Alberta work happens at the end of a lease road, not at a desk. JSD ServicePro writes the work order, captures the photos and the customer signature, and produces the invoice with no connection at all — then syncs when the truck is back in range.
Alberta field work is not desk work. These are the four places a shop loses an evening.
A work order written in the cab of a service truck cannot wait for bars. When the app assumes a connection, the day goes onto paper and gets re-typed at 9pm — usually missing the photos and the hour-meter reading.
Alberta has no provincial sales tax, so an Alberta invoice carries GST alone. The moment you bill a customer in BC (7% PST) or Saskatchewan (6% PST), a single combined tax field makes you do the arithmetic on every job.
Oilfield equipment is serviced on hours, not months. Date-only reminders fire on the wrong machine at the wrong time, and the unit that runs 300 hours in a month slips right past them.
Closing a job needs the customer's signature, the parts used and the correction written down. If any of that comes back on a paper ticket, the invoice waits until someone is back at the shop.
Five things that decide whether software survives a real week in a heavy equipment shop.
Work orders, photos, notes, the job timer and the customer signature all work with no service at all. The record syncs the moment the truck is back in range, and the invoice is ready before the yard.
Inspection templates for commercial trucks and heavy machines: item by item pass or fail, photos against the failed item, signed on the phone, branded PDF saved to the job.
Alberta invoices default to 5% GST with no provincial line. Add BC's 7% or Saskatchewan's 6% on out-of-province work, keep exempt customers exempt, and carry the exact QuickBooks tax code through.
Customers and invoices move both ways, with payment status coming back from the books. The invoice reaches QuickBooks with the tax code your books already use, so nothing is re-selected at month end.
Plans are priced and billed in CAD, so the number on the monthly invoice is the number on the card statement.
Inspection templates are starting points — match them to the standard your province, insurer or client actually requires before you rely on them. This is software, not tax advice.
Join the beta and close the next job from the field: photos, hour meter, signature and the GST invoice, all written before the drive back.