diff --git a/config/services.yaml b/config/services.yaml
index a5d7d05f..825398eb 100644
--- a/config/services.yaml
+++ b/config/services.yaml
@@ -328,3 +328,15 @@ services:
     App\Service\WarrantySerialLoadLogger:
         arguments:
             $em: "@doctrine.orm.entity_manager"
+
+    # entity listener for the third party JO status
+    App\EntityListener\JobOrderStatusListener:
+        arguments:
+            $jo_manager: "@App\\Service\\JobOrderManager"
+        tags:
+            - name: doctrine.orm.entity_listener
+              event: 'preUpdate'
+              entity: 'App\Entity\JobOrder'
+            - name: doctrine.orm.entity_listener
+              event: 'postPersist'
+              entity: 'App\Entity\JobOrder'
diff --git a/src/EntityListener/JobOrderStatusListener.php b/src/EntityListener/JobOrderStatusListener.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bb08b7bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/EntityListener/JobOrderStatusListener.php
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\EntityListener;
+
+use Doctrine\ORM\Event\LifecycleEventArgs;
+use Doctrine\ORM\Event\PreFlushEventArgs;
+use Doctrine\ORM\Event\PreUpdateEventArgs;
+use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
+use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManagerInterface;
+
+use App\Entity\JobOrder;
+
+use App\Service\JobOrderManager;
+
+class JobOrderStatusListener
+{
+    protected $jo_manager;
+
+    public function __construct(JobOrderManager $jo_manager)
+    {
+        $this->jo_manager = $jo_manager;
+    }
+
+    public function preUpdate(JobOrder $jo, PreUpdateEventArgs $args)
+    {
+        // error_log('PRE UPDATE');
+
+        // check if status of third party JO has changed
+        // check if JO is third party
+        $source = $jo->getJOSource();
+        if ($source !=  null)
+        {
+            if ($args->hasChangedField('status'))
+            {
+                // error_log('status has changed');
+                // send callback
+                $this->jo_manager->sendJOStatusCallback($jo);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public function postUpdate(JobOrder $jo, LifecycleEventArgs $args)
+    {
+        // this is for updating of status of third party JOs
+    }
+
+    public function postPersist(JobOrder $jo, LifecycleEventArgs $args)
+    {
+        // error_log('POST PERSIST');
+
+        // check if JO is third party
+        $source = $jo->getJOSource();
+        if ($source != null)
+        {
+            // need to send a callback for a new third party JO
+            $this->jo_manager->sendJOStatusCallback($jo);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Service/JobOrderManager.php b/src/Service/JobOrderManager.php
index c54557d6..fea58b53 100644
--- a/src/Service/JobOrderManager.php
+++ b/src/Service/JobOrderManager.php
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ namespace App\Service;
 use App\Entity\JobOrder;
 
 use App\Ramcar\ServiceType;
+use App\Ramcar\JOStatus;
 
 use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManagerInterface;
 
@@ -51,4 +52,56 @@ class JobOrderManager
             $this->em->flush();
         }
     }
+
+    public function sendJOStatusCallback(JobOrder $jo)
+    {
+        // get the job order source
+        $source = $jo->getJOSource();
+        if ($source != null)
+        {
+            // check if source has a callback url
+            $callback_url = $source->getCallbackURL();
+            if ($callback_url != null)
+            {
+                // form the body for the callback
+                // jo id and jo status
+                $jo_data = [
+                    'id' => $jo->getID(),
+                    'status' => JOStatus::getName($jo->getStatus()),
+                ];
+
+                // send status
+                $this->sendJOInfo($jo_data, $callback_url);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected function sendJOInfo($jo_info, $callback_url)
+    {
+        $body = json_encode($jo_info);
+
+        // error_log(print_r($body, true));
+
+        // error_log('Sending json output to ' . $callback_url);
+
+        $curl = curl_init();
+
+        $options = [
+            CURLOPT_URL => $callback_url,
+            CURLOPT_POST => true,
+            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
+            CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $body,
+            CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
+                'Content-Type: application/json',
+            ],
+        ];
+
+        curl_setopt_array($curl, $options);
+        $res = curl_exec($curl);
+
+        curl_close($curl);
+
+        // check result
+        error_log('Result '  . $res);
+    }
 }