OneTool on iPhone and iPad
Run your day from the field with an app that stays in sync with your web workspace.
Available on all plans.
A companion for the field
The OneTool mobile app is an iOS companion to the web workspace, built for the part of your day that happens away from a desk. Check the schedule from the truck, look up a client on site, send a quote from the driveway, and record a payment at the door.
The app uses the same account and organization as the web workspace, so both sides see the same data. A change made in the field shows up for the office, and work scheduled from the office shows up in the field.
The tabs
On iPhone, every screen sits inside the same frame: your organization and the Activity, notification and profile buttons along the top, and the tab bar along the bottom with Today, Work, Money, Routes, and a separate search button on the right. Above the tabs is a bar with Ask OneTool (the assistant) and a + button. The tab bar shrinks while you scroll down and comes back when you scroll up. The top of the frame stays put while you move around, and a label at the top of the page shows where you are, such as Work > Client.
- Today is your schedule. A week strip picks the date, and a Day / List toggle switches views: Day is a timeline of the chosen day (timed work in order with a *Now* marker, plus an all-day band for projects and unscheduled tasks), while List looks ahead two weeks, grouped by day. When your organization has more than one member, a Me and Team toggle switches between your own work and the whole team's. A strip at the top shows the chosen day's visits, the amount overdue, and the quotes awaiting approval, with anything urgent called out underneath. At the end of the Day view, a card previews the next day; tap it to move there.
- Work is where you browse your records. The tabs across the top narrow to one type or browse its full list. Before you pick a type, the screen shows your favorites from the web workspace and the records you've recently opened on this device.
- Search (the magnifying glass on the right of the tab bar) searches every record: clients (including their contacts and properties), projects, quotes, invoices, and tasks, with results grouped by type. Tap it and start typing.
- Money is your money dashboard. The top of the screen shows what you are owed and how much of it is overdue, then two cells: Quoted (quotes waiting on a client) and Unpaid (invoices still owed). A chart shows what you've collected over the last six months, with this month's total under it. Record opens your invoices so you can pick one to record a payment on, and New quote starts a quote. Below that, Needs attention lists your overdue invoices and the quotes a client has been sitting on, and Payments lists your recent payments. Tap any row to open that record. On iPhone, tapping the Quoted or Unpaid cell jumps to that list on Work; on iPad the cells are read-only, so use the tabs on Work to browse.
- Routes plans the day's stops and gets you from one to the next. See Planning a route.
Ask OneTool in the bar above the tabs opens the AI assistant, available on every plan. On the Free plan the assistant allows 10 messages per day for your organization, and a counter above the message field shows how many are left; the allowance resets at midnight UTC. See Meet the assistant.
Create anything with the + button
The + button in the bar above the tabs opens a menu of New quote, New client, New task, and New project; you only see the ones your role can create. On iPad, the same menu is behind the + next to the assistant bar at the bottom of the screen. Every create opens as a sheet over the screen you were on.
- New project is built for speed: pick a client, type a title, optionally set a start date, and it's created. If the client isn't in OneTool yet, tap + New client inside the picker to add them with just a name and phone without leaving the form. You can also start a project straight from a client's detail screen.
- New quote picks a client and creates a draft, then opens it so you can add line items right away.
- New client asks for the company, a primary contact, and a property, then opens the new client. New task saves the task and keeps you where you were, with a short confirmation at the top of the screen.
- Clients and projects are unlimited on every plan, so creating from the app is never capped. The Free plan's monthly document send meter applies the same as on the web: the send preview shows how many sends you have left this month and explains when the allowance runs out. Resending an already-sent document is always free.
Send, collect, and share from the Money tab
You reach a record from the Money dashboard rows, or from the Invoices and Quotes chips on Work; tap any row to open the full record. Under the title, a quote or invoice links to its client and project, and a project links to its client; tap one to open it. On a detail screen, the main action for the record's status sits at the bottom of the screen, above the tabs. Up to two more sit beside it, and anything further is under the ••• menu at the top of the record: a draft offers Send (with Mark as sent under the ••• menu when you delivered the quote yourself, so no email goes out), a sent quote offers Get signature (the client picks who's signing, signs on your screen, and the quote is approved with the signature saved to its approval history; on iPhone the signing area turns sideways on its own, so you keep holding the phone upright, and iPad signs full-width) plus Resend and a manual Mark approved, an approved quote converts to an invoice in one tap, and a sent or overdue invoice offers Record payment and Share pay link.
