Overview
Field-service businesses lose track of what equipment each customer owns, what is still under warranty, and which units are due for service. This module turns every delivery into a tracked equipment record automatically, manages multi-tier warranties with auto-expiry and downtime extensions, schedules preventive maintenance, and routes repairs through helpdesk and field-service tasks. Customers see their own equipment, warranty status, and service reports in a self-service portal and can request repairs directly.
Workflow
Equipment Warranty
Draft
Active
Expired
Cancelled
Equipment Details
In Warranty
Warranty Expired
No Warranty
Equipment Software Key Management
Available
Applied
Expired
Revoked
Key Features
- Auto-creates an equipment record with serial number, customer, address, GPS and sale-order link whenever a delivery of an equipment-flagged product is validated.
- Locks equipment records after creation to prevent accidental edits, with an administrator-only unlock action.
- Manages configurable warranty tiers (name, duration in months, price) with a default plan auto-applied per product on delivery.
- Runs the full warranty lifecycle (Draft, Active, Expired, Cancelled) with daily crons that auto-activate and expire warranties by date.
- Extends warranties for equipment downtime via a wizard, or sells a warranty extension as a new sale order that starts when the current one ends.
- Auto-creates installation field-service tasks on delivery and lets repair tasks be raised from equipment, helpdesk tickets, or scheduled maintenance.
- Schedules preventive maintenance per unit (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly) and auto-generates the repair task when the next service date is due.
- Links helpdesk tickets to equipment and turns them into repair field tasks, with engineer assignment and email notification by department.
- Tracks software license keys (permanent/subscription/trial/time-limited) and assigns them to equipment with applied date, user and remarks.
- Manages accessories and spare-parts catalogs per unit, with independent per-accessory warranties and parts filtering on repair and sale orders.
- Provides a customer portal to browse equipment, view warranty status and service/installation reports, and submit repair requests with photos.
- Generates PDF installation, service/repair and per-equipment service-history reports with dual engineer-and-customer signature blocks.