Service Workers Research
 

Hi everyone!

I'm currently researching a new platform for service workers, literally for everyone who has a business that provides some services to customers on a regular basis: automotive repair, haircut, etc.

So, I need some input from you: how much money are you ready to spend on automating customers management and accounting daily tasks? ($ per customer per visit, or $ per customer per month or whatever you can share...) Will such platform improve your daily burden? (Or you prefer old good paper notes? Or you already using something?)

I'm specifically targeting small businesses and individuals.

I will represent your floor -- zero dollars. I have no way to get bills or coin through the Intertubes.

Xist should respond, I'll bug him if he doesn't. Best i can do.

Based on how well government has cared for our small businesses lately, it's probably not wise to deal in anything but cash and crypto at this point.

Good news! freebeard has bugged me!

Bad news! He never mentioned this! :D

I am a speech therapist and I see clients through two agencies. The paperwork takes way too long, partially because neither website is well-designed, but I am supposed to write, for example, "freebeard correctly solved world hunger 0/10 times with maximum prompting."

The goal doesn't change from week to week, or necessarily from quarter to quarter, just the percentage of accuracy (or correct attempts out of total attempts) and how much prompting they require.

The weird thing is that each site will list each goal and I give it the numbers and level of prompting, but in school they actually gave us tables saying:
0-40% accuracy: Maximum prompting.
41-60% accuracy: Moderate-to-maximum prompting.
61-80% accuracy: Minimal-to-moderate prompting.
81-99% accuracy: Minimal prompting.
100% accuracy: Independent.

However, I am then supposed to write out everything, so if I had a utility that asked for the numbers, added the level of prompting, and gave me a statement that I could copy and paste it would save me a couple minutes per session and ideally I see 15+ clients per week.

The thing is, I have used scripting languages to automate TradeWars 2002, originally written in 1984, and last updated in 2011--still text-only.

I am positive that I can script something that will read the first line from a text file, pull the first word, which will be the name, and ask "How many times did you see freebeard?"

Then it loops however many times.

"How many trials did freebeard have for [goal]?"
10
"How many did freebeard get right?"
0

Then it will write "freebeard correctly solved world hunger 0/10 times with maximum prompting." to a file.

If the next line is blank it will output a blank line and pull the next client's name and ask how many times I saw him or her--or end if it reached the end of the file.

Progress reports take hours and hours every quarter, but those are much more complicated, partially because my first site doesn't keep track of the data.

The second does, so every quarter it tells me that freebeard solved world hunger with an average of 42%, so that was probably moderate-to-maximum prompting.

With the first agency I need to download each session note as a PDF, which are often comingled with occupational therapy, and then I need to open each and every one and pull the numbers.

Every other speech therapist just makes it up.

While the script that I described might save me 30-60 minutes every week, if I could pay for any tool, I would pay for new clients.

My two agencies don't send me new clients very often, but another agency, which doesn't have an office or office staff, now has 3 SLPs in the area, and the owner responds to vendor calls when she gets to them

freebeard, did I miss the reason you mentioned me? :)

Ha! I waited you out.

The reason is in the thread title. It sounds like you want to pay for a different sevice.

I always do, don't I! :D I just never do what anyone wants me to! :D

Me neither. But people reciprocate, they don't do what I want them to. Not sure who started it.

My current attempt is to get Arcimoto to help me with putting an FUV drivetrain in my Superbeetle. I don't expect they will throw in a warranty.

Excel will get you moving. Quickbooks will take you pretty much farther, then Netsuite shows up. Not sure I see much of an opening.

OP, good luck with your project. freebeard, I am going to talk about my barbecue struggles in my rocket stove\ backyard foundry\ charcoal chimney thread.

If anyone can tell me what I am supposed to want, please inform me! :D

Easy peasy -- World Peace.

In the 1960s we settled for Whirled Peas and look where it got us.