Trades · Electrical, HVAC, fire and security
Technology for electrical contractors and field-service firms in Leicestershire
Electrical, HVAC, and fire and security firms mostly run job management software: simPRO, Joblogic, BigChange, ServiceM8 or Commusoft, with Sage or Xero in the office. The job system is rarely the problem. What's around it usually is.
The three pains we keep finding
Done Tuesday, invoiced next month
The engineer finishes the job, but the invoice waits for the paperwork trail: job sheet back to the office, someone re-types it into the accounts, someone else chases the parts costs. Weeks of cash sit in that gap.
Certificate chasing
Test certificates and compliance paperwork live half in the job system, half in an engineer's van. Renewal dates get tracked in a spreadsheet that's only as good as its last update.
Nobody knows utilisation
Quoted hours against actual hours, travel time, callbacks: the job system records all of it, and nobody sees it per engineer or per month. Firms price labour on gut feel while the real number sits in the database.
What we typically build for these firms
- Job system to Sage: completed jobs become invoices on their own. One to two weeks.
- An engineer utilisation dashboard: quoted against actual, by engineer. About a week.
- The Monday morning email: WIP, unbilled work, certificates due. A few days.
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One honest note
If you're on simPRO and Xero, the native link between them is good. Switch it on before you pay anyone, including us. The builds above earn their keep where the native options run out.
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