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What's the Difference Between a Template and a Report?
What's the Difference Between a Template and a Report?

How templates become reports

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Written by Michael Wagstaff
Updated over a week ago

Spectora saves you time through the concept of templates. A template is a set of pre-written comments (aka narratives, observations, defects, etc.) organized into sections and items. 

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You can preview and download different prebuilt templates in our template center! Click here to check out our template center.


When an inspection is scheduled, a Report is created based on the information in the template. Think of it like a house; if the Report is the fully built house, then the Template is the blueprint!

The Report is "stamped out" from the Template and built on the morning of the inspection.** This ensures that the Report reflects the latest Template changes you have made. After that "stamp out" process, changes to the Template do not affect the report.

**Note: the Report is built early morning on the day of the inspection, not the day the inspection is scheduled.

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While performing the inspection you will check certain comments in the report to be included, edit text to make it specific to that property, and include photos of the home. 

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While filling out your report, you may want to add a new comment. When adding a new comment to your report, you can select the option of "Save to template for use in future reports." This allows you to easily evolve your template over time.

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You can also assign a Template to a specific service! When scheduling services, you can set a Template to be the default for different services. Click this article to see more on how to assign Templates to services!


Every inspection is an opportunity to improve your template!



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