BulkDesk is job management for builders: one place for the office and the site, from the first enquiry to handover. It runs in the browser at the office and as an app on the phone on site. It is the same system and the same data in both.
Signing in
- The director adds you in Team and hands you a one-time link.
- Open the link and choose your own password, 12 characters or more. Nobody else ever sees or types it.
- Sign in with your work email and password. The eye icon shows what you typed.
- Five wrong passwords lock the account for 15 minutes. The director can make a new link.
Sign in with Microsoft. When your company has connected Microsoft 365, type your work email first, then press Sign in with Microsoft. Your email must already be a BulkDesk user: a Microsoft account never creates one. Your password keeps working.
Next: On the phone ›On the phone
Open bulkdesk.com.au in the phone browser and choose Add to Home Screen. It opens like an app. The bar at the bottom holds your most used screens and the Inbox; Menu at the top opens everything else.
Next: How every screen is laid out ›How every screen is laid out
- Top bar: jump to any job (Ctrl K or /), the look button, your account.
- Left: the side menu in four sections, then your active jobs.
- Middle: the work.
- Right: the record you selected, with its details.
Reading the screen at a glance
| Mark | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Empty square | Not started |
| Half-filled square | In progress |
| Solid square | Done |
| Yellow and black stripes | Late, stuck or over the limit |
| Dashed outline | The original plan |
| Yellow button, edge or cell | Your next action, today, the current step |
| Solid black box with a tick | A decision already made, such as Approved |
Two things carry colour on screen: board labels and traffic lights. A traffic light is only a dot, with the words beside it in ink.
Next: The account menu ›This manual
The manual is part of the BulkDesk documentation at docs.bulkdesk.com.au, a site apart from the software that anyone can read without signing in. It changes in the same release as the screens it describes, so it always matches what you see. Help, Manual in the account menu opens it in a new tab on the chapter for the page you are on. What's new lists every change, newest first.
The "i" beside a title. Every page title and main section has a small "i". Point at it on a computer, or tap it on a phone, for a short plain explanation of what that part is for.