Case Study 1

Business Challenge:

Outdoor Craftsmen LTD is a complete service oriented business providing landscape design and construction. With 34 employees and two years experience, Outdoor Craftsmen LTD found the necessity to track and verify profitability of every landscaping task. Bradley at Outdoor Craftsmen LTD was handed this task and chose Xora GPS TimeTrack to assist him.

Xora GPS TimeTrack alone was not enough. Bradley needed a method to tie Xora to Quickbooks 2005. Issues were immediately apparent. Employees on the field turned in grouped time data and it required manual intervention to separate and import the data into Quickbooks. Importing the data manually for so many employees was impossible.

Solution: Mobile qbConnector

In order to resolve a link from Xora to quickbooks, Bradley searched on the internet and looked for a solution. What he found was Mobile qbConnector. He contacted his Xora representative immediately to reach Personable Inc.

Personable, Inc. provided the means to bring true value to an investment in Xora GPS TimeTrack. Mobile qbConnector is a streamlined tool for connecting Xora and quickbooks. With 34 employees, over 75 clients, and over a dozen flex fields, it took 16 hours from initial setup to Bradley's first import of data into quickbooks. Bradley notes, "With so much to get done, I made excellent time setting up the system including qbConnector."

Mobile qbConnector is relatively easy to use and very easy to deploy as it would only require instructing personnel who are responsible for importing the data received from Xora into Quickbooks. Employees on the field continue to use Xora as usual.

Business Benefits:

Bradley can now track to the minute every job or task for each employee. This also allows him to report cost and profits for irrigation and planting. A leap and bound from handling data manually from the field to the office.

The major milestone acheived since deploying Mobile qbConnector is accurately accounting for every minute. Outdoor Craftsmen LTD is already seeing the advantage of using Mobile qbConnector for their business.