Use tags to organize clients, leads, and jobs
Define your tags in Settings > Tags, one set per record type, each with a name and color. Then add them to any client, lead, job, invoice, estimate, or visit from its detail page. Tags are labels everyone on the team sees, and every list can be filtered by them.
Every business has labels the software never shipped with: the VIP clients, the warranty jobs, the "do not send Steve" properties. Tags are those labels, colored, consistent, and visible to the whole team wherever the record appears.
Define your tags
- Go to Settings > Tags (requires the Manage Company Settings permission).
- Pick the record type, clients, leads, jobs, invoices, estimates, or visits. Each type has its own tag set.
- Create each tag with a name and one of eleven colors.
Keeping tag creation with admins is deliberate: it prevents the "VIP", "V.I.P.", and "vip!" triplets that make labels useless. The team applies tags; admins curate the vocabulary.
Tag your records
Open any client, lead, job, invoice, estimate, or visit and add tags from the tags section on its detail page. Everyone who opens the record sees them immediately.
Tags work best as a small, opinionated set. Five tags everyone understands beat thirty nobody remembers. Decide what each color means ("red = problem account") and hold the line.
Filter a list by tag
- Open a list (Clients, Leads, Jobs, Invoices or Estimates) and click Filters.
- Under Tags, click one or more tags to select them. The list shows every record carrying any of the selected tags, and each row or card shows its tags.
- Click Clear Filters to go back to the full list.
Your selection is remembered on this browser until you clear it.
Good starter vocabularies
| Record type | Useful tags |
|---|---|
| Clients | VIP, Commercial, Residential, Payment risk |
| Leads | Hot, Referral, Repeat inquiry |
| Jobs | Warranty, Callback, Multi-day |
| Invoices | Disputed, Payment plan |
Tags are labels for people, not automation triggers: they change what your team notices and what you can filter, not what WorkZen does on its own.
Frequently Asked Questions
This article answers:
- How do I filter a list by tag?
- How do I tag a client?
- How do I create custom tags?
- Can I tag jobs and invoices?
- Who can create tags?