Jun 21 2019
11:04 AM
- last edited on
Feb 06 2023
03:41 AM
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TechCommunityAP
Jun 21 2019
11:04 AM
- last edited on
Feb 06 2023
03:41 AM
by
TechCommunityAP
Dear Community,
I have a digital transformation use case which I'm thinking could potentially fulfil a common need and I'm wondering if anyone has implemented a solution using Office 365, possibly integrated with third parties. Here goes the use case.....
Situation
Small Garage is using physical job cards for vehicle servicing. Existing clients details are not captured either, apart from within QuickBooks for invoicing. The accounts clerk spends his days manually trawling through QuickBooks to determine which annual services are required and then sending a physical reminder letter.
Office 365 Upgrade
We have recently upgraded them to Office 365, and setup a simple MS form which they have just started to use to collect customers details through a tablet on the counter. As the have the business premium plan, they now have access to the Outlook Customer Manager (OCM) too.
Data captured via the tablet includes name, email, mobile, service date.
Automating annual service dates along with email and text reminders
Ideally, at a high level this garage app would be able to :-
How can o365 help?
I know many will be thinking 1) this is a bespoke app or 2) buy this as a service from a "reminders" supplier (load up name, email , mobile), yet I'm wondering how far we could go with o365. Consider other services which have a regular timeframe such as the dentist etc., particularly who are currently using a pure manual effort.
Using OCM
One simple idea would be to use OCM - create a new contact for each form entry, and use the captured date to create a recurring task. From my brief examination of the flow templates, I'm not sure this would be supported.
Anyone done anything similar or have any ideas?
Nice little use case, which might inspire other creations. Let the power of this community loose.
Thanks in anticipation.
Jun 26 2019 01:12 AM
Jun 26 2019 02:07 AM
@Rob Ellis Thanks Rob.
I have considered MS bookings, particularly for customers to book available sessions.
My current thinking towards a solution is to build a powerApp for client data entry via a tablet. Then make a JSON call via gov api to pull down MOT data, including annual MOT date. Then place a recurring task via Microsoft flow and set up another flow to trigger sending out reminders.
I'm going to enjoy trying to get this to work.