Note Adding/Removing routes will affect your monthly billing subscription. The amount depends upon which plan you are in. Go to settings/billing & subscription for more information.
Summary
Create users based on their role and how they will interact with Fieldwork. The roles include: admin, schedule, customers, invoicing, reporting, and technician. You might have multiple roles in a small office, or just one role in a large office. Admin includes all of the roles, technician has the technician role only.
Key Points
Usually users are either office personnel or field technicians
Office personnel do their work in a computer browser
Field technicians do their work in our mobile app
All users need an email address and password to use Fieldwork
Click the Settings gear icon in the upper-right corner
Click Users & Routes (left-side column, fourth from the bottom)
Click New User in the upper-right corner of your browser
The employee's information is on the left side of the page:
Enter the first and last name
Enter the employee's phone number; if you want the ability to text this person's mobile phone, enter the country code (+1 for U.S, +61, for Australia...) before the area code (only with business and pro plan)
To find your country's Country Code, search the internet for: list country code numberEnter the home address (this is for techs starting their day from home, which makes optimizing their schedule easier)
4. Enter the License# if this is a technician
5. Enter the employee's email address; you'll be able to send a technician a daily
work email list of all the stops:
Send daily work order email at, select a time
Send Now, send the list now
Send daily email for tomorrow, sends tomorrows list
6. Enter a password for the employee and confirm it; a password is required to use
Fieldwork
7. If the employee is to receive a sales or service commission, enter the percentage
Certain jobs might need more work so you increase the commission for those jobs. Override the commissions for those services. The amount is the percentage for that service.
8. Select the employee's mobile device type in the drop-down list; if it is not
accurate, you will not be able to send this employee text messages
9. Add a little biography as this information appears in the appointment reminder
email to the customers
10. Add a photo as this too appears in the appointment reminder email; this gives
the customer a visual confirmation when the technician arrives
The roles the employee takes on is on the right side of the page:
If you have more than one branch, select the branch this user will be in; a user can be in multiple branches
Enter the time zone this employee is in; if the employee is remote and in a different time zone, enter that employee's time zone
Enter the user role(s) this employee has; remember, Admin includes all of the roles.
A person assigned to schedule can make changes to all things that affect the schedule - the Dashboard contains Calendar, Estimates, and Work Orders only
A person assigned to customers can make changes to all things that affect the customers account information - the Dashboard contains Customers and Marketing only
A person assigned to invoicing can make changes to all things that affect the invoices - the Dashboard contains Invoices and Payments only
A person assigned to reporting can make changes to all things that affect the reports - the Dashboard contains Reports only
A person assigned to technician has a more limited role. These are your people in the field doing the actual work. A tech can see only the customers assigned to him or her. Tech’s can’t see each other's work or customers.
Read only gives a user read-only access to what ever other roles they have
Estimates gives a user access to Estimates
Agreements gives a user access to Agreements
Tasks gives a user access to Tasks
Work Orders gives a user access to Work Orders
Renewal Notices gives a user access to Renewal Notices
A person can have multiple roles, such as Schedule, Customers, Invoicing and Reporting. A person assigned the Admin role cannot have other roles assigned because all the other roles are encapsulated within the Admin role. A person assigned the Technician role cannot have other roles assigned because the Technician role is designed to be limited to that role only.
15. Give user mobile customer access; downloads the entire customer database to
the mobile device - if you do not want your tech to have access to all of your
customers keep this check box clear
16. Only show address for customers; the customer's name is not available to this
tech
17. Active User (and Route, if assigned); click this to make this employee active and
assign a route
18. Service Route; is used for technicians, either assign the tech to an existing route,
or create a new route
19. The Route Name should be however you want to manage your routes; you can
create routes by route number, region, service category, etc.
Note The following are common route names:
* By name: Route 1, Route 2, Route 3...
* By area: Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, Southeast (or even by zip code)
* By service: Termite, General PC, Commercial, Food Plant
20. For the Start and End Points click where the technician will be starting and
ending their day; this is used for routing purposes
21. Add zip codes in Zip list to assign a zip code to that technician
Note The purpose of this field is to find technicians by zip code in the calendar.
When you know a customer's zip code and you need to find a tech assigned to
that zip code, enter it in the Filter routes by zip... search box
As you type the zip code, the techs who have that zip code in the Zip list appear.
This makes it easier to assign a tech based on geographic location
22. Apply a color to the user for easy identification in the calendar
23. Click the green Add User button in the lower left of the page
Go back into this new user's account by clicking the new tech's name so you can share the calendar.
Share your calendar
Share your fieldwork calendar with Outlook, Apple or Google calendar. Copy the link and open your third-party calendar. Add it to the option that allows you to add another calendar. For example, in Google Calendar, click the down arrow to the right of Other Calendars, click Add by URL, paste the link into the URL box.
In Summary
At the very least, you need to perform these steps to create or edit a user. On the left side of the page:
Enter the user's first and last name
Enter an email address
Enter and confirm the password
On the right side of the page:
Select the role for this person
If the person IS a tech, click the [x] Technician check box
If it's a new route: give the tech a Route Name where it states e.g. "Route #1"
If the person IS NOT a tech, click the appropriate Role(s) check boxes, for the Service route click <<Add new route>> and click <<None>>
Click the green Add user button
Note Your monthly Fieldwork subscription is adjusted according to how many routes you have active in Fieldwork. There is no surcharge for any other users.
After you create a user you’ll see the Users page. Here you can edit or deactivate your users.
When an employee is no longer with you
After an employee has left you can deactivate that route from the Settings/User & Routes page.
If the technician still has assigned jobs, move the work to another route.
For more information about removing one tech and moving work to another tech see: Deactivate a User/Route
IMPORTANT Do not delete a technician. Deleting a tech removes that person from all Work Orders, which could mean a large fine from your auditor. Most jurisdictions require you to hold on to your data for 36 months, after which you can delete the tech. But ask your auditor first.
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