RouteWise Every job,one screen.
How this multi-van plumbing and electrical firm replaced whiteboard job scheduling with a live field-management app.
Every day startedwith a photo of a whiteboard.
RouteWise ran six vans off a physical whiteboard in the office, photographed each morning and texted to every engineer. Job changes during the day meant phone calls to every van, one at a time.
An enterprise field-service platform was quoted at £45,000+ with a 12-month contract. Appin500 built the one system that mattered: live jobs, on every phone, updated instantly.
We were running a six-van operation off a photo of a whiteboard. It's embarrassing looking back.”
Cut the annual contract.Keep the whiteboard's logic.Ship it live, on every van.
Digitise the whiteboard, exactly
The same job-per-engineer structure the office already understood, just live instead of chalked on a board.
Push changes in real time
A job reassigned in the office appears on the right engineer's phone instantly, no calls required.
Ship scheduling before invoicing
Live job scheduling launched first. Quoting and invoicing integration were deliberately scoped as a later phase.
Five things that replacedthe whiteboard photo.
Feature 01: Live job assignment
Every engineer sees only their own jobs for the day, updated the second the office makes a change.
Feature 02: Job status updates
En route, on site, complete — updated from the van, visible in the office instantly.
Feature 03: Photo & note capture per job
Before/after photos and job notes attached directly to the job record, not a separate group chat.
Feature 04: Customer signature capture
Sign-off captured on the engineer's phone, no more paper dockets left in a van.
Feature 05: Route order per engineer
Jobs ordered by the day's route, not just a flat list, cutting unnecessary driving between calls.
Twenty-one days.Six vans, one screen.
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