Plumber dispatch software
- Balance due
- $687.16
- Labor
- $290
- Parts, marked up
- $288
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Dispatch for a plumber is deciding, in the next ten minutes, which truck goes to the burst pipe, and what that does to the water heater swap that truck was booked on. Good dispatch software shows the technician, the job in hand, the drive, and the parts on the truck in one view, and lets the office move one job without losing the record of what it was. The invoice for the emergency call should be written on site from the same work order the dispatcher created.
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One work order from the call to the invoice
The dispatcher takes the call and creates the work order: property, reported problem, urgency. The technician opens the same record on site, adds what was found, and invoices from it. There is no retyping and there is no second copy, so the office and the truck always say the same thing.
Move the job, keep the promise
When the emergency bumps a booked job, the customer who was bumped needs a new window and a message, not a missed appointment. Rescheduling the work order rather than deleting the appointment keeps the history and sends the customer the new time.
Close the day with every ticket invoiced
An emergency call that was fixed and not invoiced is the most expensive job of the week. A dispatch view that shows work orders marked done but not invoiced, at the end of every day, is the control that catches it.
Plumber dispatch software: common questions
What is the best dispatch software for plumbers?
The one where the work order the dispatcher creates is the record the technician invoices from. GPS and route optimisation are useful at eight trucks and irrelevant at two; the shared work order matters at any size.
Can I invoice from the truck?
Yes. The invoice tool on this site prices a service call for free, and RoughInDesk Pro saves it against the customer and the work order so the technician can send it before leaving the driveway.
How do I handle after-hours calls?
Take the call, create the work order with the after-hours rate on it, and dispatch the on-call truck. The rate belongs on the work order at creation so the invoice carries it without an argument later.
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On a plumbing emergency the dispatch decision is made in minutes and the invoice is written on site, so the work order the dispatcher creates has to be the one the technician invoices from, not a copy.
Plumbing invoice software (Balance due): $687.16, RoughInDesk, worked example.
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