Learn how Brightchecker’s two-stage review preserves the original inspection data, allows the reviewer to make changes, and maintains a robust audit trail. A survey has been completed. Now someone needs to check it. That person might be the original inspector. It might be another member of the team. It might be someone carrying out a formal quality check. The question …

When we were building BrightChecker’s property inspection synchronisation we discovered that… Your data goes into a queue. The queue sends it to the server. Everything is fine. Until somewhere it falls into a blackhole. Invisible and unknown.   So How to avoid the black hole? The synchronisation system took around two months to build. During development, we needed to know exactly …

Sometimes software becomes more complicated because the designers are trying too hard to make it better. We’ve done it ourselves. Our property inspection software has gone through several iterations, and the way we structure it today is a good example of what we learned. The first version was simple Our original prototype had sections and questions. There was a fairly …

Before a property inspection can happen, you must assign that job to your team.  That sounds simple, and it should be. See how Brightchecker assigns inspections to your team with the right property and inspection details. We deliberately designed the process so that assigning a survey doesn’t become an administrative exercise in itself. Start with the property The first step …

Breaking your mobile device (or losing it) is not supposed to be part of your property inspection day. But it happens. They get left at the office. They get lost. They get dropped and broken, and given where many people use them they can get dropped somewhere considerably worse… So what happens to an inspection that is already in progress, …

There is a very simple question people ask us when we talk about inspection software: “What happens when I lose my connection?” It is a fair question. We are based in Norfolk, and we have spent years carrying out inspections ourselves. So we know that mobile connectivity is not something you can take for granted. You can be in a …

A mobile property inspection app needs to do more than put an inspection form onto a phone. When you are actually standing inside a property, the priorities are different. You need to see what you are doing, move through the inspection quickly, capture photographs and notes without fighting the interface, and keep working when the mobile signal disappears. And sometimes …

Before you can assign a survey inspection, somebody has to decide three things: what is being inspected, which template should be used and who is going to do the work. That sounds simple. It should be simple. In practice, once you have a growing list of properties, templates and surveyors, you need a quick way to create the job, give …

You are halfway through an inspection. You’ve taken photographs, entered responses and worked your way through the property. The inspection is progressing normally. Then you lose the phone, or you’ve left the tablet at the office. Perhaps it has been dropped, damaged or simply isn’t available when you need it. What happens to the inspection? The obvious worry is that …