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What is Home Service Scheduling Software? | MarketBox

What is Home Service Scheduling Software?

Home service scheduling software is job scheduling software for businesses providing home services like Plumbers, Electricians, Window Cleaners, HVAC, etc. The software makes it easy to organize in-home appointments and schedule technicians across multiple job sites, helping your business to run more efficiently. 

What are the benefits of home service scheduling software?

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1. Home service software makes scheduling jobs easier 

Home service scheduling software reduces the time your team spends organizing appointments and assigning work to technicians. The software automates job scheduling and can assign new work to technicians based on skills, location, and availability.

Using scheduling software for home services reduces delays, letting you instantly confirm customer appointments. It also eliminates the risk of scheduling errors or double bookings, as provider availability is updated in real-time, allowing you to run your home service business as efficiently as possible.  

2. Scheduling software optimizes your team’s calendars to free up time 

By using home service scheduling software, you can optimize your team’s calendars and free up time in schedules to fit in more appointments. The software makes it possible to organize jobs by location and calculate travel time, so you always leave the right amount of time between appointments and avoid long gaps between services. 

By assigning jobs based on skills, location, and availability, you can manage each service technician's calendar efficiently, ensuring they can work productively and avoid overloading assignments, which could lead to burnout or high employee turnover

3. Home service software lets customers book & pay online for appointments

70% of customers prefer to manage their appointments online. Implementing home service software with an online booking feature is the most convenient way to let customers book and pay for appointments online. 

As it integrates with your job scheduling software, both appointment booking and provider scheduling happen simultaneously and don’t require any work from your team to organize. Processing payments online is also more convenient for customers (especially the 64% of Americans that don’t carry cash anymore) and is a fast and secure way to get paid for your services. 

Online payments also make things a lot easier for your service technicians. To learn more, check out our article “How Collecting Payments Online Affects Your Mobile Workforce.” 

4. Scheduling software minimizes travel time between appointments 

Home service software designed for in-home and mobile appointments can help you reduce travel time between appointments. 

Establishing service areas, and assigning technicians to the different locations, lets you group appointments within controllable radiuses, so your team doesn’t waste time crossing back and forth across the city for appointments. 

By letting service technicians create their own travel zones (or assigning them to your team), employees have control over how far they travel to jobs and the days and times they’re in particular neighborhoods. This allows for more flexible schedules that benefit your employees, your business, and your customers. 

Introducing MarketBox, the all-in-one scheduling software for home service businesses 

MarketBox is scheduling software specifically designed for home services businesses offering in-home and mobile appointments. The all-in-one platform makes it easy to schedule appointments, coordinate service providers, and process payments online. 

To learn more about how MarketBox can help your home service business, book a call with one of our experts to get a personalized walkthrough of the platform. 

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