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Salesforce Field Service Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.8 out of 10
Score
8.8 out of 10

Reviews

14 Reviews

Salesforce Field Service Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To track, manage, deploy the crews for construction. Over 200 construction crews covering seven states and I used them to deploy them and track them and help manage their completion and their day to day.

Pros

  • A lot of it consolidates our information and stores it in a virtual filing cabinet is what I like to call it. And the fact that I don't have to have my foreman, go to multiple different apps. They can go to one spot for sign in. Those other apps can potentially be linked to it and they can still use them, but that information is now pulled into Salesforce and so it's viable information for any kind of data analytics that we want to be able to do.
  • When we have put a little bit of customization on it makes it very filled friendly. I don't know that I would agree that right out of the box it's super filled friendly for my guys and it's right out of the box. It's more of the, I like to call it the cable repair guy model, where you have techs that potentially are going to do five or six different stops throughout a day and then just rinse and repeat day over day. Our work orders tend to span from two hours to two months, and so we have to do a little customization, but it is customizable. So that's a great additive.

Cons

  • It seems like when they do bring another one of these companies and there's thousands of them here trying to buy for a position to bolt onto Salesforce, that it's a little bit clunky at first. And I wish that was not quite. So some of the apps that we're using in field services are kind of crucial to our day to day that it's not really built into the field service. It's just a bolt-on. And so it creates some navigation issues for my foreman in the field where they have to log out of one to get into it. Now they're linked and they speak to each other, but if I can reduce the amount of clicks in a given day, that's just more time for my foreman to be doing what I need them to do instead of navigating through apps. So I would like to see that integration between systems and Salesforce to be a little cleaner on that front side. Probably that, that's probably about it. I mean, they know a lot more about this than I do, that's for sure.

Likelihood to Recommend

We've demoed quite a few models, different companies. I know Salesforce has huge backing, but even so they're open to customization and solutions. Some of the competition, keep in mind for my industry, there's not a lot of options out there. We're not your typical Salesforce target market. I mean we're not really selling a lot. I mean, quite honestly, I don't even have a sales department because can't do all of the work that my current customers need me to do. So I don't need to go drum up new business. I just needed it for more of tracking and a work management solution. And in the construction, specifically utility construction, industry, there's not a lot of options, but it definitely was the best option for us.

Vetted Review
Salesforce Field Service
2 years of experience

Great work order management tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Salesforce Field Service offers powerful work order management tools that allow teams to create, assign easily, and track service requests. Whether a simple repair or a complex installation, the system provides the necessary details for the technician to complete the job successfully. The platform includes intelligent scheduling and dispatch features, which reduce downtime, minimize travel, and ensure that the right technician is assigned to the right job.

Pros

  • Work Order Management.
  • Customer Communication.
  • Analytics and Reporting.

Cons

  • Steep Learning Curve - This should be a lot simpler.
  • More self-service capabilities.
  • Expanding the range of third-party integrations.

Likelihood to Recommend

Salesforce Field Service is a powerful and feature-rich solution for managing field service operations. With AI-driven scheduling, seamless mobile access for technicians, and deep integration with the Salesforce ecosystem, it helps businesses enhance efficiency, improve customer satisfaction, and optimize service delivery. While it may be costly and complex to implement, its scalability and ability to grow with your business make it a worthwhile investment for many organizations.

Vetted Review
Salesforce Field Service
1 year of experience

Complicated to use but great Integration and details

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Salesforce Field Service to keep track of our customer information, dealer information, running reports, campaigns, etc. Salesforce Field Service ties into our Salesforce CRM and the other Salesforce programs we use like Marketing Cloud, Sales, etc. Salesforce is essential for our business because we can see which customers purchased from what dealer and keep track of all that information. We also can run reports to see what areas sell better, what tactics work, how many of each product we sell, and to who so we can market it better.

Pros

  • Easily ties with Salesforce CRM to keep track of customer information
  • Easy to view customer information
  • Easy to run reports / monitor data
  • Fast customer service

Cons

  • Very complicated when setting up, ours is very simple because we are not sure internally how to set up all of the complicated features
  • Wish we could add more detailed information without it being hard to set up
  • Workflows are complicated to set up. We had to hire a contractor to set ours up

Likelihood to Recommend

I rated this an 8 because I love Salesforce, and it is excellent on the CRM side. However, the Salesforce Field Service has some pros and cons. It is terrific for keeping track of lead, customer, and dealer information, but it is not easy to automate workflows or set new things up. It is also straightforward to generate reports, which is very helpful in keeping track of lead progression to better market those leads and turn them into customers.

Vetted Review
Salesforce Field Service
4 years of experience

Strong field service management solution with some minor flaws

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Salesforce Field Service primarily as a timekeeping and scheduling tool for our field installers. Schedulers use the desktop version to schedule various custom appointment types, and crews receive the appointment information directly in the app. Crews upload photos and complete detailed, step-by-step work instructions using the tool. Overall, the app greatly improves field-to-office (and vice versa) communication and information sharing. It has become the go-to resource for our field staff.

Pros

  • Appointment Scheduling
  • Customized job information/work steps
  • Consistent uptime

Cons

  • Error handling and troubleshooting in the mobile app
  • Mobile data sync
  • Scheduling console UI and appointment list view functionality

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for use cases where field employees are expected to receive appointment information, communicate with office staff, and provide photo evidence or other documentation of the work performed. The mobile app is also very well suited to handle timekeeping (logging hours and seeing weekly timesheets) and employee availability.

