You accepted the job, now what? This article walks through everything available to you in Job Management once a job is running: how to navigate your active and completed work, what's inside a job's details, what a line item actually is, and how to search across current and past jobs.
Why It Matters
Find the Job in Job Management
Once you accept a job, it lands in Job Management under the Current tab. This is your list of everything still in progress, and finished work moves to Completed, a your record of past jobs. Quick tip: if you already know the Job ID, the global search bar in the top toolbar also jumps you straight to it from anywhere in the Workcenter.
From there, choose how you want to view your list by selecting preferences on the left:
Table View: Packs more jobs on screen at once and it’s best for when you're scanning many jobs for a specific detail (due date, quantity, status).
- Customizing the table view: You can adjust filters and columns to match how you work. For example, sorting by due date to see what's most urgent, or filtering down to a specific customer or job type. Set it up once and use the same view every time you check in on your workload.
Card View: Shows more visual detail per job and it’s best for when you're focused on a smaller number of jobs at a time.
These are the filters for the Table view.
Open the Job and Review the Line Items
Click into a job to see its full Job Details page. This is where the specifics and line items of the job live.
Line item: the individual detail-level breakdown within a job and the specific line entry for a part, quantity, or spec on that order. On a job with multiple parts, each part is its own line item; on a single-part job, the job and the line item are effectively the same thing.
Selecting a line item breaks its progress into four stages and its own tasks: Production (build parts) → Post-Processing(post process parts) → Inspection(inspect parts) → Shipping(ship parts). Throughout the process, you can move each task into To Do → In Progress → Complete as you’re working on it. This status data is also what drives how your jobs are organized and sorted elsewhere in the Workcenter.
Keeping these statuses current is the one thing Xometry needs from you at the line item level. There are additional tools for your own shop's internal management that are not a requirement, such as:
- Due date — useful if a specific part is running slightly behind the rest of the job and you want to track it separately.
- Assigned users — useful if your team splits work across people and you want the right person attached to the right line.
Take Action on the Job
From the same Job Details page, you have a set of direct actions available while the job is running:
Download job files — Pull the files tied to the job directly from the job details page; no need to dig through email threads.
Update the client — Send a status update directly from the job. Staying ahead of updates is one of the most effective ways to keep a job on track and avoid a customer reaching out first, wondering what's going on.
Start a conversation — Something comes up on the job? Start a conversation right from the job in Job Management that’s tied to that job (or even a specific line item), so nothing gets lost in email. The earlier you flag a risk to timeline or quality, the more room everyone has to work through it. Let us help through your On-Platform Communication.
For a closer look at building the habit of proactive status updates, see Job Status Management and the accompanying video walkthrough. Raising a problem early should feel like a normal move, not a risky one — the sooner a client or Xometry knows about a delay, the more options everyone has.
Find a Job Again, Anytime
Once a job is underway or long after it's finished, you don't have to scroll to find it again.
Search — The search bar lets you look up a job by Job ID, whether it's current or completed. This is the fastest way to jump straight to a specific job instead of scrolling through a list.
CSV export — Export your job list to a CSV when you need to work with your job data outside of Workcenter. This could be for internal reporting, reconciling with your own systems, or sharing status across your team. If you're looking to automate this instead of exporting manually, you can set up an API integration to push Xometry jobs directly into your internal work management system, see Pushing Xometry Jobs to Manufacturing Systems for setup details.
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