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RP F Gas App update 1.0.2
An updated version of RP F Gas will be available shortly from the App store.
The update adds some reworked navigation to job sheets as well as enhanced test notes The addition of an inbuilt flashlight for iPhone access the devices flash to illuminate hard to see areas whilst filling the asset data.
There are a number of bug fixes and the addition of a cache clear function to empty the data cache manually.
For more information please contact us. We hope the new version will be live from 3rd December 2013 or sooner.
Improved signature and job sign off features
RedPoint F Gas has introduced enhanced digital customer signature capture to its app and platform.
Customers signatures captured by RP F Gas iOS app are stored securely by the platform and are easy to pull up and search against so you can see what jobs have been signed off and exactly when.
As soon as an engineer captures the clients signature on site the system feeds this information back to you.
RedPoint F Gas is a total enterprise solution for HVAC and Refrigeration service and facilities management. A suite of apps and backend software that lets you manage all aspects of service and F Gas compliance from one common platform.
Paper and pen is costing your HVAC business “AT LEAST” £926 to $1398 USD a year per engineer
If you are still waiting for the paperless office to arrive then you may have a long wait… Thankfully there are a number of areas in your service team that can reduce paper whilst improving your companies image, running costs and environmental impact.
The service sector is perhaps the most appropriate candidate to remove paper from the process, not only does improvement reduce paper usage, it also brings significant benefits in terms of real cost savings and error reduction.
Anyone who uses spreadsheets to manage jobs will by now be aware of the serious shortcomings of using what is essentially an out of date and cumbersome technology in a dynamic and usually mobile industry. Spreadsheets are:-
- not easily shared
- often out of date
- not always easy to port to different computers and devices
- not easily searchable without extra software
- unable to easily be shared with customers without extra editing
The HVAC service sector in particular is one of the most apt industries to lever mobile computing to deliver a solution to these drawbacks. By the appropriate use of mobile apps and modern cloud databases, every aspect of your service visit cycle can be traced, monitored, error protected and streamlined.
The average HVAC service small business can service at least a thousand HVAC assets in a year. A typical F Gas and service sheet would contain anything upto 30+ fields of specific information. Roughly that is 30,000+ fields of text (100,000 words) to hand write onto paper. Those same 100,000 words are then typed across to another system when an engineer gets back to the office, and by this point there is no real database as such in place for all that effort! Just duplication and time wasted. The average unskilled typist manages just 19 words per minute when composing text!
“Paper and pen is costing your HVAC business “AT LEAST” £926 to $1398 USD a year”
100,000 words / 19wpm = 5263 minutes 5263/60 minutes = 87.7 Hours spent typing up information from written service forms. Another way to put that is around 5 and a half minutes to process a single service form from paper to spreadsheet.
The average wage of a HVAC and Refrigeration engineer is £10.57 or approx. $16 USD. So with the above in mind, paper and pen is costing your HVAC business “AT LEAST” £926 to $1398 USD a year for a single busy service engineer. That equates to approx. £0.92p or $1.39USD per asset serviced.
Add to that the cost of 1000 paper forms X 2 in duplicate, printed out again in the office and possibly then sent to a customer. Add the cost of printing and the cost of your ever swelling hard disk and backups
Add further to that the cost of errors, lost paperwork, return visits etc and we can see the cost keeps growing. If that sounds realistic to you, then clearly there is some room for improvement?
Any size of HVAC business can move to a paperless solution and realise huge savings and improve their image to customers and reduce carbon usage and waste.
Until today you may not have considered the hidden costs of service work, slowly eating away at your bottom line. Hidden as they are they are easy to see once you look for them. Click here to run our free online HVAC Service Cost Calculator and see for yourself. The good news is that no matter what size of service business you run, you can have access to the latest technology for a cost that totally makes sense. Not only does moving paperless save cost, time and reduce errors it also adds a number of other benefits such as:
- improved efficiency
- more accountability
- reduced theft
- improved customer experience
- improved company image
- competitive advantage
- the ability to expand and reduce team size quickly
- reduced staff frustration
- more pens in the stationery store
RP F Gas is the clear standard in multi device and cross platform service software. Offering what we believe to be the most simple to calculate cost per use available today.
Built on some of the industries most powerful cloud computing platforms for seamless scaleability, RP F Gas Software is managing, protecting and helping service teams nationally to deliver cost reductions and improved efficiency.
