You are standing in a customer's basement, looking at a leaking water heater that was supposed to be a "simple gasket swap." The Proposed Task has just evolved into a four-hour Work Carried Out session involving three different Materials used and an unplanned trip to the supply house. In the high-velocity world of field service, the "job card" isn't just a record of work; it is the primary financial instrument that ensures you are paid for every minute of your Labour and every cent of your inventory.
The Ritual of Field Documentation
The "job cards" template is designed for the tradesman or technician who treats every site visit as a managed financial event. It moves your billing from a grease-stained notebook to a structured digital vault. By standardizing the capture of the Customer Name and the specific Job no, the system ensures that your revenue is always traceable. It acknowledges that a job without a verified 5 min wms completed (Work Method Statement) is a liability that puts both your safety and your insurance coverage at risk.
The Blueprint: Service Triage Architecture
The structure of this library is built to handle the granular details of physical service work.
- Operational Triage: Fields for Proposed Task and Work Carried Out provide the narrative arc of the job, allowing you to justify billing variances to the customer.
- Safety Forensics: The template captures the critical 5 min wms completed status, creating a permanent audit trail of your commitment to on-site safety standards.
- Financial Integrity: Dedicated tracking for Materials used and Labour (Date / Name / hours) ensures that your invoices are based on documented reality, not just memory.
Usage Scenarios: The Billing Dispute
You are finalizing an invoice for a complex commercial repair. The customer disputes the total hours billed. Instead of guessing, you open Memento and pull up the specific Job no. You show them the Photo you took of the corroded part and the documented Labour entries for your two-person crew. You point to the detailed Work Carried Out log that explains why the repair took longer than the Proposed Task. The narrative is clear, the evidence is visual, and the dispute is resolved before you even leave the site.
Power Feature: Integrated Visual Evidence
By utilize Memento’s Photo field, the template turns a data record into a multimedia case study. You can document the state of the equipment "before" and "after," providing the customer with visual proof of the value you delivered. This level of transparency builds trust, protects your reputation, and ensures that your technical expertise is always supported by forensic-grade evidence of your clinical results.