What this guide covers
How contacts are connected to properties and jobs, and which connection
decides who your quotes and invoices go to.
How the pieces fit
- Property owner: a property has one owner, a contact. The owner's
company is the property's company.
- On-site contacts: people listed on a property for your crew to reach.
They don't affect billing.
- Job customer: the contact a job is for. Quotes and invoices on the
job are addressed to that customer.
The job's customer and the property's owner are often the same person, but
they don't have to be. A landlord can own a property while a tenant is the
customer on a job there.
From the contact page
- Open the contact.
- On the Properties card, click Add Property.
- New Property opens with this contact chosen as the owner. Fill in the
address and click Create Property.
From the property page
- Open the property.
- On the Owner card, click Change owner (or Set owner).
- Pick the contact.
The property's company changes to the new owner's company.
- Open the property.
- On the Contacts card, click Add Contact.
- Enter the person's details and their Role.
Set a job's customer
- Open New Job.
- In Contact, pick the customer, or choose Create new contact.
- Pick the property, or create one. A property you create here gets the
job's customer as its owner.
Quotes and invoices on the job are addressed to this customer: on screen,
on PDFs, on the customer's quote and invoice pages, and in emails, texts,
reminders and receipts. If a job has no customer of its own, the property's
owner is used.
Many to many
- One contact can own many properties, for example a property manager with
several buildings.
- One property has one owner but can list many on-site contacts.
- One contact can be the customer on many jobs.
Removing a link
- To take a property away from a contact, give the property another owner.
An owner can be changed but not simply removed.
- A contact that still owns properties can't be deleted. Change the owner
of each property first.
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