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What tickets are

The record behind one repair job: the customer, the equipment, the work done on it, and what it comes to.

A ticket is one repair job written down. It names the customer who brought the equipment in, lists what is wrong with each piece, records the labour and the parts that put it right, and carries the money the job comes to. Everything else in Repairs either feeds a ticket or is produced by one.

A tour of the ticket screen, from the list to a single repair

Highlights

  • One ticket covers one visit, however many pieces of equipment came in with it.
  • Each line is a separate repair, with its own status, technician and price.
  • Ticket numbers are issued for you in sequence, so nobody has to invent one.
  • A ticket is not a bill. It becomes a quote or an invoice when you convert it.
  • Everything that happens to it is logged, down to who changed which field.

The list

Tickets opens on a list of every repair on your books, newest first. The columns answer the questions asked across a service counter: whose is it, what is it, what is wrong with it, who has it, and what will it cost.

The Tickets list under a tab reading Tickets, headed Tickets with the subtitle Manage and track all repair tickets. An All filter sits above a table with columns Ticket #, Customer, Device, Device Issue, Status, Technician, Total Amount and Created. Row RPT-00044 is Llanelli Steel Processing with a Keystone Series 31 DN100 valve weeping from the gland seal, at Customer Reply, assigned to Sian Pritchard, 2228.64 pounds. Row RPT-00021 is Tyneside Dry Dock Services with three devices, three separate Repaired statuses and three lines assigned to Graham Whitfield, 4605.06 pounds. The foot reads showing 1 to 25 of 64 results.
One row per ticket. A ticket with three repairs on it shows three statuses and three technicians stacked in its row.

What a ticket holds

Opening a ticket puts the repair in the middle, the rest of the list down the left, and its history down the right.

Ticket RPT-00021 open in a three column layout. The left column lists other tickets with their equipment and totals. The middle column shows Associated Documents with Invoices and Quotes tabs, an invoice INV-00074 marked Paid for 12,318 pounds, then Customer Details for Tyneside Dry Dock Services Ltd with billing and shipping addresses in North Shields, then Ticket Details listing Ticket Number RPT-00021, Created On 20/07/2026, Location Sheffield Depot, Source Walk In and Est. Completion 22/07/2026, then a Services table. The right column is an Activity Panel with a comment box and a log reading status changed from In Progress to Repaired.
The ticket in the middle, the rest of the list on the left, and every change ever made to it on the right.
Associated documents
The quotes and invoices this ticket has produced, with what each one is worth and what is still owed on it.
Customer details
Who the equipment belongs to, how to reach them, and where it is going back to.
Ticket details
The number, the dates, the depot holding the equipment, and how the job came to you.
Services
One row per repair: the equipment, the fault, who is doing it, and what the labour costs.
Parts
What the repair consumes, priced separately from the labour.
Totals
Labour and parts added up, less any discount, less anything already paid.
Activity panel
Comments left by your team and an automatic log of every field that changed.

Where a ticket sits in the work

A ticket is the first record in the chain and the one the rest hang off. Nothing is billed until a ticket says there is something to bill.

What a ticket becomes, and what it needs from elsewhere
DirectionWhat passes
A ticket needsA customer, and the parts and services you charge for
A ticket producesA quote to be approved, an invoice to be paid, and a package to send the equipment back in
A ticket recordsA work report per repair, the technician's account of what they found and did
A ticket never doesTake money. A payment is recorded against the invoice, not against the ticket

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