What Slate does

Everything hangs off the same work order, and the parts talk to each other. There’s no integration to keep alive and no spreadsheet sitting in the middle of it.

Work orders

The job is the record

A work order holds the to-do list, documents, photos, team conversation and logged hours. Its details are available when you prepare a report or invoice.

Status changes appear in the work order’s activity, so the team can see when a job moved forward or was reopened.

A Slate work-order overview on iPhone, with assigned teammates, start and due dates, In-Progress status, a client and a checklist with assigned tasks and subtasks.

Inbox

Your inbox is your to-do list

Get assigned or mentioned anywhere in Slate and it arrives in your inbox as a card. Nobody set up a rule to make that happen and there is nothing to configure.

It behaves the same whether fifteen people are on it or you are working alone.

The Slate inbox on iPhone, with All, Tasks, Personal and Mentions filters above cards for overdue tasks, teammate mentions and work-order progress.

Calendar

A week you can actually re-plan

See the week job by job, and open any job to move its dates — the checklist, the photos and the chat travel with it.

Slate calendar on iPhone in week view, with dated columns and colored work-order bars spanning their scheduled days.

Clients

Type it once

Slate fills client details into work orders and invoices for you, so adding someone once saves typing on every job that follows.

Their history sits on the same page, so you can see what you did last time before you quote for this time.

The Slate client list on iPhone: eight clients, each company showing the person to ask for underneath it, and private clients filed by surname.

Invoicing

Billing that starts from the job

Create an invoice from a finished job, add your line items, then share the PDF from your iPhone or download it from the web portal. Track what’s outstanding and see overdue invoices highlighted in the list.

The Slate invoice list on iPhone, headed by 1,948 dollars 51 outstanding across two open invoices with 898 dollars 48 of it overdue: five invoices under filter pills for each status, the overdue one edged in red, then a sent one, a draft, and two paid.

Team, time & HR

Hours from the field, corrections from the desk

Start and stop your timer on your phone or at your desk. Review time entries in the same workspace, and add hours manually when you need to record work after the fact.

Roles control payroll access and leave approvals.

Timecards on iPhone for the week of 23 to 29 August: 40 hours 30 across two members and five entries, with each shift listed under the person who worked it and its start and finish beside the hours it came to.

Iris

Kept on a short lead

Iris reads your records and drafts things off them: an invoice, a work order, a summary of where the week stands. Nothing it writes gets saved until you say so.

Turn off the bits you’d rather it left alone, and every seat comes with an ask allowance on a rolling 30-day window.

Slate Iris open over the workspace screen on iPhone, greeting the owner by name and offering four things to ask about: their week, overdue work orders, unpaid invoices and who is out.

Start with a free workspace

Set it up, run one real job through it, and decide after that.

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