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How to Record Time to a Work Order
How to Record Time to a Work Order

Learn how to add time to a work order to record the time spent!

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Written by Ben On
Updated over a week ago

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When on the job site, it’s important to be able to note the number of hours to complete a specific job. On the web app, you can enter the total allotted time by editing the work order, within our iOS / Android applications we have a built-in timer just for this!

This article explains how to enter time on Work Orders for Web and Mobile as well as how to use the timers function on our Mobile Applications.

If you also assign an hourly rate to your technicians/specific users, you can automatically calculate labor costs into work orders.


How to Input Time (directly) on the Web App

  1. Click into your work order to pull it up on your screen

  2. Look for the Time field

  3. Type in your time in the Hours and Minutes field


How to Use the Timer button

  1. Click into your work order to pull it up

  2. Click onto the Time button

  3. Click on Start Timer

  4. Follow the same steps to stop the timer!

  5. Time is automatically calculated and added to the work order


How to use the Timer on Mobile

  1. Tap into the work order

  2. Tap on Start Working

  3. The timer starts when you tap on "Start Working"!

NOTE: Alternatively, in the mobile app, just tap on the Add Time button to manually record the time into the work order.


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