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The Tech Ops Manual

The help built into Tech Ops. In the app, the ? button (and F1 on a computer) opens the topic for the page you are on.

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Basics#

Getting started#

One app for the whole job: the ticket, the drive, the work, the photos and the paperwork. Here's the short tour.

How to use

  1. Sign in with the email and password your company gave you. New? See Joining a company.
  2. The tabs are along the bottom on a phone, and down the left side on a tablet or computer. Tabs that don't fit are under More.
  3. My Day is home: what's on today, what's late and what needs you. Work holds your tickets.
  4. Profile has your own settings: notifications, appearance, language, sign-in and help.
  5. Tap ? on a screen (F1 on a computer) and help opens on the page you're looking at.

In the app: Help › Getting started

Signing in#

How to get in, stay in, and get back in when your sign-in runs out.

How to use

  1. Enter your email (or login ID) and password, then tap SIGN IN. On your own phone, tick Stay signed in.
  2. Forgot it? Tap Forgot password?, get the code from your email and set a new password. The app fills the new one into the sign-in for you.
  3. On a phone, turn on fingerprint or face, or a Quick PIN, in Profile › Sign-in methods, and skip the typing next time.
  4. If your sign-in runs out while you work, a Sign in again box opens over the page. Type your password and keep going. Nothing on the screen is lost.
  5. Someone else's account open on this device? Tap Not you? Sign out.

In the app: Help › Signing in

Joining a company#

Your company gives you a code. An invite code gets you straight in. A company code sends a request that someone there approves.

How to use

  1. On the sign-in screen, tap Create account, then REDEEM A CODE.
  2. Type the code, or tap Scan invite QR code. Invite codes look like INV-XF5W9P.
  3. Fill in your name, email and a password, then enter the code we email you.
  4. With an invite code you're in. With a company code you see Request sent, and we email you when someone approves it.

In the app: Help › Joining a company

My Day#

Home: what's on today, what's late and what needs you, set up for your role.

How to use

  1. The numbers at the top are today's counts (for a tech: Next visit, Due today, Overdue). Tap one to open that list.
  2. Under them, each section opens with a tap: Reminders, Overdue, My van, Today's schedule and more. An empty one says Nothing right now.
  3. Tap a row to open that ticket, trip or message. View all opens the whole list, already filtered.
  4. Arrange sections at the bottom puts them in your order, or hides the ones you don't use.
  5. Pull down to refresh.

In the app: Help › My Day

Notifications#

The bell collects what needs you: new work, messages, sign-offs, SLA alerts. You decide how loud each kind is.

How to use

  1. Tap the bell to open the list. The badge is how many are unread. Tap one to go to it.
  2. The double check at the top marks everything read. Clear read, in the three-dot menu, removes the ones you've read.
  3. Profile › Notification settings: set each group to On (list and phone alert), Quiet (list only) or Off.
  4. To quiet one ticket, use its three-dot menu › Notifications for this ticket (same on a project). To quiet a site, client or person, tap the bell on their page.

In the app: Help › Notifications

Working without signal#

No signal? Keep working. Trip steps, notes, photos, receipts, parts, forms and sign-offs are kept on the phone and sent when you're back online.

How to use

  1. A banner shows when you're offline or the app Can't reach the server, with how many changes are waiting.
  2. Anything kept on the phone says so, for example Saved offline — will sync when connected.
  3. Profile › Sync inbox shows what's waiting, what went through and anything that couldn't be saved. Sync now or Retry all from there, or discard one.
  4. Signing out with changes waiting asks first: Sync now, Keep them and sign out, or Discard and sign out.

In the app: Help › Working without signal

Your tickets#

Your jobs in one list. Make one, open one, and you're working.

How to use

  1. The app opens on Tickets. Tap a ticket to open it.
  2. To make one, tap New ticket at the bottom.
  3. Where: tap Place and pick it.
  4. What and who: the Vehicle and the Person.
  5. What's wrong: tap Talk and say it, or type it. Then tap Create ticket.
  6. Trucks & people, next to New ticket, has your trucks and the people you work for.

In the app: Help › Your tickets

Doing the job#

One screen for the whole job. The big buttons at the bottom are the next step.

How to use

  1. Heading out? Tap START TRAVEL. When you get there, tap ARRIVE. Already there? Tap START WORK.
  2. While you work, it says Working since and the time. PAUSE stops your time; RESUME starts it again.
  3. Work done? Tap COMPLETE.
  4. Say what you did: tap Talk, or type it. Then Take a photo, Snap a receipt, and Add a part if you used one.
  5. Tap FINISH. If the job needs a signature, the driver signs, or tap Use my signature.

