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+Good question. Here's an honest gap analysis based on what the app currently has:
+  High-Impact Gaps
+  Customer Communications
+  - Automated SMS/email triggers on job status changes (e.g., "Your job is ready for pickup")
+  - Currently there's a NotificationLog entity but no outbound delivery
+  - Without this, staff are still making manual calls
+
+DONE
+Printable Job Tickets / Work Orders
+- A shop floor ticket with job number, customer, parts, powder specs, and a QR code
+- Workers need something physical to travel with the parts through the shop
+- QR scanning to bump job status would tie this together nicely
+
+DONE
+Time Tracking
+- No way to record actual hours worked per job
+- This means labor cost is always estimated, never actual
+- Actual vs. quoted labor variance is invisible without it
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+DONE
+Job Costing / Profitability per Job
+- Related to time tracking — you can't see "did we make money on this job?"
+- Would need: actual labor hours + actual powder used + overhead allocation vs. quoted price                                                  
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+Medium-Impact Gaps                                                                                                                                                          Purchase Orders
+- You have AP/Bills and inventory, but no PO workflow to actually order powder from vendors
+- Reorder alerts exist but the ordering process itself is manual                                                                              
+
+DONE
+Rework / Warranty Tracking
+- No way to flag a job as a redo, link it to the original, and track rework cost
+- Important for quality control trends
+
+Recurring Jobs / Job Templates (DONE)
+- Commercial customers often send the same parts repeatedly
+- Copy-from-previous-job saves significant quoting time
+
+DONE
+Calendar / Visual Scheduler
+- The oven scheduler exists, but there's no day/week view of all jobs, appointments, and worker assignments together
+- Drag-and-drop scheduling on a timeline is a common shop floor need
+
+Delivery / Pickup Management
+- No route/delivery tracking if they deliver finished parts
+- No digital sign-off on customer pickup (capture name, date, confirmation)
+
+Lower Priority but Common in Shop Software
+                                                                                                                                                  Customer Portal
+  - Let customers view job status, approve quotes, and pay invoices without calling
+  - High effort but eliminates a lot of inbound calls
+      
+DONE
+Accounting Export
+- QuickBooks or Xero sync — right now financial data lives only in this app
+- Many small shops want their accountant to access QB, not a custom app
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+Label Printing
+- Job bag labels / part tags with job number, color, customer, barcode
+- Usually ZPL for Zebra printers or PDF labels                                                                                                
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+Mobile Shop Floor View
+- A stripped-down, large-button interface optimized for a tablet mounted in the shop
+- Just: scan or tap job → change status → done