Field work accounted for
on the drive home.
Your crew files the day from the truck, by voice and a few taps, before they pull into the yard. The hours, the parts and the photographs reach the office that evening, instead of a fistful of paper on Friday.
From the last bolt to the office inbox.
- 01Still on site
He picks the job with his name on it
What is wrong, where it is, and the parts the office put in the truck are all on it already.
- 02The gate
He talks, and it fills the day in
Hours, who was out, what got used, what is going back on the shelf. He reads it over and fixes anything it heard wrong.
- 03The dead spot
No signal, and nothing is lost
It saves to the phone first. "Saved on this phone. It sends itself when you get service." Half finished notes are still there tomorrow.
- 04The yard
The office has it before he parks
One record for every job that saw work, that evening, with the hours, the parts and the photographs already on it.
The day on one page, while it is still today.
One record for every job that saw work. The hours and man hours worked out, the parts that came off the truck, the ones going back on the shelf, and what he actually said, in his own words.
It goes to your office and to nobody else. That sentence is printed at the bottom of every one of them, because it is the reason a crew will put real numbers in.
The bill writes itself out of the work.
Everything on the day is already priced: the hours against your labour rate, the travel, and every part off the truck against your own price list. Raise the invoice from a day of work and it comes out filled in, on your letterhead, with your logo and your GST number on it.
- Off unless you turn it on. A shop that bills somewhere else never sees it.
- It goes to the address on the customer record. There is no field anywhere to type a different one.
- Your crew can raise one from the truck the moment a job is done, if you want them to. That is a switch, and it is yours.
- A sent invoice stops moving. Nobody can quietly rewrite a bill the customer is already holding.
- Chase it or do not. Reminders go on a cadence you set, and marking it paid stops them.
What it will not do.
- 01
- It will not track anybodyNo location, no driving score, no idle timer. It records what a man says he did.
- 02
- It will not mail anything out on its ownThe evening record is a worksheet for your office, and it says so at the bottom of every one. An invoice is the only thing Tailgate ever sends a customer. That is off until you turn it on, it goes to the address on the customer record, there is no field anywhere to type a different one, and it goes when somebody presses the button.
- 03
- It will not make you learn its wordsYou call it a pivot, a unit or a panel, and so does every screen and every email. Nobody adopts a tool that calls their work something it is not.
- 04
- It will not lock up your recordsStop paying and everything you have ever filed stays readable and printable. An unpaid bill is not a reason to hold a company’s own work hostage.
- 05
- It will not pretend it is finishedThis is the tool as it stands today. What is listed below is in it. Nothing else is promised.
What is actually in it. Not a roadmap.
Everything above, for everyone you put on it.
One price with everything in it, however many people you put on it. Cancel from your own settings, and everything you have recorded stays readable for as long as you want it.