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Offline mode for measuring in basements with no signal
Half my jobs are crawlspaces and new builds with no bars. I need the takeoff to hold locally and sync when I get back to the truck.
A weekly owner email: sold, invoiced, collected, overdue
I do not open dashboards on Saturday. One email with four numbers would tell me whether to enjoy the weekend.
Spanish for the field crew screens
My installers work in Spanish. The office side can stay English — it is the checklists, punch items, and time clock they touch every day.
Attach the permit PDF to the job and get an expiry reminder
The permit lives in my glovebox. When an inspector asks, I am photographing paper on the hood of the truck.
Track material price changes and warn me when my book is stale
Supplier prices moved three times this year and my price book did not. Flag items I have not repriced in 90 days.
How are you pricing bay windows — one tag or three?
Do you tag the bay as a single unit with a custom price, or tag the three sashes separately and add a labor line for the seat board? Curious what works at estimate time AND at inst…
Text the invoice link to the customer straight from the job
Right now I copy the link, open Messages, find the customer, paste. Three apps for one text — and the business number already lives in the app.
Photo required before a punch item can be closed
The crew marks items done from the couch. Make "done" need a photo, like the completeness check does for measuring.
Customer signature on change orders from their own phone
I send the change order, they call and say "fine, do it". Nothing is signed and that is exactly the ticket that ends in a dispute.
Duplicate a whole estimate to reuse on a similar house
Tract work means the same model home over and over. Today I rebuild the lines each time; let me copy last week’s estimate and change the address.
Push the day’s route to Apple Maps in one tap
Dispatch builds the route, then I retype five addresses into Maps at 6am. Hand the whole ordered list over at once.
Let me set a default deposit percentage per job type
Windows are 50% down, service work is due-on-completion. I type the same split into every proposal by hand.
Voice notes cut off after about a minute on iPhone 13
Long dictations stop transcribing mid-sentence. Happens on cellular more than wifi. The first minute is always fine.
What goes in your crew’s morning huddle from the app?
Trying to build a 10-minute morning routine: dispatch board on the TV, everyone checks their day on their phone. What screens do you actually use?
Exported DXF opens rotated 90° in older AutoCAD
AutoCAD 2019 shows every layout rotated. 2023 is fine. Vendor on the other end refuses to upgrade, so I rotate by hand every time.