Purpose: Providing work addresses with online access to book appointments for jobs that have been requested by the customer i.e. agents/landlords. Additionally using the scheduling rules, you can ensure that service jobs for these properties are booked before the due date and stay compliant.
This feature is available on Customer Journey and above.
With Scheduling rules, you can control customers' booking service jobs past their due date.
Prerequisites
Self service portals in Commusoft use smart scheduling to show available dates and times to customers when they book their jobs. These settings ensure that customers self service journies are not interrupted when trying to book:
- Skills assigned to users.
- Shifts assigned to users.
- Service Windows determine how timeslots are displayed externally.
- Access emails set up, these are sent to the contact when a job or estimate is created for a work address:
Take a look through the Service reminders (Overview) for setup and usage guides.
View setting
➡️ Profile icon > Settings > Self-service > Job booking portal settings > View
Configure the portal
Communications
The portal can display a contact pop-up with ways they can reach out to you, using either the company details set on your account or specific contact details, eg. for a member of staff managing all service jobs.
Email address
- Don’t show email - No email address is shown
- Show company email - Display email address from Company details
- Enter email - Display any other email address, manually type in the field ‘New email’ now visible.
Phone number
- Don’t show phone - No phone number is shown
- Show company phone - Display phone number from Company details
- Enter phone - Display any other phone number, manually type in the field ‘New phone’ now
visible.
The remaining options allow for customising text displayed in the pop-up using free type fields.
- Contact support description
- Contact support title
- Contact support available timing
Turn off the contact pop-up by setting both the phone number and email address to 'Don't show'.
Notifications
Select the user access roles you want to receive an in-system notification when a service job is booked.
- Send notification to > Select desired roles
If you have Commusoft Sales, both JMS and Sales roles will be displayed in the list.
Email notifications
Similar to the in-system notification above, you can set up email notifications to trigger when a customer books a service job via the service reminder portal. This can be set to specific users, user access roles or an external email address.
- Selecting users or access roles:
- To > Select users or roles from drop down
- Using an email address(es):
- To > Type desired email address > Hit ' Return' key
- Email templates > Select email template from drop down.
Prerequisites for email notification
Create an email template to use for this notification.
Once you've set all your fields up, make sure to hit the save button before navigating away.