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What is ServiceChannel?
ServiceChannel provides facilities managers with a single platform to source, procure, manage, and pay for repair and maintenance services from commercial contractors across their enterprise. The company aims to deliver transparency and data-driven analytics of service quality, across all…
Great vendor side solution.
ServiceChannel works and it works well.
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ServiceChannel Will Make You Better
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Why I have NO Regrets in switching to Service Channel
An honest review of the Service Channel platform by a multi-site facilities professional.
ServiceChannel your one stop shopping for work order data management
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What is ServiceChannel?
ServiceChannel provides facilities managers with a single platform to source, procure, manage, and pay for repair and maintenance services from commercial contractors across their enterprise. The company aims to deliver transparency and data-driven analytics of service quality, across all…
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What is ServiceChannel?
ServiceChannel provides facilities managers with a single platform to source, procure, manage, and pay for repair and maintenance services from commercial contractors across their enterprise. The company aims to deliver transparency and data-driven analytics of service quality, across all trades, locations, and contractors, allowing facilities managers drive significant brand equity and ROI for their organizations without outsourcing or investing in new infrastructure.
ServiceChannel Service Automation is an integrated suite of web- and mobile-based solutions to help manage the entire process of facilities management, including finding contractors and suppliers, entering all planned and demand service requests, tracking work orders, and processing payments. There are currently two different packages: Service Automation Essentials and Service Automation Professional.
ServiceChannel Features
- Supported: Work Order Management
- Supported: Spend Management
- Supported: Contractor Management
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ServiceChannel Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
Supported Countries | United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Europe |
Supported Languages | English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean |
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ServiceChannel is widely used by the retail portion of the company for uploading and reviewing work orders, making it the go-to platform for identifying and resolving issues within store locations. Users across the US, Canada, and Hawaii rely on ServiceChannel to manage the physical structure of their stores. It serves as a comprehensive solution for vendor management, data digging, and invoice oversight. The facilities department and accounting department are the primary users of the platform, while the construction department is in the process of migrating to ServiceChannel for gathering invoices. By utilizing ServiceChannel, businesses are able to efficiently gather and manage new vendors, streamline invoicing processes, and ensure effective communication with customers for repairs and new orders.
The versatility of ServiceChannel goes beyond typical maintenance tasks. It handles a range of functions such as scheduling preventative maintenance, emergency repairs, handyman services, small remodel projects, and kitchen equipment repairs. Moreover, it acts as a central database/CMMS for work order creation, dispatching, and record keeping for both retail and corporate facilities. Vendors can conveniently submit their invoices online, integrating them with the ERP system for streamlined payment. With approximately 180 locations already serviced through ServiceChannel and the goal of expanding its usage across the entire team in mind, this platform has proven to be an invaluable asset in managing work orders, tracking data, generating reports, and overseeing budgets.
Users have made several recommendations about the software based on their experiences. The three most common recommendations are:
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Reach out for support and training: Users suggest reaching out to the software's support team for assistance, especially when building reports or configuring the software. They also recommend going through the training offered to better utilize the software's features.
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Utilize the software for specific purposes: Many users highly recommend the software for various purposes such as maintaining records for contracts or facility management, streamlining processes and communications, organizing repair and maintenance needs, and tracking invoices and work orders. They believe that the software saves time, money, and holds vendors accountable.
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Set up the software correctly and gather data points: Users emphasize the importance of setting up the software correctly during implementation to avoid future complications. They also advise gathering relevant data points before implementing the software to ensure its effectiveness in meeting organizational requirements.
Overall, users have found value in the software's functionalities and recommend leveraging support and training resources while utilizing it for specific purposes.
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(1-8 of 8)Great vendor side solution.
- Vendor tracking when arriving and leaving sites.
- Invoice submission and payment
- Site tracking of open work orders
- Better reporting
- Better asset management
- Uptime has been an issue the last couple on months
ServiceChannel works and it works well.
- ServiceChannel just works, they are no breakdowns or glitches in the system to speak of. When a service request is put in the system it can be tracked at any time, you can check on the status and notes can be inserted by the manager or the vendor so there is always a live and historical account on every service request. The proposals and invoices system is simple to use and works perfectly.
- Emergency Requests - If you have an emergency facilities request then a vendor is required to respond with 4 hours but if ServiceChannel don't see a vendor responding within an hour or so they then call the vendor to get a status update and if they can't get a hold of the vendor then they call the facilities manager at our company and notify them of the emergency. With this system, emergencies don't just go unnoticed.
- Analytics - ServiceChannel has an amazing analytics program that analyzes all your data which you can access at any time, there are standard reports and you can also customize reports. The reports can show you what store or region has the most calls, what are the most common problems in the stores, what is the average cost of the work, which vendor charges more than average, which vendor has the best response time and the list goes on and on. You can get the data on spreadsheets or graphs. The program gives you the ability to slice and dice all your data any way you want.
