PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Business Software Solutions

Symbiot SiteManager

• Easy-to-use, handheld system

• Automates timesheet entries all day, every day

• Freedom from end-of-the-day entries

• Provides improved communication while strengthening relationships between crew members, management and clients

• Helps increase staff efficiency as recurring tasks are scheduled and double entry of payroll is eliminated

• Generates reports of all types quickly, including employee hours, material usage, estimated vs. actual hours, accidents and checklists

• Provides job costing

• One-click scheduling, records and crew production tracking

Abbot Shadow Tracker TM Pro Mapping Software 4.0

• Utilizes proprietary technology and the Global Positioning System (GPS) developed by the U.S. Department of Defense

• Documents actual routes driven, mileage and stops made

• Monitor’s speeds and helps reduce gas mileage

• Eliminates "moonlighting" and unauthorized use of vehicles

• Helps to validate time sheets, reduce employee overtime
and reduce liability

• Installs easily into any vehicle

• Simple base station setup

• Provides automatic wireless downloads

• Produces detailed productivity reports

Rain Bird Pro Version 4.6

• Can be used on up to 10 office computers without additional licenses or costs

• Offers multiple billing options to accommodate your varying user billing needs

• Electronically updates daily time card payroll information directly to Quickbooks, eliminating double data entry and improving office efficiency

• Customer accounts receivable information is readily displayed on the scheduling screen when using QuickBooks, AccPac or Simply Accounting software

• Has a daily and weekly master schedule so user can view all scheduled work sorted by technician for up to five days

• Provides daily vehicle mileage information to schedule timely maintenance for effective fleet management

• Work order recap shows time and materials with total costs on PDA

Gaia College Online Irrigation Calculator

• Web calculator designed to assist in water conservation

• Developed to help irrigation professionals create multi-zone irrigation schedules based on user-entered data

• Accessible 24 hours a day at www.organic-land-care.com

Link It Software EZ Maintenance CMMS

• Schedules both routine and non-routine preventive maintenance simply and easily

• Tracks equipment by class, category or individual equipment serial number or identifier

• Offers the ability to run reports on preventive equipment maintenance history

• Will produce monthly calendars and print-outs showing all scheduled preventive maintenance

• Can produce a work order for each preventive maintenance task to be completed

• Tracks an unlimited number of equipment/vehicles

• Produces bar codes to identify equipment by serial or internal control number

Include Asset Software

• Field data and timecard collection software application designed for mobile green industry workers

• Logs time, materials and job information and transfer data

• Collected data can be used to generate detailed timecards

• Designed to help track trends and increase control over every part of a contractor’s business

FMC SmartBiz Software for Lawn Care Professionals

• Features advanced routing and scheduling capabilities

• Presets and organizes customer appointments to help maximize productivity and reduce travel time

• Maintains existing and prospective customer information so user can retain current customers, build customer lists and cross-sell services

• Enables user to maintain complete site history of all activities performed and materials used on each and every job

• Helps improve accuracy of record keeping and satisfy regulatory compliance

• Full invoicing and accounts receivable capabilities including interface to general ledger

• Designed to manage, schedule and track equipment maintenance

Turfmarketing Premium Image Collection

• Contains hundreds of lawn care-related images

• Photos can be used on flyers, advertisements, Web sites, etc.

• Each image provided as an EPS, high-resolution JPEG and low resolution GIF file

Timbre Software Solstice Pro

• Compatible with handheld and desktop computers

• Synchronizes data with QuickBooks

• Capable of analyzing job costing information on active and complete jobs

• Will review and approve field time cards before posting to QuickBooks

• Manages which jobs are assigned to specific handhelds

• Assists in setting up crews and creating crew timecards

• Records credit card and cash purchases

Groundskeeper Pro

• Business management software for landscape and lawn care businesses

• Features include scheduling, routing and billing

• Other features include customer maintenance, job estimating, payroll, tracking business expenses and more

• Enter up to 10,000 customers

• Track income statistics and business expenses

• Has more than 1,000 character service descriptions

Tex-Mex Communications "Job Talk" Landscape Edition– Full Set

• Includes a home study guide and an audio CD that follows the home study guide step by step

• Comes with pocket-sized field manual

• Contains the most common words and phrases used in the landscaping industry in both English and Spanish

• For each English word and phrase, the guide provides the Spanish translation and phonetic pronunciation

• Allows for almost instant communication capabilities with a landscape company’s Hispanic workforce

Intac International

Wintac Green 2005

• An enhanced version of an all-in-one business software program

• Integrates scheduling, routing, automatic billing, job tracking, estimating, purchasing, accounting and marketing in one program

• Has an intuitive interface

• Features a new multi-user networking engine designed to improve system performance and data security

• Software features visual job costing capabilities, user-defined billing cycles and a marketing profile feature

• Wintac 2005 now imports data from QuickBooks 2002 and above

CLIP Connect

• Uses Web access platform technology to keep office field personnel connected

• Technicians can update Web portal with job information, such as start and finish times, using a Web-enabled cellular phone

• Offers real-time information exchange between the office and job site

• Information is immediately available to office staff with Internet access

• Landscape managers can use it to monitor the status of every scheduled job from any location

C-Systems Software

• Comprehensive package features point of sale, inventory control, purchasing accounts receivable, shop and warranty management

• Optional packages include multi-store, general ledger, accounts payable, payroll, finance and insurance, units measurement and rental

• Interfaces with third party products such as PartSmart, ProQuest, manufacturer EDI transmission applications and QuickBooks

• Efficiency-promoting hardware products include: bar coding, credit card processing systems, electronic cash drawers and high-speed printing

• New advancements include the ability to choose between graphical or traditional software platforms, new service oriented work orders that allow jobs to be subdivided into "action items" and advancements in warranty repairs