From WhatsApp chaos to one field service platform

The Challenge

A 65-person facilities management company in the Netherlands ran their entire operation across WhatsApp group chats, personal spreadsheets, and daily phone calls. Scheduling conflicts, missed jobs, and billing errors were routine. The operations director spent six hours per day on coordination alone.

The Breaking Point

None of these tools were built to run an operation, and it showed. Jobs were assigned in WhatsApp threads where messages scrolled out of sight within hours. Schedules lived in spreadsheets on individual laptops, each one a slightly different version of the truth. Client updates went out by email — when someone remembered — and approvals meant chasing people by phone.

With no single source of truth, completed work had to be re-entered by hand before it could be invoiced, and anything that slipped through simply never got billed. Every new client and every new field technician added more threads, more tabs, and more calls. The business was growing; the workarounds were not.

What Velantra Built

We built a centralised operational software platform designed around how their team actually works — not a generic tool they would have to bend their processes around.

• Drag-and-drop scheduling — dispatchers plan and re-plan jobs visually, with conflicts surfaced before they happen
• Mobile job completion for field staff — data captured on site once, with zero duplication back at the office
• Automated client notifications — the kind of automation and integration work that removes repetitive updates from the team’s day entirely
• A customer portal where clients check job status and invoicing themselves instead of calling in
• A real-time management dashboard — visibility across the whole business at a glance
• Integration with their existing accounting software, so completed work flows straight into billing

The Results

Six months after launch, Velantra had reduced the company’s coordination overhead by 74%, the team was scheduling 3.2× more jobs per week, missed billing for the quarter stood at €0, and the operations director’s daily coordination time had dropped from six hours to 45 minutes.

How We Got There

• Discovery — we mapped their operations in detail: tools, workflows, pain points, and goals. No generic intake forms.
• Architecture — we designed the system before writing a single line of code, and the client reviewed and approved everything.
• Build — iterative development with weekly demos, so the team saw progress continuously rather than months later.
• Launch — staged rollout, staff training, and full documentation, hands-on through adoption.
• Evolve — an ongoing partnership; the platform keeps growing alongside the business.

Related Services

• Operational software platforms — end-to-end systems that replace spreadsheets, email threads, and manual processes
• Customer portals and self-service — branded portals where clients book, track, and manage their account
• Automation and integrations — connecting systems and eliminating repetitive work automatically

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