Articles tagged workflow

Creating an invoice — where and how
Updated 1 hour ago

Suprata creates invoices in four different ways, and which path you use changes what gets pre-populated and what you have to fill in. Here's the full picture, with the trade-offs of each.

Document approvals
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Some documents shouldn't go out the door without a second pair of eyes — estimates with pricing exceptions, contracts with riders, refund letters. The approval workflow makes that review explicit, traceable, and fast eno...

End to End: The Customer Journey
Updated 59 minutes ago

The full chain a customer travels through Suprata — from the moment the phone rings to a paid, synced, reviewed job. The 10-foot view of how every feature snaps together.

Estimates vs. invoices — when to use which
Updated 1 day ago

Estimates and invoices look similar but behave very differently — one is a price you're proposing, the other is a bill you're collecting on. Here's when to use each.

Handling a Rush Job or Emergency
Updated 11 hours ago

Same-day or after-hours service. The shortcuts that work, the shortcuts that bite, and how to document well enough that the inevitable billing argument has a clear answer.

Onboarding a Commercial Customer
Updated 1 day ago

Onboarding a business is fundamentally different from onboarding a household — multiple contacts, Net terms, possibly an agreement, possibly QuickBooks mapping. The full multi-contact intake flow.

Onboarding a Residential Customer
Updated 1 day ago

A new household calls. The full new-customer flow — search first, create the Account, capture the Contact, set terms, schedule the first appointment, send confirmation — without missing the small things that bite later.

Sending an invoice to a customer
Updated 1 day ago

Sending an invoice is mechanically a single click, but the choices around theme, terms, and delivery method shape whether the customer pays quickly or you spend a week chasing. Here's the full pattern.

The Booking Wizard Walkthrough
Updated 7 hours ago

End-to-end booking — from customer intent to confirmed reservation — from both the customer's and the staff's perspective. The most-used flow in the Reservations system.

The End-of-Day Closeout
Updated 1 day ago

The thirty minutes between when the last tech rolls in and the office shuts down. What to close, what to send, what to flag for tomorrow — and why skipping any of it costs you next week.

The End-of-Month Routine
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The monthly bookkeeping pass — reconciling to QuickBooks, working the aging report, sending statements, processing recurring invoices, and closing the books for the month.

The Job-to-Invoice Chain: From Service Call to Synced Payment
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How a job becomes an invoice becomes a synced QuickBooks transaction: industry forms attach automatically, time and parts roll up to a draft invoice, and tax categories drive every line's allocation.

The Morning Dispatch Routine
Updated 1 day ago

What a good dispatcher does in the first 30 minutes of the day — checking the board, triaging overnight messages, confirming appointments, and sending crews out without surprises.