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PLANA Field Service — User guide

PLANA Field Service turns Odoo into a complete field-service platform: take a service request, dispatch and route it, let the technician do the job on a phone, capture the customer's signature, generate and e-mail the handover protocol, invoice the work, and run preventive-maintenance contracts — all natively in Odoo.

Part of PLANA Business Cloud

PLANA Field Service is an add-on layer on top of PLANA Business Cloud. It builds on the community Field Service modules and adds the routing engine, the dispatch board, the phone-first technician experience, sign-off & protocol, van stock and the Bulgarian invoicing flow. New to the product? Start with the feature overview.

This guide is organised by role — Operator → Dispatcher → Technician → Manager — then by feature and configuration.

The product at a glance

CapabilityWhere in the UI
Fast intake of service requestsField Service ▸ Operations ▸ New Service Request
Route optimisation (OSRM/VROOM)Day Route ▸ Optimize Route
Route map + GPS navigationDay Route ▸ Show on Map · Order ▸ Navigate
Drag-and-drop dispatch boardField Service ▸ Operations ▸ Dispatch Board
Mobile cockpit + installable PWAField Service ▸ My Jobs
Sign-on-screen + handover protocolOrder ▸ Finalize & Send Protocol
Invoicing (quote-first + ad-hoc)Order ▸ Create Invoice / automatic on completion
Van-stock parts consumptionOrder ▸ Parts Used tab
SLA / preventive-maintenance contractsAgreements app · Field Service ▸ Operations ▸ Recurring Orders

All menus live under the Field Service app:

  • My Jobs — the technician's cockpit (their open jobs, soonest first).
  • Operations
    • New Service Request — operator intake form
    • All Orders — every service order
    • Day Routes — daily routes per technician (Optimize / Show on Map)
    • Dispatch Board — timeline; drag jobs onto technicians
    • Recurring Orders — preventive-maintenance schedules
  • Dashboard — Day Routes, Orders overviews
  • Master Data — Customers, Service Locations, Workers, Routes, Templates, Products
  • Configuration — Settings, Stages, Order Types, Frequencies, Recurring Templates, Route Days, Worker Skills
  • Reporting — Orders, Day Routes, Inventory, Locations, Worker Skills

Service contracts/agreements live in the separate Agreements app.

The service order workflow

Every job is a service order that moves through a fixed set of stages:

New → Assigned → Scheduled → En Route → In Progress → Awaiting Signature → Completed (or Cancelled).

The stage is shown as a status bar at the top of every order, and the dispatch board colours each job by its stage.

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