Digital dive

Crews can file paperwork from a job site using labor management software.

When Alex Fransen was ready to start his own business, he knew one of the first things he would do was set up a digital labor management system to handle all of his administrative tasks. A little over two years later, the staff at Fransen Group in Louisville, Kentucky, is still learning about all of the things Service Autopilot software can accomplish.

“It handles everything from scheduling to proposals to routing to accounting,” Fransen says. “One hundred percent, it has been one of the best things we’ve done. We pay $95 a month for a cloud-based software we can log into from anywhere. It is probably one of the best investments I’ve ever made.”

The moment crews pull up to a job, the software automatically clocks employees in based on a pre-programmed geo-location. Their phone or tablet will prompt them to check in and provide pertinent notes and information for that job, and will clock users out when they leave, Fransen says.

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