A technician’s day in the app
- Sign in once. The technician installs Forz Mobile and signs in with their Forz account. Their assigned jobs appear right away.
- Clock in. One tap records the time and the GPS location. If the clock-in is near a customer site with an active project, Forz assigns the time to that project.
- Open the job. Customer, site, notes, and history are on the job, so there’s no call to the office to ask for the site contact.
- Do the work, signal or not. Photos, signatures, and inspection results save on the phone and sync when the connection comes back.
- Take a handoff. Accept the van, tool, or test instrument the office assigns, and the handoff lands in the activity log.
- Clock out. The timelog closes with a GPS location, any lunch deduction, and the total hours. Clocking out also ends any running activity log.
Built for places with no signal
Commercial trade work happens in basements, riser rooms, mechanical rooms, and parking structures. The Forz app keeps working there and syncs automatically when the phone reconnects. One habit helps: after reconnecting, leave the app open until the sync finishes. If a change made offline seems to be missing, that is the first thing to check.
Three field scenarios
Fire protection: a riser room inspection
A technician inspects a sprinkler system in a basement with no coverage. They record each result as Pass, Fail, or Bypass, attach a photo to the failed item, and capture the building manager’s signature. Back at the truck, the app syncs and the office has the results.
Plumbing: a job added mid-day
The office assigns an urgent leak repair to a plumber who is already on the road. With notifications on, the app alerts the plumber to the new job, and the job opens with the customer, site, notes and past work at that address, so there is no call to the office before heading over.
Electrical: tools with a chain of custody
The foreman assigns a multimeter to a new apprentice in Forz. The apprentice accepts the request on their phone, the asset moves to Assigned, and the activity log shows who holds it. When a technician goes on vacation, the dispatcher reassigns their van the same way.
What the office sees
Everything the technician records lands in the Forz web app. Timelogs shows who is on the clock right now. Timesheets lets a manager correct a day and approve a pay period. The job keeps its photos, signatures, and inspection results, and real-time GPS tracking shows the whole team on the map.
Works with the rest of Forz
- Time tracking: clock events, lunch deductions, and timesheet approval.
- Inspections and asset tracking: Pass, Fail, and Bypass results and the next due date for each device.
- Work orders: the job details technicians open in the field.
- Scheduling and dispatch: the assignments and schedule changes that reach the phone.
- Project management: a clock-in near a project site counts toward that project.
Download links for both stores are on the mobile apps page.
Setting it up? The Forz Mobile App guide and the Time Tracking guide walk through each step.