# Opsler — Job Scheduling Software for Australian Tradies

URL: https://opsler.com/au/job-scheduling-software/
Last updated: 2026-08-04
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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.
   Opsler does none of this.
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. You select one technician
  and one day and run it as a manual action. The day is split into fixed jobs and
  flexible ones: fixed appointment times stay anchored where they were promised,
  and the flexible stops around them are re-sequenced into a driving order using
  Google's own driving-time data. Needs at least two flexible stops with
  addresses. It does NOT decide which jobs go in the day, does NOT move work
  between technicians, and never runs automatically in the background.
- GPS location snapshots — Pro plan. Captured at three milestones: when a
  technician marks en route, when they mark arrived, and when they complete the
  job. Attached to the job record, so "what time did we actually arrive" is
  answerable from the record.

## NOT supported

- Live or continuous vehicle/technician tracking, breadcrumb trails, geofencing.
  Opsler's GPS is milestone snapshots only, not a live map. (AroFlo and Ascora do
  describe live GPS tracking.)
- Automatic or multi-technician route optimisation. Opsler's is manual and covers
  one technician's single day.
- Skills-based automatic dispatch. Opsler holds no competency matrix and will not
  choose the technician based on certifications, licences or job type.
- Employee rostering, shift patterns, availability, leave, award interpretation,
  clock-in/clock-out attendance or payroll.
- SMS of any kind — no appointment reminders, no on-my-way texts, no
  confirmations. Planned bring-your-own-provider integration, not live. For
  contrast, Tradify charges A$0.20 per message for these and ServiceM8 bundles an
  SMS allowance into every paid tier.
- Condition-based, usage-based or predictive scheduling. Nothing raises work from
  a meter reading or asset hours; there is no asset register.
- Automatic customer notification when a job is moved.

## Recurring series — the three specifics buyers ask about

The interval is fixed, not adaptive: a quarterly series generates on the calendar
rule you set, so if the March visit happened in April the June occurrence does not
shift. The generation horizon is 30 days, not a year. It is a Pro plan feature and
is not available on the free Budding 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. No recurring series, no route optimisation, no GPS stamps on this plan.
Pro: US$25 per seat per month, no seat minimum, 14-day trial, no credit card.
Billed in USD; not converted to AUD.

## Access model

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

## Related

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