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How to Track and Capture Every Project Dollar With Houzz Pro
Protect your business and cover your bases at every stage of your design project
Houzz
May 22, 2020
Keeping track of all your time, expenses and approvals for every design project can be a challenge — but it’s crucial in order to make sure you’re billing appropriately for your work. Houzz Pro makes this necessary part of running a design business easier. By empowering you to track client approvals as well as your time and expense entries in one central place, Houzz Pro can help you strengthen your business and, ultimately, grow your revenue.
Houzz Pro is the only all-in-one business software that designers can use to manage the full project life cycle, including attracting and converting new clients, communicating with clients about their projects and handling billing and payments.
Houzz Pro is the only all-in-one business software that designers can use to manage the full project life cycle, including attracting and converting new clients, communicating with clients about their projects and handling billing and payments.
In this article we’ll dive into the features of Houzz Pro that empower you to prevent a leaky-bucket situation, which happens when you’re putting a lot of effort into a project yet not capturing revenue that reflects your effort because you have holes in your tracking system. With Houzz Pro, you can easily share proposals with your leads to capture their approval on every expense, keep records of your own time and expenses, and handle all of your communication and documents so you have that all-important paper trail.
Send Proposals to Prospective Clients for Easy Approval
Houzz Pro empowers you to quickly create beautiful branded proposals and send them to clients and prospective clients for easy viewing and approval. There’s no more wondering whether a client signed off on a particular product. The proposals and documents you create with Houzz Pro will display your business name and logo, reinforcing your professional image and brand. You can add products from your custom sourcing library into your proposals. And you have the option to let clients approve or decline the entire proposal, or do so item by item, giving them a satisfying sense of control regarding the project’s cost.
Houzz Pro empowers you to quickly create beautiful branded proposals and send them to clients and prospective clients for easy viewing and approval. There’s no more wondering whether a client signed off on a particular product. The proposals and documents you create with Houzz Pro will display your business name and logo, reinforcing your professional image and brand. You can add products from your custom sourcing library into your proposals. And you have the option to let clients approve or decline the entire proposal, or do so item by item, giving them a satisfying sense of control regarding the project’s cost.
Capture All of Your Time and Expenses With Ease
With every design project, it’s important to track your time and expense entries. If you’re not properly tracking, it’s easy to forget a few hours here and there, and soon you’re underbilling for your time. An Intuit study found that 21% of businesses miss out on key tax deductions and expense billing because they don’t keep track of expenses. You can use Houzz Pro to track every dollar and minute, allowing you to increase cash flow and take advantage of all the tax deductions your business is eligible for. Quickly see all your time and expense entries at a glance within your dashboard.
With every design project, it’s important to track your time and expense entries. If you’re not properly tracking, it’s easy to forget a few hours here and there, and soon you’re underbilling for your time. An Intuit study found that 21% of businesses miss out on key tax deductions and expense billing because they don’t keep track of expenses. You can use Houzz Pro to track every dollar and minute, allowing you to increase cash flow and take advantage of all the tax deductions your business is eligible for. Quickly see all your time and expense entries at a glance within your dashboard.
Track Everything in One Central Place
Have you ever lost track of an email thread that contained a key client conversation? Houzz Pro allows you to manage your messages and project documents in a central place so you can quickly refer back to key conversations and decisions. This is really helpful when there is an issue regarding cost, and you and your clients can refer back to those approved proposals. Houzz Pro also helps you save time with the quick reply feature.
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Have you ever lost track of an email thread that contained a key client conversation? Houzz Pro allows you to manage your messages and project documents in a central place so you can quickly refer back to key conversations and decisions. This is really helpful when there is an issue regarding cost, and you and your clients can refer back to those approved proposals. Houzz Pro also helps you save time with the quick reply feature.
More for Pros on Houzz
Read more about Houzz Pro product features
Read stories in our Resilience series
Learn more about Houzz Pro software
Join the Houzz Trade Program
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