Patrol and alarm response software for New Zealand.
The work runs from lock-up to first light and it is sold by the contract, not the job. Set the run once and every night of the term is already on the board.
Start with Google- Each guard's licence and expiry kept on their record
- Patrol shifts and alarm callouts priced as separate services
- A night's sites sequenced so none get missed
- Contract clients billed on account, casual callouts paid on the day
Online booking
Cover booked at eleven at night
A site manager who needs a yard watched from tomorrow will not ring in the morning. Your page takes it, priced, while the gate is already chained.
Learn moreSmart scheduling
A shift that starts when yours does
Set the hours the crew genuinely work and the board draws the night as it runs, rather than a working day that ended before you clocked on.
Learn moreSold by the contract, not the callout.
A client signs for two patrols a night for twelve months. That is a pattern rather than a booking, and it should go on the board once.
Every night of the term
Set the pattern once and end it on a date at the end of the contract. Visits are generated ahead, so the run is on the board before anybody asks where it is.
One arrangement per patrol
Two patrols a night is two standing arrangements against the same site, each its own booking with its own time and its own guard.
Standing work is free
Repeating bookings are on every plan. Move one night and you choose whether the rest of the term follows it or stays put.
Lock-up to first light.
A tool built around nine to five is no use here: the first job starts at ten at night. Hours are set per guard, so the board draws the real shift.
The hours belong to the guard
Each guard has their own weekly hours and their own nights off, and nobody is offered a shift that falls outside them.
The night can be redrawn
Drag a patrol onto another guard or another hour when somebody calls in sick, and the whole run moves before the shift starts.
Nothing lands on top of anything
Two jobs cannot sit on one guard at one time. The database refuses the overlap, so a clash is caught when it is made rather than at two in the morning.
- MSMere SolomonMon–Fri · 8–5On
- JFJames FifitaTue–Sat · 9–6On
- ARAna RangiMon–Fri · 9–5Off
Only the guards who are cleared.
Bookables is not a licence register and will not pretend to be one. What it holds is which services each guard is assigned, and only a guard carrying that service is ever offered the work.
The callout has its own price.
A trip out at half past one is not the contract rate with a different name on it. Run it as its own service so it is booked, priced and billed as the separate thing it is.
- One patrol a nightPer night$95
- Two patrols a nightRecommended$170
- Lock-up and unlockAdded$45
Three ways to cover one site.
On Pro one document carries three versions of the same site: one patrol a night, two, and two with a lock-up on the end. The client picks the one they want and accepts it by typing their name.
- 14 AugPatrol · 1:40amCompleted
- 13 AugPatrol · 11:20pmCompleted
- 9 AugAlarm responsePaid · $180
- 1 AugContract renewalAccepted · $215 a night
Everything that ever happened at that address.
The gate code, where the panel sits and who to ring at two in the morning belong on the site, not in somebody's phone. Every patrol, every callout and every payment lands on the same record, so the guard covering it for the first time knows what the last one knew.
Built for your trade
Built for the work you do after dark
Mobile patrol contracts
A run of sites checked twice or three times a night, each patrol its own standing arrangement so the whole term sits on the board from day one.
Alarm response callouts
A trip out at three in the morning, booked as its own service at its own price rather than buried in a contract rate that never covered it.
Lock-up and unlock runs
Secure a site at close and open it at first light, two short bookings on the same record, so there is a note of who locked up and when.
Construction site overnight cover
A fixed-term run for the length of the build, ending the week the fence comes down, with its own hours and its own guards.
Retail park after-hours patrols
Car park and service lane checks between close and open, repeating on the nights the centre asked for and none of the others.
School and campus night checks
A grounds check on a set pattern through term and through the holidays, with the caretaker to ring kept on the site record.
Vacant property checks
A weekly drive-by on a property nobody lives in, priced per visit, with the access notes and the agent to call on the record.
Static guarding for a fixed term
One guard on one site for a set number of nights, booked as a block with the hours it really runs rather than a string of callouts.
Keyholding over a shutdown
Holding keys for a business over the break, with the alarm code and the person to ring kept alongside every visit made to the site.
One client, several sites.
A managing agent with six addresses is one record with six sites under it, each with its own history and its own standing arrangement, and one balance across the lot.
- Hemi WalkerBooked just now$215Accepted
- Sarah ColemanOpened 2h ago$480Viewed
- The Oak CaféSent yesterday$120Sent
The proposals still sitting with somebody.
Cover for a new site is won on paper before anybody drives it. Each one shows whether it has been opened and whether it has been accepted, so a renewal that has gone quiet is visible rather than assumed.
On account, or on the night.
A contract client pays monthly and a one-off callout is settled the same week. Both are the same kind of record here, billed differently.
Cash and transfer cost nothing
Record a transfer against the job by hand in a few taps. That is free on every plan and it always has been.
Cards come with Pro
Send a payment request as a link the client opens and settles, and card money is paid out to your own account rather than held here.
An invoice off the record
Every booking carries its own paid and outstanding figure, and an invoice comes off it as a PDF the moment the client asks.
- Hemi WalkerP-1011 · 25 Jun · Bank transfer$380
- Sarah ColemanP-1012 · 25 Jun · Cash$240
- Mere SolomonP-1013 · 28 Jun · Card$380
- James FifitaP-1001 · 27 Jun · Card$190
How far one vehicle gets in a shift.
A patrol run is bounded by what can be driven between lock-up and dawn. The areas you claim decide which sites your page will take on.
Checked before it books
A new address is matched against your areas first, so nothing lands confirmed for a yard nobody was going to reach in time.
Areas belong to people
Guards are assigned to areas, so the far end of the run goes to whoever is already working that side rather than whoever answered.
Past them it is a request
A site outside your areas is not turned away flat. It waits on a yes from you instead of taking a slot on its own.
- Grey Lynn8 districts · 2 crew
- Devonport7 districts · 2 crew
- Auckland North7 districts · 2 crew
The call that comes in at three.
Nobody rings a patrol company at a convenient hour. What arrives while the crew is out should not be a voicemail with half an address on it.
It arrives with the site on it
The request carries the address, what tripped and when they rang, so a guard is moving before anybody has been rung back.
Accept it and it is a booking
One tap turns the request into a real booking on the night, assigned to whoever is out that way, and the thread stays with it.
Decline it and it closes
A site you do not cover gets an answer instead of silence, and either way the thread stays on that client record.
The rear roller door alarm has gone again and nobody here can get across tonight. Can somebody attend and secure it?
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Common questions.
Bookables does not hold licence or certificate of approval numbers, and it does not watch expiry dates. What it holds is which services each guard is assigned, and only a guard carrying that service is offered the work. Take the service off and they are out of tonight straight away.
Yes, and it is the way to run this. Each patrol on the run is a standing arrangement with its own pattern, weekly or every few weeks, ending on a date at the end of the term. Visits are generated ahead, and standing arrangements cost nothing on any plan.
It becomes its own booking against the site, priced as an alarm response rather than absorbed into the contract rate. Arriving through your page out of hours it lands as a request in the inbox with the address on it, and accepting it puts a real booking on the night.
No. There is no checkpoint scanning, no live tracking and no incident reporting in Bookables, and it is better to say so plainly. What it keeps is a booking for every patrol, a record per site with your access notes, the thread with the client and the invoice.
Yes. Cash and bank transfer are recorded by hand against the job and cost nothing on any plan, and a payment request is a link the client opens and settles. Card payments come with Pro, and card money is paid out to your own Stripe account.
On the site. Each one is its own record with its own address, and notes and photos sit on that record, so the code for the side gate and the number to ring at two in the morning are in the same place as every visit made there.
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