not just the feature someone is asking for, but how its absence impacts estimating, routing, scheduling, and managing a high volume of unscheduled work is incredibly helpful context for our team. I'll make sure this feedback is captured and shared.
Thanks, Krista. I know I’ve spoken with support about this before.. just trying to see if anyone has a hack or workaround. I still feel like a company generally already knows how long a job is suppose to take, whether scheduled or unscheduled. So allowing a company to put that information into the job and having that data drive scheduling now or in the future, would save time and improve the scheduling features Jobber already has. Travis having to manually drag, drop and expand jobs and add data points like timing into the description… all point to why duration is good data to have. Duration would also allow timers on the job to show techs how long they have on the job. It would allow Jobber to automatically schedule jobs once created. Lots of positives for having the data point off rip. Fingers crossed we hear something about this in the September Jobber event.