Increased Productivity Through Software02-11-13 | News

Increased Productivity Through Software

With increased competition for a smaller client pool, hardscape and landscape contractors are levering design software to present ever-more exciting and visual proposals to their clients. Topline design software packages can deliver photo realistic renderings and even 3D images that provide the clients with a clearer picture of what the final project will look like. Clients respond to this. Also, making your business run more efficiently helps to keep profit margins up and maintain competitive bidding. Below are several software options for the forward-looking landscape contractors to consider when it comes to design and/or business efficiency.

#1 VizTerra (Design Software)
VizTerra is a 3D hardscaping and landscaping-design software package that allows the user to create an "Instant 3D design that promises fully customized, fully interactive 3D tours of the hardscapes and landscapes."

The program provides artistic freedom to draw anything or import AutoCAD project and transform detailed drawings into fully-interactive 3D presentations.

It comes with a detailed library of plants and trees (hundreds of species, fully-rendered with more than 77,000 variations), hand-crafted 3D hardscaping materials like pavers and stone from top manufacturers; it also can automatically displays printable build-ready site plans.

vizterra.com

#2 HindSite (Maintenance Management Software)
HindSite's landscaping, lawn care, and irrigation management software was designed by an irrigation contractor, and is designed to make managing a business easier. It can be used for scheduling, contacts, parts, work orders, and integrated billing (QuickBooks & Sage's Peachtree or Simply Accounting). Eliminate paperwork by using mobile field devices.

hindsitesoftware.com

#3 Service Autopilot (Business Management Software)
Autopilot is designed to eliminate double data entry. Take control of your time, scheduling, expenses, employees, marketing, profits and life with lawn care software. It offers 2-way QuickBooks Sync, Job Costing, CRM, Time & Asset Tracking, Time Sheets, Mobiles, Scheduling, and Routing.

https://serviceautopilot.com

#4 Pro Landscape (Design Software)
PRO Landscape (Drafix Software) offers the contractor a comprehensive set of design tools that gives the user the power to design and bid a project and communicate those design ideas to the customer in terms they can understand.???(R)???AE'?N????e'?N,A+ Among its set of tools: