Working a Job
Tap a job through its status from the truck, and let the app record the rest.
YardPath is built to be worked from the truck. Open a job and move it through four states with big, tappable buttons, the app captures the timestamps and side effects so you don’t do manual data entry.
The status flow
- Scheduled, the job is on the day, not started.
- En Route, tap when you leave for the stop. If mileage tracking is on, the trip starts recording now.
- In Progress, tap when you start the work. Mileage for the drive leg closes out.
- Complete, tap when you’re done. YardPath records how long the work took, updates your rolling duration estimates for that customer, and offers to invoice and to notify the customer.
You can skip En Route and go straight to In Progress if you forgot, YardPath will offer a manual mileage entry so the trip still gets logged.
One thing to watch when you do that: if you’re out of signal, YardPath can’t look up a road route and falls back to the straight line between the two addresses, which runs short of what you actually drove. It shows the distance with a ≈ in the moment, captions the trip Straight-line estimate, and adds it to Trips to Check so you can go back and put in the real number once you’re connected. How mileage is calculated explains the difference.
What “Complete” sets in motion
Marking a job complete is the hub of the app. In one flow you can:
- Notify the customer it’s done (or that you’re on your way to the next stop), see Notifying customers.
- Bill it now with a quick invoice, see Invoicing & payments.
- Start the next stop on your route.
Completed work also feeds your Finances & reports, profitability and totals are built from the jobs you finish.