A PDA wont save you any time at all, it is far quicker to print off a worksheet, then with a glance you can see what is due, with a pda you have to sroll through the jobs to see where you are up to.
It takes no more than 10 mins to enter the data manually when you get home.
With claims of 1 hour that is really stretching things.
My advice is dont over cook the claims, it could back fire !!!!
This is exactly the opinion of some of the testers before they used the handheld. Since you can load your entire weeks work onto the handheld and it only takes a few clicks to maintain each job I am confident to say that it does save you time compared to using print outs. When you want to sync, you click connect and the syncronise button on the PDA.
Even if you could find and maintain each job in 30 seconds and you were doing 30 cleans a day that would be 15 minutes. Add to that any expenses that you have to add and then to add your work for the next day and you get close to your 30-40 minutes of admin a day.
As for one of the testers they have 3 people working for them and on average clean 70-80 properties a day, Instead of having to get the worksheets from each employee and inputting the data, they simply click the connect and sync button and its done.
However, for people that dont wish to purchase a PDA just yet I have made data entry much faster than in the previous version. I have created an End of Day screen, that allows you to maintain all your work from one screen rather than having to locate each job and maintain it.
The reports of 1/2 hour to an hour are from actual cleaners using the new software and PDA they are not just figures I pulled out the air. It will all depend on how many cleans you do a day, how long it takes you to maintain each job, how many expenses a day you have, how you organsie your daily work.
Ian