# BackSight

> Job management software for small Australian survey firms and trade businesses: enquiries, quotes, jobs, scheduling, timesheets, GST invoicing, progress claims, purchase orders, inventory, an equipment register and reports. BackSight is in early access. Pilot firms get their own BackSight account, with jobs shared across office and phones and separate logins for up to 15 people. Tim Albash sets each one up himself, and public sign-up isn’t open yet. The demo runs in the browser with sample data.

## Pages

- [Job Management Software for Survey Firms](https://backsight.com.au/): Job management for small survey firms: fee proposals, crew bookings, field and office hours, staged fees and invoices in one job record. Now in early access.
- [Features: Quotes, Jobs, Scheduling & Invoicing](https://backsight.com.au/features/): Explore BackSight features: enquiries, quotes, job cards, scheduling, timesheets, GST invoicing, progress claims, inventory, equipment and reports.
- [Job Scheduling for Survey Crews & Trades](https://backsight.com.au/features/job-scheduling/): Book survey field crews and trade teams on a drag-and-drop week board, with roster, whiteboard, Gantt and suburb views and booked hours for each person.
- [Quoting & Invoicing for Surveyors & Trades](https://backsight.com.au/features/quoting-and-invoicing/): Quote survey fees or trade work from your own rates, turn accepted quotes into jobs and invoice with GST, then record payments and credit notes.
- [Timesheets & Job Costing for Surveyors & Trades](https://backsight.com.au/features/timesheets/): Log field and office hours against each job, approve the week for payroll and see the real labour cost of every survey or trade job.
- [Progress Claims & Retention Software](https://backsight.com.au/features/progress-claims/): Bill large jobs in stages: set a claim schedule against the contract value, claim each stage and track retention until the final claim.
- [Industries: Survey Firms and Trades](https://backsight.com.au/industries/): BackSight is job management software for land survey firms, electricians, plumbers, HVAC and refrigeration technicians and other Australian field teams.
- [Electrician Job Management Software, Australia](https://backsight.com.au/industries/electricians/): Job management for Australian electricians: quote from your price book, schedule your team, log hours and bill fit-outs in stages with GST.
- [Plumbing Job Management Software, Australia](https://backsight.com.au/industries/plumbers/): Job management for Australian plumbers: schedule call-outs and renovations, track van stock and equipment servicing, and invoice from the job with GST.
- [HVAC & Refrigeration Job Management Software](https://backsight.com.au/industries/hvac/): Job management for Australian HVAC and refrigeration businesses: plan multi-day installs, take deposits and stage payments, and keep test equipment in service.
- [Job Management Software for Land Surveyors](https://backsight.com.au/industries/surveyors/): Job and practice management for small land survey firms, made in Brisbane: fee proposals, crew bookings, field and office hours, stage claims and invoices.
- [Pricing: No Charge During Early Access](https://backsight.com.au/pricing/): No charge and no card during early access. See what is included today, what is not built yet, and how paid plans will work at general release.
- [About BackSight](https://backsight.com.au/about/): BackSight is job management software made in Brisbane by Tim Albash, an engineering surveyor and data manager who also built SurveyMarkup.
- [Contact BackSight in Brisbane](https://backsight.com.au/contact/): Contact BackSight about early access or a walkthrough of the job management software. Email hello@backsight.com.au. Based in Brisbane, Queensland.
- [Privacy Policy](https://backsight.com.au/privacy/): How BackSight handles information: no cookies or trackers on this website, visits counted with shortened IP addresses, and demo data kept in your browser.
- [Terms of Use](https://backsight.com.au/terms/): Terms for using the BackSight website and early-access demo, including how demo data is stored and the sample data shown.
- [Free Survey Calculators for Australian Surveyors](https://backsight.com.au/tools/): Free survey calculators for Australian surveyors: MGA2020 conversion, bearings, areas, traverse misclose, level books and a fee proposal template.
- [MGA2020 Converter](https://backsight.com.au/tools/mga2020-converter/): Convert GDA2020 latitude and longitude to MGA2020 easting and northing in zones 49–56. Includes batch conversion, convergence and point scale.
- [Bearing and Distance Calculator for Surveyors](https://backsight.com.au/tools/bearing-distance/): Calculate whole-circle bearing and horizontal distance between two grid points, or radiate new coordinates from a bearing and distance.
- [Area from Coordinates Calculator for Surveyors](https://backsight.com.au/tools/area-from-coordinates/): Calculate area in square metres and hectares from survey coordinates, with perimeter, per-leg bearings and distances, and crossing warnings.
- [Traverse Misclose & Bowditch Calculator](https://backsight.com.au/tools/traverse-misclose/): Calculate closed-loop or link traverse misclose, whole-circle misclose bearing, precision ratio and Bowditch adjusted survey coordinates.
- [Rise and Fall Level Book Calculator](https://backsight.com.au/tools/level-reduction/): Reduce a rise and fall level book from backsight, intermediate and foresight readings. See reduced levels, arithmetic checks and closing misclose.
- [Job Management Software Demo](https://backsight.com.au/demo/): Try the BackSight job management demo with public sample logins. Explore quotes, scheduling, timesheets and invoices with data kept in your browser.
- [Founding-Firm Pilot for Australian Survey Firms](https://backsight.com.au/pilot/): Apply for a free 6-week BackSight pilot for Australian survey firms, with setup help, weekly check-ins and founding-firm pricing agreed before you start.
- [Free Survey Fee Proposal Template (Australia)](https://backsight.com.au/tools/survey-fee-proposal/): Free survey fee proposal template for Australian firms. Add scope, fees, GST, assumptions and payment terms. Print or save an A4 PDF. No account needed.

## Not built yet

- Accounting sync for Xero or MYOB. You can export CSV files.
- Email and SMS delivery. You can print or save documents as PDF.
- File attachments on jobs, such as plans or PDFs. Notes and forms hold text and signatures.
- Importing your existing records. Starting lists are typed in during setup.
- Hiding jobs or staff rates from some logins. Every login sees every job and the staff cost and charge-out rates.
- Recurring maintenance schedules. Book each visit as its own job.

## Contact

- Email: hello@backsight.com.au