Best platform/wishlist of features for others

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If you could create a hybrid, which features would you combine or borrow from others?

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I just applied for a job that gives a date range for completing jobs and I thought it felt so civilized, lol. It got me thinking about features I like from some MSCs and dislike from others.

With Coyle I like that I can choose a date (obviously within restrictions like no Saturday, etc.) I get a little irked when I click on others and see lots of grayed out dates.

I love when any email shows the payment, oh and location, for the job upfront. I hate clicking, scrolling and reading only to find out it's $8 and one location in Utah.

I love the ability to change a date on my own. CXG makes this pretty easy.

As for a wishlist, one thing I would love would be able to search a particular date. Say I'm going to be in a particular area on Thursday, it would be so awesome to see jobs available on that date.

Hm, I'll list personal likes/wishlist. For now, this is what comes to mind.

Likes:
Coyle's bidding and application process (more advantageous for email chain with a scheduler, but I like you can just bid the amount you want for smaller jobs)
Certain shops - Shop window/range available vs specific shop date, able to change dates (I lean towards these types of shops, if possible)

Wishlist:
Coyle - Display cumulative scores and individual shop scores on website, rather than only emails
Coyle - Able to filter out specific projects (ex. airports)
ISS - Able to preview guidelines before accepting a project
Presto - Able to apply multiple filters
Presto - Unique/distinctive labeling of projects, to be able to narrow in on searches
Sassie - Export payment history (I think ServiceAward mentioned this)
Some smaller MSCs on Shopmetrics - Display the bonus, if there is one. Often, the reimbursement on the overview does not match the detail.
Second to None / CX Group - Streamline grocery report by sections (no longer do these shops, but did not like having to often click a button to go to the next screen)

Edited to reword to wishlist.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/09/2024 02:55PM by Okie.

@Okie wrote:

Hm, I'll list personal likes/wishlist. For now, this is what comes to mind.

Likes:
Coyle's bidding and application process (more advantageous for email chain with a scheduler, but I like you can just bid the amount you want for smaller jobs)
Certain shops - Shop window/range available vs specific shop date, able to change dates (I lean towards these types of shops, if possible)

Wishlist:
Coyle - Display cumulative scores and individual shop scores on website, rather than only emails
Coyle - Able to filter out specific projects (ex. airports)
ISS - Able to preview guidelines before accepting a project
Presto - Able to apply multiple filters
Presto - Unique/distinctive labeling of projects, to be able to narrow in on searches
Sassie - Export payment history (I think ServiceAward mentioned this)
Some smaller MSCs on Shopmetrics - Display the bonus, if there is one. Often, the reimbursement on the overview does not match the detail.
Second to None / CX Group - Streamline grocery report by sections (no longer do these shops, but did not like having to often click a button to go to the next screen)

Edited to reword to wishlist.

Wow, love your whole wishlist. And 1000x yes, please don't make me click all the way through my job to review or change something.

CXG used to be that the survey url changed by question. So you could jump ahead to question 21, etc. I liked that if I wanted to fill something out right after the shop and then come back to it. I only ever just sit down and do the whole job now because I really can't be bothered to jump forwards and backwards.

Exporting payment history would be amazing. I feel like that's a huge positive of CXG.

So solidly agree about Presto too. This dining study, or whatever it is, has made it unusable.

@olympia tennenbaum wrote:

CXG used to be that the survey url changed by question. So you could jump ahead to question 21, etc. I liked that if I wanted to fill something out right after the shop and then come back to it. I only ever just sit down and do the whole job now because I really can't be bothered to jump forwards and backwards.

Exporting payment history would be amazing. I feel like that's a huge positive of CXG.

So solidly agree about Presto too. This dining study, or whatever it is, has made it unusable.

Hm, I need to check out CXG and some other MSCs that people mention often. That's a good way to navigate by updating the link, if it changes.

I thought MFI did a pretty good job exporting payment history to PDF.

I like some features of Presto, but wish it was invested in more. If possible, I try to complete the Presto report back at home on my computer.

@olympia tennenbaum wrote:

With Coyle I like that I can choose a date (obviously within restrictions like no Saturday, etc.) I get a little irked when I click on others and see lots of grayed out dates.

I like that I can choose the date too with Coyle. But for the lobby assignments, why is it that even after I choose the date, the onus is on me to email the scheduler AGAIN to let her know the date? Sometimes I get too busy and didn't see that I was assigned until 1-2 days beforehand, but lose the job because I needed to email the scheduler my date 3-4 days beforehand. what even is the reason there?

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