Bay and window calendar
Shows open drop-off bays, mobile visit windows and inspection dates in one view, so nothing is double-booked.
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Booking and Intake Website for Farm Equipment Repair
A booking and intake website for farm equipment repair lets farmers reserve a shop bay, a mobile visit or a pre-season inspection without a string of calls. SIZ Group plans the calendar and intake forms around the way your technicians actually schedule work.
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Why a booking and intake website for farm equipment repair needs bays and windows
A repair shop schedules two kinds of work: machines that come into a bay and technicians who go out to a field. Each has different constraints. A bay holds one tractor at a time, while a mobile service visit depends on the route, the weather and whether the machine can be reached. Scheduling both in one phone book leads to missed slots and frustrated callers.
Intake is different here too. A farmer may need a trailer or a loader to move a machine, and a technician may need the make, model, serial number and hours before he can order parts. The booking form should collect those details at the start, so the bay is planned around the real job rather than a guess.
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What the office manager needs proven before sign-off
The office manager wants shop bay scheduling that never double-books a bay, mobile visits that do not overlap another technician's route, and intake answers that reach the right person before the machine arrives. Those tests are simple, and they matter most during the busy weeks.
Before launch we would book a test drop-off, a mobile visit and a pre-season check through the live pages. Each should land on the calendar and in the service inbox. The office should also be able to block a bay for a parts delivery or a holiday shutdown in a few clicks, without calling a developer.
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A step-by-step walk through one booking from the farm
Picture a dairy herdsman who needs a feed mixer wagon serviced before the summer feeding schedule. He opens the booking page on his phone, chooses a shop drop-off and sees the open bays for the coming week, along with a note that the wagon needs a trailer on site.
He enters the make, model and serial number, uploads two photos of the worn parts and confirms the trailer request. The booking goes to the office with those details attached, and the office assigns a bay and a technician who carries the common parts on the truck.
The herdsman receives a confirmation that names the bay window and the drop-off address, followed by a reminder with the one thing to prepare before the visit.
- Chooses a shop drop-off and sees open bays for the coming week
- Enters make, model and serial number from the machine plate
- Uploads photos of the worn parts and confirms a trailer is needed
- Receives a confirmation with the bay window and drop-off address
- Gets a reminder with the one item to prepare before the visit
What you get
Key features
Machine intake form
Asks for make, model, serial number, hours and photos before a visit is confirmed.
Trailer and transport request
Flags when a machine must be moved by trailer or loader, so the shop plans transport in advance.
Pre-season inspection booking
Lets farmers reserve a check-over before planting or harvest, with a checklist sent with the confirmation.
Staff blocks and parts days
The office can close a bay for a parts delivery or shutdown in a few clicks.
Confirmations and reminders
Each booking sends the bay window, the address and one item to prepare.
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Fitting the booking site into the software a shop already uses
Most repair shops already run invoicing in a package such as QuickBooks, track parts in an inventory list and keep work orders in a shop management tool. The booking site should feed the work order rather than create a second record. We would confirm what each tool accepts before choosing a route into it.
Where a direct connection is not practical, bookings can go to a monitored service inbox with a daily export for the office. The site will not promise a sync that the shop's own software cannot provide. Technician schedules can stay in Google Calendar or Outlook if the shop already uses them.
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Rules, privacy and safety standards for shop and field bookings
Forms here gather farm addresses, phone numbers and machine details, which calls for a privacy notice and consent text that match how the shop stores them. Gate codes stay with the assigned technician only, and a visit cannot be confirmed without them.
Field work carries its own safety expectations. Machines that are moved or lifted need proper transport, and work on hydraulic or power systems follows lockout and tagout procedures. The booking page should ask for what the shop needs to plan that safely, without publishing safety procedures on the public site.
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The information, content and access a farm repair shop must provide
Before the build, we need your bay count, the technicians who take mobile visits, the service area you cover and the calendar rules for pre-season checks. A clear list of the machine brands and types you service lets us build the intake fields correctly the first time.
On the content side, the shop should supply the drop-off address, the trailer policy, equipment trailer pickup times, photos of the bays and a short description of what each booking type includes. Access details go into the staff area, so only the people who handle the job can see them.
- Bay count, technician roster and the mobile visit service area
- Pre-season inspection dates and the machine types each one covers
- Trailer, loader and transport policy for machines that cannot be driven in
- Drop-off address, photos of the bays and a short description per booking type
How is a booking and intake website for farm equipment repair different from the calendar we already use?+
A calendar holds times but does not ask for the make, model, serial number, photos or transport needs that make a repair visit efficient. We design intake forms for each booking type and route the answers to the right technician. If your current tool already does this, we will say so during the scoping call.
Can farmers still phone the shop to book?+
Yes, and nothing changes for them. A phone request lands in the shop's calendar at once, which keeps a web booking and a phone call from claiming the same bay. Staff add the job from the office screen, and the customer gets the usual confirmation.
What happens when a repair runs longer than planned?+
The office can extend the booking, move the machine to another window or call the farmer from the booking record, which holds the intake details. The confirmation updates automatically so the farmer knows what changed.
Does the booking form replace our work order system?+
Costs run from $300 to $2,200, depending on scope. The booking types, the transport rules and any link to shop software are the main variables. The scoping call gives us the detail needed to quote this shop's bays and technicians accurately.
What does a booking and intake website cost?+
Most projects are priced between $300 and $2,200, depending on scope. The number of booking types, the transport rules and any link to your shop software are the main drivers. The free scoping call lets us quote from your actual bays and technicians.
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Let's make it happen
Schedule the bays before harvest fills the calendar
Your bay count, technician roster and transport rules shape the booking types. Book a free scoping call with SIZ Group and we will plan them together.