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  1. Business Operations
    A client recently asked for a running balance. I have an idea. Anyone familiar with this? Please don't paste a copied definition.
  2. Business Operations
    i was just hoping to get some general ideas and advice from you all. im trying to expand my mowing business and offer more services and such. but what im curious about is for the weekly mowing i provide, in the past i just send them an invoice at the end of the month with how much they owe and...
  3. Business Operations
    I use Jobber but I'm still finding it very difficult to keep track of who payed and who doesn't. Some people pay promptly and some wait till end of month. Some don't pay at all. What do you guys do? I started keeping a log in a notebook of just payments and that helps, but its not full proof. I...
  4. Starting a Lawn Care Business
    This will be my second year with lawn mowing. I was looking to see what some people do as of contracts (how long and whats included in them etc.) also what do you do as collecting payments (biweekly, monthly, don't mow until next payment is received etc.) Thanks
  5. Business Operations
    Hey all - I know there are many different options for software, but I don't have the time (or patience) to sift through them all in hopes to find what I'm looking for, so I'm asking here... Any of you know of a software that will, after generating an invoice (either manually or automatically)...
  6. Business Operations
    I had a customer call and ask if we could just automatically run his card at the end of every month. I was just curious to see if anyone does this and if so do you have the customer sign something saying that it is okay? Thanks!
  7. Business Operations
    I have a customer who has been a real pain this season. It is a lady, rough, tattoos, piercings, bandanas... She contacted me in May needing someone just to mow & make her property look clean. Arrived to an overgrown jungle with trash and debris all throughout. It is a rather large lot with a...
  8. Starting a Lawn Care Business
    My friend and I are starting a landscaping business. I am sorry if this has been asked. We are going over some thing's and came on the subject of payments. How do most people here accept payments? Do you accept personal checks and cash only? Also do you have the customer's write the checks out...
  9. Business Operations
    www.solidcontract.com I saw this website in a green industry magazine. It is a website where contractors report customers who have not paid them for services. In return, you can look-up and see if a potential customer has a history of delinquency. The site also has ready-made letters that you...
  10. Business Operations
    So today I contacted a customer of mine who is late 2 months on payment. He's a nice guy so I wanted to help him out as best I could. We nicely discussed the issue and figured out a solution. After we finished with that, he than says to me.. "just for future reference... its a terrible business...
  11. Landscape Architecture and Design-Build
    We did a landscape job for a lawyer downtown and hes unhappy about it. We installed sod, landscape ties, 5.5 yards of mulch, 4 yards of prosoil and edging. On top of that we removed the old sod and tilled the new soil with the old soil and picked everything up. He's unhappy because we could...
  12. Landscape Maintenance
    Hi everyone, I am fairly new to the working with property management game. But here is my deal. I was contacted by a guy who runs a tree biz to replace some sod for a property management company he is a vendor for. I went out and did the bids for him and got them today. but when I said I need...
  13. Business Operations
    Hi, I recently finished doing the framework for my dynamic website a couple days ago. I was just wondering if you guys had any ideas of what features i should include in it. I currently have it set up to show their payments received, and all the stuff we have done as well as the price and the...
  14. Starting a Lawn Care Business
    What is the best way to receive payments for services rendered? I have heard of getting the payment at the time of service and also sending an invoice to the client. By sening an invoice,however, it is easier for the client to send payments late or not at all. Which way do you believe, by...
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