ServiceM8

ServiceM8

· #198 most-used

Field service, fully automated — from quote to invoice

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ServiceM8 is the all-in-one field service platform used by trade businesses to manage jobs, dispatch technicians, generate quotes, and collect payment. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can create clients, log jobs, schedule technicians, send SMS updates, and issue invoices the moment work is done — without a dispatcher touching the keyboard. From emergency callouts to recurring maintenance contracts, every step of the service cycle runs on autopilot.

Average time saved
11 hours
per person · per month
1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Automating job creation, dispatch notifications, invoice generation, and client follow-up eliminates the manual admin loop that typically costs a trades business 3 hours per week per technician.

Schedule

What your ServiceM8 agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs
7Agents at work
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Multi-app workflows

ServiceM8 × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
9Apps spanned
~38 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For customer success
Featured4 apps

Job complete to invoice and review in 60 seconds

When a technician marks a ServiceM8 job Complete, your agent takes over the entire post-job sequence — it fetches the finished job record, creates and emails the invoice with attached notes, schedules a follow-up calendar reminder for 30 days out, and posts a #wins update to Slack — all before the tech has driven off the street. Clients receive their invoice the same day, review requests go out while the job is fresh, and the team stays informed without a single admin touchpoint.

~23 hrs / week

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a ServiceM8 Job Completed webhook fires
Result
Create and send invoice to clientPost job-won update to #operationsCreate 30-day follow-up reminder
The win
Saved per run
45 min
Runs / week
~30×
Invoices sent same day, every time
Driven byCustomer Support Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    19 min / week
    Manual quote follow-up

    Sales rep checks quote status daily, calls clients who haven't responded, and manually converts accepted quotes to jobs — 19 minutes gone before the first billable hour.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent converts and follows up

    Agent monitors quote status in ServiceM8, sends the client a nudge SMS at 48 hours if unopened, and converts accepted quotes to scheduled jobs automatically.

  • Marketing
    14 min / week
    Post-job review soliciting

    Marketing team manually identifies completed jobs each week and sends review request emails individually — a 14-minute task that gets skipped when the team is busy.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent sends review requests

    When Job Completed fires, the agent immediately sends a personalised SMS with a direct Google review link — reviews arrive while the client still remembers the service.

  • Customer Support
    19 min / week
    ETA calls and rescheduling

    Support staff field calls from clients asking when their technician is arriving, manually check the dispatch board, and call back — 19 minutes per day in phone tag.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent sends ETA updates

    When a technician is dispatched, the agent sends the client an SMS with the technician's name, ETA, and a live tracking link — inbound ETA calls drop immediately.

  • Human Resources
    8 min / week
    Technician availability tracking

    HR manually cross-references leave requests against the ServiceM8 dispatch schedule each week to find capacity conflicts, taking 8 minutes of back-and-forth.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent flags scheduling conflicts

    When leave is approved, the agent queries ServiceM8 for that technician's upcoming assigned jobs and notifies the operations manager of any conflicts to reassign before the day arrives.

  • Finance
    14 min / week
    Manual invoice creation

    Finance waits for technicians to report job completions, then manually creates invoices in ServiceM8 — a 14-minute daily sweep that delays cash collection by 1–3 days.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent invoices on completion

    The Job Completed trigger fires the agent to create and email the invoice within 60 seconds of job completion — payment requests arrive the same day the work is done.

  • Operations
    30 min / week
    Daily dispatch board updates

    Operations manually checks ServiceM8 each morning, copies job assignments to a spreadsheet, and messages technicians their run sheets — a 30-minute ritual that can't scale.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent builds and sends run sheets

    At 6 AM the agent lists all today's unassigned jobs, groups them by postcode, assigns each to the nearest available technician, and pushes personalised run sheets to Slack — dispatching done before the office opens.

  • Legal
    6 min / week
    Compliance certificate filing

    Operations chases technicians for compliance certificates after gas or electrical jobs, then manually attaches them to ServiceM8 job records — 6 minutes of hunting per certificate.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent files certificates automatically

    When a certifier emails a compliance PDF, the agent parses the job reference, attaches the certificate to the matching ServiceM8 job, and marks the compliance field complete — audit-ready with no admin chase.

