WATER DAMAGE MITIGATION & RESTORATION
Water damage restoration software for the contractor running the business — not the documentation.
From the 2 AM burst-pipe call to the daily psychrometric drying log to the deductible at signature. FieldCamp models the way a mitigation shop actually works — not a documentation tool that stops at the report, not generic FSM with a category swap.
Trusted by water-damage mitigation contractors
from a two-truck independent to a multi-state operator.
01 The water-loss data model
Property → Loss → Affected Room → Drying Equipment — finally one record.
FieldCamp ships a restoration layout with typed custom objects: carrier, claim number, adjuster, category, class, drying goal MC, equipment serial — structured fields, not a notes-field dump. It doubles as your restoration CRM — homeowner, carrier, adjuster, and property manager on one record.
The canonical Property data model sits underneath. Stages & Workflows enforce Inspect → Mitigate → Dry → Restore phasing, and carrier, claim #, and adjuster live as Custom Fields on the Property — every estimate, photo, and invoice linked to the right loss.
Temp
92°F
RH
38%
Dew pt
64°F
GPP
112
MC
16%
Loss approaching 48-hour mold-watch threshold. Master Bedroom MC unchanged at 16% · escalate to S520 protocol?
Linked records
Drying Equipment links to the Affected Room. Rooms link to the Loss. Losses link to the Property. Open one property and see every loss, room, daily reading, and visit in place.
Typed fields
Carrier, claim #, adjuster, category, class, drying goal moisture content — structured fields with real types, never a notes-field dump.
Mold-watch is a field
Each Affected Room tracks days since baseline; cross 48 hours without MC drop and a Workflow fires before the adjuster does.
Shared record views
One record per property and loss — drying log, photos, carrier docs, files. The same view your CSRs, dispatchers, techs, and the adjuster review.
02 24/7 emergency intake
The 2 AM burst-pipe call — answered, triaged, and on the board before your dispatcher's coffee.
Your branded online booking form is the front door. The AI Chat Assistant runs a Playbook that triages the loss — Cat 1 vs Cat 2 vs Cat 3, room count, carrier on file — then hands off to a human dispatcher with the request already qualified.
The call, SMS, WhatsApp thread, and AI conversation land on one unified inbox , and the qualified inquiry becomes a Request with urgency Critical — one click from a Job.
AI Chat Assistant runs the Playbook · hands off to a human dispatcher · not a fully autonomous receptionist.
Sarah Park · burst supply line, upstairs laundry · 3 rooms affected · State Farm carrier · Cat 2 likely · ETA-sensitive.
AI Chat
02:14 AMPlaybook qualified Sarah Park · Cat 2 / 3 rooms / State Farm
Inbound call
02:18 AM · 3:42AI summary: "Burst supply line, 3 rooms, State Farm, ETA-sensitive."
SMS
02:21 AM"Confirmed Tariq arriving 02:47."
03 Skill-aware emergency dispatch
Route the loss to your closest IICRC-certified tech — not the closest pin.
AI Dispatcher matches the loss to a technician on three dimensions, not one: certification (WRT, ASD, AMRT), zone, and real driving distance. Hierarchical Skills hold each tech's IICRC certifications, so a Cat 3 sewage loss never lands on a tech who can't legally complete it.
24/7 schedules and service-area zones keep after-hours rotations honest. Each loss files as a high-priority job type, and live GPS plus a homeowner-facing ETA link turn "how soon?" into "Tariq's truck is 22 minutes out."
Hierarchical skills: WRT → +ASD → +AMRT. Loss type filters to qualified techs only.
Tariq B. · 22 min drive
WRT + ASD + AMRT certified
Cat 2 with mold-watch risk (48hr from threshold).
AMRT cert required for potential S520 escalation.
Diana K. closer but no AMRT — risk of re-dispatch in 36hr.
Tariq B.
WRT + ASD + AMRT
22 min
Track his truck · refresh 30s
fc.link/eta/x42 · login-free
04 The daily drying log
An S500-shaped checklist that runs on the tech's phone — even with no signal in the basement.
FieldCamp's Job Forms turn the IICRC S500 daily drying log into a digital checklist — dry-bulb, RH, dew point, GPP, equipment placement, customer initials — plus per-room moisture readings. Techs complete forms on the phone with photos, signatures, and offline sync.
The admin form builder holds the template. Each daily check is one Visit on the parent Job, and Job Logs with custom log templates capture labor, mileage, and expenses per Visit. FieldCamp doesn't connect direct to your Protimeter or Delmhorst — readings are typed or dictated, and the meter-face photo attaches as evidence.
