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UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: starplus on January 19, 2010, 01:10:09 pm

Title: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: starplus on January 19, 2010, 01:10:09 pm
Which office program do you use at your office,
where you can keep all your staff data, hours, clients details, invoices  etc
Thanks
Sergio
Title: Re: Best office Program?
Post by: Pristine Clean on January 19, 2010, 03:49:57 pm
for what?

We have lots of office programs as you call it, but what do you want it to do?

Do you mean Microsoft Office, .NET, jAVA, Dreamwaever for websites... the list is endless.

Cheers

Dave
Title: Re: Best office Program?
Post by: starplus on January 19, 2010, 05:04:31 pm
where you can keep all your staff data, hours etc.

Thanks
Title: Re: Best office Program?
Post by: Phild on January 19, 2010, 06:37:58 pm
If they are regular repeating daily cleaning type jobs stick Target Control into Google. Once you have found the site there are links (hard to see) at the bottom of the pages which give you a tour of the software. If it seems too expensive just remember it helps you *control* your biggest cost- labour and would soon pay for itself.

I don't know where your based but Chris McNab the owner is doing a demo on Tyneside next Tuesday 26/1/10

I'm NOT on commission!!
Title: Re: Best office Program?
Post by: starplus on January 19, 2010, 07:09:29 pm
many thanks
Title: Re: Best office Program?
Post by: Steve Lowe on January 19, 2010, 07:38:43 pm
We use

www.serviceceo.com
Title: Re: Best office Program?
Post by: starplus on January 19, 2010, 08:02:38 pm
How much did you pay?

Many thanks
Title: Re: Best office Program?
Post by: Steve Lowe on January 19, 2010, 08:11:07 pm
It was about £1500 ish at the time but depending on your size of business you will soon get it back with increased productivity.
Title: Re: Best office Program to control your business
Post by: starplus on January 21, 2010, 06:10:18 pm
Hi Steve,

they told me that the  charge now is £1900.00.
Whats the best on this software?

Many thanks
Sergio
Title: Re: Best office Program to control your business
Post by: starplus on January 22, 2010, 05:05:41 pm
did anyone tried this one  Target Control ?
Is cheaper than service seo but the problem is that you have to pay a lot for support and updates £600.00 a year only for support and updates

Kind Regards
Sergio
Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: Nick Vassilev on January 22, 2010, 10:46:32 pm
I've been using ServiceCEO since 2003. It was £1,200 back then but it was worth every penny. The problem now is they haven't updated it for more than a year now but it's still unbelievably good for what we need.

I think they have a demo software you can try - www.insightdirect.com

 
Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: starplus on January 23, 2010, 10:06:24 am
Hi Nick,

what kind of updates are you talking ?vat changes etc...
do you need to pay extra for updates and support?

Many thanks
Sergio
Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: Nick Vassilev on January 24, 2010, 02:42:07 am
Hi Sergio,

VAT gets changed with a click - easy. I am talking about new functionality. They used to introduce new features twice a year. I read on their forum they've been busy developing browser based system, but no further info was available.

Updates and support are free... if you pay annual membership ;-). So they are not. How much you pay depends on the number of users. I think it is in the region of $250 for a single user.

The best source of info would be them, so get in touch if you are interested.

Good luck!
 
Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: starplus on March 06, 2011, 02:31:51 pm
I've been using ServiceCEO since 2003. It was £1,200 back then but it was worth every penny. The problem now is they haven't updated it for more than a year now but it's still unbelievably good for what we need.

I think they have a demo software you can try - www.insightdirect.com

 

Hi Nick

did you get any update?

In regards to employees payroll what does thid software.

Many Thanks
Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: Nick Vassilev on March 06, 2011, 05:18:28 pm
It can't beat Quickbooks or Sage Line 50 in terms of payroll but it's not an accounting software. It has some payroll features: clock cards, payroll reports, payslips etc but I still use quickbooks.
There is a UK firm that have made an integration between this software and the UK version of QB. I am planning to give them a call and see their solution. There will be a charge involved though.

I still don't see a replacement in the software market in the UK.

Regards,
Nick
Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: starplus on March 06, 2011, 07:30:40 pm
It can't beat Quickbooks or Sage Line 50 in terms of payroll but it's not an accounting software. It has some payroll features: clock cards, payroll reports, payslips etc but I still use quickbooks.
There is a UK firm that have made an integration between this software and the UK version of QB. I am planning to give them a call and see their solution. There will be a charge involved though.

I still don't see a replacement in the software market in the UK.

Regards,
Nick

Did they release a newer update or not?
Have you seen Cleanlink software http://cleanlink.co.uk/ ?

Thanks
Sergio
Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: Nick Vassilev on March 06, 2011, 09:28:47 pm
Yes, they released a couple of updates.
Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: starplus on March 07, 2011, 08:02:34 pm
Yes, they released a couple of updates.

Hi Nick,

many thanks, Have you seen Cleanlink software DEMO AT http://cleanlink.co.uk/
If yes what do you thing? some large cleaning contractors use cleanlink in UK, they were at the cleaning show.

Thanks Nick
Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: Nick Vassilev on March 07, 2011, 08:37:52 pm
Does the job, I guess. How much is it?
Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: starplus on March 07, 2011, 08:41:42 pm
Does the job, I guess. How much is it?

from £125.00 to £250.00 a month depends on Turnover and number of employees.

• Payroll
• Invoicing
• Worksheets
• Stores
• Quality Control
• Complaints
• Budgets
• Risk Assessment
• Warnings
• Actions ----
• Machinery
• Documents
• Contacts
• Mobile / PDAs
• iPhone / iPad App

Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: Nick Vassilev on March 07, 2011, 08:51:14 pm
Do you have the option to purchase the software outright?
I mean, what happens if you stop paying the monthly fee? How many users can access it at any time?
Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: starplus on March 07, 2011, 09:06:05 pm
Do you have the option to purchase the software outright?
I mean, what happens if you stop paying the monthly fee? How many users can access it at any time?

that's the main issue they dont sell the sotware only monthly rental!!!
service seo is only £1500. whats the main diference between clean link fixtures and service ceo.

Thanks
Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: TonyW65 on March 16, 2011, 08:07:26 pm
YOu might want to check out Thoughtful Systems software, very powerful, can cope with teams (very few apps can), supports SMS etc its about £40-80 pm depending on size, licenses etc
Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: Jamie Pearson on March 20, 2011, 09:13:47 pm
Does anyone know any of these systems that work in m2 rather than sq.ft.

Title: Re: Best Administration Program to control your business
Post by: Nick Vassilev on March 20, 2011, 09:15:17 pm
ServiceCEO is fully customizable - you choose the units to work with.