Landscaping Series: From Quote to Completion – Part 5
Part 5: Managing Billing and Payments In the final post of this blog series, we will discuss billing and payment management for landscape transactions. First, it is a good idea to identify some different ways that a landscape project can be structured: Fixed price amounts can be invoiced and paid on a recurring basis (monthly, […]
Landscaping Series: From Quote to Completion – Part 4
Part 4: Landscape Project Reconciliation In the first three parts of this series, we talked about generating effective quotes, managing your inventory, and scheduling and managing delivery and landscaping services. This post is all about accountability and focuses attention on an aspect of landscaping projects that is often overlooked—reconciliation. Reconciliation of a landscape job or […]
Landscaping Series: From Quote to Completion – Part 3
Part 3: Scheduling and Managing Delivery and Landscaping Services In parts 1 and 2 we discussed generating effective quotes with your POS system and managing your inventory. Now, let’s focus on using your POS system for scheduling and managing delivery of materials, equipment, and services. Delivery scheduling functions are typically completely absent from most POS […]
Landscaping Series: From Quote to Completion – Part 2
Part 2: Unique Inventory Management Challenges for Your Landscape Operations In part 1 we discussed generating effective quotes with your POS system. Now, let’s explore inventory management tactics that will support your landscaping business. Once a Quote, or Proposal, is accepted by a customer, it converts to an Order. At this point, the customer is […]
Landscaping Series: From Quote to Completion – Part 1
Using your POS system to support your landscaping business, starting with quotes and proposals. Independent garden centers come in all shapes and sizes, and many IGCs are expanding into a broad array of products and services to meet their customers’ demands. For many IGCs, landscape design, installation and maintenance are natural areas of expansion. However, […]
Is Your POS System a Help or Hinderance to Profitability?
Managing a profitable garden center is anything but simple. Successful IGCs master figuring out what you can manage and control and what you cannot. There are factors and conditions that most would agree cannot be controlled — the weather, the economy, customer fads and trends. However, there are other things that can be organized, tracked, […]