Guides

Keeping a customer in the picture while the work happens, written for people who do the work.

• Job update apps for UK trades, compared Tradify, ServiceM8, Powered Now, Jobber, WhatsApp and How’s the Job: what each is for and what it shows your customer, from their own sites, October 2026.
• How to keep customers updated on a job Practical advice for tradespeople: when to update customers, what to say, what to send when a job overruns, and keeping every update in one place.
• Photographing work that gets covered up, and the extras you find How to photograph pipework, cable runs, sub-bases and prep before they are covered up, and how to handle extra work you find mid-job.