Your job types are the kinds of work you do — Boiler Service, Gas Safety, Bathroom Fit-out. Each one carries a colour on the schedule and a default time, so booking one in doesn't mean filling in the same details every time.
Mucka sets up a starter list based on the trade you picked when you signed up. It's a guess, not a commitment — most people trim it.
Just ask Mucka
Quickest way, and it works on WhatsApp too:
- "Add bathroom fit-outs as a job type"
- "Take the EICR one off my list, I'm not qualified for those"
- "Get rid of the oil boiler job type"
Only owners (and anyone else who can manage the workspace) can change the list.
Or do it in Settings
Head to Settings → Work → Job types.
- Add — the button at the top of the section. Name it, group it, pick how long you'd normally book, choose an icon.
- Edit — the pencil on any row, for changing the name, the default time or the colour.
- Remove — the bin on any row.
What happens when you remove one
Two different things, and Mucka picks whichever protects your history:
- Nothing's ever used it — it's deleted outright.
- Old jobs used it — it's archived instead. It stops being offered on new work, but those old jobs keep their colour and their times, so your history still reads properly.
No jobs are ever deleted. Removing a job type only changes what you're offered next time.
Add the same type back later and Mucka brings the archived one back rather than creating a duplicate.
The list isn't a menu
Worth knowing, because it catches people out: you can book a job as anything you like, whether it's on the list or not. Tell Mucka "book Mrs Jones in for a shower pump swap Tuesday" and it books a shower pump swap, even though that's not one of your types.
The list is a shortcut, not a set of rules. So there's no need to add a type just to get one job booked — only add one for work you'll do again.
Common gotchas
- Removing a type that produces a certificate stops those prompts. If a job type is set to produce a CP12 or similar, taking it off the list means Mucka stops asking for that certificate on new work of that kind. Mucka will tell you when that's about to happen.
- Renaming isn't the same as removing. If you just want it called something else, use the pencil — renaming keeps everything attached to it.
- Can't see the section? It's owner and admin only, and it's under the Job setup sub-tab rather than the first screen you land on.