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Step-by-step guidance for setting up, migrating and running your sign business in SignBas3. Prefer a guided path? Choose an Academy track →

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Getting started

Complete your SignBas3 workspace setup

Complete the required company setup and choose the correct starting path before operational work begins.

3 min guide →
Getting started

Complete your company profile

Set the business, trading, contact and regional identity used across your SignBas3 workspace and customer-facing documents.

3 min guide →
Getting started

Invite users and choose roles

Give each team member the access needed for their part of the workflow.

3 min guide →
Getting started

Configure labour rates

Configure base hourly labour costs so sign-job costing and margin reviews use consistent assumptions.

3 min guide →
Getting started

Set up job statuses

Build a clear sign-shop job status workflow that shows what is waiting, what is ready, what is in production and what must happen next.

8 min guide →
Getting started

Connect Xero

Set the accounting boundary, mappings and export behaviour before sending live records.

4 min guide →
WorkflowMax migration

Prepare your WorkflowMax export

Prepare an unchanged WorkflowMax ZIP and retain a protected source copy before server-side import.

3 min guide →
WorkflowMax migration

Run a WorkflowMax import

Use the guided import workspace to bring source records into SignBas3.

3 min guide →
WorkflowMax migration

Review WorkflowMax users and job statuses

Assign imported WorkflowMax user access and review imported job statuses after a completed import.

3 min guide →
WorkflowMax migration

Validate migrated job financials

Reconcile representative migrated jobs, financials and relationships before relying on SignBas3 portfolio reporting.

3 min guide →
Sales & quoting

Manage the lead pipeline

Keep accepted lead candidates, pipeline stages, estimated value and follow-up timing visible through draft quote conversion.

3 min guide →
Sales & quoting

Create a client and contact

Create a clean client and contact record for quoting, jobs and billing.

3 min guide →
Sales & quoting

Create a structured quote

Turn approved sign-project scope, quantities, pricing and assumptions into a structured customer-ready quote.

3 min guide →
Sales & quoting

Import a quote calculator workbook

Bring the estimator’s structured workbook into the quote without re-keying the working detail.

3 min guide →
Sales & quoting

Revise and send a quote

Keep revisions and customer decisions connected to the commercial record.

3 min guide →
Sales & quoting

Move an accepted quote into a job

Move an accepted sign quote into delivery while retaining approved scope, value, ownership and required dates.

3 min guide →
Jobs & production

Understand the job workspace

Use the job as the central record for delivery and commercial context.

3 min guide →
Jobs & production

Plan tasks and production stages

Break approved sign work into standard or custom tasks with estimated hours and status, then schedule staff and working times in Scheduler.

3 min guide →
Jobs & production

Use the staff scheduler

Use the SignBas3 staff scheduler to balance team capacity against active production and installation commitments.

3 min guide →
Jobs & production

Record personal and team timesheets

Record your own time against the correct sign jobs and tasks, then review pending team entries before approval.

3 min guide →
Jobs & production

Run an artwork approval

Use the SignBas3 job workflow to send one exact proof version, collect customer comments or approval and keep the production decision attached to the job.

3 min guide →
Jobs & production

Create a Bounce LED production layout

Turn artwork and finished dimensions into a job-ready module and power-supply plan.

3 min guide →
Jobs & production

Share work through the job portal

Share the production portal with a recipient who can sign in using an authorised SB3 Google account.

3 min guide →
Purchasing & financials

Create and send a purchase order

Create, issue and email a supplier purchase order with the relevant job, materials, prices and delivery instructions attached.

3 min guide →
Purchasing & financials

Receive a purchase order on mobile

Record received purchase-order quantities and delivery issues from the tokenised mobile receiving link.

3 min guide →
Purchasing & financials

Manage suppliers

Create one reliable supplier record for sign materials, purchase orders and consolidated purchasing history.

3 min guide →
Purchasing & financials

Review invoices and job revenue

Review customer invoice value and lifecycle state while retaining the relationship to the underlying sign job and scope.

3 min guide →
Purchasing & financials

Review job profitability

Compare accepted and invoiced value with current labour, purchasing and supplier costs to understand sign-job profitability.

3 min guide →
Admin & integrations

Connect tenant Google Drive storage

Connect tenant-owned Google Drive storage so SignBas3 job documents remain in the approved business folder structure.

3 min guide →
Admin & integrations

Manage users and permissions

Review SignBas3 users, invitations and roles so workspace access stays aligned as staff responsibilities change.

3 min guide →
Admin & integrations

Manage document templates

Manage approved SignBas3 templates so customer, production and commercial documents remain consistent and testable.

3 min guide →
Admin & integrations

Export business data

Create, store and audit a controlled SignBas3 business-data export for approved review, recovery or portability needs.

3 min guide →
Admin & integrations

Create and follow a support ticket

Create a SignBas3 support ticket with safe evidence, expected behaviour and the affected record so investigation can begin quickly.

3 min guide →
Troubleshooting

Resolve invite and access problems

Diagnose common SignBas3 invitation, authentication and role problems without sharing passwords or one-time codes.

3 min guide →
Sales & quoting

Use quick access search

Open clients, active jobs, open quotes or suppliers that your role is permitted to access without leaving the current desktop screen.

3 min guide →
Email & job filing

Route incoming email to a job

Keep useful correspondence and attachments on the work instead of in one person’s inbox.

3 min guide →
Email & job filing

Review email intake exceptions

Review email-intake exceptions and safely choose the correct job and attachment action without forcing a weak match.

3 min guide →
Jobs & production

Prepare a schedule with Fitch

Use incomplete tasks, current bookings, staff capability and available work history to prepare a reviewable weekly draft.

4 min guide →
Jobs & production

Connect HP PrintOS

Connect the HP Jobs API for HP Latex print history, substrate usage and job costing; pair a compatible supplies feed or the Windows connector when live printer status and consumables are required.

3 min guide →
Purchasing & financials

Turn a low-ink alert into a draft purchase order

Prepare replenishment before an HP Latex cartridge interrupts production.

3 min guide →
Reporting & Fitch

Build a report from a plain-language brief

Describe the decision you need to make and inspect the report definition before using the result.

3 min guide →
Reporting & Fitch

Save publish and export a report

Version a checked report definition, publish it to the permission-filtered library, and export a fixed PDF when needed.

3 min guide →
Reporting & Fitch

Hand longer work to Fitch

Queue a scoped Fitch investigation or preparation task, continue elsewhere in SignBas3, and review its retained result and evidence.

3 min guide →
Mobile & field work

Use assigned jobs in SignBas3 Mobile

Give the field team a focused view of today’s work and the job details needed on site.

3 min guide →
Mobile & field work

Record time when reception is unreliable

Save each time entry on the device when reception is unreliable, then retry synchronisation from Timesheet when connectivity returns.

3 min guide →
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