How to manage regular customers and one-off projects together

Manage recurring and one-off jobs together by reserving capacity for repeat commitments and assessing new work against the remaining people, equipment and time. Keep different completion conditions visible while sharing customer context.

Explore the wider recurring work inside the crm guides for the steps around this decision.

A mixed-week planning sheet

Work	Planning question
Regular maintenance	Which visits are genuinely due?
One-off clearance	Scope, duration and resource requirements?
Project stage	What must be completed before the next stage?
Deferred work	What is open and what arrangement was made?
New enquiry	Is it qualified and accepted, or still being quoted?

An enquiry is not scheduled delivery work merely because it sounds likely to proceed.

An illustrative crew split

Crew A carries the regular service commitments. Crew B has project stages and one-off work. Shared equipment and a changed site arrangement may require a different allocation, so the owner reviews constraints before promising a new date.

Keep the project’s agreed scope and costs separate from its customer’s maintenance visits. A completed repeat visit should not hide unfinished project work. Likewise, project completion should not cancel the ongoing service.

Review the week as one business

Check accepted work with no date, visits with no next action and completed work waiting for the office. Reconcile changes in the same record used by the crew.

JobDiary covers mixed work inside a wider CRM, with leads, quotes, jobs, projects, visits and money records. It does not claim automatic capacity optimisation. The useful method is having the constraints and decisions visible enough to plan realistically.

Connect this to the next step

Continue with When does a recurring customer stop being profitable?. If the next issue is elsewhere in the workflow, use How to reschedule work after rain without losing jobs.

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