Many lawn care businesses miss out on big profits just from disorganization ad not being able to manage their business like bigger companies do.

Lawn care business software used to just be something only the big lawn care guys could afford. Now there are inexpensive options for the small to mid-sized operations with up to several employees and contracts.

Using lawn service software is a crucial part of getting the most out of your time, your employees’ time (if you have any) and to manage your contracts and jobs most efficiently.

Many lawn care software applications come with added features such as the ability to track income and expenses by account and across your entire job-base so you can know with a glance how your business is doing and whether you are staying within your budget for staff and expenses.

Of course, you want the most feature-rich lawn care software you can get. It should have the ability to run your whole business within one application.

Lawn Care Software Features to Look For

1. Be able to print daily service schedules (know who you have to service each day automatically)
 

2. Enter as many customers as you expect to get over a 5 year period.

3. Have a different billing address than the addresses you are mowing.

4. Be able to enter multiple properties for a customer
 

5. Be able to track charges for regular services or special services you may offer
 

6. Be able to enter and bill for one-time services
 

7. Keep up with the number of times you mow each customers property and put each visit on one bill with the date of visit.

8. View history of each customers’ bills sent
 

9. View late paying customers
 

10. Print bills and invoices quickly and easily
 

11. Input and track all of the services and items you offer in one easy to get o place.

12. Be able to customize invoices and estimates with your logo and more.
 

13. Keep an inventory of your equipment including pictures
 

14. Keep all of your vendor and supplier information in one easy to find place.
 

15. Be able to have multiple crews and assign them to any property you want to.
 

16. Print reports of all your business activates so you know where your business stands.

17. Lets you keep up with your time spent at each property so you can know where you are making money and where you aren't

18. Lets you email invoices in pdf format

You might like to have the ability to key in estimates and print out job estimate forms as well. A key component for corporate jobs would be a job contract form and also the ability to track contact data that is a bit different than household data for your private customers.

The bottom line in choosing lawn care software is getting the most mundane tasks done by software rather than by hand and a huge filing cabinet full of forms and other records. All your data should be at your fingertips and you should see a significant increase in your scheduling efficiency.

Using lawn care business software will enable you to see where you can save time by grouping jobs by area when scheduling so that you can take more jobs and even hire staff at the appropriate time without having more staff hours than jobs.

Lawn care software will take your business out of the dark ages and put you on equal footing with your biggest competitor once you get it set up and implemented.

 

Find out more about LawnPro, the complete lawn care business software from www.lawnprosoftware.com. LawnPro does all that is mentioned in the article above and costs less than $75!

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