Software that runs your day-to-day, explained

Our website calls this “ERP.” It's the most jargon-heavy page we have. Sorry.

Short version: One system that handles your invoices, inventory, jobs, and scheduling — instead of six things that don't talk to each other.

What ERP stands for, and why you should ignore it

Enterprise Resource Planning. It's a term invented for giant factories in the 1990s and it has been scaring small business owners ever since.

Here's the honest translation: it's the software that runs the boring middle of your business. Orders in, work scheduled, materials tracked, invoice out, payment recorded, report at the end of the month.

The everyday version of the problem

A job comes in by phone and gets written on a pad. It's typed into a scheduling spreadsheet. Parts get pulled and someone maybe updates the inventory sheet. At the end of the week somebody types it all into QuickBooks to invoice it. At the end of the month you try to figure out whether that job made money, and you can't, because the information is in four files.

If you already have a system

A lot of businesses already have something old — maybe written by somebody who has since retired. We don't tell you to throw it away. We go read the old system, figure out what it's really doing, and rebuild those rules on something modern. Then we run both side by side until we're sure the new one gets the same answers, and only then shut the old one off. See Your old system.

What it costs

This is the biggest thing we do and prices vary the most — billed hourly, quoted up front once we understand the job. We start with a free assessment: we look at what you've got and give you a written plan and a real number before you commit to anything.