Scheduling Software

[mdash29]

Im looking for some good...cheap...easy to use, scheduling and workorder software. What do you guys use?

Mike

 

[hogjowl]

ServiceMonster

www.principalfocus.com

 

[Al]

Same as Marty

8)

 

[Askal]

We have been using customer appointment manager. About 300 bucks. Never locked up or failed in 4 years. We have it set up for 4 trucks daily schedule at a glance. We use Act to print work orders. I suppose you could use CAM to do it but we have been using Act for 15 years now.
Al

 

[mdash29]

I took the test drive for ACT, But i didn't see where you could print out Work orders. Is that a separate Modular you have to buy?

 

[Askal]

Go to reports, new (or edit) template. Put your fields (and or text) in from your database and save template. I use date work done, name of tech, customer info, price change history, notes on job and past history notes. When printing work order go to reports, other report, work order print. They used to have macros and it was really easy to write 15 work orders in 5 or 10 minutes but they got rid of the Macros and now it takes about 1 to 2 minutes each including updating the fields in the database.
Al

 

[Bill G. Martin]

Mistral 2000 by Cyclone solutions

Bill in Central Florida

 

[klewis4]

Using Service Monster for a little over a year. Love it. Do a search on Service Monster and read some of the posts about features. You should at least get a demo with Service Monster before going with something else.

 

[Ron Werner]

Mistral will be very reasonable price.
Has multiple scheds
Totally customizable work orders/invoices
Lots of reports
Pop reminders

 

[greenclean7]

Magic Service Manager
http://www.magicservicesoftware.com

They offer a free trial where you can enter something like 20 or 25 customers into the database before it locks. Relatively inexpensive at $199 with no on-going monthly fees like some of the other software out there.

We'd been using ACT! for years, and trialed other software (Camelot, Ayanova, Mistral, etc.) before switching. Magic was the best value for the $$$ and the easiest to use. We run 3 TM's and scheduling is a breeze.

 

[Mike Draper]

Service Monster for sure. Free 30 day trial.

 

[Mikey P]

Service Monster is your only choice.