In the app: Help › Doing the job

Job done and the invoice#

When the job is finished, the work report with your photos is the invoice. Send it from the same screen.

How to use

  1. After FINISH, the ticket says Job done.
  2. DOWNLOAD saves the invoice PDF on your phone.
  3. SHARE sends it: Text, email or save it, or Send in Chat.
  4. EMAIL IT YOURSELF: pick who gets it, then tap Send.
  5. Got paid? Tap MARK PAID.

In the app: Help › Job done and the invoice

Chat, calendar and settings#

The rest of the app, kept short.

How to use

  1. Chat: tap New chat, pick the person, and talk or type.
  2. Calendar: tap + for a new event. Say What is it?, pick the Day, and tap Save.
  3. Notifications: tap one to open it. Mark all as read clears the list.
  4. Profile: Language, Display scale (how big everything is), Sync inbox and Sign out. More settings has the rest.

In the app: Help › Chat, calendar and settings

Your client account#

Where your sites' work stands: open tickets, upcoming visits, what's waiting on you and your invoices.

How to use

  1. My Day shows what's happening on your sites today and what's Waiting on you.
  2. Work lists your tickets, projects, quotes and assets. The menu at the top of the list switches between them.
  3. See upcoming visits: the next 90 days, with who's coming, and your maintenance plan.
  4. Documents holds the reports, certificates and photos the office shared with you.
  5. Message the office for anything that isn't about one ticket.

In the app: Help › Your client account

Asking for service#

Tell us what's wrong and where. It goes straight to dispatch.

How to use

  1. Tap + on Work to ask for service: pick the site, say what's wrong, add photos if they help.
  2. On one of your assets, Ask for service names that equipment for you.
  3. No app handy? Scan the QR label on the equipment with your phone camera.
  4. Open the ticket to follow it: who's coming, when, and messages with the office.

In the app: Help › Asking for service

Quotes and change orders#

Before we do priced work, you get a quote to approve. If the job changes, a change order prices the difference.

How to use

  1. A quote comes by email with a link to approve it, and shows in Work, Quotes and on My Day.
  2. Open it, check the lines and the total, then Approve or Decline.
  3. A change order shows at the top of its ticket. Approve or Decline it the same way.
  4. On a project, the Invoice tab shows the quote, your approval and the invoices together.

In the app: Help › Quotes and change orders

Signing off finished work#

When the crew finishes, you're asked to sign off that it's fixed. If it isn't, say so.

How to use

  1. Finished work waiting on you is in Work, Queue, and on My Day.
  2. Open the ticket and look over what was done: notes, photos, parts.
  3. Sign off if it's fixed. You may get the same thing by email, with a link to sign.
  4. Not fixed, beside it, sends it back to the office with your reason.

In the app: Help › Signing off finished work

Your invoices and paying#

Every invoice we've sent you, what's still owed, and paying online if the company offers it.

How to use

  1. On My Day, All your invoices lists what you owe first, then everything sent, paid included.
  2. Open one for its lines and the PDF. Your statement is there as a PDF too.
  3. Pay now pays by card or bank on a secure Stripe page. The invoice email has the same link.
  4. Paid invoices stay in the list.

In the app: Help › Your invoices and paying

In the field#

Tickets#

Every service ticket in one list. Techs start on their own; dispatch and up see them all.

How to use

  1. Open Work. The menu at the top left switches the list: Tickets, Projects, Quotes, Assets and more, depending on your role.
  2. Type in Search tickets… to narrow it as you go.
  3. Filter narrows by who (Mine), status, Overdue and sort. The number on it is how many filters are on.
  4. Each card shows the number, status, title, client and address, priority and how late it is. Red means overdue.
  5. Tap + for a new ticket. Tap a ticket to open it.

In the app: Help › Tickets

A ticket#

A ticket opens on Details: what you can do, who it's for, what's wrong and when. The tabs hold the rest.

How to use

  1. The quick buttons come first: New trip, Assign, Add photo, Add part, Chat and Map, depending on your role. On a phone the extras are under More; on a tablet or computer every button that fits shows.
  2. WHO & WHERE: the client, the site and address (tap it for directions), and the contact with call, text and email.
  3. WHAT'S THE ISSUE: the description, job type and estimated hours, plus the PO, not-to-exceed and contract where your role sees them.
  4. WHEN: the due date, the scheduled time and the SLA clock. Then CLIENT SIGNATURE and who's assigned.
  5. The tabs: Details, Activity, Trips, Parts, Documents, Invoice and Walkthrough. On a phone the last ones are under More. You only see the tabs your role has.
  6. The three-dot menu at the top right has the ticket's other actions, like Notifications for this ticket.

