Field and Service Providers everywhere are concerned with improved scheduling and response times, controlling costs, getting paid faster and improving billing accuracy – all while ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction.

The cost of acquiring a new customer is consistently higher than the cost of retaining a current customer. Therefore, maintaining the highest customer satisfaction with service tracking software will prove financially beneficial to any maintenance department. CMMS systems have many features that can improve satisfaction levels including managing and providing updates on of work requests, automatically assigning work requests to available maintenance employees and tracking them to successful completion.

Maintenance program software allows an unlimited number of designated customers to enter work requests and receive automatic status alerts that detail if the request is approved, rejected or completed. This provides improved communications and allows the maintenance department to schedule and plan each request in a timely manner. Service requests can also be sorted by customer, priority, region, problem type, or other user-customizable filters. With current CMMS and enterprise asset management technologies, customer satisfaction has been known to improve up to 65%.

Powerful scheduling tools let you provide the highest level of customer satisfaction and ensure that all contracted work is performed on time. This will reduce the number of instances that a customer will have a negative maintenance experience or issue that requires a call back. With a CMMS, Service Providers can calculate response time and completion rates, track performance, and provide customers with greater visibility into their performance and response levels. Any information that is given to customers can increase trust and communication, allowing for greater customer retention.

With historical tracking of contracts, vendor information, location, work request history, repair costs and who did the work, every technician within the maintenance department has a searchable knowledge-base to ensure customer success in the present and future.

An additional benefit of service tracking and asset management software is the ability to view all labor and material  charges for work performed. This historical information can eliminate client questions around billing due to the point and click access to all labor and material costs at the customer level and the ability to access the system on mobile and laptop devices.