Jobs
What it’s for — a Job is one piece of work for one customer at one site. It ties together the machine(s), the crew, the dates, the money and the paperwork in a single record.
When you’d use it — every time a customer books you for a lift or a haul. Once a quote is accepted it becomes a job; you can also create a job directly.
Create a job
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Open Jobs from the sidebar and click + New job.
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Pick the client — an existing registered customer, or a one-off walk-in — and add their PO number if they gave you one.
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Enter the site: name, address, contact, and its latitude/longitude. The coordinates power the job’s Map tab, so don’t skip them.
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Set the lift category (Routine or Critical) and the shift pattern (Single or Two shift), then the start and end dates.
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Choose the charging structure — Day rate, Monthly rate or Lump sum — the contract currency, and any mobilisation amount.
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Save. The job opens on its Overview tab.
The job record — tabs
Everything about the job lives across its tabs: Overview, Cranes (the machines on this job — any asset type, not just cranes), Crew, Cost, Timesheets, Map, Route, Lift plans, Documents, HSC and History.
Status flow
Move the job through its lifecycle with the buttons at the top: Draft → Scheduled → Mobilising → In progress → Demobilising → Completed (or Cancelled at any point).
Assigning machines — the safety gate
Assigning a machine isn’t just picking it from a list — Craneye checks it’s legal and safe to dispatch first.
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Open the Cranes tab and pick a Machine.
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Set its mobilise/demob dates and, if you like, an agreed day rate.
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Click Assign machine. Craneye runs the safety gate against it.
The gate can show two things:
- Warnings (yellow) — the machine is already on another job, or has no certificates on record. You can still click Assign anyway.
- Blocks (red) — a required statutory certificate is missing or expired. Only a Manager (or above) can proceed, by typing a reason of at least 20 characters. The override is recorded to the job’s Dispatch overrides panel — immutable, showing who overrode it, when, why, and exactly which rules failed.
See Dispatch & the safety gate for the full rules on what’s a hard stop versus a warning.
Crew
On the Crew tab, assign people with a role on the job (Operator, Rigger, and so on), and optionally link an operator to a specific machine. Assigning someone who’s already booked elsewhere shows a warning but doesn’t block — only machines are gated.
Route and Map
The Route tab covers trailer journeys for this job — the approved route and the replay of what was actually driven. See Multi-asset jobs, Route trips and Route replay for the full detail.
The Map tab shows live positions for the job’s machines and crew, plus the driven route line, while the job is active.
Billing
Day-rate jobs bill from mobilise to demob — the demob day itself isn’t billed. The Cost tab rolls up actuals against the contract as the job runs. When the work is done, click Generate invoice from the job header.
History
The History tab logs every change made to the job — what changed, who made it, and when.
Common questions
- Can one job have more than one machine? Yes — assign as many as the job needs; each gets its own dates and rate.
- A machine I need is blocked. Now what? Fix the underlying problem (renew the certificate, resolve the clash), or ask a manager to override with a reason if it’s genuinely safe to proceed.
- What happens to machines proposed from a quote if I do nothing? They stay proposed — visible but not billing or blocking — until someone confirms or declines them.