In the app: Help › A ticket

Doing the job#

A trip is one visit. You run it with a few buttons, and your time comes from those taps. There's no clock in or out.

How to use

  1. On the ticket, tap New trip › Start a trip (or Schedule for later). A trip dispatch already gave you is waiting on the ticket.
  2. Tap START TRAVEL when you head out, Arrive when you get there, and START WORK when you begin. Already there? Go straight to START WORK.
  3. Work done? Tap COMPLETE. Depending on the job it asks for the client's signature and the parts you used, then your notes and photos.
  4. Can't finish? Tap Incomplete and say why. The reason goes on the ticket's Activity for the office.
  5. Stopping for a while, or handing it to someone else? SUSPEND and HANDOFF are on the trip.

In the app: Help › Doing the job

Trips#

Who's on the way, on site, working or done, with travel and work times. For dispatch and up.

How to use

  1. The menu at the top switches the list, starting from All trips.
  2. Search finds trips by tech, ticket or site. Filter narrows the list.
  3. Tap a trip to see the tech, the ticket and the times.

In the app: Help › Trips

Photos and receipts#

A ticket's photos, files and receipts live on its Documents tab.

How to use

  1. Tap Add photo on the ticket (or Add file on Documents), then Camera or Gallery.
  2. For a receipt, pick Receipt: snap it, and it goes on the invoice when it adds up.
  3. If the ticket is on equipment, it asks Which part is this for? Pick one, or skip it and keep it on the ticket.
  4. While it's read, the receipt says Reading the receipt. If something doesn't add up it says the receipt needs a look; tap Review.
  5. Documents also has Add link, for drawings or manuals kept somewhere else, and Recently deleted to bring a file back.

In the app: Help › Photos and receipts

Parts on a ticket#

Record the parts you used on the job, from your van or bought on the way.

How to use

  1. Tap Add part on the ticket, or Use a part on the Parts tab.
  2. Pick where it came from (your van, a toolbox, the shop), then the part, then how many.
  3. Bought it at the counter? Pick I bought this part: it's charged to the job and nothing comes out of stock.
  4. Tap Add to ticket. It shows on the Parts tab and comes off that place's count.

In the app: Help › Parts on a ticket

Forms and inspections#

Checklists your company built: a job's inspection, a safety check before a step, the daily van check.

How to use

  1. A ticket's forms are under FORMS on its Details tab. Tap Fill in.
  2. Some come up by themselves before START TRAVEL, START WORK or sign-off. A required one has to be filled first.
  3. Answer each question: Good or Problem, Yes or No, N/A, a number, a photo. A problem asks What's wrong? and can take a photo.
  4. At the end, Check your answers. Tap any answer to change it, then Submit.
  5. Switch between One question at a time and All on one page whenever you like.

In the app: Help › Forms and inspections

Chat#

Messages with your team: one-on-one, groups, and a conversation for each ticket. Millie is in here too.

How to use

  1. Tap a conversation to open it. Search channels & people… finds one, and + starts a new one if your role allows it.
  2. Type and send, or hold the mic for a voice message. The + by the box adds photos, files and more.
  3. On a ticket's conversation, pick Staff only or Client can see before you send. A banner says when the client is in it.
  4. Long-press a message to Save it, Forward it or pin it. Saved, at the top of the list, has the messages you kept.

In the app: Help › Chat

Calendar#

Tickets, trips, events and time off on one calendar, by month, week or day.

How to use

  1. The menu at the top left switches Month, Week and Day. Today brings you back; swipe or use the arrows to move.
  2. Tap + (or an empty day) for a New event on that date: a meeting, reminder, deadline, personal event, time off and more.
  3. Tap an event to see or change it. Tap a ticket to open it.
  4. The three-dot menu has Go to date, Share calendar, Import & export and Event colors…

In the app: Help › Calendar

Time off#

Ask for a day off, see where it stands, and see your balance.

How to use

  1. On the Calendar, tap +, pick PTO as the type and set the days. Or open your Timecard and tap Request PTO.
  2. It goes to a manager and shows PENDING until they approve it. You get a notice either way.
  3. Your Timecard shows your PTO balance and any requests still waiting.

In the app: Help › Time off

On call#

Each week one person takes emergencies and after-hours calls, changing over Monday at 8 am.

