Does anyone else find it a never ending battle to keep their round in the right order?
I try to group all the houses closest to each other on one day. I work across a 5 mile or so radius so it's roughly 1 village a day.
But no matter what I do it always gets messed up. If go non holiday or rain delays or most commonly take on add on work then push the round back.
Look at my work due and there 1 house here, 2 over there etc. Find myself racing round in all directions.
Put it back in order and it will get messed up again!
How do you lot organise your work? And ensure it doesn't get messed up?
I'm totally the same mate no matter what software I use.
For me commercials are fine as they pretty much always get done. Residentials of whole streets are mostly ok.
It's the dotted around houses I find hard to keep in order, especially if it falls on a day we've done commercial and are passing those houses. We need the dotted around ones though as they make up a fair amount of the round.
I've found making the every other time houses (12 weekly) wait until we're next in the road for 6 weeklys helps. The 6 weeklys are my priority. They are my bread and butter. The 12 weeklys are fine with that and if not they can get somebody else.
Worse thing I ever did, and I know not everyone will agree, was text customers for access the night before. If they forgot I don't go back but rarely charge full price for fronts though they are warned they may be, just in the hope it'll help them remember. We no longer offer text service for average size residentials. It's too restricting.
I think it's always going to be a balance of being flexible but keeping your round in order to suit you.
I've tried Cleaner Planner & I'm currently trying out Aworka having been a George user for 10 years. Constantly shifting residential jobs forward at the moment on the Aworka planner due to the constant rain the last few days in the South West. We got something like £1700 due tomorrow which we're obviously not gonna get anywhere near through. They'll get shifted again and again. It's a constant battle and I don't know what the answer is unless you work in the rain and we don't. We do sometimes put off fascia & guttering jobs until it's raining, but even with waterproofs, it's thoroughly miserable & more difficult with wages to pay.
If you're using George I found the bulk update for round order often messed up the permanent round order. I know with Aworka you can print a worksheet but edit the job order before you print that particular sheet. And I think it's temporary for that sheet, and won't affect your whole round order if you don't want it to. I hope so anyway! I'm still getting to grips with it myself though.
