Field crew & site toolkit

The Craneye app is the phone-friendly side of Craneye that field crew, operators and drivers use on site: checking in, logging hours and machines, tracking a crane’s move to site or a trailer’s route, and reporting problems as they happen. It’s built to keep working even with no signal — everything saves on the phone and syncs when you’re back online.

Field crew sign in with the login their owner or operations lead created (see signing in). This page covers the two sides of the on-site app: the daily job (for crew, operators and drivers) and the on-site toolkit (for operations and workshop roles).

Your day: check in

When you sign in you land on My jobs — your shift, your tracking status, and the jobs assigned to you.

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Off shift — tap Check in to start your day.

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On shift — location is shared with the office.

1. Tap Start shift / Check in at the top. This is a day-level check-in — one per working day.

2. While you’re checked in and on an active job, the app shares your location with the office. The green banner confirms “Location tracking ON.” Check out at the end of the day with End shift / Check out and sharing stops.

First-run setup — do this once

The first time you check in, the app walks you through the permissions it needs to keep working with the screen off. You can’t check in until these are done:

1. Location — “Allow all the time.” Craneye needs background location to keep sharing your position on a job.
2. Unrestricted battery. So Android doesn’t kill tracking to save power (one tap on the system dialog).
3. Auto-start (some phone brands only — Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Huawei, Samsung…). Lets the app restart itself after the phone reboots; the app deep-links you to the right settings screen.

If tracking ever stops mid-shift, the banner turns red — “Tracking stopped — tap to fix,” and tapping it re-opens this setup.

Log the day

Tap Open daily log on a job to record what happened. The daily log adapts to what you’re driving.

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The daily log — here for a trailer, with the route-trip recorder.

• Pick the day with the date stepper (you can back-date, but not past today) — one log per day.
• Pick the machine if the job has more than one.
• Notes — a free-text note of what happened on site.
• Photos — snap or pick machine & site photos (they upload when you have signal).
• Save today’s log — saves on the phone immediately and syncs when you’re online.

Cranes — transit to site

On a crane job, the log has a transit control: tap 🚚 Leaving yard when you set off, and ✓ Arrived when you reach site. That records the yard-to-site leg on the map for the office. Crane jobs also have the manual hours block — shift 1 / shift 2, engine hours start/end, and standby.

Trailers — record the route

On a trailer job (drivers), the log records the route trip instead — and hours are worked out automatically from the trip, so there’s no manual-hours block.

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Recording — the office sees the trip live.

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Log a break — a reason is required.

1. Tap 🛣 Start route trip — the office sees the journey live, and GPS keeps recording with the screen off.
2. Stopping? Tap Log break and type why (tea break, fuel, traffic…). The trip keeps recording — just drive off when you’re done. These stops, with their reasons, show on the office’s route replay.
3. When you get there, tap ✓ Arrived — add an optional arrival note, and the trip ends.

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Arrived — ends the trip.

Client sign-off

Tap Client signature on the daily log to capture the client’s sign-off: their name and phone, plus a photo of the signed paper sheet. It stays on the log and flows onto the timesheet the office generates.

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Capture the client's sign-off — it flows onto the office timesheet.

No signal? No problem

Everything on the daily log saves to your phone the moment you hit Save — you’ll see “Saved on device — will sync when you have signal.” It uploads by itself once you’re back in coverage, so you never lose a log on a remote site.

The on-site toolkit

Crew in operations and workshop roles get an extra home — the toolkit — a grid of quick on-site jobs. Like the daily log, everything queues offline and syncs when you’re back online (a banner shows anything still waiting, and you can review it in Queue).

Find machine Search by tag or scan a QR / barcode to pull up a machine.

Machine detail A machine's basics, plus a quick hour-meter reading and one-tap actions.

Machine photo Photograph a machine and set a primary photo.

Timesheet (operations) Log a job's hours, operator and a photographed signed sheet.

Daily site report (operations) Weather, wind, crew on site, lifts, hours and incidents — one per job per day.

Post-job check (operations) Sign off a demobilising job — flag any damage to raise a work order.

Breakdown (workshop) Raise an urgent breakdown work order against a machine.

Parts issue (workshop) Issue parts from a store against a machine.

Queue Everything waiting to sync — retry or discard failed items.

Which tiles you see depends on your role — operations and workshop each get the tools that fit their work.

Owners & managers

Owners don’t use this on-site side — they get a read-only command centre instead. See the Owner & manager app.