As many of our readers know, we own and operate a Landscape Maintenance company called Murphy Property Maintenance. We are constantly struggling with software and how to track our hours, services, create reports. We have been using Quickbooks for 5 years now but being a constant slave to the program and the extreme learning curve…well, its almost impossible to run the business as well as track it.
I received an email from a gentleman called Sam Pillar he is the Co-Founder and President of the company that makes Jobber. He boasted that their software was “the best online business management software for on-site service companies.” Sam had me intrigued! I check out the website and browsed through the features and benefits that his software offered and decided to sign up for a trail account.
I was pleasantly surprised on how the software looked and felt streamlined. So many other software / cloud computing out there is hard to navigate and find the information in an easy fashion. As I evaluated the program the “Quick Start Guide” lead me on my way to setup my company and enter in my employees and first clients. The scheduling window is a breeze to use and I love the notifications on the ‘Dashboard’ for pending jobs. This program is looking better every minute I use it.
Woah! Automatic Geo-Tagging is sweet for client properties…yes I can reviewing this program as I write this, need to be fresh in the mind ya know 
Under the user settings you can create custom fields such as – property hazards, property size (sqft.), gate locked, dogs, etc. Very nice option. Another option is to have embedded forms for your website that sends quote info straight into Jobber…how sweet is that!
Jobber even has an API key so for all you programmers out there that would like to extend the program even further…have at er.
All in all this program is definitely worth the while to check out for any service based company. I am going to continue to try it out and post more comments as I come across more neat features that can help me save time and money. Look for edits and comments on this post very soon. Oh, I forgot to mention Quickbooks integration and mobile capabilities…Just check it out already.
