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Trades and field teams

Job management software for UK trades

Software for businesses with vans in them. Quoting at the kerb, a diary that knows how long it takes to get there, your team working off their phones, and the invoice out before you are home — built with plumbers, sparkies and heating engineers rather than at them.

The day, from first call to money in

A day that is a route, not a list

Overlaps, working hours, whether the day's work actually fits the day, and whether anybody can get from one job to the next. Four separate questions, because a diary that only checks the clock will happily send somebody forty miles in six minutes.

The quote goes before you drive off

Built on the phone at the kerb, itemised, with optional customer finance. They accept it and pay a deposit without ringing anybody, and it is booked in before you are home.

Extra work, agreed first

Priced on site and authorised by whoever is paying before it is done — which on a landlord's property is often not the person standing in the kitchen.

Proof that outlives the job

Photos, video and voice notes against the job, dated, internal until you choose to send them. Completing, invoicing or the customer declining the work all leave every one of them where it is.

Certificates, signed on site

Your own forms, versioned, signed on the phone and kept with the job. An amendment later needs a manager, because a certificate anybody could quietly edit proves nothing.

And it chases what it is owed

Invoice on completion, take the card there, and let the overdue ones be chased without you having to remember which. Retention is never chased, because it is not late.

Who it is for

Plumbing and heating, electrical, gas, roofing, joinery and carpentry, painting and decorating, plastering, groundworks and landscaping, drainage, fencing and driveways, pest control, window and gutter cleaning, locksmiths, appliance repair and general property maintenance. One van or twenty.

If you subcontract as well, the CIS and retention side is built properly rather than bolted on — see the free CIS calculator for the arithmetic it uses, which is the same code the invoices run on.

Questions, answered

Does the diary know how long it takes to get between jobs?

Yes. Port Talbot at ten and Pontypridd at five to eleven passes every other check there is and is still impossible, so travel is asked about separately — and the warning leads with the distance, which is solid, and calls the drive roughly, because one average speed is not a route. It warns and still lets you save: you can see the customer and the software cannot.

Can I put two people on one job?

Yes — a two-man lift or a bathroom with two fitters is one visit with two people on it. Both show as busy in their own diaries, which is the point: recording a second person without counting them busy would be worse than not having it at all.

What about a job that takes several visits?

A job is the work and a visit is a block of one person's time, so a job can have one visit or forty. A three-month site contract is a job with a diary, and a plumber doing one-visit jobs never has to learn the word.

Can the engineer do everything from a phone?

Yes. Their own work for the day, start and finish, photos and voice notes against the job, extra work found on site priced and sent for approval, parts flagged when something is missing, and the completion sheet at the end.

Does it do certificates?

Yes — your own forms, versioned, signed on site and kept against the job. Amendments after the fact need a manager to authorise them, because a certificate quietly edited later is worth nothing.

I subcontract. Does it handle CIS and retention?

Yes, and properly. The deduction is on labour only and before VAT, the statements and the tax-year reclaim are there, and retention is recorded so money being held does not make your invoice look overdue and get chased. Day rates too, counted from the diary rather than estimated.

What happens when nobody is in?

A wasted journey is recorded as what it was — the van went and the day went — rather than as a cancellation, so you can actually see how many you had. The customer gets a reminder the day before to cut the number of them.

How much is it?

£29.99 a month for the whole business — every feature, every engineer, no add-ons. 60 days free and no card to start.

Also worth a look

Plenty of businesses are two of these at once. It is the same product and the same price either way.

Bathroom and kitchen fitters

A deposit before you order materials, stages through the job, and the balance on the day you finish.

Motor

Show the extra work on video, price it, and get it authorised before you start — the main dealer feel, from an independent.

Try it on your own work

60 days free with everything switched on, and no card to start. If you would rather ask something first, there is a person on the other end.

Start your free trialTalk to a person07976 748850

£29.99 a month for the whole business after the free 60 days.

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