Customer Ratings That Warn You Before You Book the Job

A call comes in, you start writing up the job, and it's not until the tech is halfway across town that it clicks: this is the guy who never paid you last spring. Now you're back on the hook for a customer you already swore off. Customer ratings exist in Taskrol so that never happens to you again.

Most field service tools only hand you a notes field. You can type "problem customer, didn't pay" somewhere on their profile, sure. But it sits buried, and it only helps if you happen to remember to go dig for it before you book. When you're busy, you don't. That's exactly when the bad ones slip back through.

Taskrol keeps an internal rating on every customer. When you create a job, if that person has been through before, the rating is right there in front of you. You can still drop into their full job history like you can anywhere else. But you don't have to go looking, because the signal is already on the screen: good customer, or one you had trouble with, along with the note on why. Didn't pay. Was rude to the tech. Whatever it was, it's there before you commit a slot to them.

It cuts the other way too, and honestly that's the part I like more. Mark your good ones. The people who pay on time, who are easy to deal with, who you'd happily drive across town for. Next time they call, you see it, and you take care of them the way you should.

One small piece of advice from me: keep the rating factual. Write "invoice #204 went 90 days unpaid," not an insult. It's a record you're keeping on a real person, so make it something you'd stand behind. Facts protect you. Name-calling doesn't.

Small feature. But it's the difference between learning from a bad customer once and learning from him every single time.