Hey guys I am curious about business plans for landscape business.
I just don't know where to begin with building a business plan. I have been in business for 5 years without having one. Now I see why they are so important. I need some advice on where I can go cost-effective is important. I need help building out the plan. Anyone willing to connect and see if you can help me in he right direction.How do you schedule recurring jobs without fixed dates in Jobber?
How is everyone scheduling recurring jobs with no set schedule? Jobber showed me a way to do it, But it seems like a lot of steps to schedule jobs. Example scheduling a 6 round fertilizer package. The way they showed me I can see missing a lot of services thru out the year and also taking a lot of steps. Just wanted to see how other people are currently doing this can you share how you do it?
Can Jobber track budget hours vs actual hours for a job?
Hello. I'm the GM for a landscaping company that has recently come to Jobber. I think it would be very helpful if there was an option for attaching budget hours to a job instead of adding it into the notes or setting the "Quantity" of a line item to be the budget hours. The latter can be confusing for a client because if, say, a spring cleanup is 6 hours and I put 6 under the quantity, they may not know that those are supposed to be hours. They may think they are getting 6 spring cleanups. I have the job costing tool in Jobber, and it is helpful to have. But being able to see budget hours versus actual hours per job would really help me dial in my job costing. Otherwise, I'm having to figure it out manually. It would also be helpful to see the budget hours versus actual hours broken out by employee, so I can better measure everyone's productivity.Looking for Landscape Design Software & Training!
We launched our landscaping division last year with great success. We are looking to implement a landscape design software and wondering what others are using. We mostly do yard makeovers, garden design and some light hardscaping. We would like a software that is user friendly but not too basic. The 3 that have come up when we are searching is Dynascape, Pro Landscape+ and Procreate. We are curious what other landscapers are using and why? Also, any advice on training for the recommended software. Thanks!
How do lawn care businesses manage and reuse email templates for quotes, renewals, and follow-ups?
Would love the option to select email templates. HAd that on a previous crm. for what im doing right now. i do lawn care. i have renewals i am sending out, previous customers im sending them quotes, and reaching out for other customers who used me for other services. they ea need their own opening email. on top of i offer prepay to current customers. it would be nice to be able to select the template for it to drop in where appropriate. sure have the super generic one, but sometimes they need a bit of love. as of now my work flow looks like this. create the email templates in a word document. go to create quote. then email customer. go to word document and copy and paste. yes it works. would be nice to be in house. also for the searching of templates, i will say it can get cluttered. it would nice if you open email, there is the super generic email. a button to the side, replace with a template, you click it creates a drop down menu. it would be great to have folders, that templates can be in, and then you click that folder to get where you want. they can all be there as one list, but the folders, should in theory make it easier to find what your looking for especially, if one is bad a naming them. for me it would look like (big folders) all my main services, mowing aeration seeding, christmas lights. under that i would have current customser former customers prepay email (as thats a seperat thing) etc. not sure if that makes sense.Irrigation Field & Billing Workflow help!
Hello! We just hired an irrigation tech to support our commercial and residential VIP Clients. We offer a free monthly wet-check as part of that service. The issue we're having is the workflow on billing. We typically don't send a quote if the repairs are less than $500, and this is where we're looking for a clearer workflow. We'd like to send a quote to cover ourselves so I'm looking for best practice or a better way to do our workflow. Here's the current workflow Tech conducts wetchecks and completes any minor repairs. Tech marks visit complete, needs invoicing is triggered. Account manager reviews notes, job form, and issues the invoice Client calls if they weren't expecting an invoice for repairs, claiming they thought the checkup was free. This is the problem more with VIP customers than with Commercial accounts. We offer a VIP Landscape service package that includes the wet check, but repairs are billed separately. Should the tech be creating a quote in the field and then completing the repairs? What if the client isn't home? To me, it makes more sense for them to do any simple repairs (nozzles, heads, etc) while they're onsite instead of emailing a quote, driving back to the shop, and then us scheduling the repairs for another day. HELP! How do you irrigation contractors do it or what am I missing?Comparing Suppliers
Hi Community, We are a landscape and hardscape company and we are looking for a software that will allow us to input our suppliers cost, then compare them against oether suppliers cost for typical items. Is there an index or software that you guys are using for this. I am trying to do a manual template but the supplies list are exhaustive. Thanks for the help
