FIELDBOSS vs. Simpro

Being
able to react to customers’ needs through real-time contact with our technicians
has improved our customer experience and increased operational efficiencies. Having
information at our fingertips, by using reporting and tracking allows us the visibility
we need to identify potential problems and find quick solutions, thereby preventing
or decreasing repeat visits and elevator downtime. We’ve increased workforce
productivity with technician mobile access, using automated flows in processing
multi-level tasks throughout the system, and our users having the ability to easily
create custom views and reports to fit their needs.

Simpro is well suited for job and team management, tracking inventory and the workflow is very logical. The mobile app for our field technicians works very well to clock on and off and then being in a position to report to a customer based on factual information has made invoicing a breeze! Reporting can be a bit frustrating especially on materials used on different cost centre numbers as you can only specify a job number, but not a cost centre number.

Incentivized

• Automation of processing multi-level tasks
• Real-time data and communication
• Users being able to create customized views and reports
• Evolving and updating their solution
• Top-notch support service, even in a pinch

• Billing: straight from a closed, complete job. Carries overall equipment, hours, takes one click to bill.
• simPRO retains notes on all emails; notes can be entered by anyone to track communication with clients.

Incentivized

• Payroll processing
• User set-up and maintenance

• Ability to create leave forms for the employees (to my best knowledge, this doesn't exist).
• Ability to color code jobs, quotes by criticality.
• Assign status to equipment (e.g. "ordered"; "arrived").

Incentivized

The
integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 is optimal for any company, as any user
that has used a Microsoft product finds the interface intuitive and allows them
to navigate the system with ease. Users are able customize views and reports that are easily share with colleagues throughout your organization

As mentioned before, materials reporting could use some work as one cannot report by cost centre number, only by job number. It makes it difficult with large jobs with multiple cost centre numbers to easily extract information for reporting. Other than that the system is user friendly and easy to understand.

Incentivized

It is a great option for solar project management. It needs some improvements for real-time one-page reports, inventory management, scheduling and custom views. I believe these will come because they listen to their customers. I would also like to see some better training and not be expected to pay out of pocket for it.

Incentivized

monday.com was easier to set up and you can create boards with loads of subtasks which helps manage a project. Also, the ability to integrate with google was much better as we could link it to the calendar and also store documents that the engineers could see easier onsite. Overall we could make monday.com work better for our business based on how we are set up but simPRO will be great for other businesses with more specific needs.

Incentivized

• Increased productivity
• Identifying potential risks
• Monitoring business trends and adapting to a changing environment

• Increased team collaboration.
• Increased inventory awareness.
• Decreased down time between jobs.

Incentivized