The paperwork done right, on your phone

Certificates of testing

Circuit test results on your phone in every state. In Queensland the certificate is issued and emailed from SparkyBuddy; everywhere else your CCEW, COES, eCoC or ESC is prepared ready to lodge, with a countdown to the deadline.

• Circuit-by-circuit test results
• Can't be issued until every required test is recorded and passing
• A job can't be finished or invoiced without its certificate, or a reason why none is needed
• Clients get a link, you keep the record
• NSW, VIC, SA, WA, TAS, ACT and NT: details ready to copy into the state's system, then record the official number

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Safety switch question

In Queensland, a testing and compliance certificate won't go out until you've answered one question: is there a safety switch on the power-point circuits?

• Fitted, fitted in this work, not a home, or an exemption with the reason
• Asked before the certificate issues, and before it issues itself when the job's done

Hardwired smoke alarm rule

Fitted or replaced a hardwired smoke alarm? Then the job can't be closed as "no certificate needed". SparkyBuddy picks it up from the job's smoke alarm check.

• Stops a missed certificate on alarm work
• Works from the alarms you already recorded

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Smoke alarm certificates

Check every alarm on your phone and the certificate works out whether the home meets the rules for its state or territory. Issue it and it goes straight to the agent or owner.

• For new leases and renewals, sales, yearly services and new installs
• Rules for every state and territory, with what's required kept apart from what's recommended
• Next visit to the same address copies the alarm list, so it's quick
• Flags alarms due for replacement in the next year
• Sets a reminder for next year's check

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SWMS

Safe Work Method Statements made for the job in a couple of minutes, from templates for the work sparkies do: ceiling spaces, switchboards, heights, solar and trenching.

• Tick the high risk work, edit the steps, hazards and controls on your phone
• Workers sign on with a finger, and sign again when it changes
• A link for the builder to read or print it

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Test and tag, switchboards and RCD testing

Test and tag on your phone, one item after another. Pass or fail is worked out as the readings go in, and every item lands on the client's register.

• Only asks for the readings that item needs
• Tag numbers count up by themselves
• A printable register for every client, and a reminder when it's due again
• Each switchboard's history with photos, ready for next time
• RCD testing: each RCD's test button and trip time, pass or fail worked out, and a reminder when it's due again

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Customer equipment register

Every switchboard, RCD, smoke alarm, emergency light, EV charger, solar inverter and battery at each customer's site, with where it is, its make and model, and when it's next due.

• Record each service or test: all good, repaired or needs work
• Filled in for you from EV, solar and smoke alarm jobs
• Print QR labels, then scan one to open the item
• Due for a check? The customer's reminder is ready to send, so the repeat work comes to you

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Notice board with safety sign-offs

Post a safety alert or record a toolbox talk for the whole team. Everyone taps "read and understood", and you can see who hasn't.

• Record a talk on your phone: it's written up and summarised for the crew
• A prompt on each worker's Dashboard until they've signed
• A printable safety record per person, including the SWMS they signed on to
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Compliance records

Every certificate of testing, smoke alarm certificate and SWMS you've issued or voided, a year per page. Print it or save it as one PDF.

• In Settings, Compliance records
• Closing your account? It tells you how long each kind of record should be kept, and asks you to save them first

Solar

Solar install photos with where and when

Solar install photos keep where and when they were taken, for your STC paperwork. Every other photo still has its location taken off.

• From the camera's details, or your phone's location when it's added
• The install page shows Located or No location for each photo
• Battery endorsement checked for battery jobs

Licences and insurance

The business's licences and insurance, and each person's tickets, in one place with a copy of each and its expiry date.

• Snap a photo and Max reads the number and dates for you to check
• Reminders 60, 30 and 7 days before anything runs out
• Current, expiring and expired at a glance, and what's still to add
• One zip of everyone's current documents when a builder asks

Pre-start and completion checks

A short pre-start before you touch anything and a completion check when you finish, with before and after photos that keep where and when they were taken.

• Test before you touch, isolation, hazards, PPE and the asbestos question
• Any live work? The live-work record is filled in on the spot
• The job can't be completed or invoiced until they're done (your setting)
• Works with no signal

Incident reports and van checks

Record an incident or near miss on site while it's fresh: what happened, who was there, what was done and photos.

• Plain yes/no questions, with the official definitions shown when one might fit
• The owners are told straight away
• Kept in your compliance records
• Van checks too: a defect needs a note and photos, and the owners are told

Subcontractors

The subbies you use, with their ABN checked and their licences and insurance kept up to date, and a warning on the job if anything they need is missing.

• Send them a pack link: they fill in their details, upload their documents and sign
• Reminders to them and you before anything runs out
• A TPAR summary for the financial year

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Your own forms

Build the forms your business uses, like a site induction or a builder's handover, and fill them in on the job on your phone.

• Text, yes/no/N/A, ticks, numbers, dates, choices, photos and a signature
• Mark a form required and the job can't be completed until it's done
• A PDF of every finished form, kept in your compliance records
• Fill them in with no signal

Testing procedures, a tap away

Not sure of the steps for a test? Tap How? next to it on the certificate form for the procedure, step by step, from the Electrical Safety Office's testing guide.

• Continuity, insulation resistance, polarity, RCD and fault loop
• The safety checks before you start
• Right where you record the result

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Test, tag and report from your phone

Snap the item and it fills itself in. Tap Pass, the tag prints, and the report's done. Helps you record and report your testing to AS/NZS 3760; you do the testing with your own tester.

• Make, model, serial, class and rating read from the photo
• Bulk site mode for big sites, with a running count
• Photos on the register and in the PDF report, failed items in their own section
• Your tester and its calibration on the report
• Import results from your tester's export file
• Retest next time by scanning the QR on the tag

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