“You take care of the landscape, we’ll handle the business.” The Aspire landscape management system puts all your information in one place. Think about it: CRM, estimating, scheduling, purchasing, mobile time, invoicing, accounting and much more, all integrated. Aspire is cloud-based and designed for mobile, so information like contracts, client requests, scheduled services, purchases and billing is available in real-time... read more
The Aspire Software Co. will continue its Aspire University business education series this April with classes in managing Aspire and best practices for reporting. The classes are free to Aspire customers and will be held April 19-20 at the Old Hickory Golf Club in St. Charles, Mo. The two-day seminar will cover the following subjects: Revisit end of month accounting payroll period best practices;... read more
The Aspire Software Co., a landscape business management software firm, released version 3.2. This release is the first of four updates planned for 2017. The new version is available to all users. It features: Outlook Exchange and Google Gmail recurring appointment synchronization; Enhancements for construction estimating, purchasing and inventory management; and Additional month-end financials reporting in QuickBooks and Microsoft Dynamics... read more
Kevin Kehoe of Aspire discusses what numbers in your financial reports matter most. He provides a wealth of business building and benchmarking ideas to help green industry professionals better understand their businesses as compared to the industry. One key takeaway or insight was for contractors that provide commercial landscape maintenance services. Net profits for a maintenance company are reduced when... read more
As part of the November 2014 cover story “Cracking the code,” LM compiled a list of notable software programs for green industry business, presented in the table below. The original version of this table, which ran in print, comprised 46 programs. (Download a PDF here.) This online version lists more programs, per reader input and additional reporting. Know of a software we missed? Leave... read more
The Account Manager Master’s Series comes to five U.S. cities in early 2015. The two-day educational event is hosted by Envisor Consulting and Aspire, a landscape business software platform that launched earlier this month. The cost is $495 per person. Attendees will learn from landscape industry veterans like LM columnist and 3PG Consulting‘s Kevin Kehoe; Ken Thomas and Ben Gandy... read more
