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Field service apps for New York crews working building by building.

Codeeo provides field service management app development in New York for mechanical, plumbing, electrical, elevator, boiler and building maintenance contractors across the five boroughs. We build the technician app, dispatch board and client portal around how work really happens in the city: supers and doormen, freight elevator bookings, certificates of insurance, inspection deadlines under city law, and crews who reach jobs by van, subway or on foot.

We do not have a New York office. Our team works out of Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and clients looking for field service management app developers New York teams can rely on work with us remotely, with every workshop replaced by focused video calls and every prototype tested by your own technicians on their own phones.

Built for
Mechanical, plumbing, electrical, elevator, fire safety and property maintenance contractors serving residential and commercial buildings in New York City.
Typical timeline
The first release and its dates are agreed after discovery, once building access rules, compliance filings and integrations have been mapped with your team.
What you own
Your code, your database of buildings, assets and jobs, your store listings and your hosting, all held in company accounts.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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Built for New York buildings

Features that match how city jobs are won, scheduled and closed.

A New York service call rarely starts at a front door. It starts with a property manager's email, a super who holds the keys, a freight elevator window between ten and four, and a building that will not let anyone in without a current certificate of insurance on file. Parking a van in Midtown is its own problem, and since January 2025 trucks entering Manhattan at or below 60th Street pay the congestion toll on every entry.

City law adds deadlines of its own. Local Law 97 emissions limits for large buildings are driving retrofits and electrification, Local Law 152 requires periodic gas piping inspections, and boilers, elevators and facades all have inspection cycles. Contractors who track those dates well win repeat work. The capabilities below are designed around the building, not just the job, because in New York the same address can generate work for years when it is looked after properly. Each feature can ship in the first release or be added later.

Explain your project
  • Building profiles

    Each building carries its address, BIN, management company, super's contact, access hours, freight elevator rules, loading dock details and insurance requirements. Technicians see all of it before they arrive, and updates from one visit carry forward to the next. Whether the building is an Upper West Side co-op or a Long Island City tower, the profile is the first screen a technician opens.

    No more crews turned away at the service entrance.

  • Certificate of insurance tracking

    The app stores which buildings require a COI, which additional insureds they need named, and when each certificate expires. Dispatch is warned before sending a crew to a building whose certificate needs renewing.

    Paperwork problems caught in the office, not in the lobby.

  • Compliance calendar

    Inspection and filing cycles for gas piping, boilers, elevators, backflow devices and other equipment are tracked per building. The calendar creates jobs ahead of each due date and flags anything the client has not yet approved.

    Clients reminded early, and inspections scheduled before penalties loom.

  • Unit level work orders

    In apartment and co-op buildings, work orders can be logged per unit with tenant notice times and entry permissions. A technician can complete ten small jobs in one building and close each one separately with photos and signatures.

    Many tickets in one building, each one billed correctly.

  • Transit and parking aware dispatch

    Dispatchers can mark technicians as van, transit or walking crews, and the app suggests assignments accordingly. Toll and parking costs, including congestion zone entries, can be logged against each job so pricing reflects the true cost of serving Manhattan.

    Jobs priced with travel costs the city actually charges.

  • Offline first technician app

    Boiler rooms, mechanical rooms and sub cellars in prewar buildings often have no signal. Forms, checklists, photos and signatures save on the device and sync once the technician is back at street level. Large photo sets upload in the background so the next job is never held up.

    Nothing lost because the basement had no bars.

  • Retrofit project tracking

    Larger electrification and efficiency projects, such as heat pump conversions or boiler replacements driven by Local Law 97, run as multi stage projects with surveys, proposals, filings, installation phases and closeout documents.

    Long projects managed in the same system as daily service.

  • Client portal for managers

    Property managers and building owners log in to raise requests, approve quotes, see completion photos and download invoices across their portfolio. Large portfolios can be split by building or managing agent.

    Managers stop calling for updates because they can see them.

  • License holder sign off

    In New York City, master plumbers and electricians are licensed by the Department of Buildings, and work under those licenses carries responsibility. The app can route certain job types for review by the license holder, record who supervised the work and keep the related filings and photos together for each building.

