Using the app with no signal
How VanMan keeps working when you're offline — prefetched jobs, offline button labels, and what syncs later.
Removalist work takes you into basements, lifts and dead spots where there's no signal. VanMan is built for that. The app saves its data to your device and prefetches a rolling 3-day window of jobs, along with each job's details, cost items and attachments, so recent jobs open even with no connection.
What works offline
Because your jobs are already on the device, you can keep working through a signal dropout. You can open jobs, read the details, and carry on with the day. When you're offline, buttons relabel so you know what's happening — for example START DELIVERY (offline) or SAVE (offline).
Any changes you make offline are queued on your device. As soon as you're back on signal, the queued changes sync to the office automatically.
What's disabled until you're back online
Some actions need a live connection and can't be queued. These stay disabled until you're back online and your queued changes have synced:
- Recording a payment
- Sending an invoice
- Capturing a signature
- Changing a job's status
If a button is disabled while you're offline, it needs connectivity to work. Move to somewhere with signal to record payments, send invoices or capture a signature.
Getting back in sync
Once your phone reconnects, VanMan pushes up everything you queued and the offline labels disappear. There's nothing extra to tap — just make sure you have signal before you finish the job so payments and signatures go through.
Open tomorrow's jobs while you still have signal so they're prefetched and ready if you hit a dead spot on the road.