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Setting up your Workforce in Loc8 (Subscriber and Admin)

Invite your Workforce

Learn how to invite your office staff, technicians and contractors to become a part of your Loc8 workforce

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Configure Regions and Apply to Jobs

Learn how to mark regions covered by your business on a map and link them to technicians active in those areas for easy job assignment

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Configure Trades and Apply to Jobs

Learn how to set the trades of your business per technician to easily find the best match for a job

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Joining your Team in Loc8 (Users and Technicians)

Accept the Invite and Activate your Loc8 Account

Learn how to activate your Loc8 user account when you receive an invitation email to join your team

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Assisting Team Members with their Logins (Admin)

Resend account activation email

Learn how to resend Loc8 invitation to your team member as a reminder to join the workforce

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Send password reset email

Learn how to assist team members who cannot login due to incorrect password

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Viewing and Updating your Workforce (Admin and Users)

Filter and sort your workforce

Learn how to utilise the viewing options that can give you the set of information about your workforce you need the most

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Update a workforce profile

Learn how to edit a team member's details in their user profile

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Create jobs from a workforce profile

Learn how to create jobs directly for a member of your team through their Loc8 profile

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Remove a team member

Learn how to delete the Loc8 account of a team member

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Creating Customers

Create Individual Customers

Learn how to create customer profile in Loc8 for people who directly engage with you to get jobs done and make payments

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Create Company Customers

Learn how to create customers in Loc8 for establishments who engage with you through their contacts to get jobs done on assets and sites

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Import Customers

Learn how to add customers, their contact people, and associated sites at one go by importing spreadsheet

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Create Custom Charge Templates

Learn how to create your own charge templates for travel and labour hours, tasks done on site and materials used, and apply them to jobs

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Viewing and Updating Customers

Filter and sort customers

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Add customer sites

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Add customer contacts

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Create jobs from a customer's profile

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Delete a customer

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Actioning Work Requests through Jobs

Create a Job

Learn how to prepare a job with location details, tasks, charges and attachments, and assign it to your workforce

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Assign or Reassign Workforce to a Job

Learn how to select one or more member of your workforce to complete a job

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Schedule, Reschedule or Cancel Job Appointments

Learn how to set new appointment for a job and get familiar with rescheduling and cancelling appointments

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Create a Follow-On Job

Learn how to create a copy of a job when additional works are to be continued on that specific job for a customer

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View Jobs

Learn how to view jobs from different perspectives: on map, calendar, with respect to asset/site, customer, and quotes

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View History of Job Updates

Learn how to access the actions performed on the job in the past and browse through the details to know who, when and what were the changes

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Delete Jobs

Learn how to delete one or more jobs from your Loc8 system

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Export Jobs

Manage Jobs > Export Jobs

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Updating Job Details

Change Job Status

Learn how to manually change job status to closely reflect its stage in the job lifecycle

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Change Job Type

Learn how to move the job under the right job type in case the nature of job changes

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Set Job Priority

Learn how to assign priority levels to jobs to direct your workforce towards completing jobs in order of urgency

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Save Location as a Site

Learn how to record a location in Loc8 and use it as a customer site from then on, and include in maintenance, reporting and budgeting

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Update Work Logs in a Job

Manage Job > Update Work Logs in a Job

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Update Customer Details in a Job

Manage Jobs > Update Customer Details in a Job

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Update Tasks Added to Job

Manage Jobs > Update Tasks Added to Job

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Manage your Inventory

Learn how to keep a record of your stock of items, parts, materials and apply them in jobs that use them

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Defining individual pieces of work as tasks

Create Task Template

Learn how to create task templates and save them in a library so as to easily add them in jobs

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Create Subtask Template

Learn how to create subtasks for smaller but important piece of work that help you record value, observation or result

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Add Subtask to a Task

Learn how to link subtasks to task templates to make them easily accessible when creating jobs

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Create New Tasks and Add to a Job

Manage Jobs > Create Tasks and Add to a Job

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Adding more details to a job

Upload Attachments to a Job

Manage Jobs > Upload Attachments to a Job

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Set the Job Priority and Timeframe

Learn how to set job priority, and with SLAs enabled see the start by and due by dates automatically fill up or enter them manually instead

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Organising big work requests

