When is Status emails the better choice?

Status emails is the better choice when you have very few customers and like writing each update yourself. A page is not a personal note. If a customer relationship lives on long, personal emails, keep writing those, and send the link for the facts.

When is Orbit Signal the better choice?

Orbit Signal is the better choice when updates take hours each week, or two people tell a customer different things.

All comparisons

Signal vs Status emails

Stop writing the Friday update. Send a link once.

The weekly email works until you have more jobs than Fridays. Customers can't check on Wednesday, and nobody remembers which email had the latest date.

Pick Orbit Signal when

Updates take hours each week, or two people tell a customer different things.

Stay with status emails when

You have very few customers and like writing each update yourself.

Orbit SignalStatus emails

Always currentOrbit SignalYes. The page updates when the job does.Status emailsOnly until the next change.

EffortOrbit SignalNone after setup.Status emailsOne email per customer, every time.

A wrong dateOrbit SignalWaits for your OK before anyone sees it.Status emailsAlready in their inbox.

HistoryOrbit SignalEvery update on one page.Status emailsSpread across a thread.

The same moment, both ways

Friday afternoon, twelve customers expect an update.

With status emails

Open each job, check the latest status.
Write twelve emails, mostly the same.
On Tuesday a date moves. The emails are now wrong.

With Orbit Signal

The pages already show the latest status from your tool.
On Tuesday the moved date waits for your OK.
You approve one sentence. That customer’s page updates.

Honest limit: A page is not a personal note. If a customer relationship lives on long, personal emails, keep writing those, and send the link for the facts.

See the Signal side for yourself.

A live sample page you can click through. Nothing is sent.

Open the renovation demo

Kalns RenovationSample

Kitchen and bathroom · Ozolu iela 12

Tiling is in progress.

When: Handover Saturday 14 November
Your move: 1 decision

Renovation and tradesTry it

All comparisons

Signal vs Status emails

Stop writing the Friday update. Send a link once.

The weekly email works until you have more jobs than Fridays. Customers can't check on Wednesday, and nobody remembers which email had the latest date.

Pick Orbit Signal when

Updates take hours each week, or two people tell a customer different things.

Stay with status emails when

You have very few customers and like writing each update yourself.

Orbit SignalStatus emails

Always currentOrbit SignalYes. The page updates when the job does.Status emailsOnly until the next change.

EffortOrbit SignalNone after setup.Status emailsOne email per customer, every time.

A wrong dateOrbit SignalWaits for your OK before anyone sees it.Status emailsAlready in their inbox.

HistoryOrbit SignalEvery update on one page.Status emailsSpread across a thread.

The same moment, both ways

Friday afternoon, twelve customers expect an update.

With status emails

Open each job, check the latest status.
Write twelve emails, mostly the same.
On Tuesday a date moves. The emails are now wrong.

With Orbit Signal

The pages already show the latest status from your tool.
On Tuesday the moved date waits for your OK.
You approve one sentence. That customer’s page updates.

Honest limit: A page is not a personal note. If a customer relationship lives on long, personal emails, keep writing those, and send the link for the facts.

See the Signal side for yourself.

A live sample page you can click through. Nothing is sent.

Open the renovation demo

Kalns RenovationSample

Kitchen and bathroom · Ozolu iela 12

Tiling is in progress.

When: Handover Saturday 14 November
Your move: 1 decision

Renovation and tradesTry it

Signal vs Status emails

The same moment, both ways

See the Signal side for yourself.

See your own project as a customer page.

Fewer “any update?” calls next week.Try it free for 14 days.

Signal vs Status emails

The same moment, both ways

See the Signal side for yourself.

See your own project as a customer page.

Fewer “any update?” calls next week.Try it free for 14 days.