Articles tagged workflow

Creating an invoice — where and how
Updated 50 minutes ago

Suprata creates invoices in four different ways, and which path you use changes what gets pre-populated and what you have to fill in. Here's the full picture, with the trade-offs of each.

Document approvals
Updated 0 seconds ago

Some documents shouldn't go out the door without a second pair of eyes — estimates with pricing exceptions, contracts with riders, refund letters. The approval workflow makes that review explicit, traceable, and fast eno...

End to End: The Customer Journey
Updated 50 minutes ago

The full chain a customer travels through Suprata — from the moment the phone rings to a paid, synced, reviewed job. The 10-foot view of how every feature snaps together.

Estimates vs. invoices — when to use which
Updated 16 hours ago

Estimates and invoices look similar but behave very differently — one is a price you're proposing, the other is a bill you're collecting on. Here's when to use each.

Handling a Rush Job or Emergency
Updated 15 hours ago

Same-day or after-hours service. The shortcuts that work, the shortcuts that bite, and how to document well enough that the inevitable billing argument has a clear answer.

Onboarding a Commercial Customer
Updated 16 hours ago

Onboarding a business is fundamentally different from onboarding a household — multiple contacts, Net terms, possibly an agreement, possibly QuickBooks mapping. The full multi-contact intake flow.

Onboarding a Residential Customer
Updated 16 hours ago

A new household calls. The full new-customer flow — search first, create the Account, capture the Contact, set terms, schedule the first appointment, send confirmation — without missing the small things that bite later.

Sending an invoice to a customer
Updated 16 hours ago

Sending an invoice is mechanically a single click, but the choices around theme, terms, and delivery method shape whether the customer pays quickly or you spend a week chasing. Here's the full pattern.

The Booking Wizard Walkthrough
Updated 15 hours ago

End-to-end booking — from customer intent to confirmed reservation — from both the customer's and the staff's perspective. The most-used flow in the Reservations system.

The End-of-Day Closeout
Updated 16 hours ago

The thirty minutes between when the last tech rolls in and the office shuts down. What to close, what to send, what to flag for tomorrow — and why skipping any of it costs you next week.

The End-of-Month Routine
Updated 2 days ago

The monthly bookkeeping pass — reconciling to QuickBooks, working the aging report, sending statements, processing recurring invoices, and closing the books for the month.

The Job-to-Invoice Chain: From Service Call to Synced Payment
Updated 12 hours 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 Morning Dispatch Routine
Updated 16 hours ago

What a good dispatcher does in the first 30 minutes of the day — checking the board, triaging overnight messages, confirming appointments, and sending crews out without surprises.