Consumer and Home Services
Software for Other Services
For a service business that none of our named categories describes — quotations, invoices, collections and the people who deliver the work.
A service business sells time and expertise rather than stock. Whether it is an agency, a repair outfit, a trainer or a consultant that fits no other heading here, the day-to-day is the same: quote, deliver, invoice, collect, and pay the people who did the work. The trade-specific parts can wait; the part that loses money when it goes wrong is usually the invoice that was never raised or the payment nobody chased.
What gets in the way
- Work is delivered before a quotation is agreed in writing
- Invoices are raised late, or not at all, for small jobs
- Service GST — SAC codes, place of supply — is applied inconsistently
- Outstanding payments are chased from memory
- Staff attendance and payouts are kept separately from the jobs they worked on
What the software handles
- Quotation sent and converted to an invoice when accepted
- Service invoices with SAC codes and correct place of supply
- Receivables tracked with reminders
- Expenses recorded against the work they belong to
- Staff attendance and payouts in the same system
What changes
- No delivered work left uninvoiced
- Service GST applied the same way every time
- Collections followed up on a schedule, not from memory
Software for your other services business
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