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What you're on, what's coming, and what it actually made

Most of the stress in a one-van business isn't the plastering. It's the eleven half-remembered things: whose quote is still unanswered, when the scaffold's coming, whether that job in March made anything. All of it is on two screens.

The PlasterFlow home screen showing the to-do list grouped by urgency above the job in progress
Home — your list, then the job you're on
Home

A to-do list that's yours, not the app's

Nothing gets dumped into this list automatically. It holds what you put in it, grouped by when it's due — Overdue, Today, This week, Later — with anything overdue counted at the top so it can't hide.

  • Quick chips for the things you add constantly — Call…, Order materials, Chase quote, Book scaffold, Invoice… — so it's two taps, not typing.
  • Put a time on it and your phone rings — “Book skip to drop at 21 High St, today 5pm”. Anything without a date sits quietly at the bottom.
  • It links to the job. A to-do raised against a customer shows their name as a chip you can tap straight through.
  • Tick it and it's gone — on every device, so it doesn't come back on the Mac tomorrow.

Below the list is the job you're actually on: big, with its own reminders as chips, the agreed value, and the buttons for adding a day, adding materials, or opening Maps.

The PlasterFlow jobs list, laid out by status and booked date
Jobs — the schedule, not a database
Jobs

Laid out by the day they're booked

The Jobs screen is a schedule: what you're on now, what starts next week, what's pencilled in for the month. Not an alphabetical list you have to interpret.

Each job carries a status — enquiry, quoted, booked, in progress, invoiced, paid — colour-coded so a glance down the list tells you where your money is. Statuses move themselves as you work: quote a job and it's quoted, they accept and it books, the start date arrives and it goes in progress.

  • It starts jobs on their date — but if you've moved a job by hand, it stays where you put it. An automatic rule that keeps undoing your decision is worse than no rule.
  • Chase-ups surface. A quote sitting unanswered is something the app raises rather than something you happen to remember in the shower.
  • Key dates per job — scaffold, skip, materials. Anything still marked needs booking says so.
  • Tell the customer drafts the “we're starting Monday” message for you.
Money

Profit per job, while the job is still running

Not at year-end, when it's too late to do anything about it.

Costs go on as you spend them

Three buttons on the job: ＋ Day for a day on site, ＋ Materials for what you've bought, ＋ Other for the skip, the scaffold, the hire. The job's profit so far — the agreed value minus what's gone out — updates as you tap.

It's a running figure, so by the time you invoice, you already know what the job made. If it's going the wrong way you find out in week one, not in April.

Building a materials order in PlasterFlow, with a running total that feeds the job's costs

Paid against outstanding

The Money view totals what's actually been paid against what you're still owed, so chasing is a list you work through.

Records, by customer and year

Every quote and invoice filed under the customer and inside the financial year. Your accountant gets a folder.

The variation counts too

Accepted extra works add to the job's value, so a job that grew is measured against what it actually became — not against the original quote.

Export it whenever

Backup / Export writes every job and every price out to a file. It's your data; there's no hostage-taking. Import puts it back, adding rather than deleting.

The unglamorous bit

It's built not to lose a job

The feature nobody asks about in a demo and everybody notices once. A job is somebody's house and somebody's money, so the app treats a failed save as an emergency rather than a shrug.

Works with no signal

Half the properties you go to have one bar in the back bedroom. The app runs from its own storage on the device and syncs when you're back in coverage — you're never sat waiting on a spinner in someone's hallway.

A save that fails is told to you

It retries, it shows you in red if it still can't, and it checks itself against the cloud copy every time the app opens. It will never quietly bin your customer's data, and it never auto-deletes a job.

Two devices, one truth

Phone, Mac and web on one account. Edit the same job in two places and the merge is per-field, so one device can't wipe the other's work — and a job you deleted stays deleted.

Your account is yours alone

Every row is tied to your account at the database level. Nobody else using PlasterFlow can see your jobs, your customers or your prices. Privacy policy →

Three example jobs to poke at

It starts with a plastering job, a rendering job and an EWI job already in it, so you can see a finished one before you risk a real one. One tap removes them.

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Put a real job through it

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