The Rebuilt Calendar
The tablet and desktop calendar was rebuilt in the September 2026 update around a workspace layout: a collapsible side rail, a command band above the schedule, and a redesigned toolbar. This article covers how to get around it. For creating and assigning jobs, see How to Schedule Jobs & Events.
Quick Facts
Available on: All plans
Views: Day, Week, and Month — all with drag-to-reschedule
Undo: five seconds on desktop; a ten-second confirmation with a close button on the phone
Travel ribbon: real road distance between the day's stops, on every account
Route Optimization toggle: Elite and Max, metered in IQ Credits
The Layout
Side rail (collapsible) — a mini month, the crew key, and filters. In Month view it also lists the selected day's agenda in time order, with names, services, and end times; tap a row to open that appointment.
Toolbar — segmented Day / Month and All / Jobs / Events controls, plus Today, Route Optimization, Filter, and Map buttons, and the Views switch.
Day timeline on desktop now shows about half again as many hours at once.
Day, Week, and Month
All three views use the same colour-coded job chips and support drag-to-reschedule.
Week view is new. On busy days, week chips grow into small cards; day columns have a draggable scrollbar.
Month view is back. Drag a job onto another day and it reschedules, keeps its start time, and shows a five-second undo.
Day view shows the timeline for one day; on the phone, swipe between days and the week strip moves with you.
How to read the chips: unassigned jobs show in navy; finished jobs read as done in Month and Week; jobs that already have an invoice carry an "Invoiced" chip; Schedule Later jobs sort by their tentative date; entries without a customer are labelled by their title or services rather than a bare "Event" or "Job". Solo businesses don't see an "Unassigned" chip at all.
Colours and job numbers: calendar events are coloured by who they're assigned to, and each job's number (for example "Job #101") shows on its calendar event. Recurring visits show as "Job #105-2". Tapping the number opens the job.
Dragging Jobs
Drag a job to a new day or time in any view. On desktop you have five seconds to undo; on the phone the confirmation stays for ten seconds with a close button, and a stray drag no longer changes the date.
Repeating visits: dragging one occurrence moves only that occurrence, never the whole series.
Multi-day jobs draw as one continuous bar and keep their full length even when dragged across a daylight-saving change.
Turning a saved job recurring keeps it on the calendar; unchecking a recurring job cancels all its remaining occurrences.
Conflict Warnings and Gap Space
A schedule-conflict warning tells you when a crew or person is double-booked.
When two jobs collide, an overlap sheet shows each job's customer, phone, and services so you can decide which one moves.
Job cards grow into free gap space, so a short job between two long ones is still readable.
The Travel Ribbon and Route Optimization
A travel ribbon runs along the calendar showing real road distance between each of the day's stops — so you can see a 40-minute gap between two jobs while you're still deciding where to put the third. The ribbon works on every account.
On Elite and Max, open the day's detail sheet and turn on Route Optimization; the day's stops are ordered for you. This uses IQ Credits per leg it resolves and is an owner-level opt-in. See Using Route Optimization.
Also New
Calendar Templates — a settings screen for reusable calendar setups.
Video attachments on calendar entries.
Filters — filtering to a person no longer hides their events, the account owner can be filtered on, the crew filter honours every crew you pick, and the filter menu closes after a pick on mobile, desktop, and the jobs dashboard.
Job form — warns before you leave with unsaved changes and lets you discard them (the separate Save button is gone). Sharing or copying a Job Form link saves the form first so the link works.
Google Calendar sync was rebuilt alongside the calendar — see Google Calendar Sync.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Week view on every plan?
Yes. Day, Week, and Month views are on all plans, Essentials included.
I dragged a job to the wrong day — can I undo it?
Yes. On desktop, an undo appears for five seconds after the drop. On the phone, the confirmation stays for ten seconds with a close button.
If I drag one visit of a recurring job, does the whole series move?
No. Only the occurrence you dragged moves.
What does the travel ribbon show?
Real road distance between each stop on the day, using the same road-distance service as the route tools. It's on every account; ordering the stops for you (Route Optimization) is Elite and Max.
Why does a job show in navy?
Navy means it's unassigned. Assign a person (Pro and above) or a crew (Max) and it takes that assignee's colour.
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