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Poll

What do you use to manage your round and why?

Spread sheet
14.8%
9 (14.8%)
Data base
8.2%
5 (8.2%)
Roundpro Software

0 (0%)
George Software
41%
25 (41%)
Window Cleanner Pro Software
1.6%
1 (1.6%)
Pen and Paper
34.4%
21 (34.4%)

Total Members Voted: 58

Roy Harding

  • Posts: 1974
Round Control
« on: June 28, 2006, 06:45:47 pm »
I would like to know what you use to organize your round and what feature's you like or hate?

Roy

jeff1

  • Posts: 5855
Re: Round Control
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2006, 06:53:11 pm »
Hi Roy

I use a spread sheet, But I am trying the new wcp, But after 9 years you get to know the way you do thing second nature, and may find it difficult to change over.

macc

Re: Round Control
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2006, 07:04:16 pm »
Hi Roy

I use a spread sheet, But I am trying the new wcp, But after 9 years you get to know the way you do thing second nature, and may find it difficult to change over.

Hi Roy. Im trying wcp out at the moment, ive tryed others but not for me. So far wcp is right up my street,  ;D

Macc

pjulk

Re: Round Control
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2006, 07:43:50 pm »
I use george as its easy to use, I like the diary view and it works with my PDA.

Paul

ok cleaning

  • Posts: 649
Re: Round Control
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2006, 08:00:30 pm »
for me nothing is better than a pen n paper

shammy davis jnr

  • Posts: 543
Re: Round Control
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2006, 08:16:24 pm »
does a steel toe cap boot count  ??? lol i use george its been ok so far  nothing major  went wrong with it

brett walker

  • Posts: 1943
Re: Round Control
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2006, 08:29:18 pm »
pen and paper for me  8)


brett

Sir Squeaky

  • Posts: 8341
Re: Round Control
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2006, 09:27:46 pm »
Hardback notebook.

Fill it in daily and date it, then if want to look what's due it's easy.

simbo

  • Posts: 609
Re: Round Control
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2006, 09:47:59 pm »
index cards and box, do the customers in week one and then move on however many weeks then when its all done on to the next week and so on. Very easy system, hope it makes sense
simb0

mfwindowcleaner

  • Posts: 106
Re: Round Control
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2006, 09:50:39 pm »
George ......
and hardback old Diary for computer crash backup  ;D
" You can take the girl out of Cork "

JohnL

  • Posts: 723
Re: Round Control
« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2006, 10:42:34 pm »
P & P for me

JohnL
West Somerset. On the edge of the Quantocks and looking at The Exmoor National Park.

Paul Coleman

Re: Round Control
« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2006, 06:06:49 am »
I would like to know what you use to organize your round and what feature's you like or hate?

Roy

I use a database and spreadsheet but couldn't vote for both .  I have voted for database because that is the tool I use for manipulating the data into "work due", "money owing" etc..  The spreadsheet is more for recording the dates when a job was done (though I use it for the daily, monthly, and yearly totals.
If using software, I suppose everyone uses a database anyway.  George etc are databases with a front end to make them more user friendly.

Ian Rochester

  • Posts: 2588
Re: Round Control
« Reply #12 on: June 29, 2006, 06:28:51 am »
3 x George running from PDA's, the lads are each given a loaded PDA in the morning, go off do their rounds and it is downloaded each night.  Total time, less than 5 minutes.

If they pick up new work during the day, they write it on the PDA notepad and I copy it onto George at night.

I don't like the diary on George as it only shows you the houses for a selected round, I would rather it showed which rounds were due, so we have a spreadsheet of the rounds for sorting the rounds by date.

Any alternative would have to run off a PDA to be competitive with George.

macc

Re: Round Control
« Reply #13 on: June 29, 2006, 09:09:38 pm »
Hi, make that 2 on WCP, on Saturday im buying it.  ;D.

Thanks Ian, ive tryed others, im convinced your program is tops,

Macc

thewindowcleaner1

  • Posts: 779
Re: Round Control
« Reply #14 on: June 29, 2006, 09:12:31 pm »
I run a data dase system because I've set it up to tell me every thing I need to Know
When they started
When they are due
price
outstanding
dates of last three cleans
date last paid
Plus load of other info

As its adata base I can organise reports to suit needs
ie collect list
work list
annual value of round/work

and more recently as I,ve started using a PDA (xmas pressie of her indoors she though she'd bought me a sat nav did not know it was also a PDA) I've started to cut and past round info from the works data base onto a excel spread sheet, then Microp soft money lookes after the book keeping part
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