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Auto adjust the duration of workshop job

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Brent J

Instead of defaulting all jobs to 60 minutes, divide the total labor dollars by the hourly shop rate to determine labor units. 150$ of labor with a shop rate of 100$ per hour should be scheduled for 1.5 hours.

January 23, 2025

Suzy Weightman

Merged in a post:

New workshop "service" product type

AndyA. Office

Would it be possible to have a new product type (or add parameters to existing non-inventory products) to give a job a pre-determined amount of workshop time. For example, you could create a product for a Silver Service and give it a work shop time of 3 hours. Then when it's booked in it automatically creates a block of three hours and prevent it being dropped in to the calendar if there isn't a slot big enough.

September 10, 2025

Suzy Weightman

Hi all, 
My proposal for this is that we'll add a new field which can be set against items, "Workshop Time". 
This will allow you to set a time value against labor items, and when the job is scheduled we'll calculate the total time based on those values - if there aren't any set, we'll default to the standard 1 hour. 
We'll likely still allow for these to be adjusted as required after scheduling. 
Thanks, 
Suzy

Suzy Weightman another option is to assign a time to a cost for example £ = "x" time, anything within the labour department/catagory would pull this through so if you added 3 jobs from the labour category at £20 each then that will allocate on the workshop calendar time ="X times 60"

Suzy Weightman

PM Hi, 
That sounds like a good idea, we'd still need configuration setup for the Dept/Cat that people want to use so we're not "guessing" at the labour category. 
We'd likely need to allow a list of categories as well as I think one will be too restrictive. 
So we'd need a list of categories, and then a configuration setting for £/$ to Time ratio? 
Suzy

Neil McQuillan - CEO Citrus-Lime

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Nathan

Yes! Have seen this in other systems and saves a lot of time and mistakes keeping mechanics much happier!

Norberto Huertas

Alternatively being able to set time amounts on labor items would be a nice way to make the workshop job time dynamic.
Brake Adjust +15min
Derail Adjust +15 min
Bottom Bracket Adjust +20 min
Total WS job: 50 min

Neil McQuillan - CEO Citrus-Lime

Thats a good idea, I'll float this internally to see if it's possible.