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Tracking What Each Van Did: Daily Records for an Electrical Company

At the end of the day, an owner with three vans wants to know a few things. Did every scheduled job get done? Which ones didn't, and why? Did everything get billed? Is anything coming back tomorrow? In a lot of shops the answer comes from three phone calls and a pile of paper. It doesn't have to.

The Day Should Record Itself

In Equipment History on the House: Panels, Generators and EV Chargers in Your Electrical Company Records, the record of what is at each house built up as techs worked. The same idea applies to the day itself: if the tech app records each job as it happens, the owner doesn't have to rebuild the day from memory.

This isn't about watching your crew. It's about the business knowing what happened without anyone stopping to write a report.

Start, Skip, Complete

In the ElectricalBossPro tech app, each job has three buttons. They do more than move the day along:

• Start tells the office the tech is on site, and can trigger the customer's arrived text.
• Skip asks for a reason, like “no one home” or “customer rescheduled,” so the office knows why and can move it.
• Complete closes the job with notes and photos, creates the invoice, and can charge the card on file.

By evening, the dispatch board shows each van's day with every job marked. No phone calls needed.

What to Look at Each Evening

A quick end-of-day check, filtered by van on the dispatch board:

• Completed jobs. Do the notes make sense? Are there photos on the bigger jobs?
• Skipped jobs. What was the reason? Does each one have a new day?
• Invoices. Did every completed job produce one? Were the cards on file charged?
• Inspection results. Any Needs attention or Repair recommended conditions that should turn into an estimate?
• Notes asking for follow-up. A tech who wrote “customer asked about an EV charger” is handing you a lead.

Ten minutes at night beats an hour of phone calls the next morning. If the office manager does this check instead of the owner, ask them to send a short note of anything that needs the owner's attention, and nothing else.

Time Clock and Crew GPS

Techs clock in and out on the same phone they use for jobs. The time clock gives the office the hours for payroll without paper timesheets.

Crew GPS shows each van on the office map during the day. The main use is practical: when an urgent call comes in, the dispatcher can see which van is closest and send the right one. It also helps answer a customer who asks how far away the tech is, though the customer app's live map answers that for them.

Photos as Records

Before and after photos taken in the tech app stay with the job. They show the finished work to the customer, protect the company if there's ever a question about what was done, and help the next tech who visits the house. Ask your crew to take them on every install and any repair where the finished result isn't obvious.

Photos also make the evening review faster. A glance at the after photo on a light fixture install or a new EV charger tells the owner the job looks the way it should, without driving out to see it. When something looks off, the owner can ask the tech about it the next morning while it is still fresh, instead of hearing about it from the customer a week later.

Splitting Records by Kind of Work

If one van runs service calls and another runs installs, inspections and generators, you can look at each one on its own. That shows things that a combined view hides:

• Whether the service van is overloaded and pushing calls to tomorrow.
• Whether installs are finishing on the day they were scheduled.
• How many plan visits each van picks up from the Waiting List.

Saved views on the dispatch board make this a one-click check instead of a filter you rebuild every evening.

From Daily Records to Weekly Numbers

The daily check catches problems. A weekly look at the numbers shows trends: jobs completed, invoices sent and paid, estimates open and approved. Reports on clients, jobs and invoices give you that view without exporting anything. What is worth looking at, and what isn't, is covered next in Simple Reports for an Electrical Business Owner: What Is Worth Checking Every Week.

For the other parts of running the business side of an electrical shop, go back to the electrical business software page.