Property Maintenance Software for Handymen: The Complete Guide to Maintenance Plans
Why Plans Matter
One-time jobs depend on the phone ringing. Plans don't. A handyman with 150 plan customers starts every season with a known amount of booked work and revenue.
What a Plan Is
A plan is a promise to come back on a schedule: gutters every spring and fall, a yearly home checkup, a filter change every quarter. The value to the customer is not having to remember.
What the Software Has to Do
- Know when each customer is due.
- Show due customers where they are, so you can batch them.
- Give the tech the same checklist every visit.
- Keep the items on the house so the tech knows what to check.
- Charge without chasing.
How HandymanBossPro Does It
Each recurring service is set by the minimum days between visits. When an address reaches it, it lands on the Waiting List and the map, colored due now or overdue past a 7-day grace. You circle a neighborhood of due visits and assign them to a van. The tech works the checklist, logs hours and materials, notes follow-ups and completes. The card on file can be charged.
Start With One Plan
Start with the plan that's easiest to sell in your area. For most handymen, that's gutters or a yearly checkup. The rest of this series covers what to include, how to price it and how to keep customers renewing.
Keep Reading
Next in this series: Why Every Handyman Should Sell a Maintenance Plan. Before that came Choosing Property Maintenance Software for a Handyman Business. For the full picture, go back to the home maintenance plans overview.
Turn One-Time Customers Into Plan Customers
Recurring visits that come due on their own, the items on every house and automatic billing. Try HandymanBossPro free for 14 days.
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