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Start work checklist

The reminders a team member reads on a job before they start work on it.

Last updated 23 Oct 2026

Overview

A short list of reminders shown on a job in the Mobile app, before the technician taps Start Work. Use it for whatever your business wants checked every time - the right isolation, the right paperwork, a look at the site before touching anything.

The Start Work Checklist settings screen, listing the items in order

What it is

One list, shared by the whole company. It is not per job, per customer or per job type: every technician sees the same items on every job.

Where you set itScheduler hamburger menu → Start Work Checklist
Where it comes fromTyped here. Nothing imports it from your accounting system
Where your team sees itThe Mobile app, on a job’s Info tab, above the Start Work button
Who sees itEveryone, on every job

Building the list

Each row is one item: a drag handle on the left, the text itself, and a × on the right to remove it.

Step by step: add and order items
  1. Click Add item. An empty row appears.
  2. Type the text, then click away or press Enter. There is no Save button - a row saves itself when you leave the box.
  3. Drag a row by its handle to move it. The new order saves by itself too.
  4. Click × on a row to remove it.

Editing an existing item works the same way: click into the text, change it, click away.

The order here is the order on the phone, and the phone numbers them 1 -, 2 - and so on, so write them in the order you want them done.

What the technician sees

The items appear as a numbered list of text. There is nothing to tick. Tradie does not record that a technician read them, and nothing stops them starting work - this is a reminder on the screen they are already looking at, not a gate.

Note

If you need a record of what was checked, this is the wrong tool. Build a form in the Report Designer and place it on the job’s Info tab instead: a form is filled in, submitted and kept against the job, and you can see the answers later in Completed forms.

An empty list shows nothing at all. The heading only appears on the phone once there is at least one item, so a company that does not want it simply leaves it empty.

A change reaches a phone the way every other setting does - the next time the app starts, or within about six hours. See when a phone sees a change.

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