IFS Field Service Management vs. Intuit Field Service Management, powered by Corrigo

IFS Field Service Management is well suited for ad-hoc reporting and querying of your dataset(s). It also is great for inventory management, processing orders, and handling EDI transaction sets to third party partners and suppliers.

Incentivized

This tool is well-suited for our company since we cater to rental homes. We use Intuit Field Service Management to create work orders for reported maintenance issues in the homes we manage. Being able to do so lets the company provide timely and appropriate actions to help the residents have a quality way of life.

Incentivized

• Order Placement - IFS makes placing orders quite easy. From the simple interface down to selecting inventory, the experience is simple and clean
• Reporting - Querying database records is straightforward and easy to do. Queries can then be drilled down to individual records or exported to excel for further manipulation and analysis.
• Customer Creation - Creating new customers and managing and maintaining existing records is a simple and easily repeatable exercise

Incentivized

• It is user-friendly.
• It allows the team to customize the options based on what the company needs.
• It provides a view of all work orders created and allows the user to filter them based on what is needed.
• It allows the user to attach photos which are helpful in the nature of work we have.

Incentivized

• Field Customization - Adding fields or inputs to particular entities is not very easy. In a world of point and click development, IFS is behind the curve
• Order Automation - for bulk order placement it would be nice to have an easy mechanism to upload orders via an Excel or csv template. We've written some custom programs to perform this, but a more user friendly, "out of box" solution would be welcomed.

Incentivized

• We are unable to attach videos in the work orders
• Photo attachments should only limited to a certain file size.

Incentivized

I was not part of the software selection process and cannot provide insight into any of the alternatives in this arena at this time.

Incentivized

• Positive - streamlined order processing has allowed our business to scale without requiring additional bodies for that specific need.
• Positive - Reporting has allowed valuable insight into historic business trends which has allowed us to be proactive instead of reactive in many areas.
• Negative - Customizations have proved costly and cumbersome when upgrading to the next version of the software.

Incentivized

• This tool helps lessen resident complaints.
• This tool helps reduce the possibility of legal responsibilities due to unattended maintenance issues.
• This allows the company to monitor the repairs done for a specific property which helps the investors keep track of their expenses

Incentivized