How to use

  1. Tap the On call line at the top of the Calendar to open it: this week, the next weeks and the rotation.
  2. Can't do your week? Tap Swap my week, pick Who covers it, and optionally take one of their weeks in return.
  3. Tap Ask for the swap. Dispatch approves swaps; until then the week stays as it is.

In the app: Help › On call

Calendar feeds, import and export#

Show your Outlook or Google calendar on the Calendar, bring an old calendar over for good, or take yours out as a file.

How to use

  1. Profile › Calendar feeds › Add a calendar: paste the private link from Outlook, Google or Apple. It's a live, read-only view, refreshed about every 15 minutes.
  2. How to get the link has the steps for each calendar app.
  3. Leaving Outlook or Google? On the Calendar, three-dot menu › Import & export: Import a calendar copies the events from a saved file onto your own calendar.
  4. Export my calendar, on the same page, downloads an .ics file for Outlook, Google or Apple Calendar.

In the app: Help › Calendar feeds, import and export

Timecard#

Your week of work, built from your trips. Nothing to punch in or out.

How to use

  1. Profile › Timecard. Use Previous week and Next week to move.
  2. Each day lists your trips by ticket, with travel and work time. A time that's wrong? Tap the trip to fix its times.
  3. Time that wasn't on a trip, like a parts run or shop time: Add time entry, or use the timer while you do it.
  4. Check the week, then Submit week.

In the app: Help › Timecard

Map#

Your sites on a map, colored by what's going on, with a list of what needs attention.

How to use

  1. Tap a pin to Create ticket, Open site profile or Get directions.
  2. The list beside the map groups what needs you: overdue, needs scheduling, tickets, projects. Tap an item to jump to it.
  3. Filter map narrows what's shown; Search sites… finds one by name.
  4. My location centers on you. Long-press the map to drop your own marker.

In the app: Help › Map

Files#

The company's shared folders: one per client, one for the team, and your own.

How to use

  1. Tap a folder to open it. Recent, at the top, has the files you opened last.
  2. Search this folder… finds files and folders by name.
  3. Tap + for a new folder or an upload. It goes into the folder you're in.
  4. Tap a file to view it, share it or download it.

In the app: Help › Files

Wire diagram#

A device and everything it's wired to, drawn left to right: each wire in its colour, landing on the named terminal of the board it goes to.

How to use

  1. Open the device: from a ticket, tap the device under the ticket's title; or tap it in the walkthrough.
  2. Tap Wire diagram. The device is first on the left, the board it's wired to on its right.
  3. Tap a wire or its cable name for the cable: type, length, and which wire lands on which terminal.
  4. Tap another device to put it first. Tap the first one to open its page.
  5. Filter picks what's in colour. Unchecked devices stay on the sheet, greyed out.
  6. Fit shows the whole sheet; PDF makes an 11 x 17 drawing with a title block.

In the app: Help › Wire diagram

Finishing with a form#

When you finish a visit you write a note, fill out the company's completion form, or pick one, depending on how the office set it. Some clients and sites have their own forms on top.

How to use

  1. Tap Complete on the trip (Simple: FINISH).
  2. If you're asked, pick Write a note or Fill out the form. Your pick is remembered.
  3. Fill out each form. The line at the top says which one you're on, like "Form 2 of 3 · Acme Corp · client form".
  4. You sign once. Your signature goes on every technician line in every form, and the customer's goes on every customer line and the sign-off.
  5. Submit the last form and the visit finishes.

In the app: Help › Finishing with a form

Office#

Building forms#

Make your own checklists and inspections, and say what they go on and when they're asked.

How to use

  1. Admin settings › Forms, then New form: copy a ready-made one and change it, or start blank.
  2. Add a question and pick what kind. Say which answer is a problem, and what happens then: Make a ticket, Tell the office, or both.
  3. Mark a Safety question to always ask it on its own. Turn on Has to be filled first, They can skip it with a reason, and Allow "Everything looks good" as needed.
  4. Use it somewhere: What does it go on? (every job, one kind of job, every van) and When is it asked? (before driving, before work, before sign-off).
  5. Preview it, then Publish. Results shows every filled copy.

In the app: Help › Building forms

Projects#

A project holds a whole job in one place: its tickets, time, parts, quote and invoices. A quick one-visit job and a big phased install are both projects.

How to use

  1. Work, pick Projects in the menu at the top of the list. Tap + for New project, or Start a job for a quick one.
  2. Start a job asks who, where and what, then opens on Tickets, Inventory and Invoice.
  3. Dashboard shows hours against the plan, objectives, tickets and what's left to bill.
  4. Objectives are the tasks. Tickets are the visits; their time and parts roll up into the project.
  5. The Invoice tab goes in order: quote, client approval, invoice.
  6. When the work is done, Submit for review. Approve & sign off closes it; Send back returns it to the crew.

