> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.hiveinspect.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Hive Inspect video tutorials for home inspectors

> Short video walkthroughs of Hive Inspect, from first setup to running inspections and winning more work. Pick one by runtime and watch instead of reading.

32 videos, about 103 minutes end to end.

## Onboarding (67 minutes)

Set up once, then walk through your first inspection end to end.

<div className="hive-rows">
  <a className="hive-row" href="/onboarding/business-setup">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Company details and hours</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Company name, logo, license, signature and business hours</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">2:40</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/onboarding/team-availability">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Organization settings</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Working hours, start times and service area for each inspector</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">4:06</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/onboarding/google-calendar">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Connect your calendar</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Sync your schedule so availability and bookings stay accurate</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">1:22</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/business-tools/services-and-fees">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Services and pricing</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Define what you sell, what it costs and which templates it uses</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">2:28</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/business-tools/agreements">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Agreements and e-signature</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Create agreements clients sign before the inspection</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">2:45</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/business-tools/discount-codes">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Business tools and discounts</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Discount codes, referral tracking, sample reports and marketing tools</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">2:52</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/business-tools/payment-options">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Get paid: Stripe, card, ACH</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Connect Stripe, pick payment methods and decide who absorbs fees</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">5:25</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/templates/inspection-templates">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Inspection templates</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Import a template, then customise its sections and comments</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">4:41</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/templates/certified-templates">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">State and official forms</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">TREC, NPMA-33 and Florida insurance forms from the Template Hub</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">1:43</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/how-tos/disabling-ratings">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Turn ratings on or off</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Show or hide IN and INP ratings per template</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">2:12</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/how-tos/custom-inspection-fields">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Custom fields</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Capture the extra details your reports need</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">3:00</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/contacts-and-automation/import-contacts">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Import contacts</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">CSV import from Spectora, ISN, HIP or HomeGauge</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">2:03</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/contacts-and-automation/automations">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Automated emails and texts</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Confirmations, reminders and report delivery, sent for you</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">4:24</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/inspections-and-reports/schedule-inspections">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Schedule an inspection</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Property, client, agent and services, then confirm</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">5:42</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/inspections-and-reports/mobile-app">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Mobile app basics</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Log in, see confirmed inspections, check payment and signature status</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">4:04</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/inspections-and-reports/mobile-reports">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Write the report on your phone</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Defects, photos, sections, search, offline and sync</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">4:38</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/inspections-and-reports/web-editor">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Review and publish a report</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Photobank, preview, flags, publish and save to template</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">4:51</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/inspections-and-reports/client-portal">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">What clients see</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">The portal where clients read the report, sign and pay</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">3:27</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/inspections-and-reports/inspection-functions">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Manage an inspection</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Status, links, agreements, automation tracking and manual unlock</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">4:23</span></span>
  </a>
</div>

## How-To's (27 minutes)

What you do on every job, from booking through to getting paid.

<div className="hive-rows">
  <a className="hive-row" href="/how-tos/smart-scheduling">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Service areas and auto-assign</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Match each job to the right inspector automatically</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">2:19</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/how-tos/booking-online-inspection">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">What clients see when booking</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">The online booking flow, from your website to the confirmation</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">2:04</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/how-tos/rescheduled-inspections">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Reschedule an inspection</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Move the date and keep the client, agent and team in the loop</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">1:31</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/how-tos/saving-comments-to-template">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Save a comment to a template</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Reuse a comment you wrote on site on every future report</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">2:31</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/how-tos/smart-add">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Smart Add</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Describe a finding and let AI find the comment or write a new one</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">2:35</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/how-tos/adding-additional-reports">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Attach a radon, sewer or WDI report</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Add the third-party PDF to a finished report and tell the client</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">1:59</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/how-tos/repair-addendum">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Repair addendum (for agents)</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Buyer agents build a repair request list straight from your report</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">2:14</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/how-tos/recommended-contractors">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Recommended contractors</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Attach trusted contractors to the defects in your reports</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">1:49</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/how-tos/re-inspections">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Re-inspections</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Generate a re-inspection report and update each defect status</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">2:53</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/how-tos/subcontractor-emails">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Subcontractor emails</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Email your termite or septic sub automatically when a job is booked</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">3:31</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/how-tos/add-on-upsell-emails">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Add-on upsell emails</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Pitch termite, septic or radon only to clients who have not booked it</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">3:43</span></span>
  </a>
</div>

## Grow (2 minutes)

Turning finished reports into repeat work and referrals.

<div className="hive-rows">
  <a className="hive-row" href="/how-tos/creating-sample-reports">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Sample reports for marketing</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Turn a real report into a shareable sample for agents</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span className="hive-runtime">1:41</span></span>
  </a>
</div>

## What's new (8 minutes)

Recent releases worth a look.

<div className="hive-rows">
  <a className="hive-row" href="/whats-new/aug-16-2026">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">What Hive AI adds to each defect</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Context Layer shows how common a defect is and how hard it is to fix</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span>Release note</span><span className="hive-runtime">2:41</span></span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="/whats-new/aug-3-2026">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Hive Calendar</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">The calendar built into Hive, alongside Google Calendar</span>
    </span>

    <span className="hive-row-meta"><span>Release note</span><span className="hive-runtime">5:07</span></span>
  </a>
</div>

## Still stuck?

<div className="hive-rows hive-rows-sm">
  <a className="hive-row" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1202950231646461" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Ask the inspector community</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Other inspectors answer in the Facebook group</span>
    </span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="https://dashboard.hiveinspect.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Ask in the chat bubble</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Open your dashboard and use the chat bubble. Engineers, seven days a week</span>
    </span>
  </a>

  <a className="hive-row" href="https://dashboard.hiveinspect.com/dashboard/business-tools/feature-requests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
    <span className="hive-row-main">
      <span className="hive-row-title">Request a feature</span>
      <span className="hive-row-line">Tell us what would make your week easier</span>
    </span>
  </a>
</div>


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