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Move maintenance from reported fault to verified follow-through

Connect property identity, access permissions, contractor tasks and evidence. Give residents, managers and accounts a consistent record of what is still unresolved.

For Property manager, strata manager or facilities coordinator

Explore three real work situations ↓
How it could work

Start with a situation you recognise.

Illustrative designs to scope with your team. Select a scenario, then follow the normal path and the exception.

A resident reports a leak without a clear location

Finished result

An owned work request with the minimum facts needed to act.

  1. 01Identify property and location
  2. 02Collect access and severity facts
  3. 03Apply authorised routing
  4. 04Create contractor-ready task
When something does not fit

The issue may affect another unit or require emergency assessment.

What happens next

Route to the responsible manager and hold routine scheduling until the response is decided.

Inputs, checks and measurement
What starts the workflow
A message includes photographs but no unit or common-area reference.
Before taking action
Confirm access permission, ownership and the appropriate urgency path.
Measure the change
Time to assignment and repeat information requests.

An inspection creates actions across several buildings

Finished result

A tracked action register showing what was resolved and what remains open.

  1. 01Match findings to assets
  2. 02Separate new and repeated issues
  3. 03Assign owners and due dates
  4. 04Collect closure evidence
When something does not fit

A repeated defect was previously closed without a confirming inspection.

What happens next

Reopen the underlying issue and request the agreed evidence or manager review.

Inputs, checks and measurement
What starts the workflow
Inspection notes identify defects, access issues and items requiring quotes.
Before taking action
Do not close an item just because a contractor marks their visit complete.
Measure the change
Aged actions and time spent chasing inspection follow-ups.

A contractor invoice lacks completion evidence

Finished result

An evidence-linked invoice review with clear payable and disputed items.

  1. 01Match invoice to approved work
  2. 02Check completion records
  3. 03Identify rate and scope differences
  4. 04Prepare accounts review
When something does not fit

The extra call-out has no recorded authorisation or access log.

What happens next

Request the missing evidence and route the additional cost to its approver.

Inputs, checks and measurement
What starts the workflow
An invoice references several work orders and an additional call-out.
Before taking action
Apply property-specific spending limits and separate disputed lines.
Measure the change
Invoice preparation time and unresolved contractor discrepancies.
Fit before features

When custom work makes sense.

Use your property platform’s existing maintenance features first. Custom work suits cross-building contractors, approval differences and evidence that arrives through separate channels.

Connect the records you already use

  • Property and building records
  • Maintenance requests and contractor systems
  • Approvals, purchase orders and invoices

Access, data quality and write permissions are checked during scoping. Integration availability depends on your systems.

Go deeper

The systems behind these scenarios.

Controls, responsibility and recovery

Agree who can change rules, approve exceptions and authorise each write. Keep a history of source records, rule versions and action results. Detect partial failures, reconcile before retrying and assign unresolved cases to a named owner.

AI can extract, classify and prepare information. Validated rules and agreed permissions govern consequential actions; missing evidence triggers review. Test normal cases, exceptions and recovery against acceptance criteria before launch.

Related operating experience

See the foundations running at G3.

G3 is our founder’s retail and venue business in Melbourne. Explore relevant capabilities and their boundaries; your industry’s rules still need their own design and validation.

Questions worth asking first.

Start with a sanitised example, the result you need and one awkward case. We will map a bounded first implementation.

Can an urgent fault bypass normal approvals?

Only under the emergency rules your authorised manager defines. The workflow routes urgency and records the decision; it does not invent spending authority.

Can residents see contractor notes?

Access should be designed by role. Internal notes, access information and personal details should not automatically appear in resident updates.

Can reports from several residents be connected to one building issue?

Link reports by the relevant property, location and incident evidence, with staff review where the relationship is uncertain. Preserve each resident’s communication and access restrictions while giving the property team a shared operational case. Similar wording alone should not merge two separate leaks or disclose one resident’s details to another.

How would contractor invoices be checked against approved work?

Match the property and work order to the authorised scope, approved extras, attendance and required completion evidence. Surface additional call-outs or charges without a corresponding approval. The authorised manager decides the exception; an invoice or access log by itself is not proof that all work was accepted.

Do we need an ongoing Canvo subscription?

No mandatory Canvo subscription. An agreed implementation includes 12 months of support for the delivered workflows, defects and minor compatibility changes to existing integrations. Optional proactive care and further development are scoped separately. Software, hosting and API costs remain separate.

Your operation, your rules

Bring the handoff that keeps going wrong.

Free workflow review. A$950 ex GST diagnostic. A bounded first deployment from A$4,900 ex GST, with 12 months of included support for the agreed implementation.

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