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How to set up JobCardOS for an HVAC company

Every unit on record by its serial number, readings taken on site, and maintenance contracts that book their own visits.

About 20 minutes · 9 steps

Step 1

Sign up and choose HVAC & Refrigeration

Pick HVAC & Refrigeration when you sign up. You start with an HVAC company's price list — aircon service & clean, gas regas, fault diagnosis, split unit installation and more — which you edit to your own prices under Settings → Services.

Add each HVAC technician under Settings → Technicians so every job can be assigned to whoever is doing it.

Step 2

Put your logo on the job card

Under Settings → Branding, upload your logo and write the terms you want above the customer's signature. Your logo then appears on every printed job card, invoice and statement.

Branding settings for a demo HVAC company with its logo uploaded and job card terms filled in
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Step 3

Bring your customers across

Under Customers → Import, upload your customer list as a spreadsheet (CSV). Name first; phone, email and address are picked up if they are there. The address shows on every job and opens in Google Maps.

Step 4

Book a job in

Book a job in asks for the customer, their number, the unit and what needs doing — an aircon service, a regas or an install, for example. It takes under a minute, on the phone or at the desk.

Straight after, one tap opens WhatsApp from your own number with the confirmation already written.

The book-a-job-in screen on a phone for a demo HVAC company
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Step 5

Print the job card

Print job card gives an A4 card with your logo, the customer, the unit (make, model and serial number), the work requested, the estimate and a signature line — with a tear-off tag carrying the job number.

A printed job card for a demo HVAC company
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Step 6

Move each job through, and tell the customer

Jobs move Booked → On Site → Work in Progress → Work Done → Signed Off, in the words your trade uses. The week view shows what is on each day; when a job is done you are offered a one-tap WhatsApp to the customer.

The week view for a demo HVAC company
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Step 7

Switch on the checklist

Under Settings → Checklist, switch on the HVAC & Refrigeration list — filters cleaned, coils cleaned, drain line cleared and more — and record it on every job. It is saved on the job, printed on the invoice and sent to the customer in one tap.

Checklist settings for a demo HVAC company
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Step 8

Set up maintenance contracts to repeat

On a customer's page, set work to repeat every month, quarter or year. Each visit lands on your week by itself with the same service and price, and you can pause or stop it at any time.

A customer page for a demo HVAC company with a repeating contract
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Step 9

A history for every unit

Every job is kept against the unit itself. Open any job and you see everything done to that unit before; open a customer and you see each of their units and when each was last in.

A job page for a demo HVAC company showing earlier work on the same unit
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Ready to set up your HVAC company?

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