Easy-to-use solution for contract cleaning proof-of-service
Running a contract cleaning operation presents many challenges, no matter what type of cleaning it is you do - washroom servicing, commercial window cleaning, office or public building cleaning. How best to monitor where your workers are and what they are doing without taking up too much of their time reporting it, and your time administering everything. Perhaps you have considered PDAs but decided they are too complicated or expensive and have wondered "is there any other alternative?".
Business Acuity provides easy-to-use mobile phone solutions so that cleaning staff can record where they are and the tasks they are performing without needing PDAs or other special equipment. You get guaranteed proof-of-attendance that shows you are meeting your service levels and looking after lone workers safety. All data is sent real-time to your databases so that you have electronic records of time spent, tasks performed, products used, and all kinds of other worker and job related information.

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RFID tags and mobile phones
The Business Acuity RFID product allows you to place cheap RFID tags everywhere you wish to record your employee's presence. An obvious choice is to place one or more at each of your customer sites. Other tag locations could be depots, warehouses, offices, in vehicles, etc. Your employee simply touches the tag with their phone and you instantly know where they are. If you want to be sure that the customer has seen the work done, give them a keyfob tag so they can touch the workers phone with it to "sign" - they could even choose a quality level too…...

Simple data capture
But the tag isn't just a "time-stamp machine". It can also be aware of its context - a Door tag, or a Customer tag, or a Vehicle tag, whatever you decide, and then present the worker with context-sensitive options. Examples could be:

• Door tags that ask In or Out at offices and warehouses
• Vehicle tag that asks Start Shift or End Shift, and then requests entry of the mileage from the odometer
• Customer tag that allows Start and End job details to be input, products used to be entered, even competitors products on the same site could be noted…..
• Product tag on warehouse shelves that allows stock transfers to the employees vehicle

Not interested in proving where they are?
Depending on the type of employee or job they do, you may not be interested in where they are, but you do need to capture some data from them - for example employees who visit one-off customers and need to record some work details - hours, travel time, distance, etc. The Business Acuity MOBILE application works in exactly the same way as the RFID product, but without the need to touch a tag.

Easily configurable for any requirements
The above examples show just a few ideas of how you might want to configure your solution. Business Acuity's patented mobile menu builder allows you to create whatever mobile menus, events, and data inputs you need, for whatever types of services and users you have. From simple RFID tag "touch & go" to more complex data collection menus, the choice is yours. Business Acuity makes it easy to create and amend phone functionality and mass-distribute it over-the-air to different groups of users.

Real-time updates to your back-office
All information is sent from the Business Acuity phone application in real-time to your existing Workforce Management applications for further processing or analysis. Alternatively, the data collected is also available for viewing and reporting in Business Acuity's own web-based back-office, where you can even give your end-customers access themselves, to see how well you are servicing them!