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INTRODUCING

Step Flow

Step flows for Elementor: numbered stages with icons and connectors, for onboarding, processes and how-it-works sections.

A NEW CLIENT

How a branding studio takes on a new client

Three steps between the first email and the kickoff call — what happens, who does it, and how long each part actually takes.

Day 1

Intro call, 30 minutes

A video call to hear the brief, the deadline and the budget range. Nothing to prepare and no deck to sit through.
Day 4

Written proposal in three days

Scope, timeline, a fixed fee and the two things we would need from your team. The quote holds for thirty days.
Day 8

Deposit clears, work starts

Half the fee up front opens the shared workspace, and the first working session is in the diary within a week.
HIRING

From application to signed offer in four weeks

The hiring process for an engineering role, written out so a candidate always knows where they stand and what comes next.

Week 1

Every application read

A hiring manager reads the whole application, not a keyword filter. You get an answer either way inside five working days.
Week 2

Two interviews, one week

Forty-five minutes on the technical side, thirty with the team you would join. Both remote, both scheduled around your job.
Week 4

Offer in writing

Salary, level, notice period and start date, sent within forty-eight hours of the last conversation.
IMMIGRATION

What happens after you file a skilled worker visa

Three stages between paying the fee and opening the decision letter, with the real wait attached to each one.

Stage 1

Documents and biometrics

Passport, certificate of sponsorship and proof of funds go in online, then a twenty-minute appointment for fingerprints and a photo.
Stage 2

Caseworker review

The standard service runs three weeks from the biometrics appointment. Priority brings that down to five working days.
Stage 3

Decision and travel vignette

The decision arrives by email; the passport comes back by courier with a ninety-day vignette inside it.
BUYING A HOME

Five stages between an offer accepted and the keys

A residential mortgage, written out with the real waiting time on each stage rather than the brochure version.

Day 0

Agreement in principle

A soft credit check and six questions give a lending figure you can put in front of an estate agent.
Day 3

Full application

Three months of payslips, two bank statements and the source of the deposit. Uploaded once, not re-sent to each lender.
Day 10

Valuation booked

The lender sends its own surveyor. A basic valuation is included; a full structural survey is arranged separately.
Day 18

Underwriting

A person reads the file. Most questions at this stage are about one line on one bank statement.
Day 24

Offer issued

The formal offer goes to you and to the solicitor the same day, and stays valid for six months.
ENROLMENT

Getting a place on the part-time diploma

How a place is confirmed — from the open evening in March to the first Monday of the autumn term.

FIELD SERVICE

Booking an appliance repair, from the first phone call

Four steps, a two-hour arrival window and a van that already carries the part. Times below are taken from a normal week.

09:14

Fault described on the phone

The model number and the noise it makes. Most Monday bookings are finished in under four minutes with no callback.
09:20

Two-hour arrival window

You choose a morning or an afternoon; the window narrows to two hours by text the evening before.
13:40

Engineer on site

Wednesday afternoon. The van carries the sixty most common parts, which is why most faults are finished on the first visit.
14:05

Parts ordered if needed

Anything not on the van is ordered while the engineer is still standing in the kitchen, with the return slot booked before they leave.
4

Minutes to book

60

Parts carried on the van

71

Fixed on the first visit

PATIENT JOURNEY

What the first six weeks of physiotherapy look like

Written for a new patient on a knee referral, so nobody has to ask how many appointments this is going to take.

Week 1

Assessment, 45 minutes

Movement tested, history taken, and a written plan you leave the room with. No treatment starts before the assessment is finished.
Weeks 2–3

Hands-on treatment

Two sessions a week while the pain is acute, dropping to one as the range of movement comes back.
Weeks 3–5

Exercise programme

Four exercises, filmed on the day so you can check your own form at home, reviewed at every appointment.
Week 6

Discharge and review

A final measurement against week one, and a six-week check-in booked before you leave the clinic.

What to bring

Shorts or loose trousers, any scan report you already have, and the name of anything you take daily.

What it costs

£45 for the assessment and £38 per follow-up. Insurers on the list are invoiced directly, so nothing is paid at the desk.

Changing an appointment

Free up to twenty-four hours before. Inside that window half the session fee is charged, once.
1

Come to an open evening

Walk the studios, meet two tutors and see last year’s final show. Ninety minutes, and no application needed first.
2

Bring twelve pieces

A tutor talks through your portfolio with you and says the same evening whether to apply for September.
3

Confirm the place

First instalment paid, Tuesday or Thursday evenings chosen, and the reading list lands the following week.
MADE TO ORDER

From the workshop floor to a fitted kitchen

Six weeks, four stages and the same two people at both ends of it. This is the timeline a joinery workshop hands a customer on the day of the survey.

