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One number your crew texts, and the photos file themselves
Your crew send photos and updates to one number from the phone they already own, and they land on the right job — or you get asked which one.
Your first 14 days are free, and nothing is charged until they are up.
What this takes off your week
How it works here
It reads the message before it guesses
A client's name, a job's title, even the street number in the text is enough to file it. Two matches is a narrower question, not an answer, so it asks.
One job today means one answer
If the person texting has exactly one visit that day, that is where it goes. The day is worked out in your company's own timezone, using the next midnight rather than a flat twenty-four hours, so the clocks changing does not drag in yesterday.
The question has a shelf life
An unanswered which-job can be answered by text for twelve hours. Before and after that, anybody in the office can file the held photo from the inbox.
The specifics
Your crew text photos and updates to one number and they file themselves against the right job.
- The company is decided by the number they texted
- Never by the sender. A sub who works for two companies has one phone, and a sender's number can be forged; the number they texted cannot.
- Ten pictures a message
- A message claiming a hundred attachments still yields ten. The limit is ours, not the sender's.
- Notes are added, never overwritten
- A note texted in is appended to what the visit already says.
- Silence is never the answer during setup
- An unknown number gets one sentence naming the screen where an admin adds them, for the first few messages — because silence and a broken feature look identical from a job site.
- The reply is what is withheld when credit runs out
- The message is still filed, because it has already been paid for. Only the courtesy reply is held back, and that is recorded rather than hidden.
- Location is not used today
- A job visit carries no map point, and the client's billing address is deliberately not substituted for one. What the message says is what decides.
What you get
Every plan includes all of it. Plans differ by how many people can work in the account, not by which features they are allowed to use.
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Your crew text photos and updates to one number and they file themselves against the right job.
Try it on your own jobs
The first 14 days are free. Bring your own rates, your own logo and the client list you already have.
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