Job card and job management app for electricians in Johannesburg

Built for the way Johannesburg electricians actually work

Jobs are spread across a metro wide enough that two callouts on opposite sides of the city can cost a technician most of an afternoon in traffic. The certificate is the product, and a certificate that lives in the back of a bakkie for a week is a job that cannot be invoiced. Omni Field puts the schedule, the technician’s location, the job record and the invoice in one place, so the job that was finished this morning is invoiced this morning.

Highveld summers bring afternoon thunderstorms from October to March, and winters are cold and dry, which shapes the year for electricians here: fault finding and DB board replacements do not arrive evenly across twelve months. Recurring work can be scheduled ahead of the season it belongs to, and emergency callouts can be dropped into a day that is already planned without losing the rest of it.

Areas covered around Johannesburg

Teams using Omni Field dispatch across Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Midrand, Fourways, Soweto and Alberton, and anywhere else in Gauteng. Jobs carry an address and a pin, the dispatcher can see which technician is nearest, and the customer gets an arrival window rather than "sometime this afternoon".

• Sandton
• Randburg
• Roodepoort
• Midrand
• Fourways
• Soweto
• Alberton

The work, and the paperwork that follows it

Electricians in Johannesburg book fault finding, DB board replacements, compliance certificates, rewiring and generator and inverter changeovers. Each of those leaves site with a Certificate of Compliance, test results and an invoice.

A registered person issues the electrical Certificate of Compliance required on property transfer, and installations are wired to SANS 10142-1. Omni Field generates the job document from the job record itself and stores it against that job, so the copy the customer received and the copy you can find later are the same document.

A week of electrical work in Johannesburg

A working week here usually mixes booked work with whatever comes in that morning. Compliance certificates and rewiring can be planned days ahead and slotted against the technician who is already working that side of Johannesburg. Emergency fault finding cannot, and they arrive on the days you are already full.

Omni Field keeps both on one schedule. A dispatcher can see who is free, who is nearest and what is already booked, move a job without phoning three people, and tell the customer when someone will actually arrive. Recurring work, the kind that renews quietly if you never miss it, is scheduled once and repeats.

The record follows the technician rather than the office: job notes, photographs, the customer’s signature and a Certificate of Compliance are captured against the job on site. By the time the bakkie is back on the road, the invoice can already be with the customer.

Load shedding and patchy signal

The mobile app captures job details, photographs and signatures offline and syncs when the connection returns. A technician on a site with no coverage, or working through a load shedding slot, still records the job properly, and nothing has to be re-entered from memory that evening.

What it costs

There is a free plan for a solo operator. Paid plans start at R149 a month including one technician seat, then R149 per extra seat, including 15% VAT. Viewer users are free, and admin seats are R99 a month on PaYu and R199 on Growth. Prices are shown and charged in Rand, so there is no exchange rate between the quote and the debit order.