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Keyboard, phone or tablet? Using Premises on every screen

There is no app to download, and that is deliberate. A browser on any device is the whole platform; the page simply rearranges itself for the width it is given.

By the end of this pageYou will know what to expect on each size of screen, which roles are designed for a phone, and how to pin the workspace to a home screen.

On this page

Laptop or desktop Tablet Phone Add it to the home screen Why no app store app

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Same Invoices page. The columns that matter survive the narrow screen; the rest fold away.

Laptop or desktop

The full layout: a top bar with every section, wide tables, side-by-side cards. This is where an owner, admin or manager will spend most of their time, and where Arrange is most useful.

Tablet

Same pages, slightly narrower. Cards stack two across instead of three; tables keep their columns. A tablet at reception running the Gate and Clients pages is a common setup.

Phone

The menu folds into a button, cards stack one across, and tables keep only the columns that matter — name, amount, status — with the rest a tap away. Two pages are designed phone-first because their users never sit down: Today's work for cleaners and the Gate for guards. Both work with one hand.

Add it to the home screen

On iPhone, open your workspace in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android, open it in Chrome, tap the menu, then Add to Home screen. You get an icon with your logo that opens the workspace full-screen, without the browser bar. It behaves like an app, stays signed in like an app, and updates itself the moment we ship a change — no store, no version to chase.

Why no app store app

An installed app would have to be updated on every phone, would lag behind the web version, and would need a second copy of everything in two programming languages. A website reaches every device today, is never out of date, and lets a new staff member start with nothing but the address. For a building, a subdivision or a scattered portfolio, that is the right trade.

Slow connection? A typical page is under 60 kilobytes including fonts. Invoices, the gate and Today's work have all been used over a 3G signal from a basement without complaint.