BlueRidge Restoration
Cat 2 / Class 2 daily drying log
Chamber readings
Per-room MC
Upstairs Laundry
A 12% · B 11% · C 12%
Hallway
A 13% · B 13% · C 12%
Master Bedroom
A 16% · B 16% · C 17%
Unchanged from Day 1
Equipment placement
DEH-217
AM-031
HEP-04
Customer ack · SP
Readings are typed or voice-dictated. No moisture-meter Bluetooth/OCR claim — photo of the meter face attaches as evidence.
Per-loss profitability rollup
Days
3 of est 5
Labor cost
$385
Equipment-days billed
9
Margin estimate
+$2,140
Mold-watch · Master Bedroom MC unchanged 48hr. Auto-task Tariq to take a fresh thermal reading + email adjuster Lisa Chen with the Day 3 summary?
05 Multi-day drying as one job
A 5-day water loss is one Job with five Visits — phasing, photos, readings stay together.
A water loss is one Multi-day Job with one Visit per drying day — Inspect & Extract, Set Containment, Daily Drying Checks, Equipment Pickup, Final Reading. Stages & Workflows require signatures and photos before a phase advances.
The multi-day setup guide walks through reusable templates like "Water Loss · Cat 2 / 1500 sqft." Conflict detection stops double-booked drying checks, and a mold-watch Workflow fires when an Affected Room's MC hasn't moved in 48 hours.
Visits · 5 of 5
Visit 1
Day 0Tariq B.
✓ Signed
Visit 2
Day 2Diana K.
✓ Signed
Visit 3
Day 3Tariq B.
Visit 4
Day 4Diana K.
Visit 5
Day 5Tariq B.
Drying days elapsed
3
Avg MC trend
−18%
Equipment on site
5 units
Days against goal
+1
Mold-watch checkpoint at 48hr → triggers Workflow
Auto-task tech to re-inspect Master Bedroom + email adjuster Lisa Chen with the day's readings.
06 Your drying-equipment fleet
80 dehus, 200 air movers, and the warehouse manager finally knows where they are.
Each dehumidifier, air mover, and HEPA scrubber is a record. Inventory Management tracks the fleet across warehouse and truck, and a Drying Equipment custom object ties each serialized unit to its Affected Room — no GPS chip required; location moves with the Visit.
Custom Fields hold brand, model, serial, and calibration-due date; on-site days roll up to billable equipment-day line items via Job Logs .
Warehouse · Westport
Truck #4 · Diana K.
Deployed at 412 Riverside Dr
Linked · Visit 3Deployed · 412 Riverside Dr
Location is a field, not a GPS chip. Same primitive as Property and Affected Room.
07 Good-better-best estimate
Three options. One signature. The work starts before the floor finishes draining.
Estimate Options support good/better/best tiers — frame them as Mitigate-Only, Mitigate + Restore, Full Build-back — and the homeowner picks one on the spot. Equipment-day pricing comes from the price book and bundles; signatures with timestamp and audit trail close the Work Authorization on the tech's phone.
Build from a saved template, attach the Work Authorization terms, and the approved tier converts via estimate → job → invoice — carrier and claim number stay linked to the Property via Custom Fields.
State Farm claim #45-AA-9921
Mitigate-Only
Drying + extraction + containment
Declined
$4,820
Mitigate + Restore
★ Best valuePlus drywall, paint, flooring
✓ e-signed · Day 0 · 03:47 AM
$12,640
Full Build-back
Plus cabinetry, millwork
$28,300
Customer authorization · Work Authorization Form
Custom Fields on Property
Carrier and claim # are Custom Fields on the Property — every photo and invoice stays linked to the right loss.
08 Deductible at signature. Invoice at drying-end.
Get paid faster than the adjuster reviews.
Collect the deductible as a deposit at work start via Stripe-powered online card payments (plus manual cash/check). The mitigation invoice goes out the moment the final reading is signed, drying-log PDF and photo evidence attached for the carrier.
With Stripe connected to your account, auto-deducting payments handle progress invoicing through the build-back, and everything syncs two-way to QuickBooks, Xero, or Wave on the Pro plan — no double entry.
Deductible · $2,500.00
Sarah Park · State Farm deductible
Stripe online card
pay.fc.link/deductible-3104
INV-7220 · State Farm claim #45-AA-9921
Progress invoice · $6,320
Build-back 50% complete
Progress
Stripe online card + deposits + manual cash/check + recurring auto-pay. FieldCamp's docs do not currently confirm Tap-to-Pay, Apple Pay, or ACH bank transfer.
09 The adjuster keeps up
Every drying day, the adjuster gets the readings, photos, and equipment justification — without your office calling.
A Workflow triggered on Visit-complete builds a Visit Summary PDF from that day's readings, photos, and equipment placement, then emails it to the adjuster on file.
