Most inspections are arranged by an agent, paid for by a buyer and carried out at a seller’s house. Put all three on one booking: the agent picks the slot, the inspector is held with it, and the fee is settled before the morning it happens. Asking how big the property is on the booking form is on the paid plans.
Blu InspectBook online
Full inspection3h · Dan$450.00
Re-inspection60m$150.00
SpecialistTue–Thu · certifiedBook
Next free8:00 AM11:30 AM2:00 PM
Booked by an agent
6:40 PM
Between two showings
Paid at booking
$450.00
The whole fee, before the drive
Square footage
Answered
On the booking form
Every one of these settles what the inspection is before anybody drives to it.
Agents arrange inspections in the evening, between showings, from a phone. A page with your real availability on it gets the booking at the moment they think of it rather than the next morning.
On the paid plans you ask the square footage, the year it was built, whether there is a crawlspace or a pool. A four-hour inspection stops being booked into a two-hour slot, and the price is right before anybody argues about it.
Charge the whole fee or a deposit when the appointment is made, through a payment provider you connect. The job is paid for before the drive, which is the only reliable time to settle it.
A confirmation on booking, and a reminder on the morning on the paid plans, each with the full address, the time and whatever the form said about access. Nobody arrives at a locked house.
A firm with three inspectors is three diaries and three sets of qualifications, and the wrong one going to a job is not an inconvenience, it is a job that cannot be done. Each inspector gets their own login, their own working hours and the services they are certified for, so a booking that needs a specific qualification is only ever offered to somebody who holds it, and an agent booking at seven in the evening cannot pick the wrong person by accident.
Everything about an inspection is arranged against somebody else’s deadline, and when the deadline moves the appointment has to move quickly or the whole thing fails. Every confirmation carries a link the agent or the buyer can use to move it inside the window you set, and the times they are offered are the times an inspector is genuinely free, so a change is made in one action rather than in four phone calls between three people. The slot they give up goes back on the page where another agent can take it.
Ten to nine. The house in front of you is considerably larger than the one described on the telephone, has a crawlspace, a pool and an addition that is not on the listing. Two hours were booked, at the price two hours costs, by an agent who was between showings and answering from memory.
You can do the inspection properly and lose the second job of the day, or do it in the time booked. On the paid plans Picktime asks the square footage, the year and what the property actually has while the appointment is being made, so the length and the price are right before anybody sets out.
A full inspection, a re-inspection, a specialist add-on: each with the time it actually takes, its fee and which of your inspectors is certified to carry it out.
Square footage, year built, crawlspace, pool, additions, and how access is arranged. Questions of your own are on the paid plans, and these are the ones that decide both the length and the price, none of which survives being asked on the telephone.
The booking page is a link, so it goes in your email signature, on your site behind a Book Now button and straight to the agents who send you work. They book at seven in the evening instead of ringing at nine.
The free plan is a plan, not a trial. There is no date at which it stops, no card to add, and nothing that quietly turns off in a fortnight.
A job lands in the calendar you already have open, and the paid plans sync it both ways, so a morning you have committed cannot be booked by an agent in the evening. A Book Now button goes on your own site and in your email signature, which is where most inspection bookings actually start.
Picktime runs in a phone browser as well as a laptop, and there are iOS and Android apps, so you can see the afternoon from a driveway rather than from an office you will not sit in today.
Yes. Picktime’s free plan covers a booking page with each inspection at its real length, the fee taken through PayPal at booking, self-service booking and cancelling, and email notifications, with no card and no end date.
It sits in front of it. Picktime is where the job is booked, sized by the form and paid for, so the appointment that reaches your report tool is already the right length, the right price and the right inspector, with the address and the access arrangements on it.
Yes, and most bookings work that way. On the paid plans the form can ask who is attending, who is paying and how access is arranged, so all three end up on the same appointment.
Yes, and it is the most useful field on the page. On the paid plans you write the booking fields yourself, so you can ask square footage, year built, crawlspace, pool and additions, which is what sets both the length and the price.
Yes. Charge the whole fee, a percentage or a fixed deposit at the moment of booking through a payment provider you connect.
No. Picktime schedules the appointments and shows you the day; it does not plan journeys between them or add travel time between jobs. Leave the gaps you need in the hours you publish.
Yes, on the paid plans. Each inspector gets their own login, their own working hours and the services they are certified for, so an agent cannot book the wrong person.
Most inspectors end up running two, and they are chosen on different things. The report tool holds the templates, the photographs and the deliverable, and it is judged on what lands in the client’s inbox at the end of the day. Picktime is the other one, judged on whether an agent can book the right length of job with the right inspector at eight in the evening without ringing anybody, and on whether the fee is settled before the morning it happens.
The booking half starts at nothing here, with no card and no date on which it stops, and the paid plans are set out on the pricing page. Report software is bought separately from whoever writes it, so a quote for one is not a quote for both. Look at what each price is counted on before you compare them, because a figure per inspector and a flat figure diverge fast the month you take somebody on.
Viewings A vendor’s Saturday published as slots buyers take themselves.
See real estate scheduling
Applications An appointment that is wasted without payslips, and a rate that expires.
See mortgage scheduling
Signings Short appointments, often the same day, with the right identity documents.
See notary schedulingFree forever for one inspector. No card, no trial clock, and agents can be booking you by this evening.
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