Vetted Review
Salesforce Field Service
2 years of experience

Amazing tool for marketers and consultants

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Salesforce Field Service helps me keep track of my customers sales journey and keep me updated about any any deadline or timely emails on leads expiring helps me retain as much as clients possible and also help improve the customer experience and also other use cases such as integration with sales navigator and Sales loft helps me lot easier with respect to syncing the emails and calendars

Pros

  • Email Tracking
  • Sync with outlook and salesloft
  • Email notifications
  • Due dates

Cons

  • Interface
  • Integration with more third party app
  • Smooth user creation

Likelihood to Recommend

Salesforce Field Service is the best platform for sales or account executive's in order to track the user journey which helps analyze the risk and opportunities lead to timely actions and out reaches to ensure the closure or retention

Vetted Review
Salesforce Field Service
2 years of experience

Salesforce Field Service makes work order management a breeze

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use this app as part of a gig work community. When dispatched to a job, we use this app to track items to fix, resolution time, pictures, comments or anything that needs to be tracked in relation to the job. This has removed issues with lost notes, emails and stores content in one place for everyone.

Pros

  • Stores text comments for others to view later.
  • Makes data about the job easy to access on a mobile platform.
  • Allows me to manage my list of jobs without having a pile of paper to lug around.

Cons

  • Depending on how many data points are added the UI can appear very clunky.
  • I feel like the menu paths especially on mobile can be difficult to use.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited to employees who are out of the office where a traditional laptop is not well suited. For instance technicians who regularly visit a customers home, business or site where there is no wifi. Also anyone who has to deal forms or paper invoices could benefit from this, go paper less. Less to lose, use to use.

Vetted Review
Salesforce Field Service
2 years of experience

Best app service for Field Level Service

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it for one of our clients to schedule the appointments of their nurses and assign them the appointments according to their availability. It is useful for real-time tracking, provides field service, and utilizes your resources well . We can change the appointment according to our resource requirements and utilize their time fully. We can use it for the clients who want to see their representative in a single dashboard and assign them the appointment according to their availability. Its mobile app is very good it can give the representative the customer details, and knowledge Articles, and update the status in real-time. we can send automated delay or reach notifications to our customers.

Pros

  • Real Time Communication with back-office team When our nurses need anything by using mobile app they can reach out to our back office team to resolve their issues
  • Utilization of resources We can see the all the appointments view with the assigned representative in a single page so We can assign more appointments if any resources has any free slot it is just a drag and drop
  • It helps us to automate the process like delay or reach notification we can also route the appointments based on representative skill set, location and urgency of task

Cons

  • We faced some issue while automating the field service lightning when we are automating a bulk updating process of appointments we are facing many errors heap limit is exceeding some time it is throwing retry and nothing happens
  • We are integrating it from one of their legacy ERP systems so as we know Field service is a managed package we face many problems with the custom building of integrations

Likelihood to Recommend

In our scenario, it is very well suited because we want to make the appointments of nurses and utilize their time fully, so Salesforce Field Service Lightning is providing the dashboard where we can see how many appointments are assigned and what the free slots. Once they do their service they can update their status so back office team get a real-time notification, so they can proceed for further process It also enhances our customer satisfaction because the customer can receive delay or reach notification. We also automated the process to assign the representative according to our customer requirements we are checking the skill set of our representative and the more suited one will be assigned for the appointment.

Worth the overall investment

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Salesforce Field Service entirely for our salesteam for quoting, prospecting, tracking, reports, service inventory and connection to our ERP.

Primarily, our salesteam uses this for tracking all of the details during prospecting, such as adding notes to each record for follow up calls, tracking of upcoming events, meetings, quotes and deal size. We have also recently connected a quoting module that allows them to do everything from within Salesforce Field Service, which most importantly the quotes then stay within Salesforce Field Service so management and admin can go directly to them anytime they need to.

Pros

  • Tracking of all service calls
  • Tracking of all equipment related to service calls
  • Tracking of any lease renewals on equpiment that is being tracked
  • easy access to service calls and details from anywhere
  • device agnostic

Cons

  • easier integration with back end tools
  • easier ways to get information out
  • not having to use exporter tool

Likelihood to Recommend

This is the most popular tool that has stood the test of time and has the most flexibility with other products and APIs. Other products we used in the past were not as up to date and not as reliable. Also, the API connections are almost endless. The 800lb gorilla does have these advantages.

Vetted Review
Salesforce Field Service
13 years of experience

Best piece of sales software bar none

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is integrated with our sct app which is used for timeshare presentations. Salesforce Field Service allows managers to see what processes the sales executive are currently working on with the guests. This allows the manager during the hand-off to have a "warm" introduction with the guests and seemingly start to hand off the client to close the sale. This also allows them to do everything within one app.

Pros

  • Track customers
  • Track sales
  • Create sales projections

Cons

  • Hard to integrate
  • It's not easy to learn

Likelihood to Recommend

The best case usage is for tracking your clients and sales. The niche advantage at [...] is that it gives the sales leader real time feedback to help them try to close the sale because they know exactly what the sales executive was offering without needing to talk to them. This used to be a big problem for us.

Powerful but rigid tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Implemented primarily for field crew scheduling and timekeeping. Has evolved to be our primary means of scheduling and completing fieldwork, including a newly created Operations & Maintenance (O&M) program. Has helped us standardize our appointment types as well as safety and quality practices. We use labor hours to estimate install efficiency and compare across crews as well.

Pros

  • Task Management
  • Crew Accountability
  • Appointment Scheduling

Cons

  • Flexibility/Customizability
  • Mobile app performance
  • Mobile app error handling and troubleshooting

Likelihood to Recommend

Because troubleshooting the mobile app remotely can be really challenging, the tool would be best suited for companies that have a main office where folks can get together and discuss issues in person. Desktop experience is complex but otherwise functions very well. Mobile app error handling could definitely be improved.

Vetted Review
Salesforce Field Service
2 years of experience