In the app: Help › Projects

Quotes#

A quote is the price you send before the work. It covers the hours and parts on it; a trip charge, minimum or surcharge is its own fee line.

How to use

  1. On a project, open the Invoice tab and tap New quote. For a quote on its own, go to Work, Quotes, then +.
  2. Add the parts and labor. Add fee puts on a trip charge, a minimum or one of your premade fees.
  3. Send quote emails it to the client with a link to approve. They can also approve in the app.
  4. You get a notification when they approve or decline. Approving sets the project's budget.
  5. Declined? Change the quote and send it again.

In the app: Help › Quotes

Invoices#

Every invoice in one list, from tickets and projects, with what's paid and what's still owed.

How to use

  1. Work, pick Invoices in the menu at the top of the list. Filter narrows the list.
  2. On a project, Invoice tab, Create invoice: From approved quote, Progress invoice, From actuals, or Blank.
  3. A draft is yours to change: tap a line to edit it, add parts, labor or a fee, set the due date and tax.
  4. Send invoice emails the PDF to the client. With online payments on, the email has a pay link.
  5. Mark paid when a check or cash comes in. Void invoice cancels a wrong one; make a new one after.

In the app: Help › Invoices

Change orders#

When the job changes after the quote is approved, a change order prices the difference and gets it approved before you bill it.

How to use

  1. On the ticket where the change happened: three-dot menu, Raise change order. Say what changed.
  2. Price it: add the parts, labor and fees it adds or takes away.
  3. The client approves or declines it in the app. Dispatch and up can also decide it for them.
  4. Waiting ones show at the top of the ticket and in Work, three-dot menu, Approvals.
  5. Approved changes show on the project's Invoice tab. From the agreed contract bills the quote plus the changes.

In the app: Help › Change orders

Approvals#

What's waiting on your decision, in one list: time for payroll, time off, change orders, on-call swaps and nameplate scans.

How to use

  1. Work, three-dot menu, Approvals.
  2. Each section only shows if your role can decide it.
  3. Approve or Decline on each card. It does the same as deciding from the item's own screen.

In the app: Help › Approvals

Assets#

The equipment you service: trucks, trailers, engines, panels, cameras. Each one keeps its own tickets, parts, money and files.

How to use

  1. Work, pick Assets in the menu at the top of the list. Search by number, VIN, serial or name, or scan a label.
  2. Tap + to add one. Asset types come from your Catalog, with their parts already laid out.
  3. Open an asset for its tickets, parts, people, money and files.
  4. Create ticket on an asset starts a ticket already linked to it.
  5. Print label makes a QR label; scanning it opens the asset.

In the app: Help › Assets

QR labels and incoming requests#

Every asset can have a printed QR label. Your people scan it to open the asset; if you turn it on, anyone can scan it to report a problem.

How to use

  1. Open the asset and tap Print label: a label printer (2 × 1 in) or a letter sheet of 30.
  2. Staff scan it with the phone camera or the app's scanner and the asset opens.
  3. To let anyone report a problem: Admin settings, Rules and defaults, Work, Let anyone report a problem by scanning a label.
  4. Reports land in Work, three-dot menu, Incoming requests, and dispatch is notified.
  5. Open one and make a ticket from it (filled in for you, photos included) or dismiss it.

In the app: Help › QR labels and incoming requests

Preventive maintenance#

Recurring inspections and PMs become tickets on their own. The PM ticket lists every device at the site so nothing gets skipped.

How to use

  1. Set up what recurs in Admin settings, Event types: inspections, PMs and compliance deadlines.
  2. Contracts can include PMs; the client sees their plan under upcoming visits.
  3. Automatic PM tickets and how many days ahead they're made: Admin settings, Rules and defaults, Schedule.
  4. On a PM ticket, the Inspection tab lists the site's devices from the walkthrough, by location.
  5. Each device gets Pass, Fail or Skip, with notes and photos.

In the app: Help › Preventive maintenance

Linked companies: On My Sites and Requests#

For a company that owns sites and has vendors linked to it. You see the work vendors do on your sites, and you send them requests.

How to use

  1. Work, pick On My Sites in the menu at the top of the list: every ticket and project on your sites, yours and your vendors'.
  2. Tap one to read it. It's read-only: the vendor runs their own work.
  3. Profile, Requests: Sent is what you asked a vendor for; Inbox is what a linked company asked you for.
  4. When a vendor accepts a request, it becomes a ticket or project on their side.

