California Compliance Shield

Don't Let a Paperwork Technicality Destroy Your Business.

AutoOps helps California shops with Dual-Shield compliance: HIC templates for residential jobs over your threshold, and payroll/timecard controls for breaks, rates, and calculations.

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Reducing PAGA exposure with “reasonable steps”

2024 reforms (AB 2288 / SB 92) give employers a statutory path to cap penalties if they can prove they took all reasonable steps toward compliance — or corrected issues within 60 days of notice.

The risk

Without GPS-verified activity logs and meal/rest acknowledgements, shops become easy targets for PAGA actions — often with weak paper trails.

The AutoOps shield

Forensic audit trails, GPS-verified timestamps, and forced digital acknowledgements of mandatory breaks create the evidentiary record courts look for.

Technician mobile odometer and job start with GPS timing

Field start with odometer and timestamps—synced back to the office record.

Bulletproofing Your HIC (BPC §7159)

California BPC §7159 requires precise contract formatting for covered home improvement work. AutoOps enforces your HIC template on residential jobs over the threshold you set. Miss a notice or downpayment rule and you can lose the right to collect.

Statutory-locked templates

Estimates and invoices auto-format to CSLB requirements — including typography rules and mandatory notices.

Hard-coded downpayment limits

Helps keep the down payment within the 10% / $1,000 cap and collects e-signatures.

Daily invoicing by status board

Billing status you can defend—paid, billed unpaid, and completed not billed.

What shops say on Google

Verified Google reviews for AutoOps.

Payroll, timecards & translation

Dual-Shield’s payroll side covers how California shops actually pay the field—not a single rigid clock.

Standby or scheduled timecards

Work uncontrolled standby when days aren’t fixed shifts—or run timecards from technician/staff schedules when they are.

Hourly or piecemeal

Hourly with OT/DT, flat-rate and field-percentage piecemeal, plus net-revenue allotments when pay follows job results.

Mileage without a fleet

Set a company mileage reimbursement rate and turn field miles into mileage pay—built for shops where techs drive personal vehicles.

Translation in the field

Google Translate integration delivers job instructions in-app so multilingual crews understand compliance protocols where the work happens.

Payroll period preview with allotments and mileage

Pay-period preview: allotments, overtime, and mileage in one audit-ready view.

Live status the office can trust

Color-coded dispatch status keeps the board honest when crews are en route, on site, or wrapping up—so compliance records match what actually happened in the field.

Read the PAGA defense deep-dive →

Dispatch board with color-coded job status

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