Add Your Own Reference To Jobs

Adding your own reference to each job you book makes it much easier to find it again in the future - like at tax time or to rebook the same gear.

Ben Bateman

Updated April 29, 2023

2 min read

Every rental job that is created in our system has a reference (or job code) automatically assigned to it. Our reference is something like

YF32LK
. We use this reference for a range of purposes, but it's not going to be very meaningful to you - so you can add your own reference to each job.

Adding your own reference to a job means you can search your rental history to locate it more easily down the track. This is useful for many reasons - maybe you have to find the invoice jor a job to pass on to a producer, or you want to rebook the same gear you had on an earlier job.

In the screenshot below, you can see how the

Your Reference
field can be used to show only the jobs matching that reference.

You can enter text into the Your Reference field to show only jobs that match.

You can enter text into the Your Reference field to show only jobs that match.

How Do I Add My Own Reference To A Job?

So, where can you add this custom reference? In two places - when creating a quote, and in the details of the job accessible through your rental history.

When Getting A Quote

The first opportunity you have to add your own reference to a job is when you are getting a quote. Just enter your reference in the

Job Reference
field shown below:

Specify your own job reference when getting a quote.

Specify your own job reference when getting a quote.

Add Directly To A Job

The other way you can add your own reference to a job, or change it whenever you need, is to view the job in your rental history and update it there.

Add your own reference in the text field to the right of our assigned job reference.

Add your own reference in the text field to the right of our assigned job reference.

There's a text field to the right of the automatically assigned job reference. Add or change your own reference here.

That's it. Now you can use the reference to search jobs in your rental history 馃

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