Click on To Purchase Companies (www.clicktobuyservices.com) is a versatile e-commerce platform that provides residence companies firms the flexibility to precisely estimate and promote their companies on-line. It may possibly connect with any web site and permits clients to click on on varied companies, view correct pricing and versatile fee choices (e.g. month-to-month, semi-monthly, quarterly, and yearly), settle for it, after which pay upfront by bank card earlier than work begins. The format permits owners to purchase companies 24/7/365.
To assist guarantee clients are match and to precisely calculate companies earlier than committing, Click on To Purchase supplies qualifying and disqualifying questions and validates that clients are inside your service boundaries.
Service firms may use the platform to supercharge advertising initiatives by permitting direct linking to service checkout pages, use of coupon codes, and automated discounting when choose companies get including to a purchasing cart.
Click on To Purchase can also be built-in into Zapier (www.zapier.com), which permits companies to construct easy but subtle workflow automation with their favourite on-line software program. For instance, when a service is bought on-line it could possibly mechanically set off occasions like sending clients info on to CRM instruments, populating spreadsheets, and even creating extra advanced automation that features textual content messaging and QuickBooks invoicing.
Every location in Click on To Purchase has its personal centralized dashboard for monitoring such information as best-selling companies, common month-to-month purchases, and annual present income.
Pricing: one-time customized set-up price + a month-to-month charge scaled by variety of places and companies supplied.
Kickserv
Kickserv (www.kickserv.com) is subject service software program that allows firms to create skilled estimates, schedule one-time and recurring appointments and, by means of its cell app, bill purchasers within the subject, seize signatures, and acquire fee by means of an built-in fee platform.
You may arrange a number of service places underneath one father or mother account. Whenever you request a fee from the Kickserv cell app, the client’s cell system is shipped a textual content or e-mail.
A planner instrument helps you to see which technician is the place for environment friendly scheduling. Technicians can create estimates and invoices and request funds from purchasers’ cellphones by textual content or e-mail.
By the built-in Buyer Heart, purchasers can request an appointment, go away notes for the technician and pay an bill. Kickserv has included Karna, an installment plan fee possibility enabling clients to “purchase now and pay later” which transfers funds, upfront, into Stripe account (a fee processing platform) with charges collected and Karna gathering the funds out of your buyer.
Kickserv additionally integrates with QuickBooks On-line, Stripe (fee processing), and MailChimp (www.mailchimp.com), a advertising platform for small companies.
Pricing: Kickserv has a 14-day free trial, a free plan (for as much as two customers) and 4 paid plans scaled by variety of customers and different limitations/allowances. All plans embrace estimates, CRM, customizable tags, Buyer Heart. The paid plans embrace automated e-mail and textual content reminders, 20+ enterprise stories, and time monitoring. Three of the 4 paid plans additionally embrace dispatch mapping and GAPS check-in, customized stories, and the flexibility so as to add (for a charge) integration with QuickBooks Desktop.
HVAC Load Calc Bundle Plus
HVAC Load Calc Bundle Plus (www.carmelsoft.com) packages collectively six of Carmelsoft’s HVAC iOS apps, all optimized for the iPad and/or iPhone.
HVAC ResLoad J performs peak cooling and heating load calculations per ACCA Guide J8 for residential and light-weight business buildings and uploads your initiatives to the cloud for sharing with different licensed technicians.
HVAC Psych HD plots HVAC and different psychometric processes on the iPad display screen whereas within the subject, saving the (customizable) graph and emailing the graph and outcomes to your self and purchasers.
HVAC Duct Sizer sizes one HVAC duct run or a spread of duct sizes. Customers can specify in CFM (or L/s), the facet ratio, and both the entire velovity of air or the friction loss per 100 ft, The outcomes embrace the precise and rounded peak and width (or diameter) dimensions and the calculated velocity and friction loss. The app makes use of slider controls to rapidly increment or decrement the enter values and instantly observe the calculated outcomes.
HVAC Pipe Sizer Plus contains three pipe sizer apps, for liquid, steam, and gasoline (high and low).
HVAC Ref Cost is a refrigerant charging calculator for performing superheat and subcool refrigerant calculations on the fly. It contains stress/temperature information for 100+ refrigerants together with each dew and bubble variations of many azeotropic refrigerant sorts.
Steam Tables calculates 23+ completely different mixtures of enter parameters for saturated and superheated steam. HVAC Tools Locator (additionally embedded in a lot of the above apps) permits monitoring of buyer gear, nameplate, and upkeep information, together with photographs and spec sheets and permits you to add the data to the cloud for sharing with different technicians.
The bundle additionally runs on all new Apple MacBooks with the M1 and M2 chips.
Pricing: downloadable on the App Retailer, one-time charge contains free updates.
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ServiceBox (lined in January 2023 column) not too long ago added ServiceBox Buying, enabling a consumer to import (from QuickBooks Desktop, QuickBooks On-line, or Sage 50 Canada) or create vendor lists, ship buy orders to any vendor, observe what’s acquired, and push outcomes into stock or accounting. The brand new function permits ordering from mid-job and having the objects added underneath the “Time & Supplies” tab when you designate the objects are acquired.
Patti Feldman writes articles and net content material for commerce magazines and producers of constructing merchandise. She could be reached at productpad@yahoo.com.