Duplicate and reuse

Starting from an existing service, or turning an order's brief into one.

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You rarely need a blank page. There are three ways round it, and the third is the one people forget.

Duplicating a service

From the services list, Duplicate with its questions makes a full copy: the questions, their order, the introduction, the layout.

That is what you want for a variant. "Motorbike wrap" and "quad wrap" share eighty per cent of their questions. You duplicate, you adjust what differs, and you end up with two accurate forms rather than one form trying to cover both cases with questions that start "depending on the vehicle".

Starting again from a round that worked

This one is the most useful and the least known.

You took on a slightly unusual job. You added three questions to the brief inside the order itself, because it was quicker. The job goes well, and you realise that brief was the right one.

Create a service, and under Start from choose that request rather than a blank base. The questions you added on the fly become your new template, with nothing to copy across by hand.

That is how a catalogue gets good: it is built out of real jobs rather than out of a configuration session where you imagine what you might one day ask.

Reusing one question

When it is not the whole form repeating but a single question, what you want is a field preset. See "Reusable questions".

What duplicating does not copy

A copy is independent from the moment it is made. Orders, clients and history do not follow, and editing one never touches the other.

Neither "orderable" nor "default" follows, and that is deliberate: being sold and being the one offered first are decisions made about that service, once. A copy that quietly appeared in your shop window is exactly the surprise nobody wants.

Updated on August 9, 2026

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