The £200,000 a Year Hiding in Your Field Service Business

Take a typical UK field service business — six engineers, six vans, around £500k in annual revenue. The leaks are rarely huge on their own. Stacked together, they're the difference between a tough year and a great one.

We've written one deep-dive for each leak with the maths. Here's the headline number:

Where the money is hiding

• Poor stock control & supply runs — ~£83,000/year (6 engineers × 1 supply run/day)
• Missed calls — ~£18,700/year (2 saved calls/week at £180 avg)
• Route optimisation — ~£49,000/year (Fuel + 1 extra job/van/week)
• Late invoicing — ~£30,000 cash freed (DSO 35 → 12 days)
• Return visits — ~£43,200/year (1 avoided return/engineer/week)
• No-shows — ~£23,400/year (3 prevented no-shows/week)

The total

Recurring annual recovery: ~£217,000. Plus a one-off working-capital release of around £30,000 from faster invoicing and £3,000–£6,000 from clearing dead van stock.

Even if your business is half the size, or you only get half of each number, you're still looking at a Tryoup payback measured in weeks, not years.

Industries we work with

The same maths plays out across locksmiths, plumbers, electricians, cleaning firms, pest control and heating engineers. The trade changes; the leaks don't.