Fire Extinguisher Maintenance is a Delicate Business

With Scheduling Manager software you can always provide the best service and keep your business profitable. Equipment Tracking and Maintenance You can record where your equipment is at any time with our Equipment Tracking Module. Suppose you leave some equipment on site, all you need to do is simply record it in the Equipment Module […]

Avoid These 3 Key Pitfalls of Running an HVAC Maintenance Business

At Thoughtful Systems, we have been creating business management software for HVAC maintenance businesses for 30 years,.With the help of our Scheduling Manager software, you can avoid these common pitfalls of running an HVAC maintenance business. Long Response Time Mapping and Route Optimization Using the mapping interface you can optimize a route, automatically reordering jobs to minimize […]

Software and Omelets: How To Tell When They're Done

The first dish that I learned to make for myself was an omelet.  My mother showed me the process.  She was very detail-oriented, and insistent on doing things exactly right.  She explained how to beat the eggs, how much butter to put in the pan, how long to heat that, when to add the eggs, […]

A History of Maid Service Software

  Many years ago, around the time of the beginning of the residential cleaning industry, there was no maid service software available to manage such businesses. There were one or two franchises, like Merry Maids, for example, who engaged some programmers to write software specifically for their franchises. This was a real advantage to signing […]

How to choose your Service Business Software

How to Choose Service Business Software 10 Points to Consider 1. Do your research. Create a list of several relevant software programs designed for your service business industry. Start by searching on Google and talking to other companies in your industry or other service-related businesses with similar processes. 2. Are you thinking about having a […]

5 Ways the Scheduling Manager can help "Spring Clean" Your Business

It’s that time of the year where we are all in the process of cleaning up, from our garage, to our wardrobe, to our businesses. There’s no better way to clean up and streamline your business then with the Scheduling Manager. We wanted to highlight a couple of great features below that can help you […]

Scheduling Manager Web Express by Thoughtful Systems

Thoughtful Systems is proud to announce the release of Scheduling Manager Web Express with nearly all the same great features as our stand-alone version, but completely online. We’ve noticed other companies have released both a stand-alone and a web version but their web version has far fewer features. However, Thoughtful System’s web version has nearly […]

How to Choose the Right Software Program for Your Service Business

We have many customers who call us after coming from other software companies and they are unhappy for a wide range of reasons. Since we have been in the business for 25 years and have customers in dozens of different service industries, we wanted to give our readers some tips on choosing a software program. […]

Increase Your Profits with Job Costing Report 3

The Gemini version of Scheduling Manager by Thoughtful Systems includes several new advanced analysis reports. These reports provide you with more sophisticated ways to analyze your data and increase your profits. We wanted to highlight one of the reports we find most useful below, Job Costing Report 3. This report will calculate payroll for employees only. By […]