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Built with NZ tradies since 2012

The job hits every phone. First to tap owns it.

A customer emails. WorkOrders turns it into a job and puts it in front of your whole crew at once — no dispatcher, no ringing round, no "did you see that one I sent you". Whoever's closest takes it, and the office and the customer both find out on their own.

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Four technicians see the same new job on their phones; one taps first and claims it.
14 years in the field
Written for working crews in 2012 and used every working day since.
Trade teams run on it
Plumbing and trade companies dispatch their crews on it — office and field.
Made in Wellington
New Zealand built, New Zealand owned, and a real person on the other end of support.

One job, start to finish

Claimed in two minutes.
Closed before lunch.

This is the whole product, in order. Nobody rang anybody, nobody forwarded anything, and the customer was told twice without a single person writing an email.

  1. 7:02am The request

    An email lands, like it always does

    A property manager emails the office: no hot water in the upstairs flat. No subject line, the address only in her signature, a photo of the cylinder attached.

  2. 7:02am Triage

    It becomes a job on its own

    WorkOrders reads the message and writes the job — a plain summary, how urgent it reads, the site, the contact and the trade it needs. The original email, the whole thread and every attachment stay bolted to it.

    WO-4821 · New
  3. 7:03am The call-out

    Every phone on the crew buzzes

    Not one person's inbox. Not a dispatcher deciding who is free. The job goes to the whole team at once, and the race is on.

    4 phones · notified
  4. 7:04am The claim

    First to tap owns it

    Mikaere is two streets away. He taps accept, says he'll be there in two hours, and the job is his. It drops off everyone else's list before they've put the phone down.

    Assigned · MT
  5. 7:04am The reply

    The customer hears back without anyone typing

    A reply goes out on her original email, from your firm, signed off the way your firm signs off. Someone is coming, and roughly when.

  6. 9:38am On site

    Three taps from the back of the van

    Mikaere marks it ongoing and adds a note — the element has gone, and the isolating valve is seized. Anything that needs flagging goes in the health and safety note and lands with the office immediately.

    Ongoing
  7. 11:15am Closed out

    Done, told, and ready to invoice

    He closes it with what he did and what he used. The customer is emailed automatically. The job is on the report the office pulls at the end of the month, with the hours already on it.

    Completed

Nobody was managing that. That's the point.

The office manager did not chase anyone. The customer did not ring to ask. The job did not sit unread in a shared inbox because the one person who checks it was on a roof.

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In the field

An iPhone app your crew will actually open

Most job software asks the office to do more typing so the field can do less thinking. This works the other way round.

Nobody assigns the work. The crew claims it.

A new job goes out to everyone at once. The first technician to tap accept owns it, sets how long until they're on site, and it drops off everybody else's list. Two people can't take the same job — the second one is told it's already gone.

That one rule removes a whole category of office work. No deciding who's free, no ringing three people to find out, no job sitting unread because the person it was sent to is up a ladder.

A plumber kneeling beside a hot water cylinder, checking the job on their phone.

Today's work, ranked

New, theirs, and everything on. Emergency jobs sort to the top on their own.

The whole story

The original email, the photos that came with it, the site and who asked — not a one-line dispatch note.

Three taps to move it

Assigned, ongoing, done. Each one with a note, and each one lands in the office the moment it happens.

Health and safety, on the spot

Flag something unsafe from the van and it goes straight to whoever needs to know.

iPhone today · Android in progress

Email in

Every request lands in one place

Connect the inbox the work already comes to — Gmail, or any IMAP mailbox. WorkOrders watches it, and every genuine request becomes a work order with the original email, its attachments and the whole thread attached to it.

Nothing is deleted and nothing is moved out of sight: processed mail is labelled, so the mailbox still reads the way your office manager expects it to. If we ever get it wrong, the email is right there.

A tangle of envelopes and paper funnelling through into one tidy, structured job card.

Triage

Reads the email so nobody has to decode it twice

Requests turn up as a paragraph with no subject, a phone number in the middle of a sentence and the address only in the signature. WorkOrders pulls the job out of it: a plain summary, how urgent it reads, the site, the contact, and what trade it needs.

Inbox · unread

From
building.manager@example.com
Subject
Urgent - water coming through ceiling L2

Water is coming through the ceiling tiles in the level 2 kitchenette, has been going since about 7 this morning and there's a bucket under it. Tenant is on 021 555 0142 if you need access. Can someone come today please.

Regards
Facilities · 128 Example Street, Te Aro

WO-4822 New Emergency

Water ingress through level 2 ceiling

Active leak above the level 2 kitchenette since ~7am, contained with a bucket. Same-day attendance requested.

Site
128 Example Street, Te Aro
Contact
021 555 0142 (tenant, for access)
Reported
Around 7:00am today
Trade
Plumbing — leak / water ingress

The original email is kept in full, attachments and all. Every extracted field is editable — you have the last word, not the model.

Attachments get described too, so a photo of a corroded valve is searchable rather than being a file called IMG_4471.jpeg. Everything the model produces is a suggestion sitting in an editable field — it never sends anything to a customer on its own.

In the office

One board, and it's telling the truth

New, assigned, ongoing, completed. Four states, because a job board a plumber won't update is a job board that lies to you — and these four are the ones they'll actually keep current, since each is one tap on a phone they're already holding.

Every job hangs off a customer and an address, so the history of a building is one click from the job in front of you. Pull any date range out to CSV for invoicing or payroll.

An office manager moving a job card into place on a wall-sized board of work orders.

Customers

They hear from you without you writing anything

When a job is picked up, worked and closed out, the person who asked for it gets an update — as a reply to their own email, from your firm, signed off the way you sign off. Not a notification from software they've never heard of.

It's the single biggest drop in "any update on that?" phone calls most crews see in their first month.

A property manager at a desk, relaxed, as an update arrives on their laptop.

One price. However busy the week gets.

Flat monthly plans with a seat cap — not per-user billing. Put the summer casual on it and your invoice doesn't move.

Starter

For a working owner and a couple of hands.

$29 /month

NZD, excluding GST. Billed monthly.

3 active members — flat price, however many of them are working today.

  • Up to 3 active team members
  • Unlimited work orders and customers
  • Email-to-work-order inbox
  • Job photos and attachments
  • Customer status emails
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Team

For a crew with someone in the office.

$79 /month

NZD, excluding GST. Billed monthly.

10 active members — flat price, however many of them are working today.

  • Up to 10 active team members
  • Everything in Starter
  • Multiple inbound mailboxes
  • CSV reporting and exports
  • AI job summaries and extraction
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Business

For a full team across multiple sites.

$149 /month

NZD, excluding GST. Billed monthly.

25 active members — flat price, however many of them are working today.

  • Up to 25 active team members
  • Everything in Team
  • Priority support
  • Multi-site customer histories
  • Onboarding and data import help
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