Can I create a job with photos for an employee to check off that a certain issue has been resolved?
This is a bit of a longer question but I am curious if this could be done... If I go a house and take photos of 12 issues that need to be resolved, can I create a checklist or job form that shows each of those issues as a list? Then add that list to a team members schedule and have them check off that it has been completed? Even attach a photo of the completed work below the photo of the issue? It would also be great to be able to send that completed list or form to the customer to sign off on and collect payment. I would like to position myself to do more of the sales and inspections, then send a team member to the house to do the actual work sealing the home or solving the issue. I have been working out a few ways in my head to make this structure work and I really hope Jobber can help me do that. Does anyone else work in this way? Are there are recommendations on how people have made it work?53Views0likes4CommentsSetting Up a Re-Occurring Job
Hey Guys It took me a while to set up a reoccurring job correctly - so I made a video on how you do it! From the quote to how you set the job up so they get billed automatically. Here is the loom video going over the process. How to Set Up Recurring Jobs in Jobber8Views0likes0CommentsHow to track job categories/special requirements?
Just wondering if anyone has some ideas around this, or has found a solution for themselves... We have some jobs with special requirements, for example: Require visit reminders (our Admin follows up manually if a visit is rescheduled after the automated reminder has been sent) Special scheduling requirements (eg. visits can only be completed on Fridays) Fixed price invoicing regardless of job time/time based invoicing (often different work categories are one way or the other, but we have some jobs that don't fit that strict "category rule") We currently use an emoji shorthand in job titles so we can quickly see at a glance things like what standard the property should be maintained, whether we only do lawn services or gardens are also included at the property, if they have a dog, that the job is correctly scheduled for summer/winter, etc. But these are tailored for the field crew and I'd prefer to avoid overloading the job info/titles and keep it simple for the crews. It's really admin/office staff who need to see the different info mentioned in the bullet points. I was thinking we can use Calendar Colours, but does anyone have other tricks up their sleeve?80Views1like6CommentsHow do you use your services list to increase the value of every job?
I constantly go into my Products and Services page and update wording, add services, and just basic review. This is so important to me because the whole base of my business is to be full-service to my clients. If I see an issue while doing my inspection, I either propose to do it for them or have a small network of other service pros I can call to solve the problem. That is why my list of products and services is so important. I can pop that into a proposal and quote it in seconds, then present it to the client after the inspection and tell them everything we can do for them. It has been working out really really well and I do owe a lot of it to Jobber having this feature at my finger tips. Some calls double in value simply because I am presenting them to a client right then and there. It does take some time off the road to review and make sure everything is looking professional and accurate, but when that turns into revenue on the road I feel validated spending some time reviewing these details. Presenting them a professional and itemized proposal for everything I can do to help them is so so so handy for me. Does anyone else work like this? When add-ons can really start to add up value to a call? Did you spend time working on your lists to make them ready to go at each call?35Views2likes0CommentsDouble check you have the right city when the autofill picks an address.
I like that Jobber has the autofill feature when filling out an address for a new client. Yesterday though, I didn't double check I had the right city, and had to drive 90mins out of my way, there and back when, funny enough I was 12 mins away from one call to the next. Make sure you all have the right city when you're picking an address from the drop down!15Views0likes0CommentsCan I add a Job Form to a job after I have created it?
I have clicked through everything I could see and can't seem to be able to add a Job Form to a job on the fly. I end up deleting the job then just having to create a new one with it added. Obviously sometimes I forget to add it, but other times I just need a form to fill out some information and send to a client. Has anyone solved this issue or have some info to make this easier?Solved114Views2likes4CommentsToday button
Good Morning everyone Are any of you annoyed that when you hit the Today button on month view - it goes to the beginning of the month not todays date. I regularly have to put information into later parts of the year, when complete I hit Today to return to todays date, unfortunately because I work in month view, it jumps to the beginning of the month. Frustrating because if todays date is 25th of the month I then have to scroll to find it. Therefore it is not today! Apparently if you work in week view, it returns to beginning of week, again this is not Today. Its only in Day view that it will actually take you to today. All I would like is when I click Today, it actually takes you to TODAY!!73Views0likes1CommentEditing a job from the schedule section?
Maybe I am missing a button somewhere but... Is there a way to edit a job (add a product or service, change unit prices) from the schedule menu? A client calls before I am at the job and wants to add a certain service to the job booking, so I click on the job from the schedule menu and all I can change is the quantity, service date/time or Job Title. Even when I click Edit or View Details I still can't change any of that information. Does anyone have a work around rather than having to click out of the schedule and go into the Jobs section?93Views0likes1CommentJob Form Additional Characters
Hello, Does anybody utilize the job forms for providing findings for clients? I have been using the job forms and just recently noticed that the "long answer" option isn't quite long enough for some of the job findings that I write up for certain jobs. Does anybody have an efficient work around for this? Cheers,176Views1like6CommentsJob Forms (Checklists) Not Good Enough For Tracking Job Status
Jobber advertises being able to track the progress/completion of Jobs using the Forms (checklist) function. Where it is attached to the Job when creating it. But it seems very deficient and does not really work as advertised or implied. If you have multiple visits or follow-ups to a Job, especially if its because something wasn't complete on an initial visit, that the checklist form wouldn't have been completed... but when you schedule a new visit for crew to go back to that Job to complete the prior visit, you are presented with a whole new Form attached to that visit... the form is blank. Filling out a whole new version of the same form already partially filled out makes no sense to me, we would want the Form/Checklist to show the items that were already completed. Then we easily know what we have left to do on this follow-up visit. And, the only place to view the Job Form status info is either directly in the form, or in Reports. Reports is a great view, and feels like actual Project Management, you can view the status of the Job essentially based on Form data... but again, you end up with multiples of the same form showing up on that screen, one for every time there is a new visit. This makes that view messy, hard to track the true status, making the Report faulty data, and again makes no sense. This in no way is a Job form to me, its a Visit form. And that is NOT the same thing. All of this data input across all Forms should be collective, and ideally we should see the Completion Status of that form on the JOB level view and pop-ups, this would give all users the ability to see the status of the Job and whats left to do at a glance. In short, you should only ever have 1 instance of the specific Form, or Forms, associated with the Job (or atleast the option to make it so) and it follows every subsequent visit showing the prior checked off items. We often have multiple checklists associated with a single Job, as each form is needed for 1 of multiple phases of that Job, which is completed over months. We are already lacking 'Project' level management for handling large multi-phase Jobs, if the Forms function was linked properly it would make it feel less lacking overall, as these Forms could act more like project management and status tracking. Or, am I missing something? Or could we get tight integration with an App/3rd Party service that could fill that Project Management gap?Solved203Views1like2Comments