The truck-side toolkit.
Tap, photo, sign, paid.
Everything the tech needs in his pocket. The whole day — schedule, customer history, parts, signature, payment — in one app. Works without bars.
A clipboard. A phone.
A paper pricebook from 2019.
The tech’s running the job out of four places at once. Schedule on his phone. Customer history in his head. Parts pricing in a binder under the seat. Signature on a clipboard. Payment by check, mailed in three weeks. Every dropped detail is a callback. Every callback is a job that doesn’t pay.
Hand it over.
They sign on yours.
Pull the iPad out at the kitchen table. Homeowner reviews the Good / Better / Best options, taps the one she wants, signs with her finger. The estimate becomes an approved job before you stand up.
Same iPad takes the deposit, books the install, presents the membership offer. One device, the whole conversation.
Loses signal?
Keeps working.
Photos, line items, signatures, status updates — all queue locally and sync the moment your bars come back. No spinning loaders, no “please retry,” no lost work.
When the bars come back, everything posts in order — the status update that triggered the customer text, the photos attached to the right job, the parts added to the right invoice.