Lesson 2 of 4 · 6 min

Dispatch and cost control

Assign in-house or to a vendor, collect estimates, approve a purchase order and generate the bill.

Each work order can go to an in-house technician or a vendor. Open the work order from the Maintenance list to dispatch it.

In-house technician

Choose Assign to technician. The technician logs hours on the Labor and notes tab. In-house labor has no outside payee, so it posts a journal entry, never a check.

The maintenance queue: work orders by property, unit, status and vendor. — The screen this lesson works in, from the StrivBridge sample company.

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