Articles tagged jobs

AI Account and Job Summaries
Updated 1 hour ago

Suprata generates an AI summary at the top of account and job pages so you can pick up context in seconds instead of minutes. How to get the most out of them.

Closing and Recalls
Updated 1 hour ago

Closing a job creates the invoice, locks the attachments, and ends the record for that visit. Recalls — the return-visit problem — should almost always be a new job rather than a reopened one. Here's the rulebook.

Creating your first job
Updated 1 hour ago

A job (also called a work order) is the central unit of work in Suprata. Here's the typical flow for creating one, plus the judgment calls that make the difference between a job that runs cleanly and one you'll be untang...

From First Call to Paid: A Flat Glass Job
Updated 1 hour ago

Every step of the guided Flat Glass job: openings and measuring, the piece builder, quote options, who pays, approval and the deposit, where the glass comes from, the shop, scheduling, the install, remakes, and the final...

Industry Forms — What Attaches When
Updated 1 hour ago

Industry forms — HVAC evals, marine boat info, IT equipment lists, chimney inspections — auto-attach to jobs based on the job type. Here's the rulebook for what binds when, and how to fix mismatches.

Job Attachments — Photos and Signatures
Updated 1 hour ago

Field photos and customer signatures are the strongest defense against billing disputes and warranty disagreements. Here's how to capture them, where they live, and who can see them.

Job statuses and what each one means
Updated 29 seconds ago

Job statuses aren't just labels — moving between them sends notifications, creates invoices, and updates the dispatch board. Knowing what each move triggers prevents the most common 'why did that happen?' moments.

Jobs vs. Appointments vs. Reservations
Updated 1 hour ago

Three concepts that all involve calendar dates and customers but model very different things. Knowing which one to use makes scheduling, reporting, and dispatch all click into place.

Keeping customers updated: shared job notes and the Work Recap
Updated 21 minutes ago

Decide as you write a job note whether the customer sees it, text or email it on the spot, and let the shared notes build a Work Recap the customer can open, print, or get as page 2 of their invoice.

Recurring Schedules on Agreements
Updated 1 hour ago

How the schedule on an agreement turns into actual jobs and invoices on a cadence — including how to skip dates, what triggers auto-creation, and how to read the queue.

Running an Auto Glass Job from Start to Finish
Updated 18 minutes ago

What happens at each step of the guided Auto Glass job — vehicle, NAGS estimate, who pays, approval, parts, scheduling, the install checklist, invoices and payment — and the judgment calls at each one.

Setting Up Job Types
Updated 1 hour ago

Job types are the central switchboard that decides which industry forms attach, which workflow runs, and how a job is reported on. Get them right early — they're tedious to refactor later.

The Job-to-Invoice Chain: From Service Call to Synced Payment
Updated 1 hour ago

How a job becomes an invoice becomes a synced QuickBooks transaction: industry forms attach automatically, time and parts roll up to a draft invoice, and tax categories drive every line's allocation.

The Print Work Order
Updated 1 hour ago

The printable work order PDF is the paper-friendly view of a job. Here's when it earns its place — paper-loving customers, vehicle copies, multi-tech walk-throughs — and how to use it without falling into a paper-shuffle...