Screen five · Status

Is it working, and what can I fix myself

This is the screen the whole thing is really about. Everything a firm would otherwise ring about lives here, and it is built from the actual shape of support load rather than from a list of readouts. Nine questions cause almost every ticket a product like this receives; each one has a home on this screen and a fix that does not involve anybody else.

Ask Maria Set up · Status

How your app is doing

Working — checked 2 minutes ago
Signing infine
The app itselffine, 14 days
Your web addresswaiting on you
Email to customersshared address
Check again
Not builtThese readings are drawn

Nothing was checked two minutes ago, because nothing is checking yet. A real watch on signing in, on the app, on your address and on email — each with a real time on it and a Check again that actually goes and looks — is coming soon. This page states its own rule three screens along: a status screen with no timestamp is a rumour. A drawn timestamp is the same rumour with better manners, so it is named here.

Your web address

ask.maria.com — one of the two lines isn't there yet. A working address is live meanwhile, so nothing is broken while you sort it.

See the two lines to send
Recent changes

You gave Dana the Customers door · You resent Marco's invite · You changed your colour.

See every change
Fix something yourself

Somebody can't get in · Somebody can't see something · Take a copy of everything.

Help with this app
Email to customers

It goes out from a shared address today, not from yours. That is the honest current state, written here so nobody has to guess whether something broke.

A filled dot means working; a hollow ring means waiting on something; and the word beside it says which. No hue is doing any work, so the screen reads the same to everybody and the same in a print-out.

Every readout carries when it was last checked and a way to check again — because a status screen with no timestamp is a rumour. (In this preview those times are drawn, not read.)

The nine questions, and where each one is answered without contacting anybody.

"I can't get in"Status → Fix someone's access
"She can't see the customers screen"Team row → See what they see
"Is it down, or is it us?"Status → the top card
"Who changed this?"Status → Every change
"Our web address isn't working"Status → Your address
"Why did my customer get an email from a strange address?"Status → Email
"We've run out of seats"Team → the refusal
"How do I do X?"Help with this app
"I want everything we've put in"Status → Take a copy

Take a copy of everything is not a formality. Their manual, their threads, their records, their people — theirs, on request, without asking. A firm that knows it can leave is a firm that does not spend its first month asking whether it can.