Know which properties and crews are making money before the season's over.
The reality of running a maintenance P&L
Most maintenance owners don’t know what properties are winning or losing on until it’s too late. You can’t take corrective action, adjust your plan, or address it in real time. What you’re left with is a gut feel and hope that things will work out. Perhaps you look at numbers at the end of the year, but get busy with spring and all the intentions you had of making that job profitable fly out the window to fight fires and you’re right back where you were last year.
Cash works on it’s own clock. What you bill and when you bill it changes how much of the year you spend financing the customer. Invoices delayed in going out, means you are doing work for free and in our industry, most of your cash out happens early in the season. How you bill and when you bill matter, and how you collect matters. We work with you to build a billing plan that supports your business so you can stay on top of it.
How we help
We close your books monthly and clean them when they need it. We report margin by property, by crew leader, and by route, so you can tell whether a bad number is a crew issue, a route issue, a property issue, or a bid issue. We track renewal rate by segment, flag the accounts you can't afford to lose, and pull a list of properties that are due for a price conversation. We review your contracts and billing structure for places to pull cash forward. We split AR aging between residential and commercial and hand you a monthly call list. And we run a cash flow forecast against your actual season so the March equipment purchase doesn't crowd out July payroll. We work in QuickBooks, LMN, Aspire, or BOSS LM, whatever your operations team is already in.