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title: "Working with subcontractors"
description: "Bring in outside crews without showing them your margins."
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# Working with subcontractors

## Why the role exists

You want someone to do the work, see the address, tick the tasks and upload the photos. **You do not want them to see what you charged for it, or what it cost you.**

That is the whole shape of the subcontractor role.

## What they can do

Work the job: tasks, photos, time and notes. They see the customer, the property, the access notes and what needs doing.

## What they never see

**Any dollar figure.** Job values, line prices, totals, balances, hourly rates and every money column on a report are removed before the data leaves our servers.

**It is not hidden in the interface.** The figures are not on the device to be found, so it holds however they are signed in.

## What they cannot hand out

Subcontractors cannot create a customer portal link or a payment link. Both expose a customer's balances, and this is the role that does not see balances.

## Getting them on site

A subcontractor does not have to live in the app. The day before a booking they are emailed a **visit link** for their work, which opens the job without a sign-in.

**That is usually enough for an occasional crew**, and you can still invite them properly when it is worth it.

Source: https://docs.crewfather.com/team-and-permissions/working-with-subcontractors/index.mdx