Each time your clients dispatch non-maintenance work orders to your company, you get email notifications. From an email, you can accept or decline a service request as well as view work order details, location info, and check-in instructions.
The email about a new service request contains the following sections:
1️⃣ New Service Request: Contains key details about the work order dispatched to your company:
From this section, you can accept or decline the work order.
2️⃣ Work Order Details: Shows the purchase order number, tracking number, and description of the work order. You may also see the customer area, asset, problem type, and problem — depending on how the client submitted the request. 3️⃣ Location Details: Provides details about the location where you need to service the request: store ID, name, address, phone number, and fax. You can also see the client name here. Learn more about the location details in Managing Locations.
4️⃣ Check-In Instructions: Contains links to download the ServiceChannel Provider mobile app from the App Store and Google Play. Here, you can also find out how to use the automated response system (IVR) to check-in/out and accept or decline work orders. Pay attention to your PIN number required to access ServiceChannel Provider and the automated response system. Find out more about using ServiceChannel Provider with a PIN. 5️⃣ Location Notes: Lists notes with additional information about the location the WO was submitted for. This may be any details that your client provided, for example, district or region manager name, their emails or contact phone numbers, and other relevant info. This section is not displayed if your client has not added any location notes. |
You can view a simplified plain version of the email in HTM format by clicking the email attachment. When using a mobile device, download the file, and open it in the desired app. This may be useful if your Internet connection is slow, and you fail to open the full email version that takes longer to load. |
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You can accept or decline a work order via email. Note that service requests you have not responded to may be forwarded to another provider.
Planned Maintenance (PM) Work Orders are sent to your email as a bulk work order summary. So you cannot accept or decline them directly via email. The email attachment contains the details of the PM work orders dispatched to you. Follow the instructions in the email to import the .txt file to an .xlsx file. |
By accepting a work order, you confirm that you will work on the request.
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The work order status changes to In Progress/Dispatch Confirmed. |
To inform the client that you cannot work on a service request for any reason, reject the work order.
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The client gets notified that you declined to work on the request. The work order status changes to Open/Declined. |
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