All your work in one place. Every deadline in view.
List your panels, add the job, send the report on time. Jobs from the other panels you work for sit beside your own in Home, each with the panel's reference and its report deadline counting down.
01
List your panels
Each panel once: its name, the fee it usually pays and the days it allows for the report.
02
Add the job
Their reference, the address and the fee. The deadline is worked out and starts counting down.
03
See what each panel is worth
Jobs, fees, turnaround and late reports, panel by panel, month by month.
Step one · List your panels
Tell Home once. It remembers every panel's rules.
Most surveyors keep each panel's turnaround in their head or on a sticky note. Write it down once here: the panel's name, the fee it usually pays, and how many days it gives you for the report.
- Working days or calendar days. Working days skip weekends and bank holidays in England and Wales.
- The usual fee fills in by itself on every new job from that panel, and you can change it per job.
- Turnaround changed? Update the panel and the deadline moves on every open job, except where you set the date yourself.
Step two · Add the job
Watch one panel job go in.
A panel's instruction lands on a Wednesday morning. It takes four fields and one tap to have it in Home with its deadline.
Wed 7 Oct, 09:12 · Instruction from Panel A
Level 2 survey, 22 Mill Lane, York
Their ref 88213 · fee £145 · report within 5 working days
Added
Panel, reference, address, fee
Worked out
Five working days from the instruction
The weekend is skipped. A bank holiday would be too.
Counting down
Report due Wed 14 Oct
On the panel work page, on the job in Bookings and on the Bookings hub. Due in 7 days, then due tomorrow, then due today.
Sent
You upload it in Panel A's portal and tap Report sent
The countdown stops and the job records that it went a day early.
On timeExample panel and address, shown for illustration.
How it works
One job list. Whoever sent the work.
Homemove bookings already arrive in Bookings set up. Panel work brings the jobs from your other panels into the same place, with the one thing panels care about most: the date the report is due.
Add it with the quick form
Pick the panel, type their reference and the address, and the fee and deadline fill in. Add the appointment and who lets you in if the instruction gives them. First panel? Add it from the same form.
Or tag a job you already have
If the job is already an enquiry in Bookings, open it and tag it with the panel it came from. Its deadline then shows in the Bookings list and on the job.
Mark the report sent
When the report has gone back to the panel, tap Report sent. The countdown stops, and the job counts towards that panel's turnaround and late reports.
Add the job · the countdown
The due date, wherever the job appears.
Late reports usually happen because a deadline was somewhere you weren't looking. So it travels with the job.
22 Mill Lane, York
Panel A · ref 88213 · YO1 7HP
Report due
Wed 14 Oct
Level 2 survey
£145
Access
Homeowner · any afternoon
One chip, read the same everywhere
Grey while there is time, amber two days out, red on the day and once it is late, green when the report has gone.
Panel work
Every open panel job, soonest deadline first, with late ones in their own filter.
The Bookings list
A tagged enquiry carries the panel name and its countdown in the list.
The job itself
Open the enquiry and the panel, their reference and the due date are at the top.
The Bookings hub
How many panel jobs are open and late, and the next deadlines, on your Bookings front page.
What actually changes
One diary, one job list, one set of deadlines.
1 · The instruction arrives
It's in Home before you've finished your coffee
Panel, reference, address, fee. The deadline is already there when you look up.
2 · Between visits
You know which report to write next
The panel job due tomorrow sits above the private one due next week, on your phone, in the car.
3 · Month end
You can see which panels are worth it
What each panel sent, what it paid, how long your reports took and how many went late.
By panel · this month
Illustrative figuresStep three · See what each panel is worth
Jobs, fees, turnaround. Panel by panel.
Choose this month, last month, the last 90 days or this year. For the jobs each panel instructed in that time you see:
Jobs
How many each panel sent
Fees
What those jobs pay, added up
Average turnaround
Instruction to report sent, counted the panel's way
Late reports
Sent after the due date, or still open past it
Plainly
What it does, and what stays with the panel.
Home does
- Keep the panels you work for, with their fee and turnaround
- Work out each report's due date, skipping weekends and bank holidays where the panel counts working days
- Show the deadline counting down wherever the job appears
- Hold the appointment and access details on the job
- Add up jobs, fees, turnaround and late reports by panel
The panel's own portal still does
- Take the finished report. You upload it there, then tap Report sent here
- Send you the instruction. Today you add it with the short form; forwarding the email in comes later
- Set the turnaround. Home uses the number you enter for each panel
FAQ
Common questions about panel work
Panels and deadlines
What counts as a panel here?
Any panel manager or firm that sends you jobs, other than Homemove. You add each one once with its name, the fee it usually pays and how many days it allows for the report.
How is the report deadline worked out?
From the day the panel instructs the job, plus the days the panel allows. For a panel that counts working days, weekends and bank holidays in England and Wales are skipped. You can set a different date on any job.
What does the countdown show?
How many days are left until the report is due, then due tomorrow, due today, and how many days late once the date has passed. When you mark the report as sent it shows whether it went on time.
Where does the deadline appear?
On the panel work page, on the enquiry in Bookings when the job is tagged with a panel, in the Bookings list beside that enquiry, and on the Bookings hub.
Adding jobs
How fast is it to add a job?
The form only asks for what a panel instruction contains: the panel, their reference, the address and the fee, with the appointment and access details if you have them. The fee fills in from the panel and the deadline is worked out for you.
Can I tag a job that is already in Bookings?
Yes. Open the enquiry and tag it with the panel it came from and their reference. The deadline then shows in the list and on the job.
Do I need the homeowner's email?
No. A panel job only needs the address. Access details such as the homeowner's name and phone number are optional.
Analytics
What does the analytics by panel show?
For jobs instructed in the period you choose: how many jobs each panel sent, the fees, the average time from instruction to report sent, how many reports went late, and how many are still open.
How is a report counted as late?
If it was marked as sent after its due date, or it is still open after the due date has passed.
Limits and privacy
Does it submit the report to the panel's portal?
No. You still upload the report in the panel's own portal. Home keeps the job, the deadline and the record of when you sent it.
Can I forward the panel's email instead of typing the job?
Not yet. Today you add the job with the short form. Bringing jobs in from a forwarded email is planned for a later stage.
Who can see panel jobs?
Only people at your firm. Panel jobs and their access details are not shown on your public profile, and deleting a job deletes its access details.
What does it cost?
Panel work is part of the Bookings tools in your Home surveyor account.
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