writings on computer hardware & software

Monthly Archives: April 2017

Coming soon – better software.

Lets say you’re an owner of a small service-oriented company– one person, five, 10. The most common business software for running your business will be QuickBooks or Quicken.

Have you actually tried to use either. Its hard.

Lets say you do landscaping. Further, let’s assume you provide a variety of services: lawn maintenance; sod installation; tree pruning; spraying against insects; etc. So let ‘s say you did twenty installations of sod last year. You say you did more?… Ok, lets say you did 200 installations of sod. Wouldn’t you like to make sure that those 200 customers have the opportunity to also use your lawn maintenance software. Can you find the one’s who don’t use that service so you can call them and encourage them to do so? I defy to to try. Its really difficult. But should it be?

Let’s suppose you have a salesman, a bookkeeper, and an office manager in addition to your outside staff. Should the software look the same to each of the three? Nope.

The salesman wants to know things like, who haven’t I called in six weeks or who is not using my lawn maintenance services. The bookkeeper wants to know who is in arrears. Which turkeys haven’t paid their bills. And the office manager wants to know other information. So no, they should all not be using the software in the same way and should not be seeing the same information.

In another article I will talk about software that will permit exactly this.