- Sending shows a preview of the document first, then emails your client a link to review it (and, for invoices, pay it) in their client portal. The client needs portal access and a primary contact email; the buttons explain what's missing if they can't be reached.
- Record payment logs a cash or check payment on the spot. The amount starts at the remaining balance and can be edited down for deposits and partial payments; the confirm button always shows the exact amount it will record.
- Share pay link opens the share sheet with the invoice's portal payment link, so a client can pay by card on their own phone while you're standing together.
- Line items are editable right on the record: tap a row to change its description, quantity, unit, or rate, or tap Add line item below the list, and the total updates as you type. Draft quotes edit directly; a sent quote asks to move back to draft first (its portal link pauses until you resend), while invoices stay editable until a payment is recorded.
- Extend valid until (under the ••• menu on a sent or expired quote) picks a new date without emailing the client, and extending an expired quote makes it available in the portal again.
Working without signal
The app keeps your day on the phone. Once you've signed in with a connection, you can open the app in a basement or a dead zone and still see Today, Routes, and the records you've opened, each marked with how old it is. After seven days without a connection, the app hides that saved data until it can check your access again.
- Complete or reopen a task, and edit a task's details.
- Start a route, mark stops visited or skipped, and finish the route.
- Change a project's status or details, or a client's details.
- Post in team chat. Attachments need a connection.
- Record a cash or check payment.
- Get a signature on a sent quote, as long as the phone has the quote's current document. When the app opens with signal, it prepares the documents for your sent quotes automatically.
Anything you change offline is saved on the phone the moment you tap. A status line under the header at the top of the screen (on iPad, at the bottom of the sidebar) shows how many changes are waiting. They send by themselves once you're back in range with the app open. If you closed the app, they stay saved on the phone and send the next time you open it. Creating records, sending quotes and invoices, editing line items, uploading files, and planning routes need a connection; the app tells you when you try.
If the same record changed while you were offline, the app doesn't overwrite it. For example, the invoice was paid online or the quote was edited on the web. The status line says how many changes need attention; tap it to open Sync issues, which shows what happened and lets you retry a change or mark it handled. A cash payment that couldn't be recorded stays on the phone until you mark it handled.
Photos and documents on a record
Client and project detail screens each have a Documents section for the files that belong to that job. Tap Upload document to attach from your photo library, take a photo on the spot, or pick a file from the Files app, and tap any document in the list to open it. Files can be up to 10 MB, and everything you attach in the field shows up on the record in the web workspace too.
A bigger layout on iPad
On iPad, the app uses the same layout as the web workspace: a sidebar with your organization, the four areas plus Activity, and your profile and notifications, next to a page where lists and records sit side by side. The assistant bar and the + menu sit at the bottom of the page.
Notifications and team chat
The bell opens your notifications list, and the app can also push the important ones to your lock screen: mentions (a teammate tagged you in team chat), automation messages from your workflows, and payments and approvals (an invoice was paid or a quote was approved). Team chat lives on every client, project, and quote detail screen, so you can tag a teammate right from the record you are looking at.
To choose which of these reach your lock screen, tap the gear at the top of the notifications list, or open Notifications from your profile. Everything starts on, and the toggles only control pushes on your device: your in-app notifications list always shows the full history. If you record a payment or approve a quote yourself, the app celebrates with your team but skips buzzing your own phone.
Your profile
Tap your avatar to open your profile. On iPhone it sits at the top of the screen; on iPad it's at the bottom of the sidebar. It shows your organization and your role, Admin or Member, and it is where you find Sign out. The organization owner's Delete account also deletes the organization.
Your profile is also where you share your community page in person: tap Share QR code to open a full-screen code for the page. The screen jumps to full brightness and stays awake so a customer can scan it with their camera, and the buttons below share the code image or save it to Photos for printing. Your community page needs to be published on the web first; see Your public page.
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