Business system for construction, trades and consulting

Bim books jobs straight into your Blikk.

Bim takes the call, works out who is free and puts the job on the right person. It lands as a task in Blikk, in the same planning view you already work in.

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The connection in short

Free timesWorked out from bookings
Confirms in the conversationYes, the guest gets a booking
Capacity gateYes
Two-wayYes, what you add blocks Bim
What you needAn application ID and a secret, which you create yourself under Administration, Integrations, API applications. No waiting on an agreement and no cost at Blikk. VOCA fetches who can be booked straight from your Blikk.
FitsConstruction, trades and consulting firms of ten to a hundred people already planning in Blikk who miss calls when everyone is out.
CONNECTING

Four steps

  1. 1Create an API application in Blikk and give it the Task_Read and Task_Write permissions. A new application has no permissions at all, and without them signing in works but no bookings do.
  2. 2Paste the application ID and the secret into VOCA.
  3. 3Tick which people Bim may book. The list is fetched from Blikk, you just choose from it.
  4. 4Done. Bim books from the next call, and the tasks appear in your normal planning view.
A TEST YOU CAN FOLLOW

See what happens in your system

This is a test plan, not a customer result. Ask us to show the flow with test details in a demo. Then repeat the test in your connection at an agreed test time.

Example: A customer wants a service visit. You have selected the workers VOCA may schedule and the service duration.

Example flow

  1. VOCA reads Blikk tasks and compares their times and assignments with your selected workers.
  2. VOCA checks tasks again before booking and selects a worker who is free for the full visit.
  3. It creates a Blikk task assigned to the selected worker. A booking record is also saved in the VOCA portal.

What to test

  1. Add a task occupying all selected workers. Check that the same time is not booked. Include a long-running task that started earlier in the test.
  2. Book and move a test visit. Check the start, end, worker and note in Blikk. A move must keep a valid worker assignment.
  3. Cancel the test visit and check that the task no longer occupies the worker. Also change a task directly in Blikk and check the next availability check.

How to assess the result

Staff find a task with the correct time and worker in Blikk. The portal record must match. Cancellation archives the task and removes its assignment so the worker becomes available.

Ask the person who uses the system to check the result. Record the date, selected service, what the assistant said and what the system shows. A successful test shows that this particular flow worked. It does not show a specific number of new customers or revenue.

Limits to know

  • Blikk is a task system, not a source of guaranteed appointment slots. VOCA computes capacity from tasks and the selected roster. Travel time and skills need your own planning.
  • Blikk sends no automatic change notifications to this connection. Tasks are read during checks. Older, long-running tasks may need a longer lookback period. VOCA can link an existing contact but does not create a new contact in the register.
LIMITS

What Bim will not do here

We spell this out because it is cheaper for everyone to know up front than to find out with a guest on the phone.

  • Blikk does not push changes to us. If you move a task in Blikk, Bim sees it on the next read rather than on the second, which in practice means within a minute or so.
  • Bim reads back a set number of days to catch long jobs that are still running. A job that started further back than that is not counted in capacity. You set the number yourself, and 60 days covers almost everyone.
  • Bim counts one person per job. If several need to go out on the same visit, add them to the task in Blikk afterwards.
INDUSTRIES

Read on for your industry

QUESTIONS

About this connection

Do we have to give away full access to Blikk?

No. The application needs to read and write tasks, nothing else. If you want Bim to link a booking to an existing customer you add read access to contacts, and that one is optional.

What if we add a task by hand at the same time?

It blocks the time for Bim too. Capacity is read from the same tasks your own planning view shows, so a task you enter yourself is counted.

Do you create customers in our register?

No. Your customer register feeds your invoicing, and filling it with near-duplicates cannot be undone. Bim links the job to an existing customer only on an exact name match, otherwise the customer's details sit in the description.

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