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Getting started
Set up a useful trial and configure the business foundations.
7 articles →WorkflowMax migration
Prepare, import, map and validate your historic operating data.
4 articles →Sales & quoting
Manage prospects, clients, structured quotes and acceptance.
7 articles →Jobs & production
Coordinate tasks, schedules, time, artwork and job delivery.
14 articles →Purchasing & financials
Control suppliers, purchase orders, invoicing and job performance.
12 articles →Admin & integrations
Manage users, documents, exports and connected services.
5 articles →Troubleshooting
Resolve common access and workflow issues.
1 articles →Email & job filing
Route correspondence and useful attachments to the right job.
2 articles →Reporting & Fitch
Build reports, check definitions and hand over controlled investigations.
3 articles →Mobile & field work
Use assigned jobs, site information, photos and offline-safe time entry.
2 articles →Business settings
Configure the business rules that shape quoting, jobs, planning, documents and finance.
6 articles →Data & governance
Import, audit, support and govern the organisation workspace deliberately.
3 articles →Integrations & automation
Connect company-owned services and prove each complete business handoff.
6 articles →Complete your SignBas3 workspace setup
Complete the required company setup and choose the correct starting path before operational work begins.
Getting startedComplete your company profile
Set the business, trading, contact and regional identity used across your SignBas3 workspace and customer-facing documents.
Getting startedInvite users and choose roles
Send each team member a secure invitation with the role and user type that match their part of the workflow, then confirm they can sign in.
Getting startedConfigure labour rates
Configure base hourly labour costs so sign-job costing and margin reviews use consistent assumptions.
Getting startedSet 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.
Getting startedConnect Xero
Set the accounting boundary, mappings and export behaviour before sending live records.
WorkflowMax migrationPrepare your WorkflowMax export
Prepare an unchanged WorkflowMax ZIP and retain a protected source copy before server-side import.
WorkflowMax migrationRun a WorkflowMax import
Use the guided import workspace to bring source records into SignBas3.
WorkflowMax migrationReview WorkflowMax users and job statuses
Assign imported WorkflowMax user access and review imported job statuses after a completed import.
WorkflowMax migrationValidate migrated job financials
Reconcile representative migrated jobs, financials and relationships before relying on SignBas3 portfolio reporting.
Sales & quotingManage the lead pipeline
Keep accepted lead candidates, pipeline stages, estimated value and follow-up timing visible through draft quote conversion.
Sales & quotingCreate a client and contact
Create a clean client and contact record for quoting, jobs and billing.
Sales & quotingCreate a structured quote
Turn approved sign-project scope, quantities, pricing and assumptions into a structured customer-ready quote.
Sales & quotingImport a quote calculator workbook
Bring the estimator’s structured workbook into the quote without re-keying the working detail.
Sales & quotingRevise and send a quote
Keep revisions and customer decisions connected to the commercial record.
Sales & quotingMove an accepted quote into a job
Move an accepted sign quote into delivery while retaining approved scope, value, ownership and required dates.
Jobs & productionUnderstand the job workspace
Read the job header, move the status, use the Actions menu and work through the Overview, Tasks, Timesheets, Financials, Artwork, Noticeboard, Photos, Documents and Jobsite tabs on one current job record.
Jobs & productionPlan tasks and production stages
Break an approved sign job into template or custom tasks with estimated hours, track each task's status and remaining hours, and hand the plan to Scheduler and timesheets.
Jobs & productionUse the staff scheduler
Book saved job tasks onto named staff by day and start time, adjust committed blocks, and read planned hours against weekly capacity.
Jobs & productionRecord personal and team timesheets
Log your own hours against the right job and task in My Timesheet, then review and approve the team's pending entries in Team Timesheets.
Jobs & productionRun 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.
Jobs & productionShare work through the job portal
Share the production portal with a recipient who can sign in using an authorised SB3 Google account.
Purchasing & financialsCreate and send a purchase order
Create, issue and email a supplier purchase order with the relevant job, materials, prices and delivery instructions attached.
Purchasing & financialsReceive a purchase order on mobile
Record received purchase-order quantities and delivery issues from the tokenised mobile receiving link.
Purchasing & financialsManage suppliers
Create one reliable supplier record for sign materials, purchase orders and consolidated purchasing history.
Purchasing & financialsReview invoices and job revenue
Review customer invoice value and lifecycle state while retaining the relationship to the underlying sign job and scope.
Purchasing & financialsReview job profitability
Find the jobs whose margin needs attention in Profitability reporting, then open Job Financials to compare job value, invoicing, labour, purchasing and projected profit before you act.
Admin & integrationsConnect tenant Google Drive storage
Connect tenant-owned Google Drive storage so SignBas3 job documents remain in the approved business folder structure.
Admin & integrationsManage users and permissions
Keep every SignBas3 login aligned with the person's current job by reviewing roles, status, access level and privileges from Staff and access.
Admin & integrationsManage document templates
Brand the Word layout behind each quote, invoice, purchase order, job sheet and other document, then make it the default so every new document your team generates uses it.
Admin & integrationsExport business data
Create, store and audit a controlled SignBas3 business-data export for approved review, recovery or portability needs.
Admin & integrationsCreate and follow a support ticket
Create a SignBas3 support ticket with safe evidence, expected behaviour and the affected record so investigation can begin quickly.
