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Who can do what in Field Service Management

Give dispatch, field staff and the back office their own clear responsibilities.

Who can do what

Permissions by role
RoleDispatch and schedulingRoutes and mobile workParts and truck stockEstimates and signaturesBilling and paymentsService contracts and follow-up
AdminEditViewEditEditViewView
Operations ManagerApproveEditApproveApproveApproveEdit
DispatcherEditEditViewEditEditEdit
TechnicianViewEditEditEditEditView
Crew LeadView—ViewApprove——
Inventory Clerk——Edit———
Viewer————View—

Each role in detail

Admin

Maintains identities, integration configuration and operational settings; configuration authority does not bypass transaction controls.

Can

  • Manage Users, Technicians, technician skills, service categories, Parts, schedule slots
  • Publish and retire immutable credit policies revisions
  • View all operational records and integration receipts
  • Configure integrations

Can't

  • Edit audit, signed or posted records
  • Approve own changes or collect payments for another technician

Operations Manager

Owns service capacity, escalations and independent commercial decisions.

Can

  • Manage Crews, crew members, service contracts, service contract items, schedule exceptions
  • View service, inventory, billing and payment records including restricted reconciliation references
  • Cancel eligible service calls with a reason

Reviews and approves

  • Approve call-specific credit completion against a published credit policies revision only when different from requester and publisher
  • Approve Estimates above the snapshotted Crew Lead limit or when an independent Crew Lead is unavailable
  • Approve parts replenishments

Can't

  • Approve self-prepared requests or rewrite signed work

Starts on: Today's Schedule

Dispatcher

Commits qualified assignments and customer windows and coordinates schedule changes.

Can

  • Manage draft service calls, Schedules, Routes, route stops
  • View Technicians, technician skills, Customers, service locations, service contracts and dispatch-relevant parts availability
  • Assign and dispatch eligible service calls

Can't

  • Complete visits, approve extra-work estimates, collect Payments or change signed records

Starts on: Today's Schedule

Technician

Records work only on assigned individual calls or calls assigned to a crew of which they are a current authorized member.

Can

  • View own Routes, route stops, service calls and truck stock
  • Record own service call parts, service call labor, service call notes, service call photos and draft Estimates
  • Capture Signatures and request Payments or credit completion for assigned work
  • Submit mobile commands
  • view current-day assigned customer/location access notes

Can't

  • Edit service call activities, stock balances, prices or another technician’s payment records

Starts on: My Route Today

Crew Lead

Works assigned crew calls and provides an independent pricing decision where the configured limit permits.

Can

  • All Technician permissions within assigned crew scope
  • View assigned crew labor and parts
  • route larger or self-prepared estimates to Operations Manager

Reviews and approves

  • Approve Estimates at or below the snapshotted limit only when different from created by

Can't

  • Reassign crew members or collect payment on behalf of another technician

Starts on: My Route Today

Inventory Clerk

Requests and fulfils parts transfers within the configured inventory ownership boundary.

Can

  • View Parts, truck stock, warehouse stock
  • Prepare parts replenishments
  • Pick and load independently approved parts replenishments
  • Post authorized counts and receipts through stock movements

Can't

  • Approve a replenishment, edit immutable stock postings or directly change mirror balances

Starts on: Replenishments Pending

Viewer

Reads operational summaries without transaction or identity administration rights.

Can

  • View service, scheduling, acknowledged invoice/payment summaries and reports
  • no writes
  • customer access notes, processor references and individual certification identifiers remain masked

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