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What are checklists?

Checklists are reusable in-job forms. You build a checklist once — a set of questions like water chemistry readings, tasks completed, before/after photos, or a customer sign-off — and it appears automatically on the jobs it applies to. Your crew fills it out in the field, and the answers are saved to the visit. Think of a checklist as the standard set of things you want captured every time a particular kind of work is done. Instead of relying on memory or free-form notes, checklists make sure the same details are recorded consistently on every visit. Common uses:
  • Pool chemistry — free chlorine, pH, alkalinity, and other readings on every service
  • Task confirmation — a checkbox list of what was completed
  • Photo documentation — before and after photos of the work
  • Customer sign-off — a signature confirming the work was done

Where to find checklists

Click Checklists in the sidebar, under the BUSINESS section (next to Services). This opens your Checklists library — a list of every checklist available to your business. Checklists library The library shows two kinds of checklists:
  • Your checklists — the ones you build yourself. These are fully editable.
  • ProBase checklists — ready-made templates provided by ProBase and marked with a ProBase tag. These are automatically added to services that match your industry. You can’t edit them, but you can preview them and choose which services they apply to. See ProBase system checklists.
Each row shows the checklist name and how many questions it contains (including how many are required). ProBase checklists also carry a ProBase tag and a chip for each industry they match.

What you can do

1

Build a checklist

Create your own checklists with the mobile-first builder — add sections and questions, choose when the checklist should appear, and decide whether the answers show up on the customer’s invoice. See Building checklists.
2

Attach it to services

Connect a checklist to one or more of your services so it shows up automatically on those jobs. See Attaching checklists to services.
3

Fill it out on the job

When a crew opens a job that has a checklist, they fill it out on the appointment screen. Answers save automatically as they go. See Completing checklists on a job.
4

Share it with the customer

Choose which filled-in items appear on the customer’s invoice as a Service Report, giving customers a professional record of the work performed. See The customer Service Report.

Managing checklists from the library

Each of your own checklists has an overflow menu (the button) with two actions:
  • Duplicate — make a copy you can modify without changing the original. Handy for creating a variation of an existing checklist.
  • Delete — permanently remove a checklist you no longer use.
Checklist overflow menu
Deleting a checklist can’t be undone. Existing answers already captured on completed visits are preserved, but the checklist will no longer appear on future jobs.
To create a new checklist, tap New checklist at the top of the library. To edit one of your existing checklists, tap its row.