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Your first visit, end-to-end

From scheduling a visit to sending an invoice — the full lifecycle in under 10 minutes.

Once you have at least one client, one service, and one tech on your team, you can run a full visit through Servicio. This walkthrough is the fastest way to understand how the pieces fit together.

1. Schedule the visit

If the client has a recurring service, visits are auto-scheduled — you should already see one on the dispatcher. Otherwise:

  1. Go to Clients → click the client → "Assign service."
  2. Pick a service, a frequency, a price, and a start date. "One time" is fine for a first test.
  3. The new visit appears in the unassigned queue on the dispatcher (left sidebar).
  4. Drag the visit onto a tech's row on the day-view grid.

2. Run the visit (as the tech)

Either log in as the tech on a phone (the tech PWA is at /t/{tenant}/tech) or, for testing, use the "Act as" feature in Settings → Team. The tech sees their day's route.

  1. Tap "En route" when leaving the previous stop (fires the "on the way" SMS to the client).
  2. Tap "Arrive" on arrival (starts the visit timer, captures weather).
  3. Run the service checklist (if one is configured). Take photos. Record chemistry if pool.
  4. Tap "Complete." An invoice is auto-generated and emailed to the client.

3. See what happened

Back on the owner side:

  • Dashboard: visit shows up in "Today's activity" with revenue.
  • Inbox: the "on the way" SMS and the "visit complete" email are logged in the client's thread.
  • Invoices: a new invoice appears with status "sent."
  • Client detail page: the visit shows in history with photos attached.
  • Portal (if you log in as the client): visit + photos + invoice + pay button all visible.
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The single best "first week" exercise is to run this loop once yourself — be the tech, then log out and be the client, then log back in as the owner. It takes 10 minutes and gives you the complete mental model of what your homeowners experience.

4. (Optional) Get paid

If you have Stripe Connect configured and the client has a card on file with auto-pay enabled, the invoice auto-charges immediately. Otherwise, the invoice carries a pay link — the client can pay from the portal or directly from the email.

On a fresh tenant with no Stripe configured, invoices are generated and emailed but marked "draft" for payment. Clients can acknowledge receipt but cannot actually pay until Stripe Connect is set up.

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