4. Introduction

What is JobVision? JobVision is a home maintenance business management program. The original software was called JobTrac and was developed for a plumbing business in 1997 and has been in use ever since. The customers were delighted with JobTrac and claimed it saved them £60,000 a year. But we could see many opportunities for improvement.

We decided to rewrite JobTrac from scratch with a host of improvements. We made it easier to use, with better instructions, more powerful, and with better support. JobVision is the result.

What does JobVision do? JobVision tells you everything you need to know about your business. JobVision manages all your customer and job information. It tells you what you have earned and spent much like an accounting package (but is much simpler to use). It tells you what work you have from whom and when. It tracks and automates invoices. It automates the production of quotations and at the press of a button converts them into invoices and integrates them into your yearly accounts. JobVision tells you what has been spent and / or earned between any two dates on any category of expenditure. It will automate and manage your letters to customers or friends. JobVision tells any prospective buyer of your business what it is worth. It allows you to split invoices up so stage payments can be made. It helps you fill in your tax form and track VAT expenditure.

What more can it do? JobVision will tell you who your good and bad customers are, it will tell you where new business can be found, it will ease the burden of paperwork, it will let you earn more money, and you will waste less time on activities that earn you nothing. Furthermore, JobVision is modular: it was designed to permit extra options to be added at a later date, perhaps to help you service gas appliances, or to run web based business services.