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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.

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Sales & quoting

Manage the lead pipeline

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

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Sales & quoting

Create a client and contact

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

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Sales & quoting

Create a structured quote

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

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Sales & quoting

Import a quote calculator workbook

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

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Sales & quoting

Revise and send a quote

Keep revisions and customer decisions connected to the commercial record.

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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.

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Jobs & production

Understand the job workspace

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

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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.

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Jobs & production

Use the staff scheduler

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Purchasing & financials

Receive a purchase order on mobile

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

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Purchasing & financials

Manage suppliers

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

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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.

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Purchasing & financials

Review job profitability

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

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Admin & integrations

Connect tenant Google Drive storage

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

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Admin & integrations

Manage users and permissions

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

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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.

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Troubleshooting

Resolve invite and access problems

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

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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.

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Email & job filing

Route incoming email to a job

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

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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.

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Jobs & production

Prepare a schedule with Fitch

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 App

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.

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Getting started

Use the dashboard to choose the next action

Read the workspace dashboard as an operating queue, then open the source record behind a priority, exception or due item.

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Business settings

Configure numbering, payment and tax defaults

Set the document sequences, payment terms, deposit defaults, tax basis and ledger codes that shape new commercial records.

8 min guide →
Business settings

Configure reusable job tasks

Create task templates with useful names, effort and rates so quotes, jobs, scheduling, timesheets and costing speak the same language.

7 min guide →
Business settings

Configure production planning

Choose the statuses, departments, task ownership, staff availability, priorities and capabilities that determine what the scheduler can plan.

10 min guide →
Business settings

Configure job custom fields

Add organisation-owned job fields for information that must be captured consistently, searched or reported beyond the standard record.

6 min guide →
Business settings

Configure jobsite document requirements

Define regional safety documents and install-job requirements so the right review work appears before a crew goes to site.

8 min guide →
Business settings

Manage the product catalogue

Maintain purchased products, units, supplier references and cost evidence used by quoting, purchasing and job financials.

7 min guide →
Data & governance

Import customers, suppliers and products from CSV

Upload, map, review and apply one controlled organisation-data batch while resolving duplicates before they enter daily work.

10 min guide →
Integrations & automation

Choose the organisation storage provider

Select the company-owned storage connection and root that will hold job documents, photos, artwork and generated files.

8 min guide →
Integrations & automation

Connect Dropbox storage

Authorise the organisation Dropbox connection, validate the approved root and prove a controlled job file opens from the expected location.

5 min guide →
Integrations & automation

Choose and configure the accounting provider

Select the supported accounting connection, map operating records deliberately and test the handoff without turning SignBas3 into a second ledger.

10 min guide →
Integrations & automation

Configure email identity and job filing

Set the customer-facing sender identity, reply paths and intake controls that determine how messages are delivered and filed to jobs.

8 min guide →
Integrations & automation

Configure Fitch access and approval controls

Decide who can use Fitch, which business context it may inspect and which proposed changes must wait for human review.

8 min guide →
Data & governance

Review organisation activity logs

Trace workflow actions, changes, imports, failures and access events before deciding whether a record, setup rule or integration needs attention.

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Data & governance

Manage subscription and billing

Review the organisation plan, renewal, usage, payment method, invoices and cancellation controls available to the Owner.

5 min guide →
Jobs & production

Create a job manually

Create work that did not begin from an accepted SignBas3 quote while preserving customer, scope, dates, ownership and commercial context.

6 min guide →
Jobs & production

Manage job variations

Record changed scope separately from the accepted baseline, obtain the required approval and carry only approved value into invoicing.

7 min guide →
Jobs & production

Capture and organise job photos

Upload current job evidence, organise it into useful folders and keep customer, production and site images attached to the right work.

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Jobs & production

Generate and manage job documents

Create documents from approved templates, review the populated job data and keep the resulting file attached to the correct record.

6 min guide →
Jobs & production

Create and review a jobsite safety pack

Generate the configured jobsite documents for an eligible install job, review site-specific content and record readiness before field use.

9 min guide →
Purchasing & financials

Receive and reconcile a purchase order

Record what arrived, preserve shortages or damage and reconcile the receipt against the issued order before closing it.

6 min guide →
Purchasing & financials

Capture and reconcile a supplier bill

Match the supplier bill to its purchase order and receipt evidence, resolve differences and preserve the actual job cost.

7 min guide →
Purchasing & financials

Create, review and issue an invoice

Build a draft from the correct customer and job, select the intended commercial sources, review the document and issue it deliberately.

8 min guide →
Purchasing & financials

Edit draft invoice lines without losing their source

Adjust the customer-facing draft while keeping quoted scope, approved variations and invoice-only additions commercially distinct.

6 min guide →
Purchasing & financials

Record payments and credit notes

Apply supported payment or credit evidence to the correct issued invoice and confirm the outstanding balance changes once.

6 min guide →
Integrations & automation

Reconcile accounting sync state

Trace queued, synced or failed invoices, bills, payments and supported timesheets between SignBas3 and the selected accounting provider.

8 min guide →
Purchasing & financials

Close a job and review performance

Reconcile accepted value, variations, labour, purchasing, supplier bills, invoicing and completion evidence before reading the result.

9 min guide →
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