If you work for housebuilders, a job isn't one address — it's a site with a hundred plots on it, and the same thing happens on every one. Mucka can hold that shape: the builder is the client, the site is the project, and the plots sit under it.
Turn site work on
It's off until you ask for it, because most firms never touch a new build.
Head to Projects, tap Settings, and switch on Site work. You need to be an owner or admin.
That does two things: every project gets a This is a site tick, and you get a second setting underneath — whether you invoice per plot or per project. Pick whichever matches how your builder pays. One valuation covering the whole site is per project; billing plot by plot is per plot.
Mark a project as a site
Open the project, tap Edit Project, and tick This is a site — it has plots.
The project is the site, not the builder. So if Pickstock Homes have you on three developments, that's three projects — Oswestry, Ludlow, Penybont — all under the one client. That way "Plot 15" means something: it's Penybont's plot 15, not one of the other two.
Add the plots
Open the project and you'll see a Plots section. Tap Add plots and put the numbers in:
1-72, 85-93, 155-160, 218-284
Ranges and single numbers, separated by commas. As you type, Mucka tells you exactly what it's about to make — "154 plots: Plot 1, Plot 2, Plot 3 … Plot 284" — and the button says Add 154 plots, so you can check the number before you tap rather than after.
A plot that isn't a number goes in on its own: type the show home and that's what it's called.
Pasting the same list again is safe. Mucka only adds what's missing and tells you the rest were already there. So when the builder sends you another phase, paste the whole lot again — you won't get duplicates.
Plots you already had get picked up, not duplicated. If your address book already has "Plot 23 Oswestry" — from an import, or because you've worked on it before — Mucka attaches that record to the site instead of making a second one beside it. Everything on it comes too: the postcode, the certificates, the job history. It tells you how many it picked up: "126 plots added, 28 already on your book were attached to the site."
It's careful about which ones it takes. A plot has to say which site it's on, either in the address or the town, before Mucka will attach it — a bare "Plot 27" with nothing else on it could belong to any of your sites, so it leaves that alone and makes a new one. And a plot already attached to a different site is never moved; it's reported so you can look.
What a plot actually is
A plot is an address record, the same as any other on your books — it just hasn't got a street address yet. That means it comes with everything an address has: jobs booked on it, photos, certificates, appliances, and a page of its own. Tap any plot in the list to open it.
Because a plot has no postcode to tell it apart, Mucka shows the site in brackets wherever it appears — Plot 1 (Oswestry). So when someone rings up about plot 1 and you search for it, you can see which site they mean. You'll have plot 1 on every development you're on.
When the builder hands over the real addresses, put them on the plot and the number stays with it. Plot 4 is still plot 4 to everyone on site, long after it's become 14 Maple Way.
What each plot is worth
Under the plot list is the Rate card, where the price goes. On a development the price is the same for every plot of the same house type, so you set it once per type and every plot of that type picks it up — see price a site by house type.
Snags go against a real plot
If you're already using the snag list, snags on a site project now point at the actual plot rather than a label you type each time — so the plot's page shows what's outstanding on it, and the snag list and the plot list agree with each other.
Turning it off again
Untick This is a site and the Plots list comes off the project. Nothing is deleted. The plots stay in your address book with their jobs, photos and history, and ticking it back on brings the list straight back.
Mucka tells you how many plots are on the project before you save, so it's never a surprise.
Common gotchas
- Plot 2 comes before Plot 10. Mucka sorts them the way you'd read them out, not the way a computer would.
- One plot number per site. "4", "Plot 4" and "plot 4" are all the same plot, so you can't add it twice by accident.
- Big lists are capped at 500 at a time. If a site is genuinely bigger than that, add it in two goes.
- The Plots section only shows on a site. A bathroom refit doesn't get one, and neither does anything else until you tick the box.