Field Service Reporting

Field Service Reporting and KPI Dashboard Development

Tepia builds custom field service reporting and KPI dashboards that pull data from your dispatch platform, call tracking, GPS telematics, payroll and accounting into one PostgreSQL warehouse with agreed metric definitions. Owners, managers, dispatchers and technicians each get a view built for the decisions they make, on the web or on a phone.

The essentials at a glance

A dashboard is only useful when everyone agrees what each number means and trusts where it came from.

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One Definition

Tepia writes down how each KPI is calculated, such as what counts as a callback, so the owner and the service manager see the same number.

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Views By Role

Tepia builds a weekly owner view, a daily operations view, a live dispatch board and a scorecard technicians check on their phones.

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Every Source

Dispatch, call tracking, GPS, payroll and accounting data land in one warehouse, ending the Monday ritual of merging spreadsheets.

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Alerts That Act

When a metric crosses a threshold, like close rate dropping for a branch, the right manager gets a message with the jobs behind it.

The numbers matter.

Research Tepia keeps in mind when scoping reporting and analytics for field service companies.

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Apps Actually Connected

MuleSoft's Connectivity Benchmark Report found only about 28 percent of enterprise apps are connected, so field data sits in silos.

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Time Spent Searching

McKinsey Global Institute estimated workers spend nearly 20 percent of the workweek looking for internal information.

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Revenue After Mobile

Tepia clients report about a 20 percent revenue increase after adding mobile, a change dashboards like these help measure.

Why field service reporting usually goes wrong

Most field service owners already have reports. The trouble is that the numbers disagree. The dispatch platform says first time fix is 82 percent, the service manager’s spreadsheet says 74, and nobody can explain the gap because each one defines a return visit differently. Call tracking sits in one tool, GPS drive time in another, payroll hours in a third, and revenue lands in QuickBooks a week later. Tepia starts reporting projects by agreeing on definitions, because a beautiful chart of a disputed number changes nothing.

The second problem is timing. Weekly exports tell you what went wrong last week, after the customers have already called back angry. Field service runs on daily and even hour by hour decisions: which technician to send, which estimates to chase, which branch needs help before Friday. Tepia designs dashboards around those decisions and refreshes data on the cadence each decision needs.

The third is audience. A technician does not need the owner’s view, and the owner does not need the dispatcher’s live board. Each role gets a small set of numbers it can actually influence.

Field service KPIs and how Tepia defines them

Tepia documents every metric in a shared glossary before building any chart. A typical starting set for a residential and light commercial contractor looks like this:

KPI Definition we agree on Source systems Who watches it
First time fix rate Repair jobs completed without a return visit for the same equipment within 30 days Dispatch platform Service manager
Callback rate Return visits at no charge as a share of completed jobs Dispatch platform Service manager and technicians
Estimate close rate Accepted estimates divided by estimates presented, by tech and job type Dispatch or estimating app Sales manager
Booking rate Inbound service calls that become booked jobs Call tracking and dispatch Call center lead
Drive time share Hours driving as a share of paid hours GPS telematics and payroll Operations manager
Membership conversion Non member jobs where a plan was sold Dispatch and agreement data Owner and sales manager
Response time compliance Commercial calls answered on site within contract terms Dispatch and contract data Commercial account manager

Your list will differ. The point is that each line has one owner, one definition and one source, which Tepia enforces in code rather than in a slide.

Dashboards built for each role

Tepia designs reporting as a set of views rather than one giant screen:

  • Owner weekly view with trends by branch and trade, plus a short written summary of what changed, which an OpenAI or Anthropic model can draft from the data for a manager to review.
  • Operations daily view showing yesterday’s callbacks, open estimates aging past a week, and technicians with unusual drive time.
  • Live dispatch board with jobs at risk of missing their window and emergency response clocks.
  • Technician scorecard on the phone, showing their own close rate, callbacks and reviews against the team median.
  • Commercial client scorecard shared through a portal so national accounts see response times and completed visits.

Scorecards matter more than most owners expect. When technicians can see their own numbers daily, coaching conversations become shorter and more specific.

The data pipeline behind the dashboards

Tepia builds a pipeline that extracts data incrementally from your sources: field service platforms such as ServiceTitan, Jobber or Housecall Pro through their APIs, call tracking tools, telematics providers such as Samsara, payroll systems and QuickBooks or NetSuite. The data lands in a PostgreSQL warehouse on AWS, Azure or GCP, where documented transformations apply the agreed definitions. Dashboards are built as a React web app with mobile views, or embedded in a BI tool such as Power BI if your team already uses one. Our data analytics and dashboards and data integration and ETL pages cover the engineering in more depth, and our ServiceTitan integration page explains extracts from that platform.

How Tepia approaches field service reporting

Tepia applies the six phase process to analytics work, with a US based project manager holding the metric glossary and the delivery plan.

  1. Discovery: an inventory of every report and spreadsheet in use, interviews with each role about the decisions they make, and a data quality check on each source. Deliverables are an Investigation Summary, an Interview Summary and User Stories such as a service manager spotting a technician whose callbacks doubled this month.
  2. Design: a design questionnaire, moodboards and a style guide, then the metric glossary and wireframes for each role’s view, reviewed with the people who will use them.
  3. Development and Testing: an Alpha with three or four core KPIs and a Beta with the full set, with test plans that reconcile every metric against the source system and check refresh timing.
  4. Training: sessions by role on reading the views and acting on alerts, plus a session for whoever will own the glossary.
  5. Launch: backfill of historical data so trends are visible from day one, retirement of the old spreadsheets, and support reps available during the first monthly review.
  6. Support: issue resolution, bug tracking and feature requests such as a new KPI when you add a trade.

Discovery typically takes 1 to 3 months, development and QA 2 to 6 months, and launch about a month. Read our process.

When built in reports are enough

If you run one system, its built in reports answer your questions, and your managers trust them, Tepia will advise you to keep using them. Custom reporting earns its place when data lives in several systems, when definitions are disputed, when you need role specific views or alerts, or when commercial clients expect scorecards. A practical first step is often a single owner view built on two or three sources, which proves the definitions before Tepia adds more systems and roles. Browse our work or contact Tepia to start with your current reports.

Frequently asked questions

Who can build a KPI dashboard for our field service company?
Tepia builds custom field service dashboards that combine dispatch, call tracking, telematics, payroll and accounting data in one warehouse. Each role, from owner to technician, gets a view built around the decisions it makes.
Can a dashboard combine ServiceTitan data with our other systems?
Yes. Tepia extracts ServiceTitan data through its APIs and joins it with call tracking, GPS and accounting data in a PostgreSQL warehouse, using metric definitions your team agrees on.
Which KPIs should a field service business track?
Tepia usually starts with first time fix rate, callback rate, estimate close rate, booking rate, drive time share and membership conversion. The final list depends on your trades and goals and is set during Discovery.
Can technicians see their own performance numbers?
Tepia builds technician scorecards for the phone that show each tech’s close rate, callbacks and reviews against the team median, which makes coaching faster and more specific.
Do we need a new BI tool to get these dashboards?
No. Tepia can build dashboards as a custom React web app or embed them in a BI tool such as Power BI if your team already uses one. The warehouse and metric definitions work either way.

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