Welcome to the Stedley beta.

This is a beta.

Some things are still rough or unfinished. You will not break Stedley by using it normally — go ahead and try the everyday workflow the way you would on a real job.

If something is confusing, that is worth telling us about. Confusing counts as broken, and it is usually easier for us to fix than a crash.

Start with a fictional client and job while you learn the app. Do not enter passwords, payment-card details, Social Security numbers, or other unnecessary sensitive information.

Our Privacy Policy covers what Stedley stores and how long it is kept.

Getting started

Four short parts. You can do the first three in a few minutes; the fourth is worth setting up once you know which lists you use on every job.

1 Create an account and get into Stedley

• Open Stedley in your browser. Go to app.getstedley.com on your desktop or your phone. There is nothing to download. On an Android phone you can use the Android open beta instead, with the same account.
• Sign in, or create an owner account. The owner account is the one that runs the company and sees the money side.
• Complete company setup. Your company name and details appear on the estimates and invoices you produce, so it is worth doing first.
• Pick an appearance. System, Light, or Dark, under Account. Worth trying Dark if you are working outside in the evening.
• Invite a worker when you are ready. Optional, and easier once your own account is working. Workers see the jobs they are assigned and their own hours — not your invoices or company totals.

app.getstedley.com

2 Create a job

• Go to the Jobs tab and add a job. Give the job a title, pick the client, and continue to the Schedule Work step.
• Know the date? Choose Schedule now and pick the day on the calendar.
• Don't know the date yet? Choose Leave unscheduled. Then review it and tap Create Job. The job is saved without a date and listed under Unscheduled, so it doesn't get lost.
• A reminder is not the work date. When you leave a job unscheduled you can set an optional reminder to schedule it. That is only a nudge to come back and pick a date — it does not put the work on the calendar.

3 Schedule the work when the date is known

• Open the job and tap Schedule job. You can schedule one day, a date range, or several separate blocks of work.
• Check the calendar. The job should now show on the day you picked, and it is no longer listed as unscheduled.

4 Reuse checklists with templates

If you walk through the same steps on job after job, save them once as a checklist template and add them to each job that needs them.

• Make the template once. Open Checklist Templates — under More on a phone, or in the sidebar on a computer. Give the template a name, then add its checklist items one at a time.
• Add it to a job. Open the job, tap Add checklist, choose From template, pick the template, and tap Create checklist. Stedley copies its items onto the job as a new checklist, with every item unticked.
• The job gets its own copy. Ticking, adding or removing items on the job's checklist changes that job only. The saved template stays as it was, ready for the next job.
• A job can have more than one checklist. Add as many as the work needs — from templates, or blank ones you make just for that job.

Example: “Paint and Caulk Walls” can be a reusable checklist containing the individual steps for that work. Add that checklist to each applicable job. The same job can also have separate task-specific checklists for other parts of the work.

Send us feedback

Honest feedback is the most useful thing you can give us — including anything that was confusing or took longer than it should. A problem, an idea, or just how it felt to use: all of it helps.