In the app: Help › Linked companies: On My Sites and Requests

Vendor bills#

What your suppliers bill you, so you know what's due and when.

How to use

  1. Work, three-dot menu, Vendor bills. Open bills come first, soonest due; overdue ones are red.
  2. Tap + to add a bill, or tap one to see or change it.

In the app: Help › Vendor bills

People#

Your team and your clients' contacts in one searchable list. Staff show their role; client contacts say Contact.

How to use

  1. Directory, pick People in the menu at the top of the list. Search by name, role or email.
  2. Tap a person for their details, with call, text and email.
  3. Admins add and manage staff in Admin settings, Team: invite, edit, change role, deactivate.
  4. Team invite codes let people sign themselves up into one role for a limited time.
  5. People who joined with your company code wait on Team until an admin approves them.

In the app: Help › People

Clients#

Your customers. A client holds its sites, contacts, tickets, projects, contracts and its own rates.

How to use

  1. Directory, pick Clients in the menu at the top of the list. Tap + to add one; the address fills in city, state and ZIP.
  2. Tap a client to open it: Details, Sites, People, Tickets, Projects, Notes and Credentials.
  3. Invite, beside a client, sends them a code to make their own Tech Ops account.
  4. Rates for this client and Tax exempt are on the client, under Pricing.

In the app: Help › Clients

Sites#

Every place you work: the address and map pin, its contacts, tickets, projects, required credentials and walkthrough.

How to use

  1. Directory, pick Sites in the menu at the top of the list. Tap + to add one; the address lookup places the pin.
  2. Tap a site: Details, Personnel, Tickets, Projects, Notes, Credentials, Settings and Walkthrough.
  3. Credentials on a site are the certifications anyone working there must hold.
  4. Tax rate for this site overrides your company rate on its new invoices.

In the app: Help › Sites

Vendors#

Companies that work for you or sell to you: subcontractors, linked service companies and suppliers.

How to use

  1. Directory, pick Vendors in the menu at the top of the list.
  2. Tap one for its details and contacts. Tap + to add one.

In the app: Help › Vendors

Credentials#

Training, certifications and licenses your people hold, with expiry dates, and which sites or clients require them.

How to use

  1. Admins set up the list in Admin settings, Credentials: name, issuer, how long it lasts.
  2. Each credential shows how many people hold it and which sites and clients require it.
  3. Everyone adds their own in Profile, My credentials: a photo of the card and the expiry date.
  4. A person's credentials also show on their page in the Directory.

In the app: Help › Credentials

Inventory#

Parts and tools, counted in places: your van, the warehouse, a job box. Every change goes in a ledger with who did it.

How to use

  1. Inventory opens on Overview: what's on order, what's low in each place, and what's low company-wide.
  2. My locations is the stock you hold. All locations is every place, for dispatch and up.
  3. Tap a part in a place: Use it on a ticket, Add some, Move some elsewhere, or Ask for some to be sent to you.
  4. Stock in or out does several parts at once: pick Add or Remove, why, the items, then check and confirm.
  5. Refill on Overview tops a van back up from the warehouse.

In the app: Help › Inventory

Catalog#

Your company's list of everything you stock or service, from a bolt to a whole truck. An item can be made of other items.

How to use

  1. Inventory, pick Catalog in the menu at the top of the list. Search, filter, or tap Order beside a low part.
  2. Tap + to add an item: give it a name and a Category. The category adds the questions that fit, like a VIN for a vehicle.
  3. Scene lists what it's made of. Add inside to put parts under it; a shared part changes everywhere it's used.
  4. Identify holds SKU, barcode, make and model. Stock and price turns on Track stock, with cost, customer price and Reorder at.
  5. System lists its inputs and outputs, like power in and a relay out, for wiring.

In the app: Help › Catalog

Ordering and receiving#

Purchase orders to your suppliers, receiving what arrives, and sending parts back.

How to use

  1. Inventory, pick Orders in the menu at the top of the list. Tabs: Orders, Suggested, Returns, Suppliers.
  2. New order starts a purchase order. From low stock fills one with what's under its reorder point.
  3. Suggested lists what to order now, by supplier.
  4. When a delivery comes in, Receive on the order, or Scan in a delivery on Overview. Received parts go into stock.
  5. Returns sends parts back to a supplier, with the RMA number.

In the app: Help › Ordering and receiving

Walkthrough#

A site's layout: buildings, floors, rooms and every device in them, on the floor plan. PMs and the 3D view are built from it.

