Greetings,
My name is John and I own a landscape co here in Silicon Valley, California. After loosing 85% of work in 2010, almost loosing the house, phone was not ringing and just a bad all time of everything...i decided that if i went back into the business again that i would need a program that I could design my way and connect this to a accounting program. After 6 months of searching, Method was the way up. This program lit a fire in me to get myself back into business. So I took almost 1.5 years of planning, programming and testing AND re doing to the point that now I can close 95% of my sales. In less than 5 mins after I am done talking to a customer, they have a email of the estimate complete with phases, cost of each phase, down paymens if needed and if they are paying by the % of job completed that break down as well. When the customer approves the estimate, it changes to a work order. Materials from that job and approved jobs that are wating to be started, are put on a grid. This grid has all the approved estimates materials that I will need for all these jobs. I put a check mark next to the material and press a button and that report of plants that I will need will go to a select vendor for will call. That grid has buttons for each vendor. When I press a vendor button, it takes the check marked materials, designs a report and faxes to the vendor all without a fax machine. This whole process takes less than a min.
Pesticide reporting, Irrigation checking and equipment maintenance has been automated by Method. Pesticide reporting use to take 3-5 hours a month to do, now it takes 30 seconds. We dont walk around with clipboards anymore its all smartphones. Payroll takes less than 5 mins to check and complete. I spend 80% less time in the office and this new found time I get work and make money.
Take Care!
John