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Scheduling

Reduce drive time and keep your team on schedule with auto-calculated commutes and smart workflow tools.

Get real-time commute insights

See accurate commute times based on real traffic conditions. Essential uses Google Maps data to estimate drive times for the specific day and time of each job, helping you build smarter, more reliable schedules.

Person using a laptop displaying a scheduling application with a map and a list of locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Person using a laptop displaying a scheduling application with a map and a list of locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Automate customer reminders

Stop relying on manual calls and texts. Essential allows users to send customer reminders before a job via email, text, or both.

Every reminder is logged and timestamped, giving you full visibility into who was notified and when.

Schedule faster with smart tools

Filter, sort, and customize your scheduling view to efficiently manage multiple technicians at once.

Use the Backlog to schedule many jobs in a single session, efficiently building optimized routes for each technician's day.

Essential makes it simple to find openings, avoid overlaps, and build a schedule your whole team can rely on.

Person using a laptop displaying a scheduling application with a map and a list of locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Person using a laptop displaying a scheduling application with a map and a list of locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

View job progress

Monitor job progress in real time as technicians clock in and out.

Understand how long each job actually takes to tighten estimates and plan smarter.

Person using a laptop displaying a scheduling application with a map and a list of locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.