+ 100s of other ServiceM8 automations
Average monthly
11 hrs / person / month
Average monthly
11 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
10 people
Hourly rate
$20 / hr
Hours saved / week
28
Hours saved / year
1,400
Annual ROI
$28,000

Based on ServiceM8's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.8 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug ServiceM8 into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

The fastest path to ServiceM8. Install the MCP server in one step and your agents can read and write jobs, clients, and invoices through a permissioned OAuth handshake — no tokens to copy or rotate.

1
Open the Apps tab

Find ServiceM8 in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.

2
Authorise in ServiceM8

You'll be redirected to ServiceM8's OAuth screen. Sign in with your ServiceM8 account owner credentials and grant Actionist read/write access to your company data.

3
Test the connection

Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.

Actions

18 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

6 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

Skills

Skills that pair with ServiceM8

Reusable agent skills that work well alongside this app.

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MCP servers

MCP servers that work with ServiceM8

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FAQs

Questions about ServiceM8 + Actionist

How do I connect ServiceM8 to Actionist?
Open the Apps tab, find ServiceM8, and click Connect. Choose MCP (recommended) for an OAuth handshake — you'll authorise Actionist in ServiceM8's own login screen and grant read/write access. The whole process takes under two minutes and you never see a token. If you prefer a manual API key, switch to the API Token method in the connection settings and generate a key from ServiceM8 → Settings → API Keys.
Which ServiceM8 objects can the agent read and write?
Your agent can create and update jobs, clients, quotes, invoices, job notes, job materials, and schedule entries. It can also assign staff to jobs, upload attachments, send SMS and email from job records, and retrieve staff lists. The five webhook triggers — New Job, Job Completed, Job Queued, New Client, and New Form Response — let the agent react to ServiceM8 events without polling.
Will the agent create duplicate clients or jobs if a trigger fires twice?
ServiceM8 webhooks can occasionally fire more than once for the same event. To guard against duplicates, instruct your agent to search for an existing client or job by reference number before creating a new one. For clients, use 'List clients' filtered by email or phone. For jobs, check the job number returned in the webhook payload against existing records. Adding a 60-second dedup window in your workflow's condition step eliminates most edge cases.
Can the agent send SMS and email on behalf of my ServiceM8 account?
Yes. 'Send job SMS' and 'Send job email' use ServiceM8's built-in messaging, so messages appear in the job's communication log and come from your company identity — not a third-party sender. SMS sends consume your ServiceM8 SMS credits. If you need to send at higher volume or with richer templates, use a dedicated email step (Gmail, Outlook) alongside the ServiceM8 record update.
How does the agent handle job scheduling and calendar availability?
The 'Schedule job' action books a time slot into ServiceM8's dispatch calendar for a named staff member. The agent doesn't have native access to real-time calendar free/busy data — it works best when you pair it with a 'Get staff list' read to find assigned staff, then check a Google Calendar integration for free slots before calling 'Schedule job'. For automated scheduling at scale, build a condition step that avoids double-booking by checking the staff member's existing jobs for that day first.
Can I use ServiceM8 triggers to fire workflows in real time?
Yes. ServiceM8 delivers webhooks in near-real-time (typically under 5 seconds) when jobs are created, completed, or queued, and when new clients or form responses appear. In Actionist, set the ServiceM8 trigger as the entry point for your workflow. Note that ServiceM8 webhooks require your Actionist endpoint to respond within 10 seconds — if your workflow has slow steps (LLM calls, large file uploads), move them to an async branch after the acknowledgement.
What happens if my API connection is revoked or the token expires?
If the MCP OAuth token is revoked (e.g. you change your ServiceM8 password or revoke the app in account settings), workflow runs that call ServiceM8 will return a 401 error and the agent will stop and report the failure. You'll receive a notification in Actionist and can re-authorise in under a minute from the Apps tab. For API key connections, keys don't expire but can be revoked manually — generate a replacement key in ServiceM8 → Settings → API Keys and update the Actionist connection field.
Does disconnecting ServiceM8 delete my job or client data?
No. Disconnecting ServiceM8 in Actionist removes the integration credentials and stops any active triggers from firing, but it does not touch any data in your ServiceM8 account. All jobs, clients, invoices, and records remain exactly as they are. Any workflows using ServiceM8 actions will fail gracefully (they won't attempt to call ServiceM8 if the connection is absent) and you can reconnect at any time without data loss.