How the Mobile Field Service App Has Helped Fieldpoint Clients

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Last updated Jun 22, 2021 at 12:22PM | Published on Mar 12, 2018 | Blog, Press Releases

Mobility in the field service industry has been a game-changer for many enterprises. At Fieldpoint, we’ve seen our Fieldpoint mobile app empower our clients’ technicians in the field by giving them access to all work order information, checklists, inventory, and billing functions.

Organizations are turning more and more to mobile apps. A recent survey by RapidValue Solutions found that 44% of service organizations say that mobile field service is required due to competitive pressures and, when evaluating a field service management software, mobility is a key functionality that many in the HVAC, industrial equipment maintenance, and facilities maintenance spaces are looking to add to their organizations.

Here is how three of Fieldpoint’s customers are using the mobile app, and the success they are having since implementing mobility into their workforce.

Mobility helps Waibel speed up billing times

When Waibel Energy Systems introduced mobility into their HVAC field service organization, it increased the speed and accuracy of billing. Prior to the mobile app, Waibel had technicians working on projects, contracts, and individual work orders, and each had a separate way of tracking time. It wasn’t a cohesive system to track the different departments for accurate billing, so they needed a better solution.

Fieldpoint’s field service mobile app offered the ability for their technicians to access work order information and track their time. Whether they are working on a new installation of a preventative maintenance call, time is tracked the same way across the entire organization and fed back into the HVAC field service software.

Technicians can also capture signatures from their customers to close out a work order, reducing the time it takes for Waibel to generate invoices.

“It speeds up our ability to bill the customer,” said Mike Cooper, Director of Information Technology for Waibel. “The technicians enter the time and get a signature as they finish the work. It gives us a lot more flexibility to generate our invoices and get them to our customers quickly. That has shortened pretty dramatically for us.”

Greater speed, accuracy, and efficiency of Kraft Power going mobile

Kraft Power was doing everything manually before they turned to Fieldpoint’s mobile-based field service solution. Work orders and checklists were all done on paper, putting in a request for a quote was added onto a work order for someone at the head office to catch, and invoicing the customer was slow because work orders had to be manually turned in to the office and entered into their system for billing.

Today, Kraft Power is 99% paperless, and they are enjoying the Fieldpoint mobile app’s many capabilities and functionalities. They like that they can give technicians access to work order information and checklists to make the workflow process much easier and that technicians are able to collect their own time on a job. Quoting has been streamlined; technician’s notes from the field are instantly in front of administration staff, eliminating the worry that back-office staff may not catch the note on a hard copy work order.

“The technicians were still using paper at the time. We were looking for something that had a mobile component to it for the technicians,” said Brian Donahoe, Information Technology Manager for Kraft Power. “Between the scheduling and the timesheet detail, where they’re entering work details on the work order, or entering in their indirect time to a project we created to capture that information, they’re in charge of their own time now. Now all of that is entered into the mobile app.”

Quick and efficient work order response for Design Storage and Handling

With technicians all across the country, Design, Storage, and Handling needed a faster way for their technicians to return work orders for repairs. Prior to adopting Fieldpoint’s field service management software, technicians would mail a hard copy of a work order back to the main office, which meant billing times were extremely slow.

Armed with a mobile web app to input work order information, technicians are now able to submit the information electronically. This feature drastically cuts down on the time it takes to invoice the customer. The app also helped them build a legacy system in the field service software, which made it easy for them to return information to the customer quickly, as opposed to searching through file folders for old work orders and sending them a synopsis.

“It speeds up our billing by quite a bit,” said John Morfit, Technical Support Manager with DSH. “It easily saves us 7-10 days on billing, which is a big deal. A lot of companies want to narrow down their cash flow and want to speed up billing and get paid for what they have done. It puts all of our resources right at your computer, and it helps us in the office do our jobs better by organizing data and information for us or for the customer in a better fashion.”