Signing in and getting oriented

Flow is job-management software for trade subcontractors. It carries a job from the first customer call through scoping, bidding, customer approval and deposit, and out the far end to close-out — with the money, the paperwork, and the audit trail tracked the whole way. You sign in with Google, land on your list of jobs, and work each one forward from there.

Signing in

Flow uses Google sign-in only. There is no username-and-password form and no "Sign up" link. On the sign-in page you get one button: Sign in with Google. Click it, pick the Google account your shop set you up with, and you're in.

You can't create your own account. Flow is invite-only. Your account has to be provisioned for you before you can sign in — the shop owner is set up when the shop is created, and the owner (or an administrator) adds everyone else. If you try to sign in with a Google account that hasn't been provisioned, Flow turns you away with:

Your account is not provisioned. Contact your administrator to be added.

That's expected, not a bug. If you see it, the fix is to have your owner add your Google address — not to try a different account or sign up.

Use the exact Google account you were added under. Flow matches you by the email on the account, so a personal Gmail won't work if you were provisioned under a work address (or the other way around).

The "Choose a shop" screen

Most people sign straight in and never see this screen. You only land on Choose a shop if your Google account belongs to more than one shop on Flow — for example, if you estimate for two different businesses that both run Flow.

The screen lists every shop you have access to. Each row shows the shop's name, its trade, and your role there (like Electrical · OWNER). The shop you're currently signed into is tagged current. Pick a shop to sign into it.

One thing to know: switching shops signs you out and back in. When you pick a different shop, Flow signs you out of the one you're in and runs you back through Google to sign into the new one. That's deliberate — it keeps the two shops' sessions cleanly separated so one shop's data can never bleed into another's. So switching takes a beat and a Google round-trip; it isn't an instant toggle.

There's also a Sign out button on this screen if you landed here and just want to leave.

What you land on

After you sign in, Flow drops you on your Jobs list — that's the home screen. There's no separate dashboard; the job list is the dashboard in v1.

At the top you'll see:

The Flow name and your shop's name, so you always know which shop you're working in.
If you're the owner, quick links to Labor rates and Team on the right. (These are owner-only — estimators and other team members won't see them.)
Your name and a Sign out button.

The main area is a table of your jobs, one row each, showing the customer, the job, its current status, and when it was last updated. Each row has a Continue → link that takes you back to wherever that job left off. A + New job button (top right, and repeated in the empty state) starts a new job.

If you're brand new and haven't created anything yet, you'll see an empty state instead of the table:

No jobs yet — Create your first job to get started.

with a + New job button. That's your starting point.

Signing out

The Sign out button lives in the top-right of every screen once you're signed in (and on the Choose-a-shop screen). It returns you to the sign-in page.

What's not in v1 yet

Being straight with you about the current limits:

Google only. No email-and-password sign-in, no Microsoft or Apple sign-in, no magic links.
No self-service sign-up. Every account is provisioned by an owner or administrator. There's no "invite yourself" or "request access" flow inside the product.
No password to reset. Because sign-in rides on your Google account, there's nothing to reset in Flow — if you can't get into Google, that's a Google problem, not a Flow one.
No in-app account switcher. If you belong to more than one shop, switching between them happens through the Choose-a-shop screen and a fresh Google sign-in each time — not a dropdown in the header.

Setting your labor rates — owner-only pricing setup
Adding and managing team members (coming soon) — how owners provision the people who sign in
Creating a job (coming soon) — what the + New job button starts