FieldPulse offers a simple Customer Relationship Management system that makes storing and finding related customer information easy. You can create and edit customer profiles to store detailed customer information, notes, and related records such as: Jobs, Estimates, Invoices, and Files. A customer profile is required in order to create a job, estimate or invoice for a customer. To track the lifecycle of a customer, FieldPulse allows you to indicate whether a customer is a current customer, lead, opportunity, or lost customer.

Customers can be created in different ways, but the most common method is via the Customers tab in the menu on the left-hand side of your screen. You then click the Create Customer button to begin creating a customer. You can also create customers while creating new jobs, estimates, or invoices. 

Begin by completing the general information section of the customer record:

Next, include the primary contact details. We highly recommend including both a first and last name, as well as an email and phone number. If your contact has multiple emails and phone numbers, select Alternate Email or Alternate Phone to include them. If your customer has multiple contacts, select Additional Contact to add another contact.

Next, add your customer's address. You can also enter GPS coordinates directly into Address Line 1 if you don't have a street address.

Toggle on Use Separate Billing Address if their service address is not the same as their billing address. If your customer has multiple locations, select Additional Location to add another address. You can name your additional locations to keep them organized.

To easily sort your customers, consider using tags. Type a tag in and press enter to save it. To learn more about tags, read the Custom Tags article.

Lastly, the bottom of the record allows space to include notes or files. Like the rest of the customer record, these can be edited at any time. Notes are internal and will not be viewed by your customer.

Once the customer profile has been created, you can select Edit to edit the customer profile or click Actions to perform actions to the customer profile. From the customer profile, you can add notes or comments, attach files, create jobs, create estimates or invoices using the menu at the top of the record.

There are several ways to create a customer in the mobile app:

To create a new customer from the Pulse Dashboard, select Create Customer or Create New under Recent Customers.

To create a new customer from the Customers tab, select Customers from the menu at the bottom of the screen. Then click Create New.

To create a new customer from the full menu, select Full Menu from the menu at the bottom of the screen and then click Customers.

Then click Create New.

From here, you can begin to fill out the Account Status, Pipeline Status, Account Type, if you'd like to assign this customer to a specific team member, Lead Source and Primary contact information. Once you are finished entering the information, click Save in the top right corner.

You can enter GPS coordinates in Address Line 1 on the mobile app. FieldPulse will display the GPS coordinates associated with your customer's address — tap the coordinates to open them in your preferred maps app.

Is a unique customer ID assigned to each customer?

Yes. The ID isn't shown on the customer record itself, but you can find it in three places: