Mint Strategies

Blueprint

Field Service

The agreement base and the recommended work are the two assets nobody is tracking.

What This Is

The Stack, and Why

Two things carry most of the enterprise value in a field service business and neither usually exists as a record: recurring service agreements, and the work technicians spot on site and never write up. The stack is built to make both of them visible.

System of Record
FieldPulse or Housecall Pro
Scheduling, dispatch, estimates, invoicing and job costing in one place.
Agreements
Service agreement tracking in the system of record
Active count, renewal dates and lapses queryable in under a minute.
Recommended Work
A required field on the job record
A prompt before the job can close, and a follow-up task created automatically.
Phone
OpenPhone or Aircall
Dispatch and customer calls attached to the job rather than to a technician's cell.
Messaging
Twilio
On-my-way messages and reminders that write back to the job record.
Payments
Stripe
Collected in the field, with bank transfer default on the larger invoices.
Books
QuickBooks
Job costing mapped so margin is visible per job, not per quarter.
Reviews
Review automation on job completion
The only version that survives a busy month.

Install Order

Sequence Matters

  1. Install the system of record and get every job flowing through it.
  2. Move the agreement base out of spreadsheets and into it.
  3. Add the recommended-work field once jobs are actually being logged.
  4. Attach the phone system so calls land on the job.
  5. Turn on review automation at completion.
  6. Map job costing into the books.

What It Replaces

Before This

A whiteboard, a spreadsheet of renewals, paper tickets, and a technician's memory of what the customer should do next.

Field service is one of six verticals reasoned from the pattern rather than delivered work.

On CRM selection. Where your industry platform already holds the customer, it is the CRM and we configure it. HubSpot comes in for what it does not do. Every stack is chosen against written requirements, with live demos, before anything is bought.

Platform licenses are billed by the vendor. We hold no partnership or reseller relationship with any platform named here.

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