Describe your services, prices, and scheduling rules. Makeform creates an order form for property details, access, add-ons, preferred times, acknowledgment, and payment.
Route new orders to email, Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for your inspection business
Tailor a sample prompt and send it to the builder. The preview is an example structure, not an inspection report.
Audience
Home buyers ordering a standard inspection
Format
Service order with scheduling and online payment
Prompt size
329 chars
Example order form structure
Service order with scheduling and online payment
Buyer and agent contact details
Property address and characteristics
Preferred inspection dates
Inspection services and add-ons
Order total and payment
Suggested routing tags
New orders
Access follow-up
Payment pending
Ask separately for the property address and the client's billing contact; the person paying is not always the buyer attending the inspection.
Step 1
Order
client, property, service, and deadline
Step 2
Qualify
scope, access, price, and travel area checked
Step 3
Schedule
appointment confirmed with all contacts
Step 4
Inspect
paid order becomes the job record
From inquiry to booked job
Capture the property, deadline, access, services, and payment status together.
Request property type, age, size, units, occupancy, outbuildings, and utilities before confirming a time.
Present base inspections and add-ons clearly, with conditional questions for each selection.
Send contacts, preferred times, deadline, acknowledgment, and payment status to the scheduler.
Orders for common inspection jobs
Show questions that match the selected job.
Coordinate agents, deadlines, attendance, and report delivery.
Gather seller access, utilities, timing, and report contacts.
Branch into units, occupancy, extra buildings, and access.
Match inspection milestones with builder and site details.
Build your ordering workflow
Set your pricing and coordination rules, then test every branch before sharing.
List services, add-ons, travel questions, property factors, payment policy, and scheduling requirements.
Require the address and deadline, separate contacts, and reveal relevant property or add-on questions.
Test each service combination, calculation, acknowledgment, confirmation, and payment path.
Route orders by area or type so staff can confirm availability without re-keying details.
Order form vs generic contact form
A purpose-built order collects the scope, price, access, timing, and payment details needed to schedule.
Field guide
These six groups turn an inquiry into a usable job request. Match them to your pricing and scheduling process.
People and roles
Collect the client first, then identify each buyer, seller, agent, tenant, builder, or access contact involved.
Property profile
Property type, age, size, units, occupancy, and additional structures help staff review the job scope.
Services and pricing
Use clear service choices and conditional follow-ups for add-ons such as radon testing, sewer scope, or pool inspection.
Timing and access
Ask for the deadline, occupancy, access method, utilities, pets, and the person who can resolve entry problems.
Review and acknowledgment
Show your agreement, scope, access expectations, rescheduling terms, and cancellation policy before checkout.
Payment and confirmation
Place payment after the total and acknowledgment. Confirm the request and explain that staff will verify availability.
Related tools
Add forms that support work before and after the site visit.
FAQ
Answers for companies replacing incomplete inquiries.
It is the form a client completes to request an inspection. It records contacts, property facts, deadline, services, preferred times, access, acknowledgment, price, and payment for staff review.
Require client contact details, address, property type, size, age when known, occupancy, service, deadline, preferred times, and access contact. Also require any facts that affect price or duration.
Yes. Present your services with concise descriptions and prices. Use conditional questions for each add-on, and test every combination so totals and required details stay accurate.
Yes. Place payment after services, total, and acknowledgment. State whether you collect a deposit or full amount, test complete and incomplete paths, and keep payment status with the order.
Treat it as a request unless availability is checked during submission. Tell clients that staff will verify the inspector, travel time, scope, and access before confirming.
Give the client, agents, seller or tenant, and access contact separate fields. Ask about lockbox or gate instructions, notice, pets, utilities, and attendance. Limit sensitive access details to necessary notifications.
Yes. Makeform includes unlimited free forms and responses for generating, editing, publishing, and receiving orders. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Send the client a summary and notify the scheduler. Review scope, deadline, location, services, access, acknowledgment, and payment status before confirming. Route incomplete orders for follow-up.
Replace incomplete inspection inquiries.
