Mobile & Field Applications
Apps for the people doing the work, not just the office.
The problem
Field teams report on paper or WhatsApp, so the office finds out what happened a day late.
How we solve it
Offline-capable mobile apps for delivery, service, inventory and inspection, synced to the same backend as your dashboards.
Business impact
Real-time field visibility and paperless reporting. Typical return: 25–45% faster job cycles.
What is included
What actually breaks
The field team reports on paper, on WhatsApp, or by calling the office. A delivery is confirmed by a photo in a group chat that scrolls away. Job sheets get filled in at the end of the day from memory, so timestamps are approximate and disputes are unwinnable. The office finds out what happened on site a day later, and the person keying it into the system is the same person trying to schedule tomorrow.
How we build it
The design starts from connectivity, not screens. Data a technician needs is cached on the device, writes land in a local queue first, and the app stays usable with the radio off, because a basement, a warehouse aisle and a rural site all behave the same way. Every record carries a client-generated ID and a device timestamp, so a job submitted twice on reconnect does not become two jobs. Apps are React Native with Expo in TypeScript, sharing types with the Node.js backend so a schema change breaks the build instead of the field team.
What goes wrong on these projects
Adoption, usually. An app that takes eleven taps to log a job loses to WhatsApp, so screen count is a design constraint rather than a detail. Devices are the second problem: field hardware is old, storage is full, and battery policy on some Android builds kills background sync. Third, offline sync surfaces data quality issues that paper hid, because paper never told anyone two people had closed the same job.
What changes after
The office sees work as it is completed, with a timestamp and a location instead of a recollection. Paper reporting stops. Job cycles typically run 25–45% faster, mostly because the handoff between field and office disappears.
Questions we get asked first
iOS and Android?
Both, from a single React Native codebase, which keeps one app under maintenance instead of two diverging ones. Foxquart also handles store submission and release management for both platforms, so shipping an update to field staff does not become an internal project every time something changes.
Will it work without signal?
Yes. Foxquart field apps are offline-first: data is stored on the device and syncs back with conflict-safe handling once connectivity returns. That matters for delivery, service, inventory and inspection work, where the job happens in a basement, a warehouse aisle or a site with no usable coverage.
Does the app connect to our existing systems?
Yes. Foxquart field apps sync to the same backend as your dashboards, so a job completed on a phone updates the same records your office team is reading. That is the difference between real-time field visibility and an office that finds out what happened a day late.
Who handles App Store and Play Store submission?
Foxquart does, as part of delivery. Store submission and ongoing release management are included rather than handed back to you at the end, along with push notification workflows for dispatch and status updates. Your team is not left decoding store review rejections on its own.
Will field staff actually use it?
They use it when it beats the paper. Foxquart builds field apps for the people doing the work rather than for the office view of that work, with offline capture, scanning and push updates. Job cycles typically run 25–45% faster once reporting stops going through paper and WhatsApp.
How much does a field service app cost to build?
There is no published price, because scope decides it. Foxquart starts with a fixed-price discovery that defines the workflows, offline behaviour and integrations, then delivery is scoped as fixed-price phases or a dedicated team retainer. Cost is agreed per stage rather than as one number at the start.
