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Service Request to Paid Invoice

This workflow follows a reported service problem through the service order, booking, dispatch, technician activity, office review, billing, and payment. The office and technician continue from connected customer, equipment, schedule, time, parts, labor, and billing records instead of rebuilding the job at each handoff.

Demonstration notice: Every person, location, item, identifier, amount, and transaction is fictional. Mobile alerts and payments are suppressed or simulated; no message or processor request is sent.

Workflow at a glance
Outcome Completed service work reviewed, billed, and paid or placed on account
Starts with A verified customer, service subject, and reported issue
Ends with Billing/payment state and retained customer service history
Primary roles Service coordinator, dispatcher, technician, billing clerk
Brisk areas involved Service, Dispatch, Time, Inventory, Sales, Accounting
Common businesses Equipment, HVAC, appliance, motor, and general repair
Approximate handoffs Four

Why this workflow matters

Service work loses context when intake notes, a schedule, technician time, parts, and the invoice live in separate places. The Service Order retains the work content while bookings coordinate when and by whom it should be performed.

Billing remains a deliberate office handoff. A completed technician visit is not automatically a paid invoice, and a timer entry is not necessarily approved billable time.

Before you begin

Equipment detail for fictional unit DOC-EQ-001 belonging to the documentation customer.
Equipment history gives the office and technician the same service subject before a job is created.
  • Required: customer, service location/context, equipment when used, service category/status, warehouse, and authorized service staff.
  • Required for dispatch: active Technician linked to the employee/user and valid working hours.
  • Required for billing: reviewed parts, labor, tax, price, and payment terms.
  • Optional: mobile alerts, customer equipment, timer use, sandbox payment provider.

End-to-end steps

Dispatch board showing fictional service bookings and technician assignments.
Dispatch assigns a booking and time without changing the underlying job scope.
Service order DOC-SO-1001 for the fictional irrigation pump in Awaiting Parts status.
The service order retains the reported issue, equipment, warehouse, priority, and current work status.
  1. Coordinator — verify context. Open Customers and Equipment. Confirm the fictional unit, location, history, issue, and approved scope.
  2. Coordinator — create the Service Order. Enter the customer, equipment, warehouse, category, priority, memo, and current Service Status. DOC-SO-1001 is Awaiting Parts; it is not yet completed or invoiced.
  3. Dispatcher — create and assign a Booking. Use the Dispatch Board to set the supported date/time and technician. Review dispatch notes and alert state; the documentation fixture does not send a real alert.
  4. Technician — work from Technician Workspace. Open Technician Workspace, confirm the assigned booking, then open the same Service Order. Record only actual status, time, notes, parts, and labor.
  5. Technician — complete the actual work. Stop the timer, write completion notes, and move status only through the offered transition. Part inventory effects depend on the supported posting/conversion event; adding a note does not consume stock.
  6. Office — review and convert. Confirm completed scope, time, parts, labor, prices, tax, and customer authorization. Use the supported Service Order conversion to create/connect the Sale or Service Invoice; the Service Order remains the job-content source.
  7. Billing clerk — collect and verify. Record a safe tender or place the invoice on account. Confirm the Sale/Invoice payment state, customer history, item history, time entries, and reporting before calling the workflow paid.

What Brisk keeps connected

Service order edit screen for fictional job DOC-SO-1001 with work details.
Status, notes, parts, labor, and time should reflect work actually performed before billing.
Technician Workspace showing fictional assigned service work and timer context.
The technician sees assigned bookings and opens the same service order used by the office.
Action Result or downstream record Where to verify it
Create and schedule job Service Order plus assigned Booking Service Order and Dispatch Board
Record technician work Status, notes, time entries, parts/labor context Service Order and Technician Workspace
Convert reviewed work Linked Sale or Service Invoice Service Order and resulting billing detail
Record payment/on-account balance Payment or receivable history Sale/Invoice and customer inquiry

Handoffs and controls

Customer receivable inquiry used to verify the fictional service invoice balance.
Customer history and receivables provide the final accounting check when service is billed on account.
Linked fictional sale used to illustrate service-order billing after office review.
Conversion carries reviewed service work into the supported Sale or Service Invoice path; payment is a later state.

The coordinator owns intake accuracy, dispatch owns assignment, the technician owns work evidence, and the office owns billing review. Scheduled, dispatched, in progress, completed, invoiced, and paid describe different events. Permission boundaries should prevent a technician from silently rewriting dispatch or accounting decisions.

Exceptions and safe corrections

  • Wrong customer/equipment before work: correct the Service Order and Booking together.
  • Missing part: use an honest waiting status; do not mark work completed.
  • Timer left open: correct the time entry with supervisor review before billing.
  • Wrong part or labor: correct reviewed job detail before conversion; use supported credit/return paths afterward.
  • Payment pending or failed: keep invoiced and paid states separate and verify provider history before retrying.

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