Mobile Field Service Apps

Businesses have a lot of data to collect, analyze and save. Mobile technology in the construction industry can help business owners and contractors better manage and analyze their businesses, while gathering valuable insight that can improve their decision-making in the short and long-run. Most construction companies are now using technology to perform a wide range of tasks right from their mobile device. Mobile apps will save employees time and better focus on their job instead of admin. Contractors, service companies, salespeople, and estimators can create on-site estimates for projects and real-time data will enable informed decisions faster.

It takes a lot of time and work to set in motion all the mechanisms of the delivery process; and an app for delivery is an important part of the main process of this type of business nowadays. Delivery apps can organize, streamline and speed up the process of delivery. Technology, including mobile, is always ready to help the industry. In the past few years, mobile technology has drastically changed the way businesses and enterprises operate. More and more unique solutions appear in the market, and the amount of delivery apps grows day-by-day.

The Field Service Industry involves managing worker activity, schedule and dispatch work, ensure driver safety, and ideally integrate with inventory, billing, accounting and other back-office systems. There is a lot of work to do on the field and that work gets extended every-time someone has to put down what they’re doing so that they can log what they’ve done. Paper forms need to be filled out, delivered to the office and placed in storage. While the field service industry is massive, there are 5 main categories: managing worker activity, scheduling and dispatching work, ensuring safety, inventory management and accounting.

Paper and pen have been the golden standard for completing logs for a long time. No matter the industry, there’s a good chance that you work with paper on a day-to-day basis. However, paper can be regarded as one of the most unsafe places to store data. It can be lost in a variety of ways, and once the paper’s gone, so is the information on it. Mobile forms create a level of accuracy not possible with traditional means due to all of the extra features completing a report on a phone or tablet and eliminates duplication. Things like taking pictures, scanning bar codes, real-time updates to tasks, are all now possible with a mobile app. Mobile technology in the vehicle and fleet inspection industry is now becoming the industry standard.

There’s a lot of things that go into property management – inspections, maintenance, repairs and communication with your tenants is just the start. Keeping track of it all can be troublesome, even with software specially designed to help. One of the reasons being the lack of mobility that comes with computer software. Being restricted to places where you can use your desktop, or even have internet connection, often puts a halt to productivity. Inspections have to be done on paper and later only to be entered into the database resulting in duplication and errors. As with many other industries, technology has already reached a point where it’s affordable to utilize the benefits that it can provide. The biggest benefit with a mobile app solution is the ease of communication, which at its core is a very slow process that often involves phone-calls, text messages, emails or even the dreaded “paper forms”. Mobile apps allow the communication between these elements to be seamless, and in many cases, real-time.

One of the main advantages of business applications is the reduction of paperwork. You no longer need to print copies, store them somewhere and spend days locating a document if required. All necessary documentation can be stored in electronic format, is easily accessible, and available at anytime and anywhere. In addition, various functions such as e-signature, work with photos, location determination and automatic form filling do a lot of business processes easier and faster allowing for real-time information.