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Dispatch & Scheduling · Pacific Northwest Trades
Dispatch & Scheduling Systems for Contractors in Oregon, Washington & Idaho
When dispatch works, technicians know where they're going, customers know when to expect them, and you're not the person holding it all together. We build that system.
The problem
What dispatch & scheduling systems means for a trades business.
A dispatch and scheduling system is the documented workflow that moves a job from booked to scheduled to completed without requiring the owner or office manager to make every decision. It includes how jobs are prioritized, how technicians are assigned, how customers are communicated with, and how exceptions and emergencies are handled without everything routing back to one person. We serve HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing contractors across the Pacific Northwest.
For trades businesses where dispatch is managed informally, the cost shows up in missed appointments, inefficient routing, emergency-driven schedule disruptions, and an owner who can't step away from their phone because they're the only thing connecting the field to the office.
Technicians get their schedule, job details, and customer information without calling the office
Customers receive automated booking confirmations and arrival window notifications
Emergencies have a documented protocol that doesn't require the owner to manage them personally
Job priority and technician assignment follow defined rules instead of whoever's available and reachable
Dispatch board visibility is in one system, not split between texts, calls, and whiteboards
Schedule gaps and overtime situations are visible before they become problems
Signals you need this
Who needs this.
HVAC contractors where seasonal volume spikes turn dispatch into chaos
Plumbing businesses where emergency calls disrupt every planned schedule
Electrical contractors managing multiple crews on commercial and residential jobs simultaneously
Any trades owner whose phone doesn't stop because every scheduling decision requires them
Businesses where customer no-shows and last-minute cancellations aren't managed by a documented system
Three or more and there's real money sitting in the gap. Usually it's not one big leak. It's a few small ones that compound every month.
Before and after
Without a dispatch and scheduling system vs. With Sentric's dispatch system running
What we build
A day that runs itself.
A live board, not a whiteboard
The whole team sees the same schedule, updated in real time. Changes propagate without a phone tree.
Routing that respects the map
Jobs are slotted for drive time and crew capacity, so the day holds more work with less windshield time.
Emergencies without chaos
Documented rules for how urgent calls get slotted and who moves. The phones light up and the day bends instead of breaking.
We build it inside the tools you already pay for. If your field service platform and your accounting software can talk to each other, we make them. If something genuinely has to change, we'll say so and tell you why, but the tool was rarely the problem.
How it works
Three steps. No homework.
Walk one job
Thirty minutes. We take a real job, warts and all, and follow it from the day you sold it to the day the money hit the account. Every place it catches gets written down. You keep what we find whether you ever hire us or not.
Rank the friction
Dispatch & Scheduling Systems might not even be your biggest leak. If something else is costing you more, we'll tell you and start there instead.
Build it and run it
We build the fix, train your people on it, and stay on it until it holds. Then we take the next one. Everything we build is documented and yours, whether you keep us for a year or just a month.
Questions
What owners ask us first.
Do you require long-term contracts?
No. Month to month. You stay because the work is delivering.
What cities do you serve?
We serve trades contractors throughout Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. See the full city list below.
How long does implementation take?
Most system builds run 30 to 60 days depending on the state of your current setup. The free audit tells us what we are working with before we scope the build.
Can you work with our existing bookkeeper or CPA?
Yes. Our work is on the operational and technology side. We make sure your financial partners get clean, accurate data to work with.
How is this different from hiring an office manager?
An office manager executes inside whatever systems exist. We build the architecture and manage it so the systems stay current as the business grows.
What trades do you work with?
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing contractors doing $2M to $8M in annual revenue across Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
What does the free 30-minute audit cover?
We review your current systems, find where margin or time is leaking, and tell you what it is costing. No pitch and no commitment.
Do you implement or only advise?
We implement and manage. We configure your tools, document your processes, and run the systems ongoing.
Where we work
Dispatch & Scheduling Systems across the Northwest.
All work is remote, so location never changes what we can do. These pages cover the market specifics for each city.
Portland, ORSalem, OREugene, ORBend, ORMedford, ORHillsboro, ORGresham, ORCorvallis, ORAlbany, ORGrants Pass, ORRoseburg, ORKlamath Falls, OR
Seattle, WASpokane, WATacoma, WAVancouver, WABellevue, WAKennewick, WAYakima, WABellingham, WAOlympia, WAEverett, WA
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Related systems we also manage
Thirty minutes is enough to find out if this is a problem in your operation.
The audit is free. No pitch. No commitment. A straight read on where your systems stand.
Book 30 MinutesNo long-term contract. No commitment. No homework after the call.