PROFILING SERVICE PROVIDER COMPANIES AND TECHNICIANS
Described herein is technology for, among other things, an electronic services marketplace. The technology involves creating and populating user accounts associated with service provider companies, where the user accounts include service provider company profiles. The technology further involves creating and populating technician profiles corresponding to the technicians of the service provider companies and associating the service provider company profiles with the corresponding technician profiles. The technology further involves receiving a request for services from a buyer, determining whether any of the technicians are able to perform the requested services, assigning the request for service to a particular technician that is able to perform the requested services, and routing payment for the requested service to a financial account associated with the service provider company associated with the particular technician.
1 . A method for managing a service provider network, the service provider network including a plurality of service provider companies, each of the service provider companies having a plurality of technicians associated therewith, the method comprising:
creating user accounts associated with the service provider companies, the user accounts including service provider company profiles;
receiving from the service provider companies respective contact information, respective service information describing one or more categories of services the respective service provider companies offer, and respective financial account information;
populating the service provider company profiles with the contact information, the service information, and the financial account information;
receiving technician information specific to each of the technicians, the technician information including specific services that the technicians are able to perform;
creating technician profiles corresponding to the technicians;
populating the technician profiles with the technician information;
associating the service provider company profiles with the corresponding technician profiles;
receiving a request for services from a buyer;
determining whether any of the technicians are able to perform the requested services;
assigning the request for service to a particular technician that is able to perform the requested services; and
routing payment for the requested service to a financial account associated with the service provider company associated with the particular technician.
2 . The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:
receiving insurance information from the service provider companies; and
populating the service provider company profiles with the insurance information.
3 . The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:
receiving from the service provider companies license information corresponding to one or more licenses held by the service provider company; and
populating the service provider company profiles with the license information.
4 . The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the technician information comprises schedule availability of the respective technician.
5 . The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the technician information comprises schedule availability of the respective technician.
6 . The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the technician information comprises the respective technician's skills.
7 . The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the technician information comprises a dispatch radius of the respective technician.
8 . The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:
performing background checks on the technicians based on the technician information; and
populating the technician profiles with results of the background checks.
9 . The method as recited in claim 1 farther comprising:
providing a list of the technicians that are able to perform the requested services to the buyer;
receiving from the buyer a request for details of the service provider company corresponding to one of the technicians; and
providing to the buyer at least a portion of the profile of the service provider company corresponding to the selected technician.
10 . The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:
providing a list of the technicians that are able to perform the requested services to the buyer;
receiving from the buyer a request for additional information associated with one of the technicians; and
providing to the buyer at least a portion of the profile of the selected technician.
11 . The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:
providing a list of the technicians that are able to perform the requested services to the buyer; and
receiving a selection of the particular technician.
12 . A computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code stored thereon for causing a computer system to execute a method for managing a service provider database, the service provider network including a plurality of service provider companies, each of the service provider companies having a plurality of technicians associated therewith, the method comprising:
creating user accounts associated with the service provider companies, the user accounts including service provider company profiles;
receiving from the service provider companies respective contact information, respective service information describing one or more categories of services the respective service provider companies offer, and respective financial account information;
populating the service provider company profiles with the contact information, the service information, and the financial account information;
receiving technician information specific to each of the technicians, the technician information including specific services that the technicians are able to perform;
creating technician profiles corresponding to the technicians;
populating the technician profiles with the technician information;
associating the service provider company profiles with the corresponding technician profiles;
receiving a request for services from a buyer;
determining whether any of the technicians are able to perform the requested services;
assigning the request for service to a particular technician that is able to perform the requested services; and
routing payment for the requested service to a financial account associated with the service provider company associated with the particular technician.
13 . The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 12 , wherein the method further comprises:
receiving insurance information from the service provider companies; and
populating the service provider company profiles with the insurance information.
14 . The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 12 , wherein the method further comprises:
receiving from the service provider companies license information corresponding to one or more licenses held by the service provider company; and
populating the service provider company profiles with the license information.
15 . The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 12 , wherein the technician information comprises schedule availability of the respective technician.
16 . The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 12 , wherein the technician information comprises schedule availability of the respective technician.
17 . The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 12 , wherein the technician information comprises the respective technician's skills.
18 . The method as recited in claim 12 , wherein the technician information comprises a dispatch radius of the respective technician.
19 . The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 12 , wherein the method further comprises:
performing background checks on the technicians based on the technician information; and
populating the technician profiles with results of the background checks.
20 . The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 12 , wherein the method further comprises:
providing a list of the technicians that are able to perform the requested services to the buyer;
receiving from the buyer a request for details of the service provider company corresponding to one of the technicians; and
providing to the buyer at least a portion of the profile of the service provider company corresponding to the selected technician.
21 . The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 12 , wherein the method further comprises:
providing a list of the technicians that are able to perform the requested services to the buyer;
receiving from the buyer a request for additional information associated with one of the technicians; and
providing to the buyer at least a portion of the profile of the selected technician.
22 . The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 12 , wherein the method further comprises:
providing a list of the technicians that are able to perform the requested services to the buyer; and
receiving a selection of the particular technician.