Find the job patterns worth investigating

Teams remember the difficult installation, the long drive and the customer who changed the scope. Those stories matter, but they do not establish what happened across the whole period. An uneventful job can be worth reviewing too if its recorded costs leave little profit.

A garage door business reviewing repairs and replacements needs to keep the work types in context. A roofing team reviewing several projects needs to consider different scopes. A useful report review starts with comparable work rather than a single combined opinion about whether the month felt busy.

Use profit per job for the close inspection of one result. The period review asks whether several results point toward the same issue and whether a process change would address it.

The Profit page lists completed jobs with work order number, estimate number, estimator, cost, revenue, profit and profit percentage. It also shows whether the period is above or below the revenue goal. Meeting that goal is useful context, but does not settle whether individual jobs produced an acceptable result.

You can filter every report by date range, day, week, month or year, and by tag, tag combination, lead source and employee. Use the labels recorded in your own data to narrow a question. The same filter choices remain in place as you move to another report.

Job lists link directly to the job in Housecall Pro. Use those links when a result needs investigation, and verify source records before drawing a conclusion. The report provides recorded cost and revenue; your team needs to explain the circumstances behind them.

Pick a completed period and a specific question. For example: did recent electrical installation estimates allow for the work the crew actually encountered? Inspect the relevant completed jobs, confirm their recorded costs and ask the estimator and crew lead about scope changes.

In a made-up review, three similar jobs each bill $1,000. Their recorded costs are $600, $650 and $900, leaving $400, $350 and $100. The third job deserves attention, but its lower result does not prove that the price list is wrong. It may have had different access conditions or an incomplete initial scope.

1. Define the group of work you are reviewing.
2. Check unusual results against the source jobs.
3. Separate one-off conditions from repeated issues.
4. Choose a change that addresses the evidence.
5. Review later comparable jobs to assess that change.

Use the profit calculator to test a hypothetical price or cost adjustment before discussing it with the team.

This report fits owners and operations managers who need to improve quoting, job preparation or scope control. Make the meeting small enough for a useful discussion: the people who estimate, deliver and review the work should be able to explain what the numbers leave unanswered.

Avoid ranking technicians from unlike jobs. A specialist handling complex work may have a different cost profile from someone completing routine visits. Employee filters help investigate a question, but the filtered result still needs context about assignment, job mix and recorded costs.

Bring one finding to your weekly team performance review. For example, decide to clarify an estimate allowance or improve the handoff for material requirements. Give that change an owner and a review date in your normal management notes.

ServicePro IQ connects directly to Housecall Pro and requires its MAX plan, because that plan provides API keys. An admin creates the key in the Housecall Pro App Store by searching for API and choosing Generate API key. We send a one-time link where you paste it. The link works for seven days, and only the newest link for your business works.

The key is checked when you paste it and stored encrypted. ServicePro IQ reads your Housecall Pro data without changing your account. Your contact tells you when your reports are ready. Job and revenue figures refresh hourly at 20 minutes past the hour. A recent correction may need the next refresh before you review it.

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