Home services app MVP for dispatch and field crews
The booking window, the dispatch board, and the tech's phone, tested on real jobs.
A home services app MVP puts the booking window, the work order, and the technician's phone into one product, then tests it on real jobs. We build it for trade business owners who have outgrown the whiteboard and for founders building software they plan to sell to contractors. The first version runs from a booked window to a finished job with photos, and leaves routing, parts, and payments for later.
The short answer
A home services app MVP is the first version of a scheduling and dispatch product. Customers pick a booking window, the office assigns the job, and the technician opens it on a phone, takes photos, and closes it out. Customers get a text at each step. It runs on real jobs before anyone builds route planning or payments.
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What it does
- Online booking by arrival window, limited to the slots your crews can cover
- A dispatch board where the office assigns and reassigns jobs by technician
- A technician view with the address, the job notes, and a button to close the job
- Job photos taken on site and attached to the work order
- Quotes and estimates the customer approves from a text link
- Texts to the customer when a tech is assigned, on the way, and finished
Best for
Owners of a trade business who want software shaped around their own crews, and founders building a field service product for contractors.
What you provide
- How a job moves through your business today, from the first call to the invoice
- Two or three technicians willing to run real jobs on the app
- Your job types, your service area, and how long each kind of visit usually takes
[HOW WE'D BUILD IT]
Everything hangs off the work order
One work order, booked to closed
We map the life of a single job in your business: the window it lands in, who assigns it, what the tech needs on site, and what counts as done. That work order becomes the record every screen reads and writes.
The tech's screen comes first
Technicians use the app in driveways and crawl spaces, often on one bar of signal. Their screen shows the next job, the address, the notes, and the camera, and it keeps photos on the phone until the upload goes through.
A few crews on real work orders
A handful of your techs run real jobs through the app while the office dispatches from the board and customers get their booking and on-the-way texts. Wherever the crews fall back to calling the office, production has work to do.
What the crews get once the pilot holds up
[TALK TO A BUILDER]
Pick the job type to run through first
Start with yesterday's jobs: who booked them, who drove out, and where the paperwork stalled. If you're building for contractors, start with the trade you picked. Discovery then settles which piece of the job gets built first.
Shaped around real jobs
Tested on your crews' work orders, not a demo schedule.
Built for the driveway
A tech screen that keeps working on one bar of signal.
Booking windows you set
Customers choose from the slots your crews can actually reach.
Your product, your code
The source is yours, whether you run it in-house or sell it to other contractors.
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