For the owner of a US fire protection contractor with technicians on the road, and for the facilities manager who has to produce the building's inspection file when the fire marshal walks in.Not for a general trades contractor wanting a dispatch board, not for a fire department, and not for a homeowner buying an extinguisher.
A fire protection contractor does not lose money on the visit. It loses money on the visit nobody scheduled, the deficiency nobody came back for, and the report nobody can find when the fire marshal asks. Every one of those is a date: portable extinguishers are visually inspected monthly and get an annual maintenance check whose date has to be recorded and kept for a year; a sprinkler system's main drain flow test is annual and its inspector's test valve is opened at least every two years; standpipe hose systems are inspected at least annually and after each use; fixed suppression containers are weighed at least semi-annually. Those are the federal floor, and the standard your AHJ enforces will ask for more. Hydrantly keeps every building, every system in it, every one of those dates and every open deficiency on one record, and ships the two documents the visit produces free.
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Dates, systems, deficiencies
Monthly extinguisher visuals, an annual maintenance check, an annual main drain flow test, the inspector's test valve every two years, containers weighed semi-annually. Put a system on a building and its next date is arithmetic rather than memory.
A deficiency raised on a visit stays open against its building and its system until a later visit clears it. That is the list that turns an inspection contract into return work, and it is the one most often lost between a notebook and a spreadsheet.
OSHA requires the annual extinguisher maintenance date be recorded and kept for a year, available on request. Every report and checklist you produce here stays against its building, so producing the file is a search rather than a hunt.
If you want a dispatch board, a CRM and invoicing across a mixed trade business, buy a field service suite; several are good and they all sell to fire contractors. Hydrantly is for the contractor whose product is the interval: what falls due, on which system, in which building, and what is still open on it.
| Hydrantly | A general field service suite | |
|---|---|---|
| What the schedule is built from | The inspection interval on each system, so the next date is derived | A job on a calendar, entered by a person |
| Where a deficiency lives | Open against its system and its building until a visit clears it | Usually a note on a closed work order |
| What the record has to show | The date each system was last inspected and when it next falls due | What was done and what was billed |
| What you do before you get an answer | Nothing: both documents are open and free | Usually a demo call, sometimes a trial clock |
Nothing on this row names another product's price. We do not publish figures we have not measured and dated ourselves, and field service pricing is quoted per seat on a call.
Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
Pro keeps the round: the buildings, the systems, the due dates and the deficiencies, so the schedule builds itself and nothing falls off the end of a year.
$49 per month, whole team
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