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Managing accounts and contacts

Accounts are the companies and sites you serve; contacts are the people at them. Here's how they link to work orders, invoices, and notifications.

Published 7/25/2026 · Updated 7/25/2026

Accounts and contacts

Your customer records live under CRM. There are two related pieces:

  • Accounts — the company, property, or site you do work for. An account holds the service address, billing details, linked equipment, work-order history, invoices, quotes, and projects.
  • Contacts — the individual people at an account (the facilities manager, the owner, accounts payable). Each contact belongs to an account.

Creating an account

CRM → Accounts → New. Give it a name, addresses (the address field auto-completes and fills city/state/zip for you), and any billing info. Once saved, the account detail page has tabs for its contacts, work orders, invoices, quotes, projects, and linked assets — one screen for the whole relationship.

Adding contacts

Open an account and add contacts to it, or go to CRM → Contacts → New and pick the account. A contact carries a name, job title, email, and phone.

Customer notifications opt-in

Each contact has two toggles that decide whether they get automatic status emails:

  • Notify on dispatch — email them when a work order for their account is dispatched.
  • Notify on completion — email them when the job is completed (this one includes a branded PDF of the finished work order).

These are off by default and are set by your team in the backoffice — customers never opt themselves in. See Automatic customer notifications for the full picture.

How it connects

  • Assign an account to a work order so the job carries the right address and history.
  • Bill an account with an invoice or send a quote.
  • Group several jobs for one account under a project.
  • Link equipment to an account so you always know what's installed where.

Mobile

Technicians can look up accounts and contacts on the mobile app (view + link, depending on their role) so they can attach the right customer to a job from the field.

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