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Surehand for Window Cleaners

A practical path for moving your round into Surehand and running the working day with less admin.

Follow the round from setup to payday.

Work through the guides in order, or jump directly to the part of the day you need help with.

  1. 1Getting started

    Get started with Surehand

    Set up the essentials, add your first customer and service, and take a job through to completion.

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  2. 2Customers

    Import customers and scheduled work

    Bring an existing customer list or round into Surehand from a CSV file, preview the result, and fix issues before importing.

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  3. 3Jobs & scheduling

    Set up recurring work

    Create a repeating schedule for regular visits and understand the difference between the schedule and an individual visit.

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  4. 4Jobs & scheduling

    Organise recurring work into rounds

    Group regular jobs into useful rounds so you can understand the route, value and work attached to each one.

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  5. 5Jobs & scheduling

    Reschedule work after bad weather

    Move one visit or a whole working day while keeping recurring schedules intact.

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  6. 6Jobs & scheduling

    Run the working day

    Use Today or Day View to work through scheduled visits, keep useful notes, and leave each job in the right state.

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  7. 7Quotes & invoices

    Complete a job and send an invoice

    Finish a visit accurately, let Surehand raise the invoice, and choose whether to email it to the customer.

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  8. 8Payments

    Record and manage payments

    Keep invoices accurate by recording money received and distinguishing connected payments from payments taken elsewhere.

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  9. 9Payments

    Set up Direct Debit with GoCardless

    Connect GoCardless, give a customer a secure authorisation link, and check when their mandate becomes available.

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  10. 10Team & account

    Invite people and organise teams

    Invite colleagues, choose an appropriate role, and group users into teams for job assignment.

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