Job dispatching for contractors
Job dispatching in Business Genie is done by route optimization: it splits the day’s jobs across your technicians, orders each tech’s day by the shortest drive, and keeps the appointment windows you promised. Each tech opens the next job in turn-by-turn directions from the iOS or Android app.
How jobs are dispatched in Business Genie
When a new job comes in mid-day, route optimization re-orders the rest of the day around it, so no one rebuilds the schedule by hand.
The day’s jobs split across your technicians, each in the order that drives least.
Split across your techs
The day’s jobs are divided across your technicians, not just ordered for one.
Ordered by the shortest drive
Each technician’s jobs are put in the order that needs the least driving.
Re-dispatched mid-day
When a new job comes in, the rest of the day is re-ordered around it.
Directions to every job
Techs get turn-by-turn directions to each job from the app.
Job dispatching, answered
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Sample dataWhat is job dispatching?
Dispatching is deciding which technician does which job, in what order, and getting them there. Done by hand it is a whiteboard and a phone; done in software it is the schedule, the route and the directions in one place.
Does Business Genie split jobs between technicians?
Yes. Route optimization splits the day’s jobs across your technicians and orders each one’s day by the shortest drive, keeping appointment windows and job lengths.
Is it an add-on?
No. Route optimization, which does the dispatching, is on every plan.
- Route optimizationEvery plan
- DispatchingDone by route optimization
- PlansFrom $50 a month
- Free trialOne month, no credit card
Where dispatching sits in a job
Drawn as a route, a job in Business Genie has eleven stops, from the quote to the follow-up. Dispatching is the fourth, and the one where the job leaves the pile: it goes on one technician’s run, and the others’ runs go their own way. Every stage is part of the same software, on the web and in the iOS and Android app. Job dispatching works with dispatch, route optimization, scheduling and the mobile app.
- 1
Quoted
- 2
Booked
- 3
Scheduled
- 4
Dispatched
You’re here
- Dispatch
- Job dispatching
- 5
Routed
- 6
On the job
- 7
Invoiced
- 8
Paid
- 9
In the books
- 10
What it made
- 11
Followed up
- 1
Quoted
- 2
- 3
Scheduled
- 4
Dispatched
You’re here
- Dispatch
- Job dispatching
- 5
Routed
- 6
On the job
- 7
Invoiced
- 8
Paid
- 9
In the books
- 10
What it made
- 11
Followed up
Dispatch software by trade
Pages on dispatch software for HVAC, plumbing, electrical and roofing contractors.
Dispatch your own crews, free for a month
No credit card to start. The Business Genie team sets up your account and moves your existing data over for free. Plans start at $50 a month.