How to use

  1. Walkthrough lists your sites. Search, then tap one to open it.
  2. Buildings and floors nest inside each other; rooms and devices sit on a floor.
  3. Tap a device for its details, photos and history.

In the app: Help › Walkthrough

Walkthrough workspace and 3D Mode#

The site editor: a tree, the floor plan and a details panel. Draw it once and every ticket and PM at the site uses it.

How to use

  1. HOME: search, layers, status filters and zoom.
  2. INSERT: add a building, floor, room or device, or stamp one from the gallery.
  3. IMPORT: bring in a device spreadsheet or upload a floor plan drawing.
  4. Tap a device or marker to open its details: placement, ports and wiring, photos.
  5. 3D Mode turns the floor plan into a walkable building. Open 3D Mode in a web browser on a computer.

In the app: Help › Walkthrough workspace and 3D Mode

Reports#

Your numbers from your real data: work done, the team, inventory, profit by job and who owes you.

How to use

  1. Pick a report in the menu at the top: Dashboard, Overview, Tickets, Team, Inventory, Job profit, Receivables, KPIs.
  2. Filter picks the date range.
  3. Receivables lists what each client owes, oldest first; open a client for their statement as a PDF.
  4. Job profit shows what each job billed against what it cost.

In the app: Help › Reports

Contracts and SLAs#

Service contracts, who they cover, when they renew, and the response times you promised.

How to use

  1. Work, three-dot menu, Contracts. Pick a view in the menu at the top: Library, Assigned, Renewals or SLA.
  2. Library holds your contract templates. Tap + to add one.
  3. Assigned is which client or site has which contract.
  4. Renewals shows what ends in the next 90 days: renew it or let it end.
  5. SLA policies set response and fix times. Work, three-dot menu, SLA policies opens them directly.

In the app: Help › Contracts and SLAs

More#

Profile#

Your own settings and tools, in groups: your work, notifications, appearance, layout and language, account and privacy, and help.

How to use

  1. Search settings… at the top finds any setting by name.
  2. Your work: Timecard, My credentials (training and certs, with expiry dates), Assigned equipment, Calendar feeds and Sync inbox.
  3. Notifications, Appearance, and Layout & language: how loud, how it looks, your tabs and your language (see Appearance and layout).
  4. Account & privacy: My signature, Sign-in methods, Sessions, Download my data, Location services and Directions with.
  5. Help: Millie, Help center, Welcome tour, Contact support and Send feedback. Sign out is at the very bottom.

In the app: Help › Profile

Appearance and layout#

Make the app look and sit the way you like on this device.

How to use

  1. Profile › Theme: pick a Style (Auto, Tech Ops, Material or iOS), a Brightness (Light, Dark or Match my phone) and a palette.
  2. Highlight color sets the color of buttons and links.
  3. Display scale makes everything bigger or smaller. Large and simple controls gives bigger buttons and icons, taller rows, and one big Create button on every list.
  4. Tab settings: hide tabs, pick what's on the Bottom bar and its Bar size (Small, Medium, Large), and choose where the app opens.
  5. Two panes on a wide phone: on an unfolded folding phone or a small tablet held upright, the list and the open item sit side by side. Off keeps one column.
  6. Language switches the app between English, Español and Français.

In the app: Help › Appearance and layout

Millie#

Your assistant. Ask about your work, get troubleshooting help, or show it a photo.

How to use

  1. Open Chat; Millie is at the top of the list. On a ticket, it's also a tab.
  2. Type a question and send. Simple asks, like your schedule or a ticket by number, are answered right on the phone.
  3. Tap the paperclip to attach a photo.
  4. Ask in plain words for a reminder or an event: remind me tomorrow at 8 to call the parts desk.

In the app: Help › Millie

Admin#

Admin settings#

Company setup in one searchable list. Changes apply to everyone in your company.

How to use

  1. Type in the search box at the top to find a setting by what it does.
  2. People: Team, invite codes, Roles, Security (two-step sign-in) and Credentials.
  3. Work setup: ticket numbering and sign-off, Event types, Forms and Checklists. Clients and payments: Client portal, Payments, Quotes and invoicing.
  4. Time and payroll, Contracts and SLAs, then Rules and defaults: the rules for each tab, Notifications and My Day by role.
  5. Company: info, branding, branches. Plan and billing: seats and storage. Data and integrations: import, export, audit trail, QuickBooks and more.

In the app: Help › Admin settings

Rates and fees#

What you bill per hour, per visit and per mile, and the fees you add often.