TroubleshootingResolve invite and access problems
Work through invitation, sign-in and permission problems from Staff and access, using resend, password reset and access edits without ever sharing a password.
Sales & quotingUse quick access search
Open clients, active jobs, open quotes or suppliers that your role is permitted to access without leaving the current desktop screen.
Email & job filingRoute incoming email to a job
Keep useful correspondence and attachments on the work instead of in one person’s inbox.
Email & job filingReview email intake exceptions
Review email-intake exceptions and safely choose the correct job and attachment action without forcing a weak match.
Jobs & productionPrepare a schedule with Fitch
Use incomplete tasks, current bookings, staff capability and available work history to prepare a reviewable weekly draft.
Jobs & productionConnect 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.
Purchasing & financialsTurn a low-ink alert into a draft purchase order
Prepare replenishment before an HP Latex cartridge interrupts production.
Reporting & FitchBuild a report from a plain-language brief
Write the decision you need to make as a short brief, then turn it into a checked SignBas3 report with the five-stage Custom report builder.
Reporting & FitchSave, publish and export a report
Save a checked report to the Custom reports library, version it as it changes, publish it for the organisation and export a dated PDF or branded document when a fixed copy is needed.
Reporting & FitchHand longer work to Fitch
Queue a scoped Fitch investigation or preparation task, continue elsewhere in SignBas3, and review its retained result and evidence.
Mobile & field workUse assigned jobs in SignBas3 App
Give the field team a focused view of today’s work and the job details needed on site.
Mobile & field workRecord time when reception is unreliable
Save each time entry on the device when reception is unreliable, then retry synchronisation from Timesheet when connectivity returns.
Getting startedUse 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.
Business settingsConfigure numbering, payment and tax defaults
Set the document sequences, payment terms, deposit defaults, tax basis and ledger codes that shape new commercial records.
Business settingsConfigure reusable job tasks
Build the organisation task catalogue so jobs, quotes, the scheduler, Production Planning and timesheets describe labour with the same names, hours and rates.
Business settingsConfigure production planning
Choose the job statuses, department task ownership, staff availability, department priorities and task capabilities that decide what Capacity Reporting and the scheduler can plan.
Business settingsConfigure job custom fields
Add organisation-owned job fields for information that must be captured consistently, searched or reported beyond the standard record.
Business settingsConfigure jobsite document requirements
Set the organisation's jurisdiction, then choose which regional safety documents are available or required on install jobs and which types of work trigger each one.
Business settingsManage the product catalogue
Maintain purchased products, units, supplier references and cost evidence used by quoting, purchasing and job financials.
Data & governanceImport customers, suppliers and products from CSV
Upload, map, review and apply one controlled organisation-data batch while resolving duplicates before they enter daily work.
Integrations & automationChoose the organisation storage provider
Select the company-owned storage connection and root that will hold job documents, photos, artwork and generated files.
Integrations & automationConnect Dropbox storage
Authorise the organisation Dropbox connection, validate the approved root and prove a controlled job file opens from the expected location.
Integrations & automationChoose 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.
Integrations & automationConfigure 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.
Integrations & automationConfigure 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.
Data & governanceReview organisation activity logs
Trace workflow actions, changes, imports, failures and access events before deciding whether a record, setup rule or integration needs attention.
Data & governanceManage subscription and billing
Review the organisation plan, renewal, usage, payment method, invoices and cancellation controls available to the Owner.
Jobs & productionCreate a job manually
Create a job that did not begin from an accepted SignBas3 quote, with the client, name, dates, status, ownership, line items and notes recorded before the workspace opens.
Jobs & productionManage job variations
Record changed scope separately from the accepted baseline, obtain the required approval and carry only approved value into invoicing.
Jobs & productionCapture 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.
Jobs & productionGenerate and manage job documents
Generate a job sheet, artwork brief, delivery docket or completion report from the Job documents menu, review the PDF, print or email it, and keep the files your job needs in its Documents tab.
Jobs & productionCreate and review a jobsite safety pack
Generate the SWMS and supporting field documents for an install job from its scope, review every step with the crew, approve the SWMS and release the pack by print or email.
Purchasing & financialsReceive and reconcile a purchase order
Record what arrived, preserve shortages or damage and reconcile the receipt against the issued order before closing it.
Purchasing & financialsCapture and reconcile a supplier bill
Match the supplier bill to its purchase order and receipt evidence, resolve differences and preserve the actual job cost.
Purchasing & financialsCreate, 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.
Purchasing & financialsEdit draft invoice lines without losing their source
Adjust the customer-facing draft while keeping quoted scope, approved variations and invoice-only additions commercially distinct.
Purchasing & financialsRecord payments and credit notes
Apply supported payment or credit evidence to the correct issued invoice and confirm the outstanding balance changes once.
Integrations & automationReconcile accounting sync state
Trace queued, synced or failed invoices, bills, payments and supported timesheets between SignBas3 and the selected accounting provider.
Purchasing & financialsClose a job and review performance
Reconcile accepted value, variations, labour, purchasing, supplier bills, invoicing and completion evidence before reading the result.
Jobs & productionRead the capacity report
Read demand against available hours per department and week in Capacity Reporting, understand what the exclusions mean, and act on an overloaded or empty week.
