Managing overhead expenses is a crucial part of running a successful landscaping business. From fuel receipts to PPE purchases, staying on top of these costs can often feel like an overwhelming task. Without the right tools, receipts can pile up