Alvin for Plumbing
Alvin is the personal assistant for plumbing companies. Ask from under the sink, or forward the email. Alvin prepares and files permits where the city allows it, books inspections, orders from Ferguson and chases the invoices. Anything that spends money waits for your tap.
What should Alvin take off the board?
File the water heater permit for 18 Elm Ct on the city permit portal, order a 50-gallon from Ferguson for pickup, and put the install on Thursday in Jobber.
Half the job is waiting on someone else: the city, the inspector, the property manager. Somebody has to keep all of it moving.
Water heaters, repipes, sewer laterals. Every city has its own portal, its own form and its own fee.
Alvin prepares the application from the job and files where the portal allows. Anything that needs your license or signature comes to you first.
Rough-in, top-out, final. Booked by phone or portal, then moved when the inspector’s day changes.
Alvin books the window, puts it on the tech’s schedule and texts the homeowner. If it moves, the rest moves with it.
Tomorrow needs a water heater, a PRV and a box of fittings, ordered tonight.
Alvin builds the cart on your Ferguson account from the job notes, picks the branch for pickup, and waits for your OK.
Service calls get paid at the door. Bigger jobs and property managers don’t.
Alvin sends reminders on your schedule, in your words, and tells you who needs a call.
Every test needs a report to the water purveyor, often in its own portal, often on a deadline.
Alvin submits results from the tech’s test form, keeps a record per device, and reminds customers when next year’s test is due.
Certificates of insurance, not-to-exceed approvals, W-9s and a work-order portal for every account.
Alvin sends the COI, gets the NTE approval in writing, and uploads the invoice to the right portal.
A water heater swap touches Jobber, the city, Ferguson and the inspector’s calendar. Here’s one request doing all of it.
Example Setting up the Garcia water heater
Garcia water heater swap is Thursday. Pull the permit, order a 50-gal gas from Ferguson for pickup, and book the final for Friday.
On it. Job details first, then the permit, the part and the inspection. The fee and the order wait for you.
Ready. Two things for you:
Done. Here’s the rundown:
Your field software, your books, your Ferguson account and every city portal you file in. Alvin works in all of them, with your logins.
Direct connection where the app has one; Alvin’s own computer where it doesn’t. Don’t see yours? Ask. Logging in like you would usually works.
Inspectors, permit offices and slow payers keep business hours. Overnight Alvin lines up everything for when they open.
Alvin prepares the application from the job and files it where the city portal lets a contractor’s office submit. Anything that needs your license, signature or an affidavit goes to you first.
Permit fees wait for your approval, like any other money step.
Yes. Alvin requests the inspection, puts the window on the tech’s schedule, and lets the homeowner know. If the inspector moves it, the schedule gets updated and everyone is told.
Not unless you set a limit. Orders wait for your tap by default. You stay the buyer on your own Ferguson account, at your pricing.
Only the way you set. Alvin sends reminders, inspection windows and invoice follow-ups in your wording. Anything unusual, like a complaint or a dispute, comes to you.
Pilots for plumbing companies doing $1M-$15M a year. We set up your vault and connections with you, then you hand Alvin real work.