Backed by a growing number of international distributors including HVAC trade counters who can help and advise you on how to get the best of your system and keep you upto date with the latest developments.
Find a distributor near you today
Climatech Ltd appointed as Republic of Ireland distributor
We are please to announce that Climatech Ltd (website http://www.climatech.ie) join the RP F Gas family as the latest reseller and training provider.
Climatech Ltd, an innovative and forward thinking refrigeration provider based in Co. Cork, were a perfect choice to deliver the level of support and customer service required for our users.
RP F Gas software provides much more than just job booking… Climatech Ltd’s work in related technology such as remote temperature monitoring makes them an ideal choice as the software develops and integrates with more systems. Their hands on experience of F Gas service work and requirements ideally places them to assist Air conditioning and Refrigeration companies lever our time, environment and cost saving technology.
Climatech’s contact details can be found on our distributor pages by clicking here
Take your HVAC service team paperless for as little as 35p a visit?
RP F-Gas Software is a powerful cloud and mobile based Air conditioning and Refrigeration facilities managment platform that also includes full F-Gas compliance checking and electronic generation of F-Gas certificates and log books.
- Imagine never having to write out another service form
- Imagine never having to wait for F-Gas certificates to be sent back to the office
- Imagine being able to flex your workforce size for virtually no cost
- Imagine knowing the status of all your engineers
- Imagine having all your clients assets in one powerful database
- Imagine knowing were every drop of F Gas had gone
- Imagine knowing how much and which type of gas was in any cylinder
All this possible and more from as little as 0.35p per certificate.
To discuss your requirements please contact us today or contact an authorised distributor in your area.
You could take your service fleet to a paperless solution in a matter of hours!
RedPoint F Gas Platform Software was recently shortlisted for the RAC Cooling Awards 2013
F Gas Regulations
Are you compliant with F Gas regulations?
F Gas Regulations are actively enforced by EA (Environment Agency). It is a criminal offence to install or maintain F Gas containing equipment that qualifies for F Gas regulation and there are sever penalties available for those who break the rules.
In addition it is the responsibility of equipment owners to ensure their refrigerators and air conditioning equipment is serviced at regular intervals by a REFCOM or other suitably qualified F Gas engineer.
More information is available here.
The age of the self aware HVAC system is arriving
Remote HVAC monitoring is not a new thing. It’s been around a long time in one form or another. Often the relationship with a remote sensor if fairly uni directional and requires facilities mangers to interact with various systems to poll information or respond to critical information. Whilst this works well, there is a lot of room for improvement.
The age of the self aware HVAC system is arriving….
RedPoint F Gas Software Platform will soon be interfaced with the RedPoint Monitor and AI platforms to deliver perhaps the worlds most accessible if not first self aware HVAC management system. Working with Visicom Scientific Software RedPoint Monitor, RP F Gas will communicate directly with refrigerators and Air conditioning systems who can feed information on health and status as well as required service directly to a custom developed Artificial Intelligent controlled FM module within the RP F Gas Platform. Self learning profiles for each machine will be able to automatically decide if service is required and if authorised assign service personnel automatically direct to their FM app or mobile device.
If the engineer needs to reschedule or reject a visit the refrigerator or Air conditioning machine itself will negotiate the arrangement with the asset owner and engineer team. Only if it cannot reach a satisfactory conclusion will it call to the powers above for further assistance.
If you are interested in knowing more please contact us or follow us on twitter @ezfgas hashtag #sahvac
UK business owners, not keeping up to date F Gas records for refrigeration and AC equipment face heavy fines
Under current UK and EU F Gas regulations If you own and operate any refrigeration or air conditioning unit with a gas capacity of over 3kg then you are obliged to keep up to date service and F Gas records or face heavy fines. We have prepared a simple nuts and bolts guide for owner operators to help you avoid falling foul of the law.
Click here to read the full article of F Gas compliance for UK business owners.
New pricing for 2013 makes going digital F Gas even simpler
You spoke we listened
We have announced new pricing structure for 2013 effective immediate, our new pricing structure brings going digital with your RAC/HVAC service team even more affordable.
Licensing has been dramatically simplified as a single company platform now costs just £360…
We have introduced new “certificate pack” rates after feedback from several users who wanted a more affordable and scaleable approach.
See the pricing tab for full details or click here to start
