One of the things I’ve been thinking about after the feedback on my previous post is how to actually reduce customer follow-up work, not just give customers another portal.
Today I shipped a small but important part of that:
customers now receive the quotation by email with a secure review link
businesses get notified when a customer approves, declines, or requests changes
customers get email updates when a job reaches important milestones
those emails include a direct job tracking link
The goal is simple: customers shouldn’t need to keep asking “what’s the status?” and the business shouldn’t need to keep answering it manually.
Still need real usage to see whether this actually reduces follow-ups, but at least now the product can test that hypothesis properly.