Task Management

Tasks are the internal work items your team completes to fulfill a job, things like "Edit Photos," "Upload to Gallery," or "QC Video." They keep your post-shoot workflow organized and accountable without manual hand-offs.

Task Management is currently in Beta.

How it works

You define task templates once, then link them to the services you offer. Whenever a job is created with a linked service, Photeria generates the actual tasks for that job automatically. No manual setup per job.

Creating a task template

Go to Ordering → Tasks and click Add Task. The key decisions:

Scope controls how many tasks get created per job:

• Per Job - one task, no matter how many times the service appears.
• Per Appointment - one per appointment.
• Per Service - one per service line item (two drone shoots = two tasks).

Due date is an anchor plus an offset. The anchor is the job creation time (Per Job) or the appointment time (Per Appointment / Per Service). Add an offset like "2 days after," choose weekdays-only if you want weekend due dates to roll to Monday, and set the due time.

Assignment decides who gets it:

• Specific Person - always the same staff member.
• Whoever Shot It - the photographer on the appointment, and it re-assigns automatically if the photographer changes. Per Appointment / Per Service only.
• Skill-Based Routing - auto-assigns to a qualified person by round robin, least assigned, or lowest current load.

Toggle a template off to stop it generating new tasks without deleting it. Deleting a template leaves existing tasks intact.

Linking tasks to services

Edit a service under Ordering → Services and pick which task templates should fire when that service is added to a job. That link is what triggers task creation.

What happens automatically

• Tasks are created when their service is added to a job.
• Reschedule an appointment and due dates recalculate.
• Reassign a photographer and "Whoever Shot It" tasks follow.
• Remove a service and its pending tasks are deleted; completed ones are kept for the record.

Completing tasks

Check a task off to complete it (uncheck to reopen); Photeria records who and when. You can do this from the Tasks card on a job or from the My Tasks widget on your dashboard, which groups your work into overdue, due today, and upcoming.

Permissions

• Tasks: Manage Templates - create and edit templates, link them to services.
• Tasks: Complete Assigned - complete tasks assigned to you.
• Tasks: Complete All - complete any task regardless of assignee.

Admins get all three; other roles need them granted. See Roles and Permissions.