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A short map of Stedley rather than a manual. If what you need is not here, ask us — the questions people actually send are what this page grows from.
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Getting started
- Create your company
- Create a login, then name your company and go. Stedley is in beta and free while it is, so nobody is billed yet. If you cannot get in, there is a form on the home page. When Stedley opens to everyone the 14-day trial needs no card and will not turn into a paid plan on its own.
- Find your way around
- Five tabs along the bottom: Dashboard, Jobs, Time Clock, Invoices and More. Everything else lives in More, and on a computer the same items sit in the sidebar.
Jobs and scheduling
- Jobs
- The Jobs tab. Notes, photos, checklists and visits, all on the job rather than in your head.
- Calendar and scheduling
- More → Calendar. Visits scheduled against a job, so the crew sees where to be without a group message.
- Working without signal
- Stedley keeps the field-critical parts working when the signal drops and syncs when it comes back. It is a bounded offline mode, not a promise that every screen works down a basement — so it is honest about what it queued and what it could not.
Estimates, proposals and invoices
- Estimates
- More → Estimates. Build a price from your own line items, or pull them from the Price Book so you are not typing the same rate twice.
- Proposals and acceptance
- More → Proposals. Turn an estimate into a proposal your customer can accept — by a link you send them, or with a signature on your phone while you are standing in their kitchen. What they agreed to is recorded and cannot be edited afterwards, by them, by you, or by us.
- Invoices
- The Invoices tab. Raise one from a job or an accepted proposal, then send or print it. Stedley does not take your customer’s card payment — collecting what you are owed stays between you and them.
Time clock and crew hours
- Time Clock
- The Time Clock tab. Crew clock in and out; the hours land against the job so you can see what it actually cost you.
- Estimated Gross Pay
- Beside the clocked hours for a pay period, a worker sees an estimated gross figure — worked out from those hours and the rate on file, shown so they can see where the hours landed. Estimated only. Final pay is handled outside Stedley.
Expenses, receipts and records
- Expenses and receipts
- More → Expenses. Photograph the receipt when you are handed it, put it against the job, and stop carrying a glovebox full of paper.
- Reports and the accountant export
- More → Reports. Job costs, a tax-year summary, and an export package your accountant can actually open.
Clients and your crew
- Clients
- More → Clients. Name, address, phone and email, once. Everything you make for them afterwards fills itself in.
- Invite your crew
- More → Team. Each person gets an invite code. You choose what they can see — a worker does not have to see your money.
Your account
- Plans and billing
- Account → Subscription, signed in as the owner — or the link on the support page. Change plan, see your renewal date, or cancel; cancelling stops the next payment and you keep Stedley to the end of the period you paid for.
- Language
- Settings. Stedley is in English and Spanish, and each person chooses their own — the owner writing in English and a crew member reading in Spanish is a normal day.
- Deleting your account
- Account → Danger zone, or the deletion page on the web. Export your books first: deletion is permanent and there is no archived copy.
Still stuck?
Email support@getstedley.com. Tell us what you were doing and what happened instead — that is usually enough. More on that on the support page.
Testing an early build for us? The beta tester guide has getting-started steps and a feedback form. Everyone else can ignore it — nothing on it is needed to use Stedley.
Free while Stedley is in beta · no card required