How to use

  1. Admin settings, Quotes and invoicing, Rates: labor per hour for Normal, After-hours, Weekend, Holiday and Emergency time.
  2. Each row also has the trip charge, the minimum per visit, and what each visit rounds up to.
  3. Travel per mile is optional; leave it Not billed if you don't charge it.
  4. Premade fees, like a fuel surcharge: a flat amount or a percent of labor and parts. Add to every invoice puts one on all of them.
  5. Name who did the labor puts each person's name on the labor lines; it's off by default.

In the app: Help › Rates and fees

Online payments#

Let clients pay your invoices by card or bank. The money goes straight to your own Stripe account.

How to use

  1. Admin settings, Payments, Connect Stripe. Stripe asks for your business and bank details on its own site.
  2. Turn on Let clients pay invoices online.
  3. Invoice emails then get a Pay online link, and clients see Pay now on their invoices.
  4. A payment marks the invoice paid by itself.

In the app: Help › Online payments

Client portal#

What your clients get emailed, what they see in the app, and what they're asked to do.

How to use

  1. Admin settings, Client portal.
  2. Job emails to clients are built for every event and start off. Turn on the ones you want.
  3. The approve link in quote emails and sign-off by email link are on to start.
  4. You can set a different choice for one client.

In the app: Help › Client portal

Notification defaults by role#

Where each role's notifications start, and which ones they can't change.

How to use

  1. Admin settings, Rules and defaults, Notifications.
  2. For each role and kind of notification, pick On, Quiet or Off. Quiet goes in the list with no alert on the phone.
  3. Lock a row to hold that role at exactly that level. They can't change it, and their own mutes don't apply.

In the app: Help › Notification defaults by role

Integrations#

Connect Tech Ops to the rest of your business: accounting, email, texts and your own systems.

How to use

  1. Admin settings, Data and integrations, Integrations and API.
  2. QuickBooks: send invoices and payments to QuickBooks Online.
  3. Email to ticket: emails to your intake mailbox land in Work, three-dot menu, Incoming requests.
  4. Texts to clients: job updates by text message, off until you turn them on.
  5. Webhooks: send events to your own system as they happen.

In the app: Help › Integrations

Roles#

A role is a named set of switches: what people see and what they can do. Built-in roles are locked templates; copy one to make your own.

How to use

  1. Admin settings, Roles. Built-in: Admin, Portfolio Manager, Dispatcher, Tech and Client. Yours are under Your roles.
  2. Open a role to see its switches. On a built-in one, Make a copy starts your own from it. New role starts from scratch.
  3. A role also sets the layout: Simple or Full, which tabs show, and which tabs a detail page has.
  4. Give someone a role from their page in Admin settings, Team.

In the app: Help › Roles

Seats, storage and billing#

You pay for seats, not people. Each person sits in a normal or AI seat, monthly or yearly. Storage comes with the seats.

How to use

  1. Admin settings, Plan and billing, Seats: every seat, who's in it and when it renews.
  2. Tap a seat to put someone in it, empty it, or switch it to yearly at the end of the month.
  3. Buying seats, adding AI and switching to yearly change your bill, so they're done on your account page on the website.
  4. Storage shows how much your photos and files use. Each paid seat includes 10 GB; Add storage adds 100 GB.

In the app: Help › Seats, storage and billing

Time and payroll#

Hours come from tickets, projects and trips, plus other time people add. You approve them and send them to payroll as a file.

How to use

  1. Admin settings, Time and payroll.
  2. Time types and places: your own types for Add time entry, like shop, training or office.
  3. Payroll: pending approval holds submitted weeks; approve them here or in Work, three-dot menu, Approvals.
  4. Payroll: ready to export: pick the dates and your payroll system, then Download CSV or Copy CSV.
  5. Mark the run exported so the same hours don't go out twice. Payroll: sync logs keeps every run.

In the app: Help › Time and payroll

Completion forms#

Choose how your crew finishes work: a paragraph, a form, or their pick. Clients and sites can add their own forms; they add up and never replace each other.

How to use

  1. Admin settings › Tickets › How work is finished: pick Write a paragraph, Fill out a form or Tech chooses, for tickets and for projects.
  2. Completion form: pick a published form, or the ready-made Completion report (work, cause, parts, follow-up, photos, the tech's and the customer's signature).
  3. For a client: open the client › Settings › Completion forms › Add.
  4. For a site: open the site › Settings › Completion forms › Add.
  5. Each filled form is kept on the ticket or project, prints on the work report with its signatures, and its answers go in the notes.

In the app: Help › Completion forms