MG Jobs — what's new

Current version: 9.6 · Download installer · Buy a license

• Know where every part actually is — stock now lives in real places: your unit and each truck. Move parts between them, count what's on a shelf, and see the value sitting in each location. Your existing stock stays exactly as it is until you count it in, and moving parts around never changes your totals
• Suppliers and purchase orders — keep your suppliers with their account numbers and terms, then raise a proper printable PO. Anything below its minimum turns into a suggested order grouped by supplier, so the reorder list writes itself
• Part-load deliveries handled properly — receive what turned up, and the order stays open until the rest arrives
• What you actually paid, over time — every delivery records its unit cost, so you can see a part creep from $14 to $16 instead of only ever seeing today's price
• Scan a barcode or QR — a USB scanner or the camera finds the part instantly, then receive it, count it, or check its history
• Calculators for more trades — roof take-off (squares, bundles, underlayment, ice & water, ridge cap, drip edge), electrical service load and voltage drop with a suggested wire size, water heater sizing and supply-pipe sizing, and heating/cooling load with duct CFM. Each shows only for your trade
• Roofing joins the trade list with its own parts categories, starter stock, service prices, and an inspection checklist — plus a storm/insurance checklist built for adjuster documentation
• More on the scoreboard — response time (booked to on site), completion rate, customer satisfaction, stock value, and how many items are below minimum

• Door & spring calculator (garage trade) — enter the size and construction and get the door weight, turns, required spring rate with the three closest stock springs, correct cable size and expected spring life. The maths you normally leave the app and open a supplier chart for, done on the driveway
• Results copy straight into the job notes, and every result carries the safety warning — spring sizing is an aid, never a substitute for the manufacturer's chart
• Built as an industry module, so other trades get their own tools without changing anything else

• Built for your trade, not just garage doors — pick your trade at setup and the whole app follows: parts categories, starter stock, service plans, inspection checklists and invoice wording. Plumbing, HVAC, electrical, appliance repair, locksmith, cleaning, handyman and garage doors all included
• Website bookings arrive even when the window is closed — the app now keeps syncing in the background from the tray, so a job booked on your site pops up a notification straight away instead of waiting until you reopen it
• Move your tabs — drag the sidebar tabs into whatever order suits how you work; it remembers per user
• Fixed: blank business details could print the software vendor's name and phone on your invoices instead of yours

• "On my way" texts + live tracking — a tech taps On my way in the phone app and the customer gets a text with a live status page (Booked → On the way → On site → Done, with an ETA). No app for them to install
• Inspection checklists — set reusable checklists in Settings; they auto-attach to new jobs by service type, and your tech ticks them off from their phone
• Mark up photos — techs can circle the problem right on a job photo before it uploads
• Certification tracking — record each tech's licences/tickets with expiry dates (WHMIS, ladder, driver's abstract…); you're warned in Team and in the weekly email before they lapse
• Zapier / Make ready — fire events (job created, completed, paid, estimate approved) to any automation, plus new REST actions to update jobs and add notes (docs)

• Scoreboard — a live business dashboard in Money: this week's revenue vs last, jobs completed, average ticket, first-time-fix rate, money still owed, and revenue by technician
• Unpaid / aging — see exactly who owes you, bucketed by how overdue (0–30 / 31–60 / 61–90 / 90+ days), so nothing slips through
• One-tap route optimization — the dashboard can reorder today's stops into the shortest driving loop and open it in Maps
• Switch from other software — import your customers & history from Jobber, Housecall Pro or ServiceTitan, not just QuickBooks
• Get more reviews — completed-job messages can include your Google review link automatically
• Fixes a display issue that could leave parts of the app blank on some screens

• Put a booking / quote form on your own website — copy one snippet from Settings and paste it on any site (WordPress, Wix, plain HTML). Appointments & quote requests land on your board with a notification
• Faster auto-sync (every 3 minutes) so those website requests show up quickly
• Under the hood: automatic database integrity check on startup that self-heals from a backup if the file is ever damaged, plus write-lock & storage tuning

