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Silver Skates Maintenance Service Request & Approval Automation

Intelligent maintenance request automation for Silver Skates that validates submissions, auto-approves routine requests, and routes complex cases through senior technician review, eliminating manual coordination across customers, technicians, and front desk staff.

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Silver Skates Maintenance Service Request & Approval Automation workflow

Context

Silver Skates manually handled maintenance service requests through phone calls and emails, with no structured routing for routine vs. complex repairs, causing delays in approvals, inconsistent customer updates, and no centralized log of request statuses.

Approach

Built three interconnected n8n sub-workflows covering service request intake with smart gatekeeper routing (auto-approve vs. pending review), senior technician decision handling with stakeholder notifications, and a global error handler — all status changes logged to Google Sheets with real-time Gmail and Slack alerts at every decision point.

Architecture

  1. Webhook POST (service request)
  2. Field validation
  3. Gatekeeper branch
  4. Auto-approve path: Google Sheets log
  5. Gmail (Customer + Front Desk)
Pending path
  1. Google Sheets log
  2. Gmail + Slack (Senior Tech)
  3. Gmail (Customer status update)
  4. Webhook GET (tech decision)
  5. Approved: Google Sheets update
  6. Gmail (Customer + Front Desk)
Rejected
  1. Google Sheets update
  2. Gmail (Customer + Front Desk)
  3. Global Error Trigger
  4. Google Sheets error log
  5. Gmail (Owner)

Results

~6 hrs/weekManual coordination time saved
Hours → instantRoutine approval time
0%Status updates missed