Field Service Management Software, Live and Free: Zorderz v1.1

Zorderz is live!

The first public version of Zorderz is v1.1, and it is available on GitHub now.

Zorderz is free and open source field service management software for WordPress, and this first release is built so people can start using it and the community can start to improve it.

Get it for yourself at github.com/CarletonTorpin/Zorderz.

How to try Zorderz

On GitHub you will find two folders: Zorderz, which is the theme, and Zorderz-apps, which is the plugin.

Download both, compress each into its own .zip file, then install the theme first and the plugin second.

Both files are ready to install exactly in the order just described.

Click here if you need step-by-step instructions

In WordPress, open “Appearance,” then “Themes,” then “Add New,” then “Upload Theme.”

Choose your Zorderz.zip, install it, and click “Activate.”

Then open “Plugins,” then “Add New,” then “Upload Plugin.”

Choose Zorderz-apps.zip, install it, and click “Activate.”

Install the theme before the plugin, because the theme sets up everything the apps plug into.

Next, open “Settings,” then “Permalinks,” and choose “Post name.”

Then visit your homepage, and Zorderz will ask you for information about your business.

If you already have a Zorderz configuration file, you can import it here.

Zorderz can be installed by anyone comfortable using and setting up a WordPress website from scratch.

Perhaps you see the benefit in using this platform, and are willing to learn WordPress in order to do so.

You are exactly the kind of motivated, self-starting individual who likely already owns a business, and would want this level of control over all aspects of it.

If you are reading this and feel you can install it, you are the ideal candidate, even without knowing for sure that is true.

What’s in Zorderz v1.1

The Zorderz theme and its plugin set are made up of eighteen apps.

• Camera: captures photos directly into a shared media store.
• Media: browses and manages photos and graphics, including those captured with Camera.
• Sketch: freehand sketches and marked-up drawings.
• Team: internal messaging with any user of the Zorderz platform.
• Quick-ID: a shareable business card that fills the device’s screen.
• Game: something to play during downtime while waiting for long chat results.
• Invoices: drafts and sends invoices through a connected billing provider.
• Knowledge Base: a searchable document repository of company facts and information.
• Scheduler: connects Google and Microsoft calendars into a shared company calendar.
• Jobs: tracks work to be done by individual users.
• Surveys: a follow-up satisfaction survey that collects online reviews from customer jobs.
• Stock: inventory knowledge and stock checks.
• Leads: finds and qualifies opportunities within your existing customer database.
• Prep: a fabrication and preparation visualizer for cutting shapes out of larger shapes.
• Receipts: itemized receipts with photo documentation.
• Estimates: builds customer estimates from catalog items.
• Commission: determines compensation and commissions for users.
• Analytic Chat: an Ai assistant that connects the apps and runs research and analytics for you.

By default, these apps do not know anything about your business yet.

You configure them within your own Zorderz system, which is what makes the apps functional and useful for you and your team.

Claude helped build Zorderz

A human wrote virtually none of the code for Zorderz.

Claude, a large language model from the company Anthropic, wrote essentially all of it, guided by me, Carleton Torpin.

The work took about four months, starting around February 2026, first as a private app for my own company and then rebuilt into this general version any company can use.

I do not write code myself.

I tell Claude my goals, my aesthetic preferences, and my overall plans.

Claude executes on those requests.

I test each result Claude delivers, and verify it does what I asked.

That is the feedback loop for how Carleton has worked with Claude to build Zorderz so far.

In the future this will be more community based.

A user could raise a problem or an improvement, then build it with the community’s help.

That is the ideal: less time spent developing Zorderz, and more time using it.

The articles on this site are written the same way.

I dictate to Claude, and Claude writes the article from what I said.

Continual improvement of Zorderz

Zorderz v1.1 is the first step in a product that may never be finished.

Here are two examples of features coming to Zorderz:

• Zorderz-to-Zorderz sharing, so two businesses can grant each other permissioned access to shared data through an API.
• An independent plugin marketplace, where anyone can build a useful Zorderz plugin and earn recurring revenue as installs grow, much like WordPress already works.

If you try it and like it, tell me what’s working.

If something’s missing, send me your ideas.

Check back soon to see how it improves.

Carleton