Intake should capture the problem, location, urgency, and preferred schedule so the first call is productive.
- Address, issue type, urgency, and photos when helpful
- Preferred call-back window and scheduling context
- One customer record starts immediately
When multiple people touch the work, the record must show what happened and what is next.
- Activity timeline across calls, texts, and notes
- Visibility into who owns the next step
- Less “did anyone call them?” confusion
Assignments and next steps
Assignments should be explicit. The customer should not be waiting while the team guesses who owns it.
- Clear owner per request
- Stages for new, scheduled, in-progress, waiting, completed
- Follow-up tasks generated from the stage
Repeat service businesses win when the customer record is usable.
- Service history, notes, and context in one place
- Better upsells and fewer repeated explanations
- Cleaner support when issues repeat
Payment and billing status should not be separate from the service record.
- Invoice or payment path from the customer record
- Status visible before dispatching again
- Less chasing and fewer billing mistakes