--- title: AI assistant for septic pumping reminders and invoices description: Septic pumping intervals you set, quotes, and invoices from ChatGPT or Claude. The first $1,000 you're paid each month is free. Above that we take 0.5%, up to $149 in a month. No subscription. url: https://doingwork.work/for/septic/ --- # AI assistant for septic pumping reminders and invoices Septic work is a long gap and then a full day: a pump-out, sometimes a repair, sometimes an alarm that will not stop. Doing Work can remember the gap you set and hold the quote for the day you go. ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok does the typing after you connect https://doingwork.work/mcp. Quote or invoice lines the assistant drafted stay unsent until a person whose role may send them sends them. The owner can always send quotes, invoices and visit recaps. Office can send them for any job, a lead for jobs on their crew, and field for jobs assigned to them, until the owner turns that send off. ## The interval is yours Add a service due on the customer, title it in plain words, put the next date, and set the repeat in months. Three years is 36 if that is your rule for that tank. Two years is 24. The software will not pick. When you turn service-due email on, they get one email ahead of the date, 14 days unless you choose another gap from 1 to 60. No text. People on the do-not-email list are skipped. You still have to book the visit. The email is not a booking. A maintenance plan is separate. Use it if you bill an inspection every year and the pumping stays on its own due date. The plan's term is 1 to 60 months. The assistant can draft the price. The assistant only proposes that price. The owner or office confirms it. An owner or office person sets the price immediately. The next invoice is created when the term ends, and it is sent only if auto-send is on. ## The day you pump The visit brief can show the last notes, the last photos of the lid, and the equipment record if you saved the alarm panel. Take new photos. Tag them if you want them easy to find. A quote for pumping versus a repair belongs in options, at your prices. If you open the tank and the job changes, write a change order. Do not quietly edit a quote they already signed. A signed quote is locked. Disposal of the load is an expense you type, disposal category, with the receipt. There is no route of tanks for Doing Work to order, and there should not be. This is not a weekly loop. A crew, if you bring one, is two people who both have to be free. There is no app to install on the truck. ## Tell the assistant - "Set a pumping due date 36 months from the job we just finished, and do not email them until I turn reminders on." - "Who is due in the next 30 days?" - "Draft a pump-out quote and a repair option. Use my prices. Do not send." - "Save the alarm panel model and serial on the equipment, from this photo." [Quickstart](https://doingwork.work/docs/quickstart/) and [/ai/](https://doingwork.work/ai/). The reminder tool is off by default on purpose, which is also written on [the docs overview](https://doingwork.work/docs/). ## Price The first $1,000 you're paid each month is free. Above that we take 0.5%, up to $149 in a month. No subscription. [Pricing](https://doingwork.work/docs/pricing/). [Jobber](https://doingwork.work/docs/compare/jobber/), [Housecall Pro](https://doingwork.work/docs/compare/housecall-pro/), [ServiceTitan](https://doingwork.work/docs/compare/servicetitan/). ## Questions owners ask Septic owners ask how to remember a tank without pretending it is a weekly route. ### What AI assistant can remind septic customers when pumping is due? Doing Work can record the next due date and repeat it on the months you set. A reminder email goes only if you turn service-due email on. It is one email, 14 days before by default. Quote or invoice lines the assistant drafted stay unsent until a person whose role may send them sends them. The owner can always send quotes, invoices and visit recaps. Office can send them for any job, a lead for jobs on their crew, and field for jobs assigned to them, until the owner turns that send off. The first $1,000 you're paid each month is free. Above that we take 0.5%, up to $149 in a month. No subscription. ### Is pumping a weekly route? No. Do not book it as a weekly visit. A repeating visit is daily, weekly, or monthly, which is the wrong shape for a tank you pump every few years. Service due, with a repeat you choose, is the fit. You book the actual visit when the customer picks a day. ### Can I quote a pump-out and a repair on the same link? Yes. Options on one quote, prices you set. They sign on the link and can pay a deposit. A baffle repair found later is a change order, held until the owner or office sends it. ### Where do lid photos and alarm panels go? Photos on the job, with a summary. An alarm panel can also be equipment on the property: make, model, serial, install date, warranty. Notes about access, such as a gate code, stay internal. ### Does the software know my county's pumping interval? No. You type the number of months. Doing Work does not look up a local rule, a tax rate, or a permit fee. A permit fee you paid can be an expense in the permit category.