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Add interpreters who don't have accounts yet
Invite and schedule an interpreter who has no OneTerp account; their booked jobs move to their real account when they sign up from your invitation.
A placeholder is a roster entry for someone without an account. You can schedule them right away, and everything moves to them when they create their account from your invite email.
Watch the walkthrough
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Step by step
- 1On the Team Roster tab, invite the person by email; if they have no account, they are added as an active placeholder (you can include a phone number).
- 2Schedule the placeholder on jobs just like any other interpreter, they appear in the dispatch board and assignment forms.
- 3If you first added someone by name only and later add them by email, OneTerp asks whether they are the same person. Choose "Yes" so the email goes onto the existing placeholder and its booked jobs follow them, instead of creating a second row.
- 4When the person creates their account with the "Create your account" button in your invite email, using the address you invited, they are connected straight away. They show as Active on your roster and all their booked jobs, busy times, and schedules move to the real account.
- 5If they sign up some other way (they went to the website themselves, or used a different sign-in), they need to verify their email first. A banner in the app reminds them and can resend the verification email. After that they see a request to link their account to your agency and click Accept.
- 6If they find your agency themselves and send a request to join, they show up as a second row waiting for approval. Click Approve and OneTerp asks whether they are the same person as your placeholder. Choose "Yes, combine them" to move the placeholder's booked jobs to their account and remove the placeholder. Choose "No, different person" to keep both.
- 7Until one of those happens, the row stays under Placeholders with an "Invited" status and their jobs stay on the placeholder, so they won't see those jobs or get reminders yet. If they are stuck, use "Send invite" on their row to email a fresh link and ask them to sign up from it.
- 8If they signed up with a different email address, open them from the Team Roster and choose "Link to account" in the Account section. They still need to accept the request.
- 9To set a placeholder's pay, open them from Team Roster (Manage) and click "Save rates". The rates apply right away, so their jobs can be closed out and billed. If an older proposal is stuck waiting on them, click "Apply these rates now".
- 10To remove a placeholder you no longer need, choose Revoke, which reopens any jobs they were booked on.
Tips
- Offers and notifications are suppressed for placeholders until they are claimed, since there is no account to notify yet.
- When the person claims their account, they are asked to check the rates you set and either confirm them or propose different ones.
- Revoking a placeholder permanently retires it so a later signup with the same email cannot re-claim it.
- Manual linking and migration happen securely on the server because they touch agency-owned records.
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