Landscape design and business management software for landscaping professional.
DynaSCAPE - manage all aspects of your landscaping business.
 

Features and benefits in detail

DynaSCAPE Manage is the landscaping business management software that helps you manage all aspects of your operations. Here are some of the program’s main features and benefits:

 
Manage all aspects of your landscaping business with one comprehensive tool
 
  • Use a single software package to consolidate your entire landscaping business
  • Organize your company's activities into logical business units
  • Reap ongoing rewards from an initial investment of time and intelligence gathering
  • Use the setup time to update and re-evaluate all your prices and components
 
Track leads and sales
 
  •  View all your customers in searchable/sortable lists
  • Assign salespeople, contacts and unlimited jobsites to each customer
  • Stay on top of quote status and potential revenue using the Bid Board
  • Track quotes and contracts by salesperson to gain feedback on the effectiveness of your sales staff
  • Identify your most effective sales channels
  • Use attributes to sort and track your leads and customers the way that best suits your needs – by revenue potential, service type, or many other parameters
 
Convert approved quotes into contracts
 
  •  Assign timesheet and supplier invoice costs to the job
  • Base contracts on their respective quotes, while retaining the flexibility to make further edits
  • Track the "% completed" status of each job
  • Use the job costing feature to see estimated vs. actual costs for each distinct profit centre
 
Schedule and manage every job reliably
 
  • Use the MS Outlook-style job scheduler to coordinate all required resources
  • Quickly determine when to fit new jobs in to the company's timetable
  • Schedule any type of job: landscape design-build, construction, maintenance, snow removal, weed-spraying or irrigation
  • Do crew-specific scheduling and detailed jobsite tracking
  • Set up both standard and recurring schedules
  • Use contract labor hours to help estimate schedule lengths
 
Manage your crews and labor
 
  • Assign employees and foremen to crews
  • Assign crews to jobs and jobsites
  • Supply your crews with work descriptions and easy MapPoint-generated maps to each jobsite
  • Keep track of all manpower services (labor items) for all your customers
 
Generate materials lists automatically
 
  • Use contracts to quickly produce complete material lists for your crews
  • Break down material lists by individual supplier, hardscape/softscape, etc.
  • No need to ever create a materials list manually again
 
Generate timesheets
 
  • Generate all employee timesheets directly from the quote/contract/schedule
  • Record and track the true costs of all labor applied to a job
  • Use timesheets to also track equipment usage and bulk material allocations
  • Save time with timesheet templates
  • Generate payroll reports from timesheet information
 
Automate your invoicing
 
  • Automatically generate individual or end-of-month invoices for your customers
  • Create invoices for an individual job, or generate them by batch
  • Invoice jobs using a variety of different formulas: progressive (percentage) billing, fixed billing per month, automated time and materials billing, or combination billing
  • Use invoice runs to generate invoices for an entire division at once 
  • Enter purchase orders and supplier invoices to track true costs of materials and sub-contracts applied to a job
 
Manage your customer relationships
 
  • Record and categorize all your customers and contacts
  • Keep customer journals to track conversations, correspondence, comments and follow-ups
  • Generate mailers, labels, and envelopes to keep the lines of communication flowing
  • Strengthen customer relationships to increase sales
  • Maintain a high standard of informed customer-based communication
  • Out-respond your competition
 
Analyze your quotes and determine your profits
 
  •  Analyze each quote for estimated profitability (revenue, costs, and profit) prior to submission
  • Determine how competitive your bids are
  • Achieve accurate and consistent pricing
  • Compare profit margins against company benchmarks
  • Identify current trends and compare with historical results
  • Stay a step ahead of the market – be the first to react to competitive or economic fluctuations
 
Do detailed jobcosting and analysis by profit centre
 
  • Determine actual job costs for each completed contract
  • Assess profitability and identify problem areas
  • Adjust your price lists and kits based on an analysis of your estimation accuracy
  • Compare revenue vs. costs, estimated vs. actual time, estimated vs. actual costs
  • Compare current year vs. last year reports
  • Determine revenue per timesheet hour, and revenue by profit center
  • Identify and target your most lucrative services
 
Simplify your data gathering, entry and reporting
 
  • Enter your business-related data only once to improve productivity and reduce errors
  • Reduce time spent gathering data by having one central source for your payroll, timesheets, invoices and reports
  • Find information quickly
  • Customize reports and templates to give you precise feedback
  • Control access to your financial data with appropriate security permissions
  • Export timesheets and customer invoices directly to QuickBooks
 
Share DynaSCAPE Manage data with other programs in your office
 
  • Move customer and materials lists to and from MS Outlook, Excel, and Word
  • Generate jobsite maps through integration with MS MapPoint
  • Eliminate duplicate data entry by synchronizing with your QuickBooks customer, vendor and employee lists
  • Export timesheets and invoices directly to QuickBooks or Excel
  • Synchronize your contact lists with Microsoft Outlook for quick retrieval in your favorite email program, or even on your PDA
 
Get up to speed quickly
 
  • Take advantage of DynaSCAPE's implementation packages for quick-start support
  • Learn how to use all of the Suite's features with our thorough, crystal-clear user manuals and training videos
  • Get additional answers from our moderated online user forums
 
Grow your business
 
  • Gain valuable insights into the financial management of your business
  • Increase the size and/or profitability of your operations
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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