Glossary

Account — The billed entity; it owns one or more businesses and is what your teammates are members of.

Admin, editor, viewer — The three roles a team member can have; see Roles.

Business ID — The short identifier for your business set during setup; it appears in your website feed addresses.

Drafting — A page we are still writing; it moves to Ready when it’s finished.

Held — A page that needed a look before it could go live, or didn’t pass our checks, so it waits in Ready until you publish it; see Why a page is held.

Hide from search engines — A switch on a page that asks Google not to list it in search results; the page stays live for anyone with the web address.

Job page (project page) — The page we write for one completed job: what the work was, where it was, and the crew’s photos.

Live — A page that is published and visible on your website.

Location page — A page for one town you work in, created once you have enough jobs there; see Service and location pages.

Publish API — The developer side of the website feed: every published job as JSON, for people building their own site from the data; see the Publish API overview.

Publish automatically — The setting, on by default, under Settings → General that puts a page live by itself when it passes our checks.

Ready — A page that is written and waiting for you to publish it, or about to go live by itself.

Scheduling tool (scheduling software) — Housecall Pro or Jobber, where you mark jobs complete; see Supported scheduling tools and hosts.

Service page — A page for one kind of work you do, created once you have enough jobs of that kind.

Services — Your list of the kinds of work you do, used to sort each job under the right one; edit it under Settings → Services.

Setup — The checklist in the app that walks you through connecting everything; see Who does what.

Tenant key — A read-only key we issue so a developer can read your website feed; see Authentication.

Test job — A job created to check the scheduling-tool connection; named the right way, it is skipped instead of becoming a page; see What we import and when.

Tone (voice) — How your pages sound; you pick a tone during setup and tune it under Settings → Writing style; see Voice calibration.

Web address — The address of a page or of your website, such as yourcompany.com/work/house-washing-marietta.

Website connection — The one forwarding rule on your host that makes the work section show up on your site; see Before you start.

Website feed — The addresses, under Settings → Connections, that hand your published pages to whoever builds your website.

Work section — The part of your website, under /work, where your project pages live; see Where the pages live.