Automotive Retail & Aftermarket// topic
Service booking and customer communication
In short
The customer's side of a service visit: booking against real capacity, check-in, approving work, status updates and payment, without an advisor tied to the phone.
4 pages
definitions
- Op codes: turning 'it is making a noise' into something bookableA scheduler books op codes, never sentences. Something has to translate what the customer says into what the shop sells — software, or an advisor on the phone.definition6 min
- Promise time: the number the whole service day is measured againstPromise time is a commitment to a person. Estimated completion is a forecast about work. Most systems store one field for both, and lose the difference exactly when it matters.definition8 min
- Text-to-pay in the service drive: what it is, and what it is notA payment link is a handoff to someone else's hosted page, attached to one repair order. It is not a payment product, and it is not the record that the customer approved the work.definition6 min
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