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The honest comparison · Hotline
Anyone who urgently needs help picks up the phone — and that should stay that way. But the routine fault at the device never takes that route: find the number, wait in the queue, dictate the device. So the report simply doesn't happen. This comparison shows, without the sales pitch, what the hotline delivers, what stays unreported — and how a QR reporting path brings the two together.
Two routes, the same fault
It isn't the fault that costs the most — the route you expect of the person reporting decides whether anything gets reported at all.
Calling the hotline
Ties up two people — the reporter and your staff
Only what can't be avoided any longer gets reported. The routine fault runs on.
A scan at the device
Under a minute — no staff tied up
At night, at the weekend, from visitors too — documented instead of dictated.
The reporter needs neither an app nor an account — that's exactly why they report at all.
What the hotline does well
An honest comparison starts with what the status quo gets right. When someone is in an urgent situation, another person on the phone is irreplaceable: they steady things, ask the follow-up question, decide. Complex cases too — "somehow it's all broken at once" — get sorted faster in a conversation than in any form.
So the question isn't "hotline or QR?". The question is why your most expensive resource — a person on the phone — spends the day taking routine reports that a scan captures more completely in thirty seconds.
What stays unreported
The flickering light box, the sticking elevator, the empty dispenser: whoever is standing in front of it is rarely in urgent need — they're on their way somewhere else. For that situation a phone call is simply too expensive: find the number, wait, describe. So the obvious thing happens — nothing.
Then there's the timing: faults don't keep office hours. And the staffing: every call taken ties up someone who writes it down, transfers it and assigns it. The QR reporting path picks up exactly these cases — complete, assigned, and without your phone ringing.
Frequently asked questions
No, and it shouldn't. The hotline stays the right route for urgent and complex cases. The QR reporting path catches the routine reports that today never arrive at all — and takes load off exactly the people who are needed on the phone.
We can only give you a credible number after your pilot — it depends on how many of today's calls are routine reports. The mechanism behind it is simple, though: every report that comes in by scan is a call nobody has to take, note down and assign. That's why we recommend starting with one location — the analysis shows it in black and white.
Nothing changes for them — the hotline number can sit on the report point and stays reachable. The QR route is an additional door, not a locked old one.
ServiceID costs from €0.50 per device and month, plus a one-time setup fee — no contract lock-in. What a call taken costs you, you know better than we do: staff time for answering, noting, transferring and following up, per case. The fault-cost calculator sets the two side by side.
By email to the mailboxes you define — structured, with device, location, topic, photo and timestamp. Any ticket system with an email inbox turns it into a case automatically; your processes behind it stay untouched.
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