The field app

OfficeKit.

The whole job, done on your phone before you pull off the driveway. Works with no signal at all and catches up when you're back in range.

Start here

No signal is not a problem

Basements, mechanical rooms, vaults, jobs out past the last bar of service. Create the job, shoot the photos, take the signature, record the payment — all of it offline. When the phone finds a signal it syncs itself and you don't have to think about it.

This isn't a feature we bolted on. The app is built offline-first, which is a different thing from an app that copes with a bad connection.

A job, start to finish

Everything that happens at the kerb.

On site

Jobs with checklists, photos and a signature

Work the checklist, shoot before and after, have the customer sign on the screen. The record is finished when the job is.

Quoting

Estimates that carry your margin quietly

Build the estimate in front of the customer while the app tracks what you're actually making on it. They see the price; you see the margin.

Getting paid

Invoice and take the payment there and then

Estimate becomes job becomes invoice with nothing retyped and nothing lost along the way. Payment link or QR code, and the money goes to your Stripe account.

Solo mode

Works fine as the only app you use

If it's just you and you don't want a computer in the loop, OfficeKit stands on its own.

The paperwork nobody wants to do

Done in the truck instead of at 11pm.

Expenses

Snap the receipt and it sorts itself

Photograph the receipt at the counter and it's read and mapped to the right Schedule C line. The shoebox on the passenger seat stops existing.

Mileage

Miles at the IRS rate

Recorded as you go, valued properly, and it lands in the Tax Time report without you doing anything in April.

Subs

1099 contractor tracking

What you paid whom, with their tax IDs encrypted. January stops being a scramble.

Your trade

The work layer, in your pocket

Buy a work layer and its tab appears here too — the same fields, the same words, the same document, available on the phone where the work happens.

Being sensible about it

Straight answers about the phone app.

One seat is included with the $299 package. Extra seats are $99 each, whenever you hire. Buy OfficeKit on its own for $149 if the phone is all you need.

Getting it on the phone

There is nothing to download.

OfficeKit opens in your phone's browser and then sits on the home screen like any other app. Skipping the app store is deliberate: no 30% cut buried in the price, no review queue between a fix and your phone, and no overnight update that moves the buttons you'd already learned.

iPhone

  • 1Open field.sterlingesolutions.com in Safari and sign in.
  • 2Tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.

Android

  • 1Open field.sterlingesolutions.com in Chrome and sign in.
  • 2Tap Install when Chrome offers it, or the menu, then Add to home screen.

On an iPhone it has to be Safari — Add to Home Screen doesn't exist in the other browsers there, and that's Apple's rule rather than mine. If your boss set the seat up for you, they'll hand you a pairing code; enter it when OfficeKit asks and the phone is yours.

The two apps are better together, but neither one holds the other hostage.

Buy the phone app alone. Buy the office hub alone. Buy both and pay less than the two separately. Add the other later for the difference.

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