Week 1

Survey in the room

Every wall measured by hand, including the ones that are not square. The drawing comes from those numbers, not from the floor plan.
Weeks 2–4

Cut and dry-assembled

Carcasses are cut, assembled and photographed in the workshop before a drop of paint goes near them.
Week 5

Sprayed and cured

Two coats and a full week curing. Doors travel flat and wrapped, and are not hung until they are already on site.
Week 6

Fitted in three days

The two people who built it install it, so nothing has to be explained to anybody twice.

Six weeks from the survey to the last handle — and the same two fitters at both ends of it.

MIGRATION

Moving a shop to a new platform without going dark

The cut-over runs over one weekend. Everything that can be done before Friday evening is done before Friday evening.

Fri 18:00

Freeze the catalogue

Product edits stop on the old system. Anything after this point is entered once, on the new one.
Fri–Sat

Export, map, import

Products, customers and three years of orders move across. Every field is mapped by hand and checked against a sample of fifty.
Sat 14:00

Redirects written first

Old product links are mapped to new ones before the switch, so nothing that ranks today lands on a missing page.
Sun 06:00

Cut over at dawn

The quietest hour of the week. Checkout is tested with a real card before the shop is announced as live.
YOUR TURN

Map your own process this afternoon

Every step on this page is one widget, repeated and reworded. Nothing here needed a stylesheet, a plugin patch or a developer.

FAQ
Frequently asked

Step Flow

Straight answers about what this one does, where it fits in a real build, and what it costs you to ship.

Still stuck?

Read the documentation for this one, or write to us — a human answers inside a business day.

How do I build a multi-step process with the Step Flow widget?

One widget is one step. Place a Step Flow widget from Sky Addons for Elementor in each column of a row and the direction marker on every step points at the next one, so a four-stage onboarding flow is four widgets sitting side by side rather than one repeater to scroll through.

How do I remove the arrow after the last step?

Switch off Show Direction on that one widget. Because each step in the Sky Addons Step Flow widget is configured on its own, the final stage simply turns its marker off while the earlier ones keep theirs — no leftover arrow pointing at empty space at the end of the row.

Can the connector between steps be a line instead of an arrow?

Yes. The Direction Type control in the Sky Addons Step Flow widget offers an arrow or a plain line, so the same layout can read as an insistent sequence or as a quiet visual tie between stages. The choice is per step, so a flow can change character partway through.

Can I number the steps with a badge?

Yes, and the wording is free text rather than an automatic count. Each Sky Addons Step Flow widget carries a badge that reads Step 1 by default and can be placed at six spots — the four corners plus top centre and bottom centre — so it can label a stage, a duration or a price.

Does the Step Flow widget need Elementor Pro or a paid add-on?

Neither. Step Flow ships in the free Sky Addons for Elementor plugin and runs on the free version of Elementor, so the badges, direction markers, icon shaping and hover states are all available without any licence. Elementor Pro is a separate product and is not involved.

Does the Step Flow widget load any JavaScript?

None at all — it declares no script of its own. Everything the Sky Addons Step Flow widget does, including the badge placement, the connectors and the hover transitions, is markup and CSS, so there is nothing to initialise, nothing to wait for and no library added to the page weight.

Can I set the fill and stroke colour of an SVG step icon?

Yes, with a dedicated switch. Turning on the SVG option in the Sky Addons Step Flow widget reveals separate Fill Colour and Stroke Colour controls that reach inside an uploaded SVG — useful for outline icon sets, where the ordinary icon colour control alone leaves the strokes untouched.

Can I make the whole step clickable?

Yes. Each Sky Addons Step Flow widget takes a Link, so the icon, the badge, the heading and the description all become one target rather than asking the visitor to hit a small button. It suits a how-it-works row where each stage opens a fuller explanation elsewhere.

How much can I reshape the step icon?

Considerably. The Sky Addons Step Flow widget sets icon size, padding, border, radius, rotation and both horizontal and vertical offsets, with a gradient-capable background and separate hover colours. An Advanced Border Radius field takes a full CSS radius string, which is how the square icon tile becomes an organic blob.

Should I use Step Flow or the Interactive Timeline widget?

Use Step Flow for a short process read left to right — how it works, onboarding, a three-stage service. Use the Sky Addons Interactive Timeline when the content is dated milestones read top to bottom, needs scroll-driven reveals, or should be generated from posts. Different shapes, same plugin family.