Job numbers

Best practice for job numbers

Why have job numbers at all?

• Job numbers can be useful reference numbers in estimates, invoices and correspondence with the customer.

• They can be passed on to suppliers when commissioning, who then include the job number on their invoices. This greatly simplifies the allocation of external services to jobs.

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We recommendthis job number pattern

The numbers consist of ‌ <Customer abbreviation>-<four-digit sequential number>

TUI-0029‌ ‌BAB-0002

The four-digit sequential number therefore counts all jobs within a customer.

There is deliberately no year included in the number, as projects often continue across calendar years. A year would then only be an indicator of the year the job was created; this information is accessible anyway via agency software.

Further advantages of this pattern

• The number is suitable as a filename - even on a web server

• In a file system, job numbers automatically sort by customer and sequential number

• The customer abbreviation defines a separate number range for the customer


• The customer cannot deduce other agency jobs

• If customer abbreviations are established in the agency, it is easy to search by them