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| Topic: | Business management software This thread has 33 replies. Displaying posts 1 through 15. |
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| Post 1 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 13:08 |
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For all you small business owners of any type out there. What software suite are you running to run your business
I don't mean quick books .... Or d-tools.
And salesforce is great for sales...
But what about everything else?
I have some experience with some and I'm just looking for ideas
And I want to leave what I'm using out of the equation
Thanks
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Ed will be known as the Tiger Woods of the integration business, followed closely with the renaming of his company to "Hotties A/V". The tag line will be "We like big racks and tight holes"... |
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| Post 2 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 19:13 |
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Started using MYOB when it was rated better than Quick Books and came on floppy discs. Its now called Account Edge. My version is from 2008 and does what I need it to do. At the end of the year I print out a chart of accounts and hand it to my CPA, works for him. http://accountedge.com/
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| OP | Post 3 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 19:30 |
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i was thinking more the long the lines of
SAP and Netsuite kind of products... not accounting.
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Ed will be known as the Tiger Woods of the integration business, followed closely with the renaming of his company to "Hotties A/V". The tag line will be "We like big racks and tight holes"... |
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| Post 4 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 19:46 |
I'd be curious what every one is doing for operations as well.
My boss and I have looked at apps like Podio all the way to custom software/database without coming up with something that fits our needs and budget.
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| Post 5 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 19:54 |
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Not sure but that guy on CEpro that was selling his solution sounds cool. D-tools or someone should buy it from him and make it affordable to the masses.
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| Post 6 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 20:11 |
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On February 22, 2014 at 19:54, longshot16 said...
Not sure but that guy on CEpro that was selling his solution sounds cool. D-tools or someone should buy it from him and make it affordable to the masses. Wasn't that like a 100,000.00 program or something like that? Yikes
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| OP | Post 7 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 20:26 |
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My guess is that the most exotic software being used by Ci's will be quick books , d tools, or some like system.
My guess is only the very largest integrators will be using some kind of integrated software suite to manage the operations of the business. I'd also guess very few are using done kind of CRM such as salesforce either
That's why my op I stated owners of any kind of business.
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| Post 8 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 21:08 |
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Ed, I'm not going to get into all of the details, but check out Xero. I've been using it since the beginning of the year, along with another member.
I like it a lot. However, it's web-based, and I don't know if you're looking for something web based.
I like it a lot, I'm so happy to be clear of Quickbooks it gives me a boner.
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| OP | Post 9 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 22:22 |
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Podio... web site is confusing at best. but i get the fact you can build apps to fit ones needs... not sure thi would be a good fit for me... but seems like a neat product
xero... quickbooks replacement, with plug in for other applicaions... nice find...
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Ed will be known as the Tiger Woods of the integration business, followed closely with the renaming of his company to "Hotties A/V". The tag line will be "We like big racks and tight holes"... |
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| Post 10 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 22:38 |
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You can be up and running pretty quickly with it, you can add your inventory with a .csv file, that saves quite a bit of time. Once you've got your inventory items set up. (make sure you have a valid description of them), there' really no reason whatsoever to print up an invoice for small installations.
For example, I jump in the car, drive over to installation. Hang a TV, play bar, yada yada yada, When I'm done, I grab my phone, make the invoice on the app. Show customer the invoice, they pay me using Square or a check, I email them the invoice with my phone. Done. It automatically updates back at the office on the computer.
You can also track specific things...Say for example, monthly fuel use. You can link your bank accounts, it'll automatically set sync, all you have to do is reconcile the accounts. Easy.
You can also link it with Proposal software. Thats' when things start to get really interesting.
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| OP | Post 11 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 22:42 |
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those are nice features hasbeen...
i will be calling them on monday to see if i can do exactly what i want it to do...
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| Post 12 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 22:48 |
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Once you sign up, they'll call you and offer to do a tutorial with you to get you over the hump.
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| Post 13 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 22:58 |
Podio is pretty cool. You add the apps, configure them, and then link them with formulas.
I have set up a pretty cool operations management template with times heets doing labour tracking, etc. but as simple as it is, I think the learning curve will be too steep to pitch it to my boss and our crew of knuckle dragging 'lectricians.
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| OP | Post 14 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 22:58 |
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its the operations end i am unsure of... accounting is accounting...
im more concerned with production scheduling, sales and crm, inventory management, build orders, shipping, receiving... the operations end...
it would be easy to just goto the stand buys... quickbooks, access, salesforce... but i dont want to fall into that trap.
im not at liberty to talk just yet... but i will be building something from the ground up...
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| OP | Post 15 made on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 23:01 |
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my guess is i will end up using Netsuite or SAP and using salesforce... but i want to evaluate all realistic options. [Link: netsuite.com]
Last edited by ceied on February 22, 2014 23:10.
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Ed will be known as the Tiger Woods of the integration business, followed closely with the renaming of his company to "Hotties A/V". The tag line will be "We like big racks and tight holes"... |
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