Drying logs and photo evidence live on the Property's Files & Drive tab — the subrogation packet is already assembled. Adjuster name, email, and claim # sit on the Property as Custom Fields , and workflow examples plus pre-built workflow templates get you live in an afternoon.
Visit complete
Fires when a Visit on a Water Loss Job is signed off
Job type = Water Loss AND Adjuster Email exists
Generate Visit Summary PDF (readings, equipment placement, photos)
Email PDF to {{Property.Adjuster Email}} subject: Day {{Visit.day}} drying update · 412 Riverside Dr
Log activity to Property timeline
BlueRidge Restoration
Day 1 · drying update — 412 Riverside Dr
BlueRidge Restoration
Day 2 · drying update — 412 Riverside Dr
BlueRidge Restoration
Day 3 · drying update — 412 Riverside Dr · mold-watch flagged
412 Riverside Dr · Cat 2 · Tariq B.
Temp
92°F
RH
38%
GPP
112
3 rooms · 8 photos · mold-watch alert · equipment placement
10 After the dry
Mit ends, rebuild begins, and the same property record carries through to a 30/60/90-day mold re-check.
Build-back runs as a multi-phase project on the Construction data model — demo, drywall, paint, flooring, final inspection — with subcontractors and change orders. Permits attach to the sub-phases that need an AHJ inspection.
Once the rebuild closes, Recurring Jobs spin up 30/60/90-day mold re-inspections automatically, reconstruction material warranties live on the Warranties record, and the Command Center AI chat answers "show restoration jobs with re-inspection due this week."
PRJ-218 · BlueRidge Build-back
412 Riverside Dr · Day 22 of est 28
Caldera Drywall
2 crew· Approved
Westport Flooring
1 crew· Scheduled
AHJ packet
Permit BLD-2026-9921 · Drywall stamped
Every 30 days for 3 months
"Show all restoration jobs with re-inspection due this week."
412 Riverside Dr · Day 30 · Sep 14
28 Lighthouse Ln · Day 60 · Sep 16
119 Marsh Rd · Day 90 · Sep 17
Material warranties tracked
11 Capabilities
Everything else a restoration shop runs on, on one platform.
Built around the mitigation lifecycle — not bolted on. No swivel-chair between five tools, no spreadsheet for who has which dehu. WhatsApp for property managers, call recordings with AI summaries for the after-hours review, and add-ons for AI Dispatcher, online booking, and voice. Every tile below links to its docs.
Multi-day Job phasing
Inspect → Mitigate → Dry → Restore as enforced Stages with signature gates.
docs · read more →
Mobile Job Forms · offline
Photos + signatures + voice-to-text on the phone, sync when signal returns.
docs · read more →
Live GPS team tracking · 30s refresh
See the closest tech to a new emergency loss with real driving distances.
docs · read more →
Customer Visit Tracking ETA
Login-free homeowner-facing tracker — turns the panicked call into clarity.
docs · read more →
Route Optimization across active losses
Re-sequence daily drying checks + emergency interrupts on one route.
docs · read more →
Inbox v3 + call recordings
Calls, SMS, WhatsApp, email — one thread, AI-prioritized, recordings transcribed.
docs · read more →
AI summaries for clients, jobs, visits
Read the history in a paragraph instead of clicking through twenty rows.
docs · read more →
Custom dashboards · active losses, time-to-dry
Build the active-drying / claim-AR / mold-watch board your service manager runs from.
docs · read more →
Command Center AI chat
Ask in plain English: how many losses still in drying? Who has a deductible owed?
docs · read more →
12 Why it matters
Cycle time — not job count — is the number that decides whether you scale past $3M.
Three reasons restoration contractors switch — and stay. Each point recaps a grounded section above: the lead-to-payment workflow and FieldCamp core building blocks turned into a contractor's lived KPIs.
01
Cycle time is the number.
Documentation tools chase compliance. Estimating tools chase Xactimate. The number that decides whether you scale past $3M is the days between FNOL and invoice paid. FieldCamp threads intake → dispatch → daily drying log → deductible → mitigation invoice → build-back → re-inspection on one record so cycle time stops bleeding to swivel-chair.
02
Adjusters approve what they can defend.
Supplements get kicked back when the equipment line items aren't justified by daily psychrometric readings. FieldCamp's Workflow sends the adjuster the readings, photos, and equipment placement every drying day — without your office calling. The defensible documentation builds itself.
03
You're not Encircle. You're not Xactimate. Stop paying like one.
Encircle and CoreLogic Mitigate own the moisture map and the S500 chart — keep using them if you do. Xactimate is the carrier-side estimating rail — your scope exports there as a PDF. FieldCamp is the contractor's operating system underneath: dispatch, drying coordination, deductible collection, build-back, recurring re-inspections.
13 The other trades we run
Same platform. Every trade you touch.
