What do you call your work


A technician finishes a job. A clinic sees a patient. A construction crew works through a Schedule of Works. A bakery runs a batch from a recipe.


It's all work — but every industry has its own words for it. Worklogue adapts to yours.


Why we let you choose your own words


Worklogue is built around three things:


  • Projects — a piece of work your team carries out. It could last an hour or a few months.
  • Clients — who (or where) the work is for. The customer, patient, site, or location a project belongs to.
  • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) — the checklist or standard the work should follow.


Those are just our default names. If your team says "work orders" instead of "projects", or "patients" instead of "clients", forcing everyone to translate in their heads adds friction — especially for workers in the field who just want to open the app and get going.


So instead, Worklogue lets you rename these to match how your team already talks. This is a common feature in modern CRMs and field software, and we've made it central to Worklogue: the labels change everywhere in the app — menus, buttons, screens, and even the pages you share with customers — but everything works exactly the same underneath.


Renaming never touches your data or features. It's purely about the words on screen.


One name is fixed: the worklogue itself — the time-stamped, evidence-backed record of how work was actually done. That's the heart of the product, so it keeps its name.


We suggest names based on your industry


When you create your organization, Worklogue asks what kind of business you run. Based on your answers, the "What do you call your work?" step suggests labels that fit your industry — you can accept them, tweak them, or type in your own.


Here are some examples of the defaults you might see:


Your business

Projects become

Clients become

SOPs become

Plumbing, electrical, HVAC, cleaning

Jobs

Customers

SOPs

General contractors & builders

Projects

Clients

Schedules of Works

Landscaping & grounds care

Visits

Customers

Service Specs

Pest control

Treatments

Customers

Treatment Protocols

Medical & dental clinics

Appointments

Patients

Clinical Protocols

Home healthcare

Visits

Patients

Care Plans

Residential care homes

Care Episodes

Residents

Care Plans

Manufacturing

Work Orders

Customers

Work Instructions

Bakeries, breweries & craft production

Batches

Customers

Recipes

Restaurants & cafés

Shifts

Locations

SOPs

Catering & events

Events

Customers

Event Plans

Delivery & courier

Runs

Customers

SOPs

Moving companies

Moves

Customers

Move Plans

Hotels & lodging

Stays

Guests

Service Standards

Salons & spas

Appointments

Clients

Service Procedures

Property inspections & surveys

Surveys

Clients

Inspection Methodologies

Utilities field work

Work Orders

Customers

SOPs


The suggestions also adapt to your country and language — for example, a US construction firm sees "Scope of Work" where a UK firm sees "Schedule of Works", and teams using Worklogue in Spanish, French, or German get natural defaults in their own language.


And these are only suggestions — if your team calls them "Gigs", "Missions", or "Tickets", type that in. It's your app.


Setting both singular and plural


For each of the three, you set a singular and a plural form. That's so sentences read naturally everywhere: "Create Job" on a button, "12 Jobs this week" in a list. Most of the time the plural is just the singular + "s", but it matters for names like "Scope of Work" → "Scopes of Work".


Changing the names later


Nothing you choose during setup is locked in. You can rename these any time:


  1. Open the Worklogue mobile or web app.
  2. Go to Settings → General.
  3. Scroll to Entity Naming and click Edit.
  4. Update the singular and plural forms and save.



Changes apply across the whole app straight away — the page reloads after saving so the menu names update, and your team's mobile apps pick up the new labels automatically.


Frequently asked questions


Does renaming change how anything works?

No. Labels are cosmetic. A "Job", a "Visit", and an "Appointment" all behave identically — same features, same reports, same sharing options.


Will my existing data be affected?

No. All your projects, clients, and procedures stay exactly as they are — only the words used to describe them change.


Who can change the names?

Organization admins, from the web app under Settings → General.


Do the names appear on pages I share with customers?

Yes. Published project pages and shared proof-of-work links use your chosen labels, so your customers see the same terms your team uses.


Can I rename "Worklogue" itself?

No — the worklogue (the record of work done, with photos, steps, and timestamps) always keeps its name.


Updated on: 02/07/2026

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