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Stop losing money on materials — track every part

Gaffer logs the materials used on each job and suggests parts from your own history, so you add a full list in seconds, keep your costs accurate, and never lose money on forgotten cable, fittings or fixings again.

Replaces a paper diary, a whiteboard and a WhatsApp group. Every job has one owner, one time and one place to look. The office stops relaying messages and the engineer stops ringing in for the next address.

Jobs & Scheduling in Gaffer
Why it matters

Every job, every engineer, every day — on one board.

Create a job in seconds, drag it onto the right engineer, and watch it move from booked to on-site to done. The office sees everything; the van sees only what matters.

Owners stop being the human dispatch board. Engineers stop ringing in for the next address.

What you get
  • Smart suggestions drawn from the parts you've used before
  • Saved material sets for jobs you do again and again
  • Margin visible on each part, so under-pricing shows up early
  • Materials flow into quotes and invoices with no double entry
  • Add and edit parts on site from the offline-first mobile app
  • A full per-job and per-customer history of what you fitted and when
Log parts against the job
Suggestions from your history
Reusable material lists
Where it fits

Step 04 of the job: on site

The engineer taps "On my way" and the customer gets a text with an arrival window. On site: clock in, photos, the certificate for the job — EICR, Gas Safety, whatever the trade needs — signed on the device. No signal? It syncs later.

Materials tracking is one part of that step. The rest of the job — quoting, scheduling, certificates, invoicing and payment — runs in the same system, on the same record. See the whole job →

Step 04 of a job in Gaffer: The paperwork happens on site
Common questions

About materials tracking

Something else? support@rungaffer.com

What does materials tracking replace?

For most trade businesses, a paper diary, a whiteboard and a WhatsApp group. Every job has one owner, one time and one place to look. The office stops relaying messages and the engineer stops ringing in for the next address.

Does materials tracking work on a phone, and offline?

Yes. The mobile app is offline-first: records created on site are stored on the device and synced automatically, in order, when signal returns. Lofts, plant rooms and rural sites were the design brief.

Which plan is it on?

Every paid plan. Materials tracking is included for unlimited users at no extra cost — the monthly, annual and lifetime plans differ only in how you pay.

How long does it take to start using?

Minutes. Start a 14-day free trial with no card, pick your trades at sign-up, and materials tracking is switched on with your trade's templates already in place.

Put materials tracking to work.

Full platform, 14 days free, no card needed. Set up in an afternoon, import your customers in a few clicks, and send your first quote today.

Founding members: first 100 businesses get 50% off every paid plan, for as long as they stay subscribed.