    Supervision and filings documented without a separate binder.

  • Invoicing and collections

    Invoices carry purchase order numbers, building references and the approvals that management companies demand. Cards and wallets are accepted through a PCI compliant processor, while ACH remains available for commercial clients.

    Fewer invoices rejected by accounts payable at managing agents.

Good fits

New York contractors who usually gain the most.

Not every contractor in the city needs a custom build. A custom field service management app development New York project earns its keep when building compliance, portfolio clients or a mix of trades make packaged tools awkward. These four profiles describe where we see the clearest return, along with the first release each one tends to need. If you run three vans in one borough and bill homeowners directly, a packaged subscription is probably the better first step, and we will say so.

01

Mechanical and boiler contractors

Heating season in New York puts pressure on boiler and mechanical firms, and tenants expect heat restored quickly. An app that ties emergency dispatch, boiler inspection history, parts on hand and building access together shortens every no heat call. We also add proposal tools for retrofit work linked to emissions limits, so service relationships turn into project work. Fuel, parts and overtime costs are captured per call, which shows which buildings are profitable to keep on contract.

Emergency service and retrofit sales in one system.

02

Property maintenance and handyman firms

Firms that look after dozens of buildings for managing agents handle a constant stream of small jobs: leaks, doors, painting, appliance swaps. They need unit level work orders, tenant notice handling and fast photo proof for managers. A lean app built around those flows often beats a complex platform designed for large trades. Managers receive a short completion summary with before and after photos as soon as each unit job closes.

Many small jobs, closed and billed fast.

03

Elevator, fire and life safety contractors

These trades live on inspection cycles, test reports and deficiency follow ups. We build structured test forms, deficiency tracking with photos and client approval for repairs, and dashboards showing which buildings are due, overdue or awaiting correction. Report templates mirror the formats your inspectors already use, so technicians fill familiar fields.

Every test, deficiency and repair on the record.

04

Contractors expanding beyond the city

Firms based in Brooklyn or Queens that also serve Long Island, Westchester or northern New Jersey face different licensing, permitting and tax rules in each place. We model jurisdictions per job, so the right forms, rates and credentials apply automatically as crews cross county or state lines. Sales tax treatment, which differs between New York and New Jersey, is applied per job location rather than by office address.

Jurisdiction becomes a setting, not a memory test.

From first call to live app: our six steps for New York projects.

  1. 01Operations interviewsVideo calls with your owner, a dispatcher, an estimator and field technicians cover how jobs arrive from managing agents, how access is arranged and where compliance dates are tracked today.
  2. 02Building and asset modelWe design the data around buildings, units, assets and inspection cycles first, since most New York reporting and scheduling depends on getting that structure right before screens are drawn.
  3. 03Prototype reviewClickable prototypes go to technicians and office staff. They test arriving at a building, logging a unit job, capturing a test result and sending a quote, then tell us what slows them down.
  4. 04Sprint deliveryWorking software arrives every two weeks in a test environment. Demos by video show each feature against real building data, and your team signs off before the next sprint begins.
  5. 05Borough pilotOne crew or one borough goes live first. We check sync in basements, access note accuracy and portal use by managers, and fix issues before the rest of the company moves over.
  6. 06Ongoing improvementAfter launch we handle updates, monitoring and new features, such as additional inspection types or new client portals, scoped and scheduled with you each quarter.

Technology

What we build this with.

The technician app is usually cross platform for iPhone and Android, with an offline first data layer for basements. Dispatch, compliance and portal screens run on the web. We integrate with accounting, payment, payroll and document storage systems your office already uses, and keep integration logic documented so a future developer can follow it.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Questions New York contractors ask before building.

The SHIELD Act requires reasonable safeguards for private information.

New York's SHIELD Act applies to businesses holding private information of New York residents and expects administrative, technical and physical safeguards, plus breach notification when things go wrong. For a field app that means encryption, role based access, audit logs and secure handling of payment and identity data, plus a tested plan for revoking access when a technician leaves or a phone is lost. We design those controls in from the start and document them so your insurer and counsel can review the approach.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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