Frequently asked questions
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Find the details on pricing, your first job, team access, mobile work, and optional connections. If your question is specific to your business, contact us before you commit.
FAQ category
Fit and positioning
6 answers
01What is Ironline Office?
Ironline is field-service management software that connects customer requests, customers, estimates, scheduling, jobs, field work, communication, invoicing, payments, reporting, and follow-up in one easy-to-follow workspace.
02What does the 92/100 Product Value Benchmark mean?
It is a dated MooreTech Solutions LLC assessment that combines 60% product capability, 20% fit for 5–50-person service teams, and 20% price-to-capability. The underlying product capability score is 92/100 and remains visible in the methodology. The August 17 update reflects passwordless remembered Customer Center access, consistent customer-facing branding, appointment self-service, service timeline, configurable transactional communication, and secure customer-sent attachments. The benchmark excludes customer reviews, market adoption, and brand longevity, and it is not an independent certification, customer rating, award, guarantee, or third-party endorsement.
03Who is Ironline built for?
The strongest immediate fit is a service business with approximately 5–50 people, several field employees or crews, and at least one owner, office, dispatch, customer-service, or operations role coordinating the work. The $29 Owner-Operator plan also serves very small teams of one to five people.
04Which industries fit best today?
Commercial cleaning and janitorial, property maintenance and multi-service property work, appliance repair and installation, specialty service contractors, and similar office-and-field operations have the clearest current fit. The operating handoffs matter more than the trade label.
05Why is Ironline priced below many competitors?
Ironline is intentionally built as an affordable alternative to basic job apps and expensive enterprise platforms. Flat company pricing, focused operating workflows, direct support, and a lean founder-led model keep the entry cost low without turning the product into a feature-restricted starter shell.
06Is Ironline available outside Arkansas?
Yes. MooreTech Solutions LLC is based in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and Ironline is available to service businesses throughout the United States. Guided setup and product support work remotely nationwide.
FAQ category
Plans and trial
7 answers
01What does Ironline cost?
Owner-Operator is $29 monthly or $290 annually for one to five people. Team is $59 monthly or $590 annually for six to fifteen people. Growth is $99 monthly or $990 annually for sixteen to fifty people. Teams above fifty people or multi-location operations use a scoped Scale review.
02Are core features removed from the lower-priced plans?
No. Owner-Operator, Team, and Growth use the same complete core Ironline platform. The plans differ by team range and launch or support needs, not by withholding the connected request-to-payment workflow.
03Does Ironline cap jobs, customers, invoices, automations, or other core activity?
No. Ironline does not impose plan-level activity caps on customers, service locations, requests, jobs, recurring visits, estimates, invoices, tasks, checklists, core automation runs, reports, Customer Center records, photos, or files. Plans are based on team range and rollout needs. Technical per-item security limits, reasonable-use protections, and a third-party provider’s own fees or limits still apply.
04Does Ironline charge for every user?
No. Each self-service plan uses a flat business price within its published team range. The Owner-Operator plan covers up to five people, Team up to fifteen, and Growth up to fifty. A larger team must move to the appropriate plan before adding more members.
05Is a credit card required for the trial?
No. The 30-day trial starts without a card, does not create an automatic subscription, and does not charge the workspace at the end of the trial unless a Workspace Owner deliberately chooses checkout.
06What happens to existing Founding Customer pricing?
A customer already accepted at the published $29 Founding rate keeps the agreed rate while the subscription remains continuous. New $29 enrollment is the Owner-Operator plan for businesses with up to five people.
07Can I cancel?
Yes. A Workspace Owner can stop the next renewal through billing settings or the Stripe customer portal where available. Access continues through the current paid period unless the workspace is suspended for security, abuse, fraud, nonpayment, or legal reasons.
FAQ category
Product and mobile
6 answers
01Can different employees have different permissions?
Yes. Roles include Owner, Manager, Office / Dispatcher, Technician, and Read Only. Each role receives a focused view, and technicians do not automatically receive office-only financial, wage, billing, or administrative access.
02What does the mobile experience include?
Ironline provides a browser-installed app on Android, iPhone, iPad, tablet, and supported desktops without an app store or sideloading. An optional signed Android package remains available when a team deliberately needs the native wrapper. The field workflow includes technician My Day, route order, directions, customer context, status, notes, time, checklists, photos, signatures, materials, and location evidence.
03Does Ironline work when cellular service drops?
Supported field actions—including selected statuses, milestones, notes, checklist responses, photos, time entries, and foreground location evidence—can queue on the device and replay in capture order when a secure connection returns. Office, communication, payment, and financial workflows still require an authoritative connection.
04Does Ironline continuously track employees?
No. The current location workflow is foreground-only and initiated for job-related evidence. Ironline does not claim continuous background employee tracking.