- ServiceChannel is very intuitive and so it is easy to use and very easy to learn. A new store manager only needs 10 or 15 mins of training and they are ready to use the system.
- Each vendor you use has to be added to your vendor list, although there are already a lot of vendors that use ServiceChannel there are also a lot that don't use it so getting vendors set up and using the system correctly can be very frustrating
- The program is not cheap although you only pay for the features you use. There are so many features that it can be confusing for the average facility manager, sometimes I think we are paying for stuff we never use.
- ServiceChannel is always adding new features which is good but you need to take the time the stay updated.
There are several free or cost-effective programs available if you are only looking to manage a dozen or so locations.
ServiceChannel Review in a Flash
- Up to the minute updates, so when you go to look up a work order, it is live with the most recent notes from vendor, office, etc.
- File retention - it keeps all WOs so you can go back and research previous issues for investigating, asking questions of the vendor, etc.
- Asset Tagging - it allows you to track all of your assets
- Should be able to provide overall rating for vendors across all users that use Service Channel
- Work on the sometime slowness or lag in the program
- Allow vendors the capability to use some of the items that users are able to do, for example, be able to set up vendors to do site audits
ServiceChannel Will Make You Better
- Quick and easy ability to request a work order be created. Able to provide a quote as a proposal and then allow the customer to approve and convert to a work order.
- Easy Invoicing.
- Easy for customers to provide work orders as a way to request assistance.
- This system will always require someone to actively be available to convert proposals. There are still delays depending on the human element of the process.
- Lots of features and some are not always intuitive.
- Integration to the current procedure would be nice. Seems this requires the addition of a new system through this Service Channel application/Website. If it were to integrate to current offerings such as SalesForce it may be helpful.
No Frills review
- Communication is transparent. As long as the notes are updated, all users along the chain of command can view and have full knowledge of issues/resolution.
- Ease of access for all teams
- Provides an excellent resource for work history helping reduce costs down the line based on record keeping of warranties etc
- I know vendors get a tool that is not as functional when they can't see what I see, it's hard.
- It would help if you could use coding i.e bold text, paragraph breaks etc. in the notes
Our construction department is somewhat small and is still gathering invoices via mail, fax and e-mails. I am trying to get that construction department as well as our purchasing department to start migrating over to the SC system.
The gathering and managing of new vendors as well as invoicing are the main problems that have been resolved by using SC.
- ServiceChannel listens to me the user more than any other product I have ever been involved with. It seems like every few months there are some upgrades and improvements to an already great system.
- They have some great folks employed who are very accessible and very knowledgeable in this system, they are eager to help out and jump in, and they are never trying to up-sell me during these times.
- I believe they have some of the best practices around for helping out new vendors, who have never been exposed to any CMMS system, they help to ease the fear that contractors/vendors have from the onboarding process thru system training.
- I think that there is room to improve the contractor side of their mobile app, to be more content rich and have more features and custom ability.
- I think there could be some use in setting up some regional training seminars across the country for both user and vendor to attend thru out the year.
- I would like to be able to add several pictures from my phone at one time, via the mobile app, and be able to draw or write on them as well.
An honest review of the Service Channel platform by a multi-site facilities professional.
- They offer a platform that enables seamless communication between the store, vendor, district manager, and myself (facilities manager). By utilizing the notes portion of the work order, all parties involved are notified and kept up to speed on any changes in real time.
- SC also allows independent specialization to meet the individual needs of each company. I have set up my dashboard to customize my desire for more detail or pictures per element. This has eliminated the necessity of a reply email to the store partners to upload a picture of the issue. I have it set up so individual elements will require a picture prior to the WO being created. This is a big time saver and forces good communication habits.
- There support staff is second to none. They are helpful and available to support your needs and the needs of your vendors.
- Sometimes the functionality of the software is slow.
- Example...I insert a WO# into the home search box and it comes up with "nothing found". I return to the home screen and repeat the exact same process and it takes me to my WO. This happens at least 50% of the time.
- They just finished up with a system upgrade (I think), and during the 3 week period I could not pull mass approved invoices for my AP department. That was a real hindrance.
- I am not particularly fond of the new dashboard format. It's not as easy to move around in. However it's new and I'm sure I will get used to it quick enough.
- I use Analytics which allows me to scorecard my vendors based on my criteria. Analytics also allows me to input my budget and track it.
- ServiceChannel provides the ability to track work orders from beginning to end and allows me to only intervene on those work orders that are not following the work order process.
- Companies that have Analytics should be able to provide their vendors access to the same metrics instead of just the ones that ServiceChannel provides.
- Sometimes it takes a long time to implement changes.