Monday, February 24, 2014

Why use Elms Advantage Online?

Web-based Software:  Elms Advantage Online is a web-based software service.  There is no need to invest in costing IT hardware or constant software upgrades as new version are released.  You pay as you go and Elms will grow as you grow.  Elms is accessible anywhere there is an internet connection via any browser based device.  All your data and project information is at your fingertips no matter where your are.  This makes it easier to work with other people or customers and you always have access to the latest information.
Time Saver:  You spend all day working the sales pipeline or working the most important job and then you return home to find that you need to write up a new estimate, respond to emails, generate a change orders, or create a new contract.  Elms Advantage Online will help you significantly reduce the time for generating construction estimates and remodeing estimates.  Elms automatically creates profession customer specifications and contract agreements at the touch of a button allowing your more time with your family and friends.  Use Elms integration with QuickBooks to reduce the amount of data entry time required.
Ease of use:  Elms Advantage Online was built from the vision of a professional Design/Build Remodeing company and we have worked with hundreds of contractors over the years.  Our main emphasis is ease of use and configurability.  Configure Elms specific to your company as opposed to having to tailor your business to some software.  Online help, customer forum and content specific and give you access to to the information specific to your current task,
Configurability:  Each company does business a little differently than the one down the street.  Elms realizes the importance of making the software work for your business as opposed to you changing your business for the software you use.  All documents and agreements are configurable and can be extended to fully support your business.  Include verbiage and images specific to your company.  Elms Administration contains sections dedicated to configuring Elms for your company.
Affordable:  Elms Advantage Online is available in a single source pricing plan.  This plan states that all features and functions are available as a single cost affordable for the small independent contractor or the larger Design/Build remodeler.  Your company can use whatever features best fit your business at this time and slowly incorporate additional features as you grow  at no additional costs. You can immediately realize your return on investment from the time and cost savings achieved by using Elms Advantage Online.
Data Integrity:  You own your data and Elms Advantage Online will protect and ensure your data security.  Elms has tools that allow you to easily import and export  your company data.  This includes customers, vendors, jobs, and costbooks.  Elms supports importing of cost book data which can support the use of any 3rd party cost book vendor.
Grow your business:  Elms Advantage Online can help you grow your business.  The construction estimating module will help you understand your "true" costs of doing business.  "If you don't know your costs... you are going out of business... You just don't know it yet!"  You will increase profit by understanding the real costs of doing business.  Understand the effectiveness of your marketing, lead generation, and sales pipeline.  Increase the the amount of leads generated and convert more leads to customers using Elms Advantage Online.
Elms Advantage Price Guarantee:  Existing customer prices are locked in.    Price increases are part of  doing business when accounting for inflation and the increased cost of services.   Elms users do not have to worry about the increase in price as their current price per user is locked as long as they maintain an active service.  Elms software will continue to enhance and add functionality, but you can count on and budget for a fixed cost,  year in and year out.   Elms also provides multiple user rates in addition to the option of hosting the software yourself.  Please contact Elms directly for the latter options.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Elms, A Business Management Solution - Part 1

Elms Advantage Online is designed to help you develop and implement strong business systems for your company. You can clearly divide a remodeling business into the following categories:   Sales & Marketing, Estimating, Communications, Production and Finance.    Additional blog posts will follow showing how Elms participates in each of the previous defined categories.
Implementing strong business systems will help you standardize and assure you that all tasks are handled in a consistent and planned process. 
Elms Advantage Online provides you the framework to build and manage these business systems.  Elms customization features makes sure that you can implement your own custom business systems as opposed to dictating your processes.   One size does not fit all and you always have the functionality available if needed.  Our pricing strategy and product offering makes it easy to grow with your company

Read Part 2 - Sales & Marketing

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