05What reporting and profitability tools are included?
Owners and Managers can review job economics, accounts receivable, collections, workload, completion, activity, customer performance, data quality, and automation health. Operational reports support CSV export and scheduled runs. Gross profit and margin appear only when required labor, material, and expense cost coverage is complete; missing cost is never treated as zero.
06Can Ironline automate follow-up?
Authorized users can create validated rules for supported request, job, task, and support events, preview or dry-run them, and deliberately activate supported actions such as notifications, tasks, priority changes, and assignments. Failures, pauses, retries, and reconciliation remain visible.
FAQ category
Customers and money
3 answers
01What can customers see?
Secure customer experiences can include request pages, appointment details, estimate review and decisions, invoices, payment access where connected, conversations, feedback, rebooking, and referrals. Customer links do not expose the internal workspace.
02Can customers pay online?
Where connected payments are activated for the workspace, Ironline can present a secure provider-hosted payment page for an invoice. The provider handles card or bank details and controls funds, fees, payouts, refunds, and disputes. Ironline records provider-confirmed outcomes and does not store complete card numbers.
03Does Ironline replace QuickBooks?
No. Ironline runs customer and service operations. QuickBooks or another accounting system should remain authoritative for bookkeeping, bank reconciliation, payroll, taxes, the general ledger, and accountant workflows.
FAQ category
Integrations
4 answers
01How does the QuickBooks connection work?
Where QuickBooks Online is authorized, configured, and verified, reviewed customers, invoices, and applied payments move one way from Ironline into the customer’s own QuickBooks company. A service-income mapping is selected deliberately, errors remain visible, and QuickBooks stays authoritative for accounting.
02Does Ironline include text messaging or phone intake?
Without a dedicated provider number, staff can open the device’s own call, email, or SMS composer from customer and job records, and customers can use secure links and Customer Center. Provider-backed two-way SMS, delivery callbacks, consent-state handling, assignment, and phone-intake records remain available where a dedicated number is configured, activated, and proven. The device carrier and provider keep their own fees and terms.
03What calendar, routing, and external automation options are available?
A private one-way Ironline calendar feed is available. Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 can provide limited read-only availability after owner authorization. Google Maps routing requires protected configuration and supervised proof. Scoped API credentials support approved lead or request intake plus customer, job, request, appointment, estimate, invoice, task, and trusted-event reads. Signed Zapier and Make webhooks can run after a successful endpoint test and deliberate activation, but Ironline does not claim a native marketplace listing.
04Can I run Ironline without paying for extra integrations?
Yes for the everyday core workflow. Included fallbacks cover Customer Center and secure customer links, click-to-call, click-to-email and device SMS handoff, schedule-order routes that open in browser maps, a private calendar feed, CSV exports, request forms, review and repeat-service links, and scoped API or webhook foundations. Provider-backed SMS, voice, payment processing, accounting synchronization, traffic-aware routing, and external automation services keep their own activation requirements, fees, and limits.
FAQ category
Migration and rollout
3 answers
01Can I import existing customers and jobs?
Yes. The switching assistant supports reviewed customer and job files from supported field-service exports, QuickBooks exports, and generic CSV. Ironline preserves the source, versions mappings, runs server validation, surfaces duplicates and row errors, and commits only after review. Customers and jobs are the current commit scope.
02What happens to financial and unsupported migration records?
Estimates, invoices, payments, historical financial transactions, attachments, unusual custom fields, team records, provider connections, and relationships that cannot be represented safely remain outside the live migration or use a separate authoritative workflow. Ironline does not force ambiguous data into production to make an import look complete.
03What setup is included?
Every trial includes the in-app setup path. Owner-Operator uses guided self-service, Team includes a guided team launch, and Growth includes priority launch planning. Scale rollouts define migration, permissions, training, integration, security, support, and cutover expectations before a price or scope is confirmed.
FAQ category
Security and support
4 answers
01Is each business’s data separated?
Yes. Customer-owned records belong to one workspace. Workspace identity is enforced through backend queries and operating functions, while role permissions add another boundary inside the workspace.
02Can Ironline staff see my workspace?
Routine customer data is not a general staff browsing area. Deeper support access is deliberate, purpose-limited, time-limited, visible to the workspace, and restricted to an approved support need.
03Does Ironline have security certifications?
Ironline publishes its current workspace, role, customer-link, financial-state, offline, support-access, migration, and provider controls, but does not claim SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP, or another certification or regulatory status that has not been independently established.
04What support is included?
Owner-Operator and Team include standard product support. Growth includes direct product support and priority review of larger-team rollout or operating issues. Scale support channels, escalation, training, implementation, security, and response expectations are scoped for the rollout. Normal support coverage is Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Central, excluding company holidays, with a non-contractual target of an initial response within one business day.
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