Tracking availability when techs run 2–4 jobs a day

Not every home-service business schedules the same way. Some run a handful of crews that each take one big job a day — install crews, roofing, deck builds. For them, a day is simple: free or booked.

But plenty of businesses run solo technicians doing 2–4 jobs each, every day — lawn care, cleaning, pest control, dog-waste routes. For them, "is Mike booked Thursday?" is the wrong question. Mike is almost never fully booked or fully free. The real question is how full he is.

Free/booked is a special case of capacity

Both models are actually the same idea at different numbers. A day is jobs assigned / daily capacity:

• One-big-job crews: capacity = 1. 0/1 is free, 1/1 is booked. That's your classic green/red.
• Multi-stop techs: capacity = 4 (or 2, or 3). 2/4 is half full, 4/4 is maxed.

Once you think in capacity, one view serves both kinds of business. Booked-or-free is just capacity of one.

What it looks like in practice

For a tech doing up to four stops a day, a useful view shows the count and shades it:

• 0/4 → green, wide open
• 1–3/4 → amber, room left
• 4/4 → red, don't promise another

Now your office can answer the phone with "Mike's got two slots open Thursday" instead of squinting at a wall of visit blocks trying to count.

The one number Jobber can't give you

Jobber knows what's assigned — that's the count. What it doesn't know is each tech's daily capacity — the "4." That's an operational decision only you can set: how many stops a tech can realistically run in a day.

So the recipe is:

1. Pick your unit — crew or solo tech.
2. Set the daily capacity for it.
3. Read assigned / capacity instead of a wall of blocks.

That's exactly how CrewSyncer models it: pull the assigned count live from Jobber, apply the capacity you configure, and show a per-tech, per-day read at a glance. See the full crew-availability guide for the bigger picture, or how to stop double-booking once you can see capacity.

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