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Who Handles Billing: Office Roles and Daily Billing Habits in a Small Garage Door Company

In a one-van garage door company, the owner does the billing because the owner does everything. Add a part-time office person, a spouse who helps with the books or a second tech, and suddenly billing has more than one pair of hands on it. That is good, as long as everyone knows who does what. Without clear roles, invoices get missed because each person thought the other one handled it.

Billing Gets Shared as You Grow

The cash-flow habits in Cash Flow for a One-Van Garage Door Business: Getting Paid the Day You Do the Work work best when one person owns them. This guide is about keeping that ownership clear when more people are involved.

GarageDoorBossPro has office user roles, so you can decide who has access to what in the office, and employees with personal PINs and van assignments for the field. The goal is simple: the people who need to see billing can, and the people who do not, do not.

What Techs Do, and Do Not Do

Techs drive billing without handling it. Their part:

• Log in to the tech app with the company login and their own PIN, so every job is tied to the right person.
• Note what was found and what the customer approved on site, and let the office know so the lines get added.
• Take before-and-after photos and run the door safety inspection checklist when it is part of the job.
• Tap Complete, which creates the invoice and can charge the card on file.

What techs should not do: collect card numbers, take cash on the side or negotiate prices that are not on your service list. Keeping them out of money handling keeps routes on time and keeps things clean.

What the Office Does

The office person, or the owner wearing the office hat, owns everything between Complete and paid. A daily routine might be:

• Morning: Look over yesterday's completed jobs. Did every job get the right lines? Did any card fail?
• Through the day: Add lines when techs report approved add-ons. Text customers whose card did not go through, pointing them to the customer app.
• End of day: Check that deposit invoices went out for any new doors approved today.
• Weekly: Review reports for what was invoiced, paid and still owed, and look at past-due accounts.
• Monthly: Make sure monthly statements for property managers, HOAs and commercial accounts went out and were paid.

Why Roles Matter for Billing

Billing involves customer payment information, prices and money owed. Not everyone in the office needs access to all of it. A person who books calls and answers texts may not need billing. A bookkeeper who handles invoices may not need to dispatch. Office user roles let you set that up deliberately instead of giving everyone the owner's login.

The same goes for the field. When a tech leaves, turning off their PIN turns off their access. Their past jobs and the invoices those jobs created stay on record.

Keeping Card Numbers Out of Everyone's Hands

The cleanest billing setup is one where nobody in your company ever writes down a card number. Customers save cards themselves through your website sign-up form or the customer app, and update them there when they expire. The office never needs to take a number over the phone, and techs never need to carry a card reader. That keeps sensitive information out of notebooks and text threads, regardless of how many people work for you.

One Owner per Invoice

Even with roles, every open invoice should have one person responsible for getting it paid. In a small company that is usually the office person. When the past-due list comes up, there is no question about who sends the follow-up. Past-due follow-up by text and email handles most of it automatically, and the responsible person handles the rest. More on that in Past-Due Follow-Up: Collecting on Garage Door Invoices Without Awkward Phone Calls.

Clear Roles, Fewer Missed Invoices

Billing goes wrong in small companies not because people are careless, but because nobody was sure whose job it was. Clear roles, a short daily routine and techs who tap Complete on every job fix that. For the rest of the billing system, visit the garage door invoicing software page.