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title: "Set up your job types"
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**Job types are essential for categorising the different kinds of work that needs to be done. They can provide specific workflows, control required forms to capture, as well as specifying the kinds of materials and services that can be done on a job.**

There are 2 main ways you can create Job Types: 

1. Via the Data section (if you prefer to set them up at once):
  1. Click on 'Data'
  2. Click on 'Manage' under 'Job types'
  3. Click on 'Add job type'
  4. Enter a name for the job type
  5. Click on 'Save'
2. When creating a Job:
  1. Enter new Job Type name and then click Create '…' as a new job type.

![image](media://8ddf30e8-17d8-42f5-b120-d107b1c28ad5)

b. Optionally make it the Default job type and then click Save.

![image](media://ce538f8e-78ed-4bae-a04b-fed664d638cf)