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Simpro for HVAC

Operations management software for trade and field service businesses.

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  • Inventory managementThe reviewed first-party source verifies storage locations, vehicle stock, counts, adjustments, and purchase orders, but does not establish automatic replenishment or item-reservation behavior.
  • Purchasing and purchase ordersAvailable workflows vary between Simpro Premium and Simpro Mobile, and accurate stock updates depend on receiving discipline.
  • Multiple customer locationsThis claim covers customer service sites, not Simpro Multi-Company, which is a separate deployment option for managing the contractor’s own entities or branches.

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Capabilities

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Scheduling & dispatch

Dispatching and schedulingYes

Simpro provides native scheduling and dispatching for service and project work, including labor-capacity visibility, technician assignment, route optimization, and crew coordination.

High confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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Service agreements

Maintenance agreementsYes

Simpro supports maintenance agreements and recurring preventive maintenance through customer contracts, recurring job scheduling, asset records, and its Maintenance Planner add-on. The workflow can raise jobs for contract-covered assets and track upcoming maintenance.

High confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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Invoicing & payments

Progress invoicingYes

Simpro supports project progress claims and retention, called retainage in the United States, for staged project billing.

Workflow constraint: Retention is configured for project work; a service job must be merged into a project job to use project retention.

High confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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Equipment & customer history

Multiple customer locationsYes

Simpro supports associating multiple service sites with one customer and retaining site-specific work context for commercial accounts.

Scope boundary: This claim covers customer service sites, not Simpro Multi-Company, which is a separate deployment option for managing the contractor’s own entities or branches.

High confidence · Verified August 17, 2026

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Equipment and service historyYes

Simpro maintains customer assets at the site level and lets field staff view asset details, past test results, service history, and record new tests while completing work.

Evidence boundary: The reviewed documentation establishes asset and test history, but does not claim that every job note or invoice is automatically presented as an equipment-level timeline.

High confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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Projects & operational controls

Inventory managementYes

Simpro supports inventory management through stock stored in location, vehicle, and building storage devices. Its documented stock workflows include counts, adjustments, and mobile stock purchase orders.

Evidence boundary: The reviewed first-party source verifies storage locations, vehicle stock, counts, adjustments, and purchase orders, but does not establish automatic replenishment or item-reservation behavior.

High confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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Commercial project managementYes

Simpro supports commercial project work through multi-stage project jobs, project scheduling and field records, progress invoicing, retainage, workforce controls, and project financial reporting.

Workflow constraint: Project jobs are distinct from service jobs; service work requiring project retainage must be merged into a project job.

High confidence · Verified August 17, 2026

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Change order managementPartial

Simpro represents extra work as a linked change order, called a linked variation outside the United States, by creating a separate job or quote that is invoiced separately from the original job.

Workflow constraint: The reviewed official material describes a separate linked job or quote rather than an in-place revision to the original contract.

Moderate confidence · Verified August 17, 2026

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Purchasing & project financials

Purchasing and purchase ordersYes

Simpro Premium supports purchase orders, supplier catalogs, vendor pricing comparisons, receiving that updates stock, and field creation or review of purchase orders in Simpro Mobile.

Workflow constraint: Available workflows vary between Simpro Premium and Simpro Mobile, and accurate stock updates depend on receiving discipline.

High confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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Purchasing and POs to project actual costsYes

Simpro links project purchase orders and work orders to actual-versus-estimated material and labor cost reporting.

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Retainage and SOV billingYes

Simpro supports progress claims with retention structures, withheld balances, release periods, and final retention claims.

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Change orders to contract value, budget, and billingPartial

Simpro reports original, revised, and current project budgets and supports progress claims, but the reviewed public evidence does not establish an equally explicit change-order approval-to-SOV workflow.

Workflow constraint: Adjacent workflows are documented, but the complete record-level handoff or construction control is not established.

High confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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Committed cost trackingPartial

Simpro links purchase orders to projects and forecasts budget changes, but the reviewed public evidence is less explicit about a distinct committed-cost ledger before receipt or invoicing.

Workflow constraint: Adjacent workflows are documented, but the complete record-level handoff or construction control is not established.

High confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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Construction workflows

Estimate to construction projectYes

Simpro documents estimating, quoting, project management, and project financial workflows in the same product.

High confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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RFI managementNot confirmed

The reviewed Simpro public product and help materials do not establish a first-party structured RFI workflow.

Evidence: This status reflects an evidence gap in reviewed first-party public documentation, not proof that the workflow is unavailable.

Moderate confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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Submittal managementNot confirmed

The reviewed Simpro public product and help materials do not establish a first-party structured submittal log and approval workflow.

Evidence: This status reflects an evidence gap in reviewed first-party public documentation, not proof that the workflow is unavailable.

Moderate confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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Service handoff & lifecycle

Construction customer and site to service recordsYes

Simpro documents customers, sites, jobs, projects, and assets in the same CRM and site-management model.

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Installed assets to maintenance agreementYes

Simpro Maintenance Planner assigns service levels and testing frequencies to assets within maintenance-contract operations.

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Installed assets to ongoing service historyYes

Simpro customer assets retain service, transfer, testing, and site history for ongoing field maintenance.

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Construction closeout to recurring service opportunityNot confirmed

The reviewed Simpro sources document project and maintenance workflows but not an automatic closeout conversion into a recurring-service opportunity.

Evidence: This status reflects an evidence gap in reviewed first-party public documentation, not proof that the workflow is unavailable.

Moderate confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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Project to installed equipment or assetsNot confirmed

Simpro supports project work and customer assets, but the reviewed public evidence does not establish an automatic project-to-installed-asset handoff.

Evidence: This status reflects an evidence gap in reviewed first-party public documentation, not proof that the workflow is unavailable.

Moderate confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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Project to warranty or service callNot confirmed

The reviewed Simpro sources do not establish a direct project warranty record that automatically governs later service calls.

Evidence: This status reflects an evidence gap in reviewed first-party public documentation, not proof that the workflow is unavailable.

Moderate confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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Accounting & payroll

QuickBooks OnlineYes

Simpro integrates with QuickBooks Online. Simpro lists QuickBooks among its accounting integrations and describes two-way QuickBooks integration, while current product materials specifically name QuickBooks Online.

High confidence · Verified August 16, 2026

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Reporting & profitability

Job costingYes

Simpro supports advanced job costing and profitability reporting with work-in-progress, budget, cost-to-complete, labor-productivity, and individual-job views.

Setup required: Accurate job profitability depends on configured labor, material, inventory, and actual-cost capture across cost centers.

High confidence · Verified August 17, 2026

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24 verified claims, source-backed and dated. Latest verification: August 17, 2026.