• Techs are properly limited — an employee signing in sees only their own jobs, no prices, and no settings/sync/license
• Login fixes — "keep me signed in" works across restarts, your username is remembered, and you can create an account or reset a password right from the sign-in screen
• Tech phone app sign-in fixed — "Open my jobs" now works for your own crew
• Fewer false "something glitched" pop-ups; sync & database controls are hidden on plans that don't include them

• Recurring service plans — offer memberships (e.g. "$199/yr tune-up plan"); customers subscribe on your portal and it bills automatically to your Stripe
• Online booking — customers pick a real open time slot and it lands on your board; plus they can approve estimates and message you right from the portal
• Route on the tech phone app — one tap opens the day's stops in Maps, in order
• Net pay & pay stubs — payroll now figures deductions and prints a stub per tech; and a weekly business-summary email

• Phone app for your techs — send each tech a link; they see only their own jobs and can change status, add photos, capture a signature, and clock in/out right from their phone. No install
• Estimates & quotes — mark a job as an estimate, print a proper quote, and convert it to a real job when the customer says yes
• Manage your account online — see your plan, seats, and renewal, download the installer, and (monthly) update your card or cancel through Stripe
• Nightly off-site backups of every account's data on our servers, plus a plain-English software license

• Security — locked down bring-your-own-database and outbound webhooks so they can only reach real public servers, never internal addresses
• Your customers see your currency — the portal, invoices and warranties now show £/€/¥ (whatever you use), not just dollars
• Clean-up controls — purge a former buyer's data in one click, live database-health indicator, plan-based storage that never blocks your real work
• Backups spell out local-vs-off-site, one-tap upgrade page, and a fix so an unreachable database can never stall a sync

• Run your sync on MySQL — far steadier than files when a whole team syncs at once. Turn it on in the web admin (uses the database you already have); Lifetime licenses can point the app at their own database too
• Automatic daily backups (recommended, on by default) — a rolling local copy of everything
• Upgrade right inside the app, live storage meter, and generous plan-based storage limits
• Your customers' emails wear your name — invoices and portal messages go out under each buyer's own business, not ours

• Replace QuickBooks — the Money view is now a full back office: record expenses, run payroll from job timers & wages, reconcile bank statements (CSV auto-match), and print a real profit & loss, quarterly tax summary, and balance sheet
• Import FROM QuickBooks — bring your customers and invoice history over in one click (Customers → Import)
• Customer portal — every job has a 🔗 shareable page: history, invoices, warranty countdown, photos, pay-by-card, and "request an appointment" that lands straight on your job board — under your business name
• Keep me signed in now actually works (the saved sign-in survives restarts)
• Outbound webhooks for Zapier/Make, in-app Help & support with one-click diagnostics, crash logging, faster database writes

• Get paid online — connect your own Stripe account in Settings and send customers a secure payment link from any job or invoice; jobs mark themselves paid automatically
• QuickBooks — one-click export of your invoices in QuickBooks-ready format
• REST API — connect your website forms, Zapier, or anything else to MG Jobs (docs)
• MySQL option — point your sync server at a MySQL/MariaDB database for larger fleets
• Remember-me login, more industry templates (plumbing, HVAC, electrical & more), appointment notifications, announcements from your admin, owner-only audit trail, per-plan seat limits

• Licensing & setup wizard — 2-minute branded setup; unlicensed installs run free in offline mode
• Team accounts — owner/tech roles, per-user passwords, sign out & switch user
• Job templates, recurring jobs, checklists, priorities, follow-ups
• Partial payments with live balance on the invoice, signature pad, GPS check-in, per-job timer
• Parts inventory — categorized residential catalog, low-stock alerts, use-stock-on-job, reorder list, two-way sync with the web admin
• Route planner, calendar (.ics) export, communication log, auto-invoice on completion
• Your branding everywhere — name, logo, colours, services & prices, invoice wording, custom job fields, feature switches
• Resizable columns, cleaner status menus, encrypted-at-rest data, audit log, desktop notifications

• Complete UI rebuild on the proven offline engine: dashboard, drag-and-drop week board, customers, money view, Ctrl+K palette, photos, day sheets

• Offline sync with tombstone-safe deletes, recycle bins, bulk actions, CSV import/export, voice notes, time clock, payroll, auto-update