What tools are anyone using for team communication?

Hey Will, I am so glad that the community stepped in here and offered lots of alternatives for team communication! Jobber does not have any immediate plans to add this feature, but it is certainly something that our development team can explore in the future. We are always looking to improve! 

I do like Janine's suggestion of using the 2-way SMS to communicate with teammates, but I understand that certain permissions would be required. 

Thank you so much for your feedback. 

Our company uses tasks and just assigns the follows ups with tasks and a note. 

I hope so because this is a critical collaboration tool and it's very common across all of our other apps we use (Company Cam, Openphone, Missive, etc.)

I have used slack before, but the real need is for team communication to be able to "connect" to the customer/job/estimate that the team is communicating about. Other CRM's have this as a common feature. Lover Jobber but don't know why this feature is not part of the software. 

I really like Slack or Whatsapp for third party.  They are free/low cost and app based.  I have used the two way texting tool in Jobber to communicate with employees as well, but that isn't really the intended use for it and only admin or those with high permissions can use it inside of Jobber. 

We also use Slack.  What I like with Slack is we have purchased Tacos and through this app we were able to set up our own reward system.  Also What's App. 

WhatsApp works best for us. You can copy and paste links from Jobber that follow through to the app (as long as everyone has access). 

I haven't tried Slack before. 

Will, love that you’re experimenting with GenSpark for sales portals—AI is definitely the fix for Jobber’s communication gaps. We’ve actually built a layer that allows for those @mentions and internal notes you’re missing, but with a twist: it’s connected to a chat-based AI that has full context of your Jobber docs. Instead of just a text message, your field reps can ask: 'What’s the history on this quote?' and get an instant answer based on all previous internal notes and PDF brochures you’ve uploaded. Since you’re already building a rep portal, I’d love to show you how we’ve integrated this directly with Jobber’s API to make it seamless. It’s the 'internal communication' feature Jobber forgot to build.

I wonder if there are any programmers here that could answer a question regarding building a messaging client and follow/unfollow tool on top of Jobber.  Some facts as I understand them:

1. Every unique client, request, quote, job, invoice, payment in Jobber has it's own unique URL
   1. I'm trying to train our team to copy/paste these URLs in their e-mails, Google chats, etc. to save time instead of typing out client names, job numbers, etc, for direct access to those URL.  Have not had any success yet.
2. Jobber users DO NOT have a unique URL associated with their account, but do have a unique email address
3. The Jobber Activity Feed IS somehow keeping track of every manipulation of some unique URL data object in a Jobber instance.  It's missing the URL links (seems like that could be a VERY easy enhancement for the Jobber developers.)

Is it possible to use these three facts, for perhaps a Python or JS or other code to run outside of Jobber - and have three simple tools in it's UX/UI: 
1. Follow this URL. 
2 Unfollow this URL.
3. @mention this URL to (with a list of a picklist of email addresses ). 

The first two would amount to a filter, unfilter of the activity feed that notifies the interested or no longer interested party of the activity.  The third would integrate the first two into an email or google chat, with the details of the activity feed that are already in the feed.

Anyone?

Connecteam. It was free when I started for first 10 users and handles clock ints too if necessary.