How do I cut the time office staff spend scheduling and rescheduling crews?
Scheduling eats hours when every job needs a phone call to the customer and the crew.
- Our office reschedules all day.
- Jobs run long and wreck the schedule.
- Can customers confirm themselves?
Set job types with realistic durations, record each electrician's skills and licences, and use your software's dispatch board instead of a whiteboard. Send automatic confirmations and reminders with a reschedule link, and on-my-way texts. Leave buffer time for jobs that often run long, such as panel upgrades and troubleshooting. Track reschedules per week.
Set up
- Job types with durations.
- Skills and licences per tech.
- Buffer slots.
- Confirmation and reminder texts.
- On-my-way texts.
How we look at it at ShoutEx
We set up job types, reminders and dispatch rules in your software. Reminders and on-my-way texts covers the messaging.
- Whiteboard scheduling.
- Every confirmation by phone.
- No durations.
- No buffer.
- Dispatch board.
- Automatic confirmations.
- Job durations.
- Reschedules tracked.
What electricians and safety authorities say
Here is what electricians say.
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We'll set up job types and reminders.
Book a call →Follow-up questions
Which software is best?
Jobber, Housecall Pro and ServiceTitan suit different sizes.
Can AI schedule?
It can suggest slots within rules.
What about multi-day jobs?
Book them as projects.