The HVAC and plumbing industries are highly dynamic and demanding, which requires businesses to efficiently manage field operations, maintain accurate financial records, and deliver exceptional customer service.
Being a very competitive and demanding service industry companies often use field service management software\Home service management software to give a fast-paced service to their customer, but it poses a great challenge to pass the correct financial entry into the financial software. Below are a few challenges.
1. Job Costing
The HVAC and Plumbing industries provide Maintenance and Installation services, and each labor may have different rates. So, it is very important to track the expenses and the revenue by the Job. The industry needs a system for tracking all costs associated with each job, including labor, materials, and overhead costs.
2. Revenue Management
HVAC and Plumbing jobs are related to the installation of Heating/AC/Plumbing units and the overall maintenance of these units and the system at large. These jobs were done in a short period, and revenue is recognized once a job is completed. Also, they get long-term projects spanning multiple months where maintenance service is also provided, and revenue needs to be recognized over time. It is also very important to identify the revenue generated through commercial and residential businesses.
3. Inventory Tracking
Managing Inventory is very important for the HVAC and Plumbing industry, where common parts include HVAC and furnace units, motors, air filters, ignitors, thermostats, and pipes, fittings, valves, faucets, tools, more. Need to track all the parts across the location and keep them in stock, so the services can be given to customers in a timely fashion without any delay. They also need to know how much stock to be kept available based upon seasonality, for example. summer season demands for HVAC is more.
4. Consolidation
The HVAC and Plumbing Industry operates from multiple offices\location to give better services to their customer, at the end of the month need to see the consolidated revenue and expenses by each location and office. It becomes a very tedious and complex job, and they heavily rely upon the auditor to get them accurate details or must invest a lot of time manually to make the consolidation.
5. Scheduling and Dispatching
For the HVAC and Plumbing Industry scheduling and dispatching is an important factor to provide service excellence. Need to track the availability of each labor and their work hours across the location so as soon get any new case from the customer, labor can be identified and assigned to the customer.
6. Customer service
Need to track Customer complaints, and customer tickets, maintaining strong customer relationships and ensuring high service standards.
7. Industry Compliance
Need to Adhere to industry regulations and follow all Compliances and Reporting needed.
8. Expenses
Tracking various expenses is very important to get the actual profit, HVAC and Plumbing industry needs to track their expenses on various fronts tracking expenses for 1) Fleet of vehicles, 2) Specialized equipment, 3) Skilled technicians Labor,4) Insurance, 5) Marketing, 6) Travelling and More. It is important to get the P&L report by different expenses incurred so the company can understand where they are spending more and how they can control their expenses.
Sage Intacct addresses these challenges from HVAC and plumbing to pest control by integrating with the right home service management software. Sage Intacct helps these industries to unlock new potential. Sage Intacct offers modules like Manging Projects\Job, tracking the labor work and their time on different jobs and helping the company to automate invoicing with powerful home services software. Greytrix as an implementation partner helps customers choose the right home service management software like “servicetitan”, “successware” etc… to get all their financial information at their fingertips.
Here is the dashboard showing the user their financial status highlighting all their expenses and revenue they received from visiting Home or Commercial. In the below example, we have just included revenue for Home Visit.
Choosing Sage Intacct as a financial software for the HVAC\Plumbing industry gives various benefits view of them is listed below.
1. Sage Intacct Project Management: Sage Intacct Project Tracking will help the customer to know the expenses and revenue generated for each job they deliver to the customer.
2. Sage Intacct Revenue Management: Based upon the contract i.e. short-term or long-term users can set the configuration to recognize the revenue on completion of the job or hit the deferred revenue and recognize it over the period. For example, maintenance or a bigger job spanning over multiple months.
3. Sage Intacct Expense Management: With multi-dimension reporting capabilities in Sage Intacct user can slice and dice the details of each expense by category like Travel, Payroll, Equipment, etc… incurred during the financial period, the system can further help the user to drill down to type of expense and expand it by an employee to know the expenses more accurately at employee level, vendor level etc.
4. Automated Billing and Invoicing: Integrating home service management software with Sage Intacct so it could Speed up cash flow by generating accurate invoices immediately after service completion, this saves their time to avoid duplicating efforts of re-creating the transaction in accounting software.
5. Sage Intacct Real-Time Financial Reporting: With all your service data synced with Sage Intacct, you should be able to access up-to-date financial insights to make informed decision-making.
6. Sage Intacct Inventory Tracking: Sage Intacct allows you to track the inventory its value and manage stock across the locations with its inbuild Inventory Management modules. This helps the user to create the inventory suggestion report to know the forecast based upon season and allows the user to keep the inventory in proper stock to give unhindered services to their customer.
7. Sage Intacct Revenue Consolidation: Sage Intacct is easily configurable for consolidation, set-up eliminations, currency translation rules, and dimensions to consolidate and create detailed reports, auto elimination can be set up based upon the reporting requirements. With the powerful consolidation tool of Sage Intacct users get the consolidation revenue immediately and users must not do any manual work.
However, to fully leverage these benefits, businesses need a smooth and effective implementation process. This is where Greytrix’s expertise becomes invaluable. Greytrix specializes in providing comprehensive ERP implementation services, ensuring that HVAC and plumbing businesses can seamlessly adopt Sage Intacct and transform their operations. Greytrix as a certified Sage Intacct implementation partner and expert in Integration, helps customers to integrate with their chosen home service management software like “ServiceTitan”, “Successware” etc. with the seamless integration it helps HVAC and Plumbing service industry to automate their billing system, optimizing technician routes, and ensuring timely service delivery and being integrated on real-time basis with field service management software, Companies get the real-time financial information to take the informed decision
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