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Most field service software was built for the dispatcher, not the technician. Odoo field service takes a different approach: the seven features below are designed to survive a cell tower...
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Most field service software was built for the dispatcher, not the technician. Odoo field service takes a different approach: the seven features below are designed to survive a cell tower handoff, a rushed parking lot, and a customer who wants a signature before the truck leaves the driveway. If you run a North...
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Dispatchers work from a Gantt-based planning board where every task appears as a block on the technician's timeline. Drag to reassign. Resize to adjust duration. Skills-based filtering surfaces only technicians qualified for the job type, so dispatchers stop calling the wrong tech across town. The Map View adds...
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Technicians open the Field Service mobile app on any Android or iOS device. Tasks, customer history, site notes, and checklists load before they leave the shop, the app caches everything and syncs once a signal returns. On site, the tech completes a configurable checklist (safety, inspection steps, photographic...
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Every task has a start/stop timer built into the mobile app. Technicians tap start when they arrive, pause for lunch, and stop when the job is signed off. Those hours flow automatically into Timesheets, so nobody enters them manually at the end of the day. Labor cost hits the work order immediately, and if the task is...
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The tech scans or selects parts consumed from a pre-stocked van or truck location inside Inventory. Stock levels update in real time, the warehouse team knows what needs replenishing before the tech drives back. If a part was not in the truck, the tech logs the need and a purchase request generates automatically. This...
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When the job is done, the technician presents a digital work report on the tablet. The customer signs with a finger, the signature embeds in the PDF. If the contract allows on-site invoicing, Accounting generates and emails the invoice before the truck moves. For service companies billing time-and-materials, this...
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The Fleet module ties directly to field service tasks: each task can log mileage against the assigned vehicle, feeding odometer-based preventive maintenance schedules. Fuel cards and fleet costs flow into vehicle cost-per-kilometer reports. Service managers see at a glance which trucks are due for an oil change before...
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Helpdesk and Field Service share a ticket backbone. Attach SLA policies to contract types, four-hour response, next-business-day, or best-effort. If a ticket or task breaches its deadline, Odoo escalates automatically: email the supervisor, bump priority, flag the customer portal. Management sees SLA compliance by...
Bonus
The feature set matters less than who configures it. These six questions separate the partners who have shipped field service operations from those who have read the documentation:
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