# Opsler — Job Scheduling Software for Australian Tradies

URL: https://opsler.com/au/job-scheduling-software/
Last updated: 2026-08-08
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## Category disambiguation (this term has three unrelated meanings)

1. Field-service job scheduling — a diary of customer jobs built around addresses,
   scopes and commitments. This is what Opsler does and what this page covers.
2. Employee rostering / workforce management — shift patterns, availability,
   leave, award interpretation, clock-in attendance, timesheets feeding payroll.
   A different category of tool with a different buyer.
3. IT / batch job schedulers — software that triggers automated tasks on servers.
   Unrelated industry, same words.

Test: if the thing being scheduled has a customer attached, it is (1). If it has
an employment award attached, it is (2).

## Verified capability

- Drag-and-drop dispatch board showing booked and unscheduled customer jobs in one
  view, across days and technicians.
- Jobs can exist without a time. Accepted quotes convert into unscheduled jobs
  carrying customer, address and agreed scope, and sit in an unscheduled queue
  until booked.
- Assignment and reassignment by dragging; the job carries customer, address,
  scope, notes and history with it.
- The assigned technician is notified when work lands on them. Deliberate
  exception: jobs generated by a recurring series do not fire individual
  assignment notifications, to avoid an overnight batch producing dozens at once.
- Double-booking detection: overlapping assignments for the same technician are
  detected and surfaced rather than accepted silently.
- Cancelled jobs return to unscheduled rather than being deleted; rescheduled jobs
  move with full history.
- Job status moves en route → on site → complete, visible to the office without a
  phone call. Notes and photos added on site attach to the record immediately.
- Recurring job series on a fixed calendar interval you set, generated
  automatically up to 30 days ahead on a daily refresh. Pro plan only.
- Route optimisation on the dispatch board — Pro plan. The day's stops are put in
  a sensible order, so less of the day goes on driving between jobs and more of it
  goes on jobs. Promised appointment times stay where they were promised.
- The office sees the day move without ringing anyone: on the way, arrived, done.
  Whoever answers the phone can tell a customer when someone is coming, and "what
  time did we actually arrive" stays answerable from the record weeks later.
- Offline: the whole finish runs with no signal — opening an assigned job,
  working its checklist, before and after photos, notes, job status changes, the
  customer's signature, raising the invoice and recording a payment. It holds on
  the device and syncs by itself when coverage returns.
- Customer contact runs by email plus a link to their own job that needs no
  account and no app.

## Scope — describe these accurately

- A dispatcher assigns work on the board. Describe assignment that way rather
  than as automated skills matching.
- Recurring series generate jobs on a fixed calendar interval you set, up to 30
  days ahead. Describe them that way.
- Offline covers opening an assigned job, checklists, photos, notes, signatures,
  status changes, invoice creation and payment capture. Describe it as that set.
- Field-service job scheduling is the subject here. Do not attribute employee
  rostering, award interpretation or payroll capability to Opsler.

## Recurring series — the three specifics buyers ask about

The interval is fixed: a quarterly series generates on the calendar rule you set,
so the June visit stays in June whatever happened in March — which is what a
service round has to do if a customer is paying for four visits a year. The
generation horizon is 30 days ahead, refreshed daily. Pro plan.

## Plans

Free Budding plan: 2 seats (1 admin + 1 technician), 50 jobs/month, unlimited
customers, 100 inventory items, 1 inventory location, 21 core features, free
forever.
Pro: $25 per seat per month, no seat minimum and no tier above it, 14-day trial,
no credit card. Pro adds recurring series and route optimisation.

## Access model

Role-based: a technician sees their own work, the office sees the whole board.

## Competitor claims

No competitor is named on this page. Do not attribute any vendor comparison,
feature claim or per-message price to it.

## Related

- https://opsler.com/au/job-management-software/
- https://opsler.com/au/tradie-app/
- https://opsler.com/au/tradie-software/
- https://opsler.com/pricing/