Reactive repair and call-outs

Something has broken. Someone needs to attend.

Gas, heating and plumbing repairs run as their own job types, each with the form your office needs when the call comes in, the form the field operative fills in on site, and the paperwork that falls out of those answers. When an insurer or a home emergency provider places the job, the claim sits on the record beside the repair.
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A day in your business

Four questions a repair desk answers all day.

“Who can get to a no-heating call in Reading today?”

Finding out who is free and who is near enough means ringing round the team.

“What is the claim reference on this one?”

The claim details sit in an email thread rather than on the job, so someone goes looking.

“What did the field operative actually find?”

Findings come back as a phone call and a photo in a text message, then get typed up later.

“When did we actually get there?”

Attendance times live in someone's memory and get written up at the end of the week.

What installHUB does about it

From the call coming in to the paperwork going out.

The claim lives on the job, not in an inbox.

Gas and heating repair and plumbing repair each carry an insurance claim section. When an insurer, a warranty provider or a home emergency provider places the work, the claim reference, the excess and the authorisation are recorded against the job itself. The same job type serves your direct customers, without that section.

A call-out goes to someone free, and near.

A call-out lands in the CRM under the right job type, whether it came from your own website or a form you embedded somewhere else. The scheduler shows real availability, travel-time gaps and working hours, so who can actually make it is visible before you commit. Drop the job onto the slot, the customer gets a confirmation, and it appears on the field operative's phone.

Customers see what's booked without phoning the office.

The customer portal shows them their current job status and their quotes, so the answer to “where has my job got to?” is a link rather than a phone call. They accept or decline a quote in a tap, and an invoice is paid from a Stripe link sent straight to them.

Customers logging their own faults. Coming soon

Customers raising a fault against an existing install from the portal, without ringing the office, is on the roadmap. Today a repair is raised from your enquiry form or by your office team. Flag with your account manager if this is a deciding factor.

Features that matter for reactive work

Six things that change the day-to-day.

Mobile app for field operatives

Offline-first. Customer history, install photos, signatures and certs in the van.

  • First-time fix rate climbs
  • Works in lofts, basements and plant rooms
  • Syncs the moment the phone is back in signal
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CRM with every visit on the record

One customer profile holds every job, note, photo and invoice.

  • Multi-site for commercial customers
  • Notes with photo attachments
  • Bulk operations across hundreds of customers
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Scheduler with field operative availability

Drag-and-drop, travel-time aware, working hours respected.

  • See who is free and has the right skills and coverage area.
  • No double-booking
  • Customers can book their own appointments from the portal (Pro and above).
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Customer portal (status, quotes, payment)

Customers see job status, accept or decline quotes, and pay the invoice.

  • Inbound call volume drops
  • Branded white-label as you
  • Self-service fault logging Coming soon
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Payment requests from the mobile app

Stripe payment links from the field operative's phone for ad-hoc charges.

  • Customer pays before field operative leaves
  • Auto-reconciled to the job
  • Synced to Xero / QuickBooks overnight
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Insurance claim details on the job

A claim section on the gas, heating and plumbing repair job types.

  • Claim reference and policy number
  • Excess and authorisation recorded
  • The same job type serves direct customers
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What you can book

The repair and servicing work already built

Each of these ships with its own booking form, its own on-site form and its own documents.
  • Boiler serviceAnnual service and gas safety check, with the certificate generated from the visit.
  • Gas and heating repairReactive call-outs on gas appliances and central heating, including what is found on arrival.
  • Plumbing repairLeaks, blockages and reactive plumbing work, with parts and findings captured on site.
  • General electrical workRemedial and reactive electrical jobs, with certification from the same visit.
  • EV charger servicePlanned servicing against an installed charge point.
  • Solar PV servicePlanned servicing and performance checks against an installed array.
  • Battery storage servicePlanned servicing against an installed battery system.
  • Service and maintenanceThe general planned-visit job type, for assets that do not need their own.

Your trade not on the list? Job types are built to match the work, so tell us what your office needs at booking, what the field operative captures on site and what the customer should end up with, and we build it before you go live. How custom job types work

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Questions we hear a lot

How we fit a repair operation.

We repair kit we didn't install. Does it handle that?+

Yes. Customer profiles are first-class: create the customer, log every visit you make to them, attach photos and certificates as you go. Nothing assumes you did the original install, and the record carries the history you build up from the first call-out onwards.

We take work from insurers and warranty providers. Does that fit?+

Yes, and it is what the claim section is for. Gas and heating repair and plumbing repair both carry it, so the claim reference, the excess and the authorisation sit on the job. The enquiry form can also be embedded on the provider's own site so instructed work arrives the same way your direct enquiries do.

Can field operatives take payment on site for a chargeable visit?+

Yes. The mobile app supports Stripe payment requests. The field operative creates a payment request against the job, the customer pays from a secure Stripe link, and the system records it back to the job automatically.

Can one job cover the visit and the follow-up work?+

Additional works lets the field operative quote for what they find on site and get it approved without a second job number, so a call-out that turns into a bigger repair stays on one record.

What does the field operative fill in on site?+

Every repair job type has its own on-site form: the fault as found, the work done, the parts used and the photographs, with the field operative's and the customer's signatures. The document the customer ends up with is built from those answers, so the visit is not retyped into a second system afterwards.

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