Home & field services · Custom software
Home services app development is what we do every day for our own product: Orcatec is field service software used by HVAC, plumbing, electrical and other trade businesses. Now our San Diego team builds custom apps, customer portals and integrations for companies whose workflow does not fit an off-the-shelf tool.
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Most of these projects start with one painful process: missed calls, paper job sheets, double data entry. We build the piece you need, not a whole platform you will never use.
Job details, checklists, photos, signatures, parts used and time on site, with offline sync when the signal drops.
Online booking, service history, maintenance plan status, invoices and payments in one place your customers can open on a phone.
Custom dispatch boards and routing rules for how your company actually assigns work: by skill, zone, equipment or contract.
Good-better-best options, price books, financing offers and e-signature, built around your sales process in the home.
Connect your field service platform with QuickBooks, payment gateways, call tracking, marketing tools, supplier catalogs or an ERP.
Revenue per technician, callback rates, membership renewals and job profitability pulled from the systems you already use.
We did not learn this industry from a client brief. We built a field service app for trade businesses, and we ship updates to it every week.
We designed, built and still run Orcatec, a field service management platform used by home services companies to sell, schedule, dispatch, invoice and get paid, in the office and in the field.
Read the case study →The last 20% lives in spreadsheets and phone calls. We add the missing module or a companion app instead of forcing a full switch.
Jobs, invoices and payments copied between the field app, the office and accounting. We connect the systems so data moves once.
Too many taps, no offline mode, small buttons for gloved hands. We design for the truck and the crawl space, not for a desk.
Customers call to book, reschedule or pay. A simple portal or app takes those calls off your office team.
Tell us what your team does today and where it breaks. We’ll reply within one business day with questions and a first idea of scope.
AI is useful here when it removes typing and phone time. A few examples we design for:
Answers after-hours calls or chats, qualifies the job and books it into an open slot.
A technician records a short voice note or takes a photo of the unit, and the app fills in the report.
Suggests line items and options from the job type, equipment data and your price book for the tech to review.
Writes maintenance reminders, quote follow-ups and review requests based on what happened on the job.
We talk to the office, dispatch and technicians, and map the current workflow, tools and data.
A clickable prototype and a written scope with timeline and budget, tested with your techs before coding.
Working builds every two weeks. A pilot group of technicians uses the app on real jobs early.
Training, store release, data migration and monthly support with a roadmap of improvements.
San Diego County has a large number of HVAC, plumbing, solar, pool and cleaning businesses, and their crews cover a wide area from the coast to the inland valleys. We are based here, in Rancho Santa Fe, and our own product serves this same kind of business. We know what a dispatcher’s morning looks like and why a tech will not fill in a ten-field form in a hot attic.
You get one team for design, development, QA and support, and you own the code. If our ready-made product already covers your needs, we will tell you so before you pay for custom work.
Orcatec field service management software already covers estimates, scheduling, dispatch, invoicing and payments, with no development required.
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Native iOS and Android, React Native and Flutter apps, from first prototype to App Store release and support.
Learn more →Workflow automation, integrations, document processing and AI automation that remove manual work from daily operations.
Learn more →Custom CRM systems and HubSpot or Salesforce customization, built around your sales, service and field operations.
Learn more →AI strategy, agents, chatbots and automation built into the tools your team already uses, from first use case to production.
Learn more →Custom apps and software for contractors and builders: field reporting, estimating tools, portals and system integrations.
Learn more →Tell us what you want to build. We’ll reply within one business day with questions and next steps.