When you are managing a home service business, you’re always busy. It can be anything from juggling quotes, scheduling jobs to staff on the road, getting in touch with your clients and chasing late payments. Plus, there’s always the unexpected on a job that requires your immediate attention!!
More often than not, business owners or managers get stuck in this endless loop and are bombarded with countless customer calls, job issues and delays, complaints, and late paments, and much more. It leaves you with no energy or time to think about business growth, or time with the family.
Once your business starts to grow, you will have a tougher time managing this growth you’re your existing manual processes and systems. This is where job management comes in. Luckily, you can rely on job management software to optimise your daily business workflow. In this blog, we will be looking at job management platforms and how they can be used for trade and home service businesses.

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What is Job Management Software?
A job management software is designed to replace physical paperwork and manual tasks. It is a cloud-based platform where you can find and access all the information and operations of your business. It enables you to create quotes, schedule and assign jobs, manage operations, and much more easily.
Also called job scheduling software, it is also compatible on various platforms, so you can easily use it on your smartphone, tablet, or computer. Even if you are on the road most of the time, you can take advantage of a job scheduling app to ensure that everything is running smoothly across the rest of your business.
Now that we have answered the question, “what is job scheduling software?”, we can move on to how it works.
A job management software is connected to the cloud, which makes it accessible from anywhere in the world.
Through cloud storage, you will be able to access all the information about your projects and jobs, as well as details about your clients, your team, and other contractors. Moreover, any changes made to the data in the software will be updated others in real time.
An online job scheduling software allows you to perform the following tasks easily:
- Job creation and assignment: You can create a separate identity for every new job you create, including important data regarding the job such as the start and end dates, location, job details, checklists and much more. Once the job is created, you can easily assign it to one or more employees or contractors, and they will be informed of the assignment through a push notification, email, or SMS. Plus, you can assign admin rights to managers or office admins so they can be tasked with job creation and managing the platform
- Job scheduling: Not only does it allow you to create and assign jobs, but also provides a calendar on which you can track the timeline of each job. You and your employees can view each job by day, week, and month. The staff will also be able to track their attendance and working hours, and can also block out calendars during holidays.
- Geolocation services: Online job management services also have location services, which you can utilise to communicate based on the location of employees, whether they are out in the field or traveling back to the office. You can also share the client’s destination with the employee you have assigned for a job!
These are only a few of the features and tasks that you can perform with job management software. The software provider can also personalize it according to your company’s needs and also add more functions that may be specific to your business.
Benefits of a Job Management Platform for Trade and Home Service Businesses
Home service businesses refer to the various types of jobs that are performed around the house, such as gardening, landscaping, building, plumbing, flooring, cleaning, and much more. With the advent of technology, home service businesses should be able to streamline and optimize their operations without any technical or software knowledge.
With job management software, home service providers can streamline and optimize their operations without any technical or software knowledge… managing quotes, appointments and tasks more efficiently, and also schedule future tasks, invoicing and payments.
Here are a few more benefits that you can experience while using a job scheduling app:
1. Easier Team and Contractor Management
If you own a home service business, you may have a team of employees or contractors on the road. This is extremely difficult to manage manually. Job scheduling apps help you manage all of your teams through one platform. All of your team use the app to view their bookings, jobs and you can invoice as soon as a job is completed!
When you integrate job management software into your business, you can effectively view all your staff’s schedules in real-time, and you can also track their location to find out whether they have reached the customer or not. It will also help you assign last minute jobs to your team who are free and available.
2. Higher Revenue
Job management software allows you to manage multiple jobs and tasks at the same time, easily assigning jobs to the designated person in just a few clicks. It reduces the manual processes you have in your business, allowing you to manage more client and jobs with the same team, increasing revenue, as well as customer satisfaction.
Moreover, these applications don’t require in-depth technical knowledge, you can easily integrate them into your business and existing accounting software.
3. Easy Invoicing
Another major benefit of using a job management platform is that it allows you to generate quotes quickly and easily – and convert these quotes into jobs. Once a job is complete, you convert the job into an invoice in a couple of clicks. Invoices also sync directly to your accounting software,
4. Better Cash Flow
With a job scheduling app, once a job is complete, you or your team can create an invoice and accept payment on the spot!! This allows you to receive money much faster than you do otherwise, eventually leading to better cash flow – no more late invoices and late payments!
5. Repeat Business
With job management software, you free up time to focus more on your customers… increasing customer satisfaction and helping you drive repeat business.
When clients are satisfied with your services, they won’t have to think twice about hiring you the next time they need something to be done around the house.
6. Business Growth
It’s extremely difficult to grow your business when your time is tied up in admin tasks. Job management software helps you minimise this wasted time allowing you to focus on important tasks that help grow your business – Talking with customers, marketing, hiring the best staff.
The integration of job scheduling software in your business will not only make your company technologically advanced, but will also reduce your workload by optimising basic operations. It gives you the freedom of time to think and grow your business.
Optimise Your Business With GeoNext
GeoNext is a purpose-built job management and scheduling app for trades and home service businesses. It’s turnkey software that helps you to manage and grow your business.
We are highly trusted by more than 15,000 users from all over the world.
With GeoNext, you can create quotes, book and schedule jobs and manage your team from anywhere. Not only will you be have access on any device, but our integration with the cloud ensures that all your integral data is always at your fingertips.
You can easily link GeoNext with any leading accounting software, which will enable you to manage your company’s invoices and employees’ timesheets effectively.
If you would like to see what GeoNext can do for your business, you can get started here FREE. Or alternatively, schedule a demo here to have one of our experts show you how to make the most of GeoNext for your business.
All work and no play makes for one stressed our tradie. But with Geo you can save 14 hours a week on admin duty and make your work feel like play! Talk to one of our experts today to find out how Geo fits into your business.
Want to say goodbye to annoying paperwork?
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Want to say goodbye to annoying paperwork?
GeoNext is easy to use, has all the tools you need and is FREE for 14 days
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