[Rob @ Cleaner Planner]

I was  a George user with the mobile option of a pda......Couldnt fault it. I uploaded a weeks worth of jobs at a time at the weekend onto the pda. Then when each job was done just ticked it off on the pda, on friday did a sync and the jobs a good un, all the ticked off jobs were were uploaded on to the laptop and a new weekly batch of jobs were downloaded onto the pda with the not done jobs on top of the list so they were done first.

This is my point, ive been using aworka now for about 4 months as my business changed but say if you have scheduled 15 jobs in for that day and for what ever reason you do only 10 it doesnt automatically carry the overdue jobs onto the next day.

Its only a little moan but if this was fixed it would be perfect for me.......

In CP you add your day's work to a worksheet. If you don't finish all the work it will still be there for you to finish tomorrow (in main CP and on the mobile app).

You can set the planner to show "Done" jobs and it will show them (crossed out) when you actually did them now when they were due.

You can also download a whole week's worth of work to the mobile app and go offline for the whole week if that suits (just like George + PDA).

[Chris @ Aworka]

There are a couple of things I'd like to mention about the scheduling in Aworka, which may help those having problems...

Firstly, you can set up the auto scheduling to plan from when a job was due rather than when it was done. In this mode, if you do a job a couple of days late and drag it forward on the planner, it will stay on the original schedule for next time allowing you to catch up, rather than remaining two days ahead.

Secondly, you don't have to plan any work in advance if you use the mobile app, which might be a better approach if you find you are constantly having to move planned work around. With nothing planned and auto planning turned off, you can click on the More Jobs button on the mobile app and pick any job from the list to do next. The list of jobs is shown in next due date order and colour coded so that you can see which jobs you should be doing. You can also filter the list by round if you want to choose jobs from a particular area.

Hope this helps, but please send me an email if you need more info about the above...

[Rob @ Cleaner Planner]

So... you asked, I listened - Cleaner Planner now has drag & drop

www.cleanerplanner.com/demos/planner/drag-and-drop

You can select multiple jobs and even move a whole round at a time.

Also note how the job gets crossed out when it was actually done.

Any questions or feedback give me a shout.

[dave0123]

There are a couple of things I'd like to mention about the scheduling in Aworka, which may help those having problems...

Firstly, you can set up the auto scheduling to plan from when a job was due rather than when it was done. In this mode, if you do a job a couple of days late and drag it forward on the planner, it will stay on the original schedule for next time allowing you to catch up, rather than remaining two days ahead.

Secondly, you don't have to plan any work in advance if you use the mobile app, which might be a better approach if you find you are constantly having to move planned work around. With nothing planned and auto planning turned off, you can click on the More Jobs button on the mobile app and pick any job from the list to do next. The list of jobs is shown in next due date order and colour coded so that you can see which jobs you should be doing. You can also filter the list by round if you want to choose jobs from a particular area.

Hope this helps, but please send me an email if you need more info about the above...

When using the mobile app.. say a job is due on the 1st of the month but you don't get round to doing it until 20th of the month and you tick it off done on the mobile app... completed... it shows on the planner on the 20th it was done,  but it also shows on the 1st of the month as "un completed" and when you are working behind a big schedule for any reason usually bad weather or holiday this becomes very confusing because you may have 30-40 jobs overdue at once.

It would be nice if it was to at least change colour on the 1st of the month so we know to ignore it or something like that after its been completed on the 20th. Otherwise it just ends up being a complete mess and you don't no where you are in the end.

[Dave Willis]

Rob, have you changed the pricing structure - don't remember seeing the mobile app in the starter version before?

[Rob @ Cleaner Planner]

Rob, have you changed the pricing structure - don't remember seeing the mobile app in the starter version before?

Hi Dave, yep, in the end I came to agree that the whole point of something like this is to enable you to go paperless, whether you're a one man band or a multi.

That's why you've also got the email invoicing in the Starter now as well. You can send emails with your logo and footer, from your business email address, directly from CP

GoCardless and SMS are big time savers which I and everyone who uses them firmly believe are well worth the slight premium.

I've also added a "Quick add job" feature recently so you can enter new jobs for new customers without having to flip between tabs and windows (which I know you weren't too keen on )

You still get the tabs when you're editing records though as they give you access to the customer's transactions, invoices, notes etc.

And I added drag and drop to the planner today... phew!

https://www.cleanerplanner.com/demos/planner/drag-and-drop

[Rob @ Cleaner Planner]

P.S. Email me if you'd like another trial as I know you didn't really get going last time. Happy to walk you through things again

[Dave Willis]

Any chance of a screen shot of the mobile version on here?

Aworka seems to be getting better - bit of competition seems to be a good thing.

[8weekly]

Cleaner Planner looks uncompetitive when you add SMS. 150% more than Aworka.

[Rob @ Cleaner Planner]

Cleaner Planner looks uncompetitive when you add SMS. 150% more than Aworka.

Price isn't the only way to compete, nor the only factor in value.

Sure - I'll post a screenshot of the mobile app in a bit  

[Rob @ Cleaner Planner]

P.S. The Pro package now includes Dropbox integration so you can backup your entire CP account to your Dropbox with one click (backs up to the cloud and your PC or Mac).

So hot off the press that one I haven't put it on the website yet, I think I'll do that now This is in addition to GoCardless, SMS, Mailchimp, and multi-user (up to 5 users at no extra cost)

With the Starter you can still download your entire account as a ZIP of Excel files (e.g. to save to a USB stick) with a single click without having to click into each tab and export manually.

[Chris @ Aworka]

When using the mobile app.. say a job is due on the 1st of the month but you don't get round to doing it until 20th of the month and you tick it off done on the mobile app... completed... it shows on the planner on the 20th it was done,  but it also shows on the 1st of the month as "un completed" and when you are working behind a big schedule for any reason usually bad weather or holiday this becomes very confusing because you may have 30-40 jobs overdue at once.

It would be nice if it was to at least change colour on the 1st of the month so we know to ignore it or something like that after its been completed on the 20th. Otherwise it just ends up being a complete mess and you don't no where you are in the end.

Hi Dave, could you email me directly about this? I've got some ideas to discuss with you...

[Window Lickers]

This thread is about Aworka - thanks guys