RPLConnection
Why connect ServiceM8 to an RPL portfolio
Updated 9 November 2026 ยท Australia
If the job was done in ServiceM8, the site, the date, and the note already exist. Connecting it means a finished job becomes evidence. You do not rebuild three years of work one photo at a time.
ServiceM8 already watched the job
A finished job card has the address, the day, what was done, and often the photo taken before the ceiling went back. That is the shape an assessor can read. It is trapped in the job system because the job system was built to run the work, not to line it up against a qualification.
People fall off when the portfolio asks them to describe a job they closed last March. They remember the street. They do not remember the sentence. ServiceM8 remembers the sentence.
What connecting changes
You connect the account once. Jobs already finished come across. A job we have seen is not added again. The next job you complete in ServiceM8 can file itself. You confirm the suggested links. The employer can assign whatever is still missing. Nobody marks you competent from a job card.
The advantage is speed and honesty. Speed, because the history is already written. Honesty, because the note was made when the job happened, not the week before an assessment.
Soon, and what to do until then
ServiceM8 sign-in is not switched on. In Add connection it is marked Soon. There is no Connect button until that key is on, because a button that only pretended to sign in would waste the afternoon.
Until then, Bring a job will take one finished ServiceM8 job: the site, the date, the notes, and a photo. The portfolio maps it. It does not become a qualification.
Soon means the sign-in is not on. You can still file one finished job, and you still confirm the links.
Bring a job