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Whether your organization works with subscriptions, contracts, or licenses, you have to deal with recurring invoicing. Handling this is tedious and extremely error-prone. Furthermore, if recurring invoicing is not running smoothly, it leads to cash flow deterioration. We would be happy to provide you with tips to make recurring invoicing as simple and efficient as possible.

There is no denying that implementing new business software costs money. These costs are an investment for your business because you are spending money to get something better. Although most companies are aware of this, the investment amount often creates doubts. At the same time, you usually earn back this investment faster than you think. Thanks to your investment, these five effects of using software for installers with a maintenance software module will immediately save you money.

A recent study by USP reveals that failure costs remain a problem in the installation industry. While this amounted to 5% of revenue a few years ago, total failure costs are now estimated at over 10% of revenue. Failure costs are a bottleneck for the organization, and it is essential to prevent the percentage from rising further in the coming years. We want to offer you tips on how the right software can help ultimately reduce failure costs.

The service and installation industry may be busier than ever before. The right service and maintenance software can help you optimize and automate your work processes, reducing workload and increasing profitability. We want to give you 4 tips to optimize and automate installation companies.

Accurate calculation is undoubtedly important to your profitability. Unfortunately, calculating for an assignment or project is extremely time-consuming, unless you use ERP software that contains enough tools to support you in this. However, calculating smarter is easily possible. We are happy to share 4 tips to make calculations smarter and faster.

The Cabinet has announced that, starting in 2026, the hybrid heat pump will become the standard for heating homes when the central heating boiler is due for replacement. This decision by the Cabinet forces installation companies to prepare and adapt their current working methods where necessary. As an installation company, we would like to offer you five tips for preparing for the new standards for heating installations in 2026.

An article recently appeared in the Financieel Dagblad regarding the major shortages of parts for solar panels and heat pumps, causing installations to stagnate and installation companies to sometimes even run into financial difficulties. This is happening even as demand for sustainability is at an all-time high. What is striking is that many installation companies do not have their inventory management in order and only realize this when it is actually already too late.

Every year, Microsoft releases two major updates for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central in April and October, also known as ‘waves’. It is now April again, which means BC is being updated with Wave April 1, 2022. This wave introduces several new features that benefit you as a user. We want to explain the most important changes to you.

On April 11, 2022, during their TV broadcast, Radar drew attention to the fact that many consumers are currently filing complaints about installation companies failing to honor agreements in central heating boiler maintenance contracts and even skipping maintenance visits. If a central heating boiler is not properly maintained, the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning increases significantly. Such carbon monoxide poisoning can be fatal.

We regularly hear from companies that they have been using on-premise ERP for a long time and actually want to switch to modern service and maintenance software in the cloud. However, many organizations postpone the upgrade for a few years due to, among other things, the high costs of ERP software, according to them. What many people do not know is that an outdated on-premise package often entails higher costs than they realize. We would be happy to explain the situation to you.

Virtually every company wishes to improve profitability. In practice, however, this proves more difficult than expected, as mistakes are easy to make and can quickly put the return on an assignment or project at risk. Furthermore, deploying personnel as efficiently as possible remains a recurring challenge. Standardization is the instrument for working efficiently and preventing errors. And when the foundations are well in order, more time remains for innovation.

Expanding Business Central is one of the benefits. The software is easy to expand via Marketplace. You decide what you need. Do you want to expand your system now, or are you planning to do so in the short term? We would be happy to share a few tips to help ensure the expansion runs smoothly.