[Mr Sparkle]

Been going for few months now and recently started doing well and picking up plenty custies.
But am i finding it a nightmare organising the work. Whats do you guys use to organise without using george.
Please help as it's driving me round the twist

[windowwashers]

Been going for few months now and recently started doing well and picking up plenty custies.
But am i finding it a nightmare organising the work. Whats do you guys use to organise without using george.
Please help as it's driving me round the twist

I use windowcleanerpro.com

I used to use excel sheets but that was a total nightmare in the end, start as you mean to go on. it saves so much time it is untrue

[macmac]

Say you clean on a 4 week basis. just create 4 work sheets in ms-word, numbered week1 to week4. Print each one out as you need it, making any adjustments i.e. moving work around cos you got rained off the week before etc.

Buy a "week per view" A4 diary & record all your work & anything owed to you every day when you get home.

This way you will always know who's been cleaned & when & who owes what. takes 10 mins to set up & is pretty much monkey proof!

Tony

[jodan63]

macmac.  wow that seems very complicated  i bought goergeand its the best thing i ever did . it cudnt be simpler. and gorge wasnt that expensive , if i remember right

[windowwashers]

macmac.  wow that seems very complicated  i bought goergeand its the best thing i ever did . it cudnt be simpler. and gorge wasnt that expensive , if i remember right

£50

[kenaltobelli]

just wright out a pad all jobs to do cross out whats done keep a diary of work and check
that evry mon try and do aii jobs missed week befor

[macmac]

macmac.  wow that seems very complicated  i bought goergeand its the best thing i ever did . it cudnt be simpler. and gorge wasnt that expensive , if i remember right

You're joking right?

My daily accounts are done quicker than my computer boots up!

My weekly sheets are done in 10 minutes, everything I could possibly need to know, at hand, right there in front of me (I do keep a backup, duplicated diary just incase).

I'm in the south-east of scotland so my work is re-organised quite often because of weather, this way it's so simple. See the "unpresidented" harsh winter the southern softies have had this year? Well welcome to every winter up here!

Tony

[jodan63]

macmac, it takes less than 10 minutes on george! 

[macmac]

macmac, it takes less than 10 minutes on george! 

Your point being?

[jodan63]

no point really    george does alot more than organise your round though

[AuRavelling79]

I use word to make lists of all my custy's. I print in landscape A4. Like so - about 15 to a page.


Letsby Avenue

3 BLOGGS  M  £12 ____________________________________________________________
5 JONES  EOT £15 ____________________________________________________________
8 SMITH     M  £14_____________________________________________________________
9 GRAY (Not Con) M £10________________________________________________________

Key = House number, name, M = monthly, EOT = every other time, amount.

(Not Con) = not conservatory; JF = Just fronts

I then, using a pen put the date of the clean - say 15/4N (for not paid) 15/4Y (for yes, paid)

When a cheque arrives I change the N for a Y to indicate payment.

Easy peasy!

I also have a monthly sheet with 0 - £3000 on the left hand side in £100 increments and I build a tower with the daily amounts so day one £187, day two £210 day three - hols/rain etc and make a running total.


                   JANUARY 2009

£3000 __________
£2900 __________
...
etc...
etc...
...
£ 300 __________
£ 200 __________
£ 100 __________
£     0 __________

At the end of the month the month turnover total is written down on the sheet any cash expenses attached.

A year sheet has each monthly total added and so I know what my year turnover to date is at any time.

[macmac]

no point really    george does alot more than organise your round though

Whats do you guys use to organise without using george.
 

[jodan63]

macmac ok see your point . but why doesnt everyone use some sort of program like george? i cudnt manage without it . my opinion only

[dai]

There is one simple foolproof way that I have used for years, all you need is a pack of 6"x4" ruled stock cards and a pen.
The cards already have lines on them, you just need to draw in some faint columns.
write the street name or area on the top of the card.
Draw one column top to bottom for the house numbers.
The next column has to be wider to write down the customers name and phone number.
The third column is the price for the job.
the rest of the columns are narrow, in fact when you draw them you have little squares.
When you go round you put a tick in the square if they pay, or a 0 if they don't, when they do pay, you strike through the 0 with a tick. If they don't have them done then I put a ---.
You can put the date they are done above that months squares.
I get a years work on one card, and the cards are kept in a 6x4 photo album.
This method is so simple, and you fill the card as you do the job.
Even if you use george or a spread sheet, you still have to have some record of who paid or didn't as you go along throughout the day.

[AuRavelling79]

There is one simple foolproof way that I have used for years, all you need is a pack of 6"x4" ruled stock cards and a pen.
The cards already have lines on them, you just need to draw in some faint columns.
write the street name or area on the top of the card.
Draw one column top to bottom for the house numbers.
The next column has to be wider to write down the customers name and phone number.
The third column is the price for the job.
the rest of the columns are narrow, in fact when you draw them you have little squares.
When you go round you put a tick in the square if they pay, or a 0 if they don't, when they do pay, you strike through the 0 with a tick. If they don't have them done then I put a ---.
You can put the date they are done above that months squares.
I get a years work on one card, and the cards are kept in a 6x4 photo album.
This method is so simple, and you fill the card as you do the job.
Even if you use george or a spread sheet, you still have to have some record of who paid or didn't as you go along throughout the day.

Bit like my system Dai - the KISS approach - Keep It Simple, Stupid! 

[Mike 108]

Say you clean on a 4 week basis. just create 4 work sheets in ms-word, numbered week1 to week4. Print each one out as you need it, making any adjustments i.e. moving work around cos you got rained off the week before etc.

Tony

Same as above!  'Easy peasy', Nice and simple.

[suds window service]

GEORGE the 50 quid you,ll ever spend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mike 108]

Nice avatar! Stan.

Where'd you get it?      

[jaykie]

Yer stan where you get it

[jaykie]

some non copyrighted post was it