We view technology as a key differentiator in streamlining operating processes,improving customer communications and the overall customer experience. We were the first handyman-remodeling company in the Dallas/Ft.Worth market to offer real-time,on-line customer initiated appointment scheduling and simultaneous worker job assignment and tracking in 2002. We have just completed the next generation upgrade of this capability, eToolkit©, and will be providing it to all franchisee’s.Some of the features include:
- State of the art technology/architecture hosted on secure Cloud
- Hierarchical system supporting multiple levels (neighborhood, city, state, association, etc.) for service designation, job scheduling, pricing and reporting
- Franchise level real-time website customization sporting individual market-geographic specific options such as services offered, organizational units serviced (neighborhoods, cities, associations, etc.), prices/rates, service schedules, references, job pictures, special promotions, contact information, email addresses, etc.
- Robust suite of integrated web-based on-line capabilities accessible across multiple platforms (desktop, laptop, mobile phone and PDA’s)
- Client initiated scheduling with administrative and customer notifications
- Simultaneous worker assignment, location-destination tracking
- Worker portal showing daily-weekly jobs scheduled by time with work description, job level attached reports
- Referral management system
- Customer accessed service price estimator
- Customer portal integrating scheduling, payment processing, proposal-document delivery, reference-feedback submission, referral submission and payment tracking and messaging
- Lifetime completed job history per customer
- Integrated control/management dashboard
- Enterprise on-line scheduling management with receipt confirmation messaging
- Ability to add-delete-change cities, neighborhoods, services, rates, reports, documents, etc. from a single location with immediate update to all customer and worker facing websites
- Broadcast email editor using internal database or external data sources
- Picture and customer reference uploader with text editor