Every job photo, already filed to the right job

Right now job photos pile up in the boss's personal phone gallery, with no way to tell which shot belongs to which job. When a variation dispute lands six weeks later, someone scrolls through thousands of camera-roll images hoping to find the before shot. This automation closes that gap at the source: the tech opens the app on site, takes the photo, and it is filed straight to the correct customer and job, stamped with the time, date, location and who took it. No tagging, no end-of-day upload, no shared-drive admin. The shots arrive organised, so the proof of work is there the moment anyone needs it. The approach mirrors what tradies already describe on Reddit, where teams shoot from inside a shared-folder app so photos sync instantly. We make that the default rather than a habit the crew has to remember.

1. 1

   Trigger

   The tech opens the job-photos app on site and takes a photo of the work, the same as using the normal camera.

2. 2

   Action 1

   The photo uploads instantly and is filed to the open job, here switchboard upgrade #J-2048 for M. Petrovic in Coburg.

3. 3

   Action 2

   It is automatically stamped with the time and date, the GPS location, and the name of the tech who took it.

4. 4

   Action 3

   All six shots from the visit (old board, new board, cabling, RCD test, meter, sticker) sit together in that job's gallery, no manual tagging.

5. 5

   Outcome

   When a variation or warranty question comes up later, the proof is already organised by job instead of buried in a personal camera roll.

• r/sysadmin

  'Create shared folders in Onedrive... train end-users to take photos from within the onedrive app to instantly upload.'

• r/Contractor

  'How do you store job photos?'