I’ll be really straightforward. Every business management software you have a tab open for and researching right now says this in one way or another: “Be better than you ever were before!”
We know…
How are you ever supposed to know which one to try? It’s gonna cost money. But worse than the price, you fear no ROI, and the lost time and effort if you make the wrong choice.
Let me tell you a story.
For 10 years we’ve researched all the mainstream landscape business management software tools. We bought the ones we thought would work. We tried, used, unsubscribed, tried something else, tried 3 others, and used them all at once.
We’ve been through the mill.
Don’t get me wrong. Each one of them had a strong point or two. The problem, while difficult to succinctly explain, revolved around this one thing:
None of them served the whole team.
They each did well in their strong points. But none of them served the business from the backend to the frontend.
The one software we were running did pretty well in the back end of the business with building a company budget and estimating.
But zero job costing. So we got another software for that.
Clunky scheduling. So we got another software for that.
No invoicing. So we did it all manually.
No access to client info, and difficult workflows in the mobile app…
There’s more. But I’ll stop, you get the picture.
What we ended up with was running 5-6 different software tools, and that meant data everywhere. Our team lacked a central location to access information. We spent days extracting information from those various software systems and compiling it into spreadsheets to derive some metrics. And in the end, we wondered if it was correct.
We were all frustrated. And when we asked around to see what others were doing, we learned we weren’t the only ones. This was an industry problem.
So we built SynkedUP.
Over the course of 5 years, we built SynkedUP from the ground up, with one overarching purpose in mind.
“To build a central platform where every member of your team could work from.”
From the bookkeeping, sales people, and owners, all the way to the crew, even to the new guy you just hired out there working in the field.
One system. From the first phone call from a new lead, to the job costing after you completed the job.
The secretary captured the lead’s info in SynkedUP, and set up the consultation in SynkedUP.
The salesperson created the estimate in SynkedUP.
The customer digitally approved the proposal in SynkedUP.
Collected the down payment in SynkedUP.
The scheduler got a notification about the newly sold job, scheduled it, and assigned it to a crew lead in SynkedUP.
The crew lead got a notification and reviewed the notes, info, and pictures in the digital job folder in SynkedUP. The crew lead started the job and tracked their time and materials used in SynkedUP.
Oh, by the way, they didn’t show up on site without the necessary equipment and tools, because they had all the info about the job in their digital job folder in SynkedUP.
The salesperson got a notification when the project was completed in SynkedUP. They reviewed all the time and materials the crew used in SynkedUP.
They simply read the job costing report. It was automatically generated. Live. Without spending 3 hours entering data.
And… they saw that they hit their profit goals, and sent the crew lead a congratulatory message.
Not one paper timesheet. Not one spreadsheet. Not one manual email. No crumpled, muddy notes in a paper job folder that looked like a rhino trashed it.
The entire job lifecycle. In SynkedUP.
Every member of the team. In SynkedUP
Seamless efficiency.
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