Create a Project (A Lab Feature)

Learn how to achieve timely completion of large volumes of work through Projects where you can see a collective view of all the related jobs

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Configuring and Customising Job Attributes

Configure Job Priorities and SLAs

Learn how to customise standards for job completion time and conditions to trigger warnings and attentions for each priority level

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Configure Job Statuses

Learn how to define your own job statuses to match the terminologies used in your organisation for different stages of job lifecycle

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Configure Job Types

Learn how to define your own job types to match the terminologies used in your business and enable finer grouping and filtering of jobs

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Setting up Maintenance Plan

Schedule Preventative Maintenance Plan

Learn how to schedule preventative jobs to better service assets on time, across multiple customer sites

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Share Job Summary and FSR

Manage Jobs > Share Job Summary and FSR

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Add Comments

Manage jobs > Add comments

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Flag Job for Attention

Manage Jobs > Flag Job for Attention

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Assets and Sites

Create a Site

Learn how to create sites in order to easily manage customer locations, jobs, quotes and assets

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Manage Assets and Sites

Learn how to view and filter assets in a list or map, navigate through asset hierarchy and change asset status

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View and Filter Assets and Sites

Manage Assets and Sites > View and Filter Assets and Sites

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View or Edit Key Details of Assets and Sites

Manage Assets and Sites > View Key Details of Assets and Sites

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Update Status of Assets and Sites

Manage Assets and Sites > Change status and condition of assets and sites

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Update Maintenance Start Date

Manage Assets and Sites > Update Maintenance Start Date

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Upload Attachments on Asset or Site

Manage Assets and Sites > Upload attachments on asset or site

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Share Asset or Site Details

Manage Assets and Sites > Share asset or site details

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Add Safety Note for a Site

Manage Assets and Sites > Add Safety Note for a Site

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Access Nested Assets using Asset Tree

Manage Assets and Sites > Access Nested Assets using Asset Tree

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Create and Update Jobs from Asset or Site

Manage Assets and Sites > Create and Update Jobs from Asset or Site

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Navigate through Asset Hierarchy

Manage Assets and Sites > Navigate through Asset Hierarchy

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Move an Asset

Manage Assets and Sites > Move an Asset

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Export Assets

Manage Assets and Sites > Export Assets

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View History of Asset Updates

Manage Assets and Sites > View History of Asset Updates

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Delete Assets and Sites

Manage Assets and Sites > Delete assets and sites

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Configure Custom Asset Statuses

Learn how to define custom asset statuses for the terminologies used in your business that represent various stages of asset lifecycle

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Defining Asset (with Custom Parameters, Data Groups and Asset Type)

Create Asset Data Groups and Custom Parameters

Learn how to record specifications, attributes or conditions for a type of asset with the use of asset data groups and custom parameters

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Create Asset Type

Learn how to create asset types in hierarchy, just as they physically exist on site

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Add Asset Data Group to Asset Type

Learn how to associate the custom parameters of an asset data group with asset type to help you define and create assets

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Create an Asset

Learn how to create a physical asset and accurately set its location

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Enabling Customer-specific Views and Interactions

View Jobs and Assets through Customer Portal

Learn how to access a customer portal to keep track of jobs and assets/sites relevant to that account

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Create Customer Portal

Learn how to facilitate your customers with a dedicated Loc8 account where they can view their jobs and assets

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Using Quotes

Create and Send Quotes

Learn how to create an estimate of tasks and charges, and send it to customer before starting the actual field work

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Create Quote from Email

Learn how to action work requests received on emails by converting them to quotes

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Using Invoices

Create and View Invoices

Learn how to create invoices and get paid for the completed works

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Automating notifications and process

Introduction to Automation Rules

Learn the basics and know about the default rules available to you for notifying associated contacts and technicians

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Create Message Templates

Learn how to tailor outgoing messages sent out to people responsible for a job who need to be updated about occurrence of certain events

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Automate notifications

Learn how to set conditions that will trigger automation rules and notifications based on selected message template

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Reporting a Problem

Define Problem Types

Learn how to create problem types to record and categorise different problems in field and create the opportunity for speedy resolution

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Report Problems on an Asset or Site

Learn how to report and view problems against assets and sites, along with photos, detailed descriptions, location information and more

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