Plumbing: Scheduling and Dispatching

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We are thinking of moving to a software based scheduling and dispatch solution... Anyone have any suggestions and experience with these? I want something simple enough to learn, but hopefully to integrate into quickbooks..

Pulling customer info and notes up in quickbooks is very ineffective.
 

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let me know how it works.....

let me know how that works...

i think I would be pulling my hair out trying
to figure out a software package like that.....



I use quickbook for my own basic business files..


Calls are dispatched over Nextel after being directly paged to me
and then approved by me.

Honestly, I am lucky if my service techs will fill out a work order
properly for me.....with all the important info and in a
legible manner.....



I cant immagine trying to train them on
anything that might require more than basic writeing skills....



for me, it would be like giving a monkey a loaded revolver,
with the hammer cocked back....
no goood can ever come from it.....



 
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HAHA! Thats kinda what i was thinking too. But i really am disappointed mostly with customer information and limitations in quickbooks.

Im trying to find a way to keep detailed communications and job notes between customer kept up in a software solution outside of quickbooks that integrates and updates data in quick books.

Right now the person doing the scheduling and handling calls enters the info in quickbooks. I dont really like anyone logging into quick books except my wife .Who does the books, she always seems to make more than me though:)
 

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I'm interested to hear feedback in this area. I got the urge to buy software because my personal system of using Excel to track my customers was very inadeqate. After doing a lot of research, I couldn't find any positive comments on any software (including Quickbooks) and so I've done nothing. I really want software that I can keep a running history of each customers equipment, repairs, pictures, automatic scheduling for future maintenance, etc. I really am leary of web based services where I give them the information and they maintain it ... skeptical that I will be held hostage and have to tolerate excessive fees or poor service ... perhaps I am too cautious.
 

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DO NOT use KRS software (Texas based). Will not work with Windows and they have non-existant tech (lack of) support.
 

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Quick books is the best for me...

Quick books pro is all I need.....

as long as you got a pass word so no skum bag employees
can look at your ledjer or steal your client list ,
it is probably the absolute best you can ever acheive......


Example...
I just had an old customer call me with a leaking Rheem 50 gallon power vent water heater, we installed it sometime back...

the serial number on the heater claims it was a june of 01 unit...

the 6 year warranty ran out about year and a half ago...

She cant find her paper work and expects me to prove when it was installed by us......ASAP ----NOW...
its starting to become a rather snotty conversation,,,,,


I jump on my quick book pro account and find her check number and the date it was installed in about 30 seconds

ok , maybe it took a minute and a half....

and yes the warranty was over about a year and 3 months ago.... sorry about your luck

would you like us to install a Bradford White this time around??.




It almost gives me " half a woody"

to find that information so fast and silence the
grumbling from that customer.....




I got a customer ledger with every one that
I have ever worked for since 1997.
and I can carry it all with me on my lap-top
if I so choose....

it really just dont get no better.....


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Quick books pro is all I need.....

as long as you got a pass word so no skum bag employees
can look at your ledjer or steal your client list ,
it is probably the absolute best you can ever acheive......







It almost gives me " half a woody"

to find that information so fast and silence the
grumbling from that customer.....




I got a customer ledger with every one that
I have ever worked for since 1997.
and I can carry it all with me on my lap-top
if I so choose....

it really just dont get no better.....


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...

In order to understand this, I need to ask, since I am of the female persuasion, is a half of woody not as good as a whole woody? :D
Inquiring minds here, (female co-workers and I) want to know. We are not skilled in it.
 

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full woody vs half a woody.....

Cookie,

I guess it dont take much to get me excited...

I dont have much of a life, I suppose.


I just still remember the days before computors...

pre 1980 when it would have taken literally hours of

digging to do what I just did in a minute....this morning




to define a half a woody....

a half a woody is like a rush or a thrill...... or "warm fuzzies"






Cookie..... I am pretty sure you have seen a "full woddy" before..

no definition is necessary .LOL.....
 
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