How Gafferly works, in plain English
32 guides covering everything from your first afternoon setting up to chasing an overdue invoice. No login needed to read any of it.
Last updated 10 August 2026
Getting started
- Getting started
What Gafferly does, the roles, and how to find your way around.
Set up your account
- Your first-week set-up checklist
Ten steps, in order, from a blank account to sending your first branded quote.
- Company details, VAT & numbering
The legal and money basics every quote and invoice carries.
- Logo, colours, website & trust badges
Make every quote look like your firm, and show the accreditations that win trust.
- Job types that speak your trade
Rename the generic job types and equipment kinds to the work you actually do.
- Price book & saved text
Price things once, reuse them on every quote, and let AI draft priced quotes for you.
- Quote templates & the page library
Turn your best quote into a reusable template with branded pages and optional extras.
- Card payments & Xero
Connect Stripe for online card payments, show your bank details for transfers, and let Xero keep itself.
- Your team & sign-in
Add your people, give them the right role, and get engineers on their phones.
- Texts, reminders & your review link
The automatic messages, the chasers you switch on, and the wording of all of it.
Sales & money
- Leads & website enquiries
Where enquiries land, how to convert them, and wiring up your website form.
- Customers, sites & equipment
The customer 360, multiple sites, equipment records and the data-plate scanner.
- Quotes & proposals
Build branded quotes with optional extras the customer picks, and get them signed online.
- Invoices & getting paid
Create invoices, take card and bank payments, deposits, chasers, write-offs and Xero.
- Service contracts (PPM)
Recurring maintenance plans that generate the next visit automatically.
- Stock & parts
Track parts across the store and each van, use them on jobs, and reorder.
Day to day
- Jobs
Create, schedule, assign and track every job through its stages.
- The diary & scheduling
Plan the week, assign engineers, and keep the day organised.
- Your day at a glance
Today, the Dashboard and End of day: the three screens that bookend the working day.
- Completing a job on site
Work-done notes, the AI report draft, customer signature and the job sheet.
- Service reminders
The Reminders workboard: who's due a service, one tap to nudge them.
- Fleet & live tracking
Vehicles, MOT and service reminders, the live map, zones and driver safety.
Communication
- Messages (SMS)
Texts and the Messages screen: on-my-way, reminders, chasers, AI replies and drafting.
- Email to CRM
Get customer emails onto their timeline automatically, next to their texts.
- The customer portal
A private login where customers view quotes, invoices, jobs and certificates.
- Reviews
Ask happy customers for a review automatically, with your Google link offered to the 4 and 5 stars.
AI assist
- AI assist: everything it does
Where AI helps across Gafferly, and the golden rule: you always review before it sends.
Admin & settings
- Certificates (EICR)
Capture compliance certificates against a job.
- Custom forms
Build your own checklists, risk assessments and surveys to fill on a job.
- Reports & insights
Revenue, profit by job type, productivity, extras attach rate, the AI digest and Q&A.
- Your team & permissions
Add team members, set roles, and get engineers on the app.
- Plans, seats & billing
Where your Gafferly plan, seats and the billing portal live.
Still stuck?
Email a real person at hello@gafferly.com, or have a look around the product yourself.