Electrical work has a shape most scheduling software ignores. The job stops in the middle, waits for somebody who does not work for you, and then starts again. Software that only models a one visit job cannot hold that.
It has to model a job that takes more than one visit with a wait in the middle, because permitted work stops at rough in until an inspector passes it. It has to capture proof at rough in, since the walls close after that and photographs are the only record. Then it has to bill once the final inspection clears rather than when the crew finished.
The same tools every Pinstripe Fleet customer gets, set up the way this trade runs.
A permitted job is not one appointment. Rough in, inspection, then finish and final. Each visit sits on the same job with the same history, so the second crew sees what the first one did rather than starting from a phone call.
A rough in inspection happens after wiring, conduit, boxes, and raceways are installed but before walls, ceilings, or floors are closed. Until it passes, nothing else can proceed. Park the job, keep the site on the board, and reschedule the finish when the inspector clears it.
Rough in is the last moment anybody can see the work. Required photos and a checklist on the phone mean that record exists whether or not the inspector queries it, and it survives on the job rather than in somebody's camera roll.
Invoice off the finished job with every visit's hours already attached, so a job spread over three weeks bills as one number rather than three guesses. The customer pays by card from a link into your own bank account.
Setup starts you with open dispatch slots rather than fixed routes, a service list built around installs, repairs, and service calls, a close out checklist with required photos, and invoicing off the completed job.
Yes. Appointments attach to the job, so rough in, the return after inspection, and the final all sit on one record with one history and one set of hours. That is what lets the invoice come out as a single number at the end.
Not as their own record type. What it does is hold the job open across visits, keep the photos and notes from rough in, and let you reschedule the finish once the inspector clears it. If a formal permit register decides your purchase, that is not built today.
Move the affected visit on the dispatch board and reassign the crew to something else that day. The customer sees the change on their portal link, which saves the call explaining why nobody turned up.
Yes. You decide who can see money, and for anyone not allowed to, prices and totals are never sent to their device in the first place rather than being hidden on the screen.
The same platform, set up for a different trade.
Bring three jobs you ran last week and we will build them in front of you. If it cannot handle your real work, you will know in twenty minutes.
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