Adjacent trades that run on the same FieldCamp record — for the multi-service restoration shop.
14 FAQ
Questions restoration contractors actually ask before they switch.
Honest answers for the mitigation contractor comparing FieldCamp to Albi, DASH, JobNimbus, or documentation tools like Encircle and CoreLogic Mitigate. If we don't ship something — Tap-to-Pay, direct Xactimate ESX, autonomous phone receptionist, GPS chips on dehumidifiers — we say so.
Water damage restoration software is the all-in-one operating system that runs a mitigation and restoration shop — 24/7 emergency intake (online booking widget + AI chat assistant + unified inbox for calls/SMS/WhatsApp/email), AI dispatch routed by IICRC certification and drive-time, multi-day Job phasing for the 3-7 day drying period, daily psychrometric drying logs as digital Job Forms on the technician's phone, good-better-best estimates with equipment-day bundle pricing, Stripe-powered deductible deposits, mitigation and build-back progress invoicing synced to QuickBooks/Xero/Wave, and an adjuster-facing Workflow that emails the daily reading PDF automatically. FieldCamp is positioned as the contractor's operating system — not a documentation specialist like Encircle or CoreLogic Mitigate, and not the carrier-side Xactimate estimating rail.
No — and we won't pretend otherwise. Encircle Hydro and CoreLogic Mitigate own the moisture map, psychrometric chart UI, and S500-style documentation specialist tooling brilliantly. FieldCamp captures the daily readings (temperature, RH, dew point, GPP, moisture content) as numeric fields on a Job Form via the digital checklist system, links Drying Equipment as a Custom Object to each Affected Room, and turns those readings into an adjuster-ready PDF automatically — but it sits underneath as the contractor's operating system (intake, dispatch, deductible, invoice, build-back, recurring re-inspections). Keep using Encircle or Mitigate if you already do — FieldCamp doesn't replace them.
Not via direct Xactimate ESX or XactAnalysis API sync. FieldCamp exports the drying log, photos, and equipment placement as a PDF/web link the adjuster can review or paste into Xactimate. Insurance carrier and claim # are tracked as Custom Fields on the Property record, so every estimate, invoice, and photo stays linked to the right loss — and the daily Workflow keeps the adjuster current in real time, which is usually what unlocks supplement approval anyway.
The AI Chat Assistant on your booking page runs 24/7 and qualifies the emergency inquiry — when the water started, whether it has touched a drain (Cat 1 vs Cat 2 vs Cat 3), how many rooms, which carrier — then hands off to a human dispatcher who calls back with the ETA. It's a hybrid receptionist (virtual triage + human handoff), not a fully autonomous phone-answering AI. FieldCamp's docs are explicit about the handoff model, so we are too. The unified Inbox v3 routes calls, SMS, WhatsApp, and email into the same thread so the dispatcher has full context the moment they pick up.
Each Affected Room tracks its baseline and daily moisture-content readings. When MC hasn't dropped for 48 hours, a Workflow fires — auto-tasking the technician to re-inspect with a thermal photo and emailing the adjuster the mold-watch alert with the room's reading history. From there you can escalate the Job to your S520 mold-remediation workflow with new Stages — AMRT-certified techs get filtered via Hierarchical Skills on AI Dispatcher so the right person handles the escalation.
Yes. A water loss is a single Multi-day Job with one Visit per drying day — not five disconnected jobs. The Multi-day Jobs overview confirms support for insulation, renovations, and commercial projects, which maps cleanly onto a 3-7 day water-damage drying period. Stages & Workflows enforce phase progression (Inspect & Extract → Set Containment → Daily Drying Checks → Equipment Pickup → Final Reading), conflict detection prevents two visits from double-booking the same Property, and Job Logs roll labor + mileage + equipment-days into the mitigation invoice automatically.
IICRC certifications live as Skills on each technician in AI Dispatcher's Hierarchical Skills system. When a new loss comes in, the dispatcher's recommendation engine filters to qualified techs only — so a Cat 3 sewage loss never lands on a WRT-only tech, and the AMRT-required mold escalation routes to the right person. Skill matching combines with zone, business schedule (24/7 emergency rotations), and real driving distance so the closest pin isn't always the right pin.
Yes — via Stripe-powered online card payments, with the deductible structured as a Deposit at work start. The customer signs the Work Authorization on the technician's phone (with timestamp + audit trail), pays the deposit via the emailed Stripe link, and the deposit applies to the mitigation invoice automatically. To be precise about what we ship: FieldCamp's payments docs confirm Stripe online card + deposits + recurring auto-pay + manual cash/check — they do not currently confirm Tap-to-Pay, Apple Pay, or ACH. Two-way sync to QuickBooks, Xero, or Wave is included on the Pro plan.
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