In this article, you will learn how to subscribe your clients to service plans. 

Service Plans is a great tool for creating and managing recurring visits for general services or maintenance. With Service Plans, you can easily create service plan templates and subscribe your clients to those plans — not only allowing you to account for recurring work, but also ensure you are automatically getting paid on time.

In Workiz, you can enroll clients in a service plan using two different methods: from a service plan template or from a single-use custom plan.

How to enroll clients in service plans

Method 1: Using a plan template

After creating a service plan template, you can begin subscribing your clients to your plans. To learn more about creating a plan template, please see this article.

1. Open the profile for the client you want to enroll
   
2. Select Add service plan
   
3. Select the property address and plan template
4. Set your billing options:
   
   
   1. Billing option: Choose how frequently you want to bill this client
   2. (Optional) Discount %: Modify the discount you want to apply to this service plan
   3. Member discount: Decide if you want to apply a member discount for all future line items on jobs, estimates, and invoices
5. Set your service plan dates:
   
   
   1. Planned dates: Choose when this plan will begin and end
      

      Workiz allows you to create a retroactive start date of up to three months for service plans.

      Please be aware that using a retroactive start date may trigger immediate billing for all accumulated cycles based on the plan schedule. To learn more about how retroactive start dates affect the experience, please see this section.

   2. Included visits: Choose when the plan visits should occur (e.g., set dates manually, specific dates each month, specific weekday each month)
6. Attach any files you want to include for this service plan (e.g., service terms, scope of work, before images, etc.)
   
7. Choose how you want to collect payment:
   • Recurring payment with credit card: Send your clients a link to the client portal to review and pay for their plan offer via credit card. Cards will be saved on file and automatically charged when future payments are due. 
   • One-time payment with credit card or ACH: Send your clients a link to the client portal to review and pay for their plan offer via credit card or ACH. Payment details will not be saved for future payments. 
   • Manual payment: Accept the plan on behalf of your client and manually enter the payment yourself
8. Select Continue

Method 2: Using a custom plan

Instead of creating a plan template, you also have the option of enrolling your clients in a standalone custom plan.

1. Open the profile for the client you want to enroll
2. Select Add service plan 
3. Select the property address and choose Custom plan
   
   

Many of the remaining steps for creating a custom plan are similar to enrolling clients in a plan template. For more guidance on how to enroll clients in a custom plan, please see the previous section. 

What your clients will see

Your clients will receive an email or text message that includes a link to the Workiz client portal. From there, they will be able to review, approve, and — if you chose to send the payment request online — pay for the service plan.

Using retroactive start dates

As mentioned above, Workiz allows you to set a retroactive start date of up to three months when enrolling a client in a service plan. 

Using a retroactive start date may trigger automatic billing for all accumulated cycles based on your plan schedule. For example, if your plan is set to bill monthly, and your start date is set to three months prior to the current date, your client may automatically be billed for the first three months of the plan. 

If you choose to enter payment manually, you will be prompted to make the initial payment upon enrollment. All remaining payments will need to be made manually. 

If you choose to send a payment request using the client portal, your client will be prompted to make the initial payment using a credit card. But because that credit card is saved on file to make automatic payments for all remaining billing cycles, your client may immediately be charged for all of the due payments. 

Managing your client’s service plans subscriptions

After subscribing your client to a service plan, that client will automatically receive a badge next to their name so that you can easily keep track of which clients are subscribed to plans. This badges will appear on various pages throughout the platform.

Scrolling down from the Client info tab, you’ll see a summary of all the plans this client has ever been subscribed to. Here, you can re-send the plan details to your client or cancel the plan altogether.

Your client’s profile page will also now include a tab for Visits, giving you quick access to the past and future visits linked to this client. You will also have access to quick actions such as:

• Calling the client
• Messaging the client
• Converting the visit into a job

Managing all of your business’s service plan subscriptions

Workiz makes it easy to manage all of your business’s service plan subscriptions — providing you with information such as the plan price, start date, next visit date, and the team member who sold the plan.

To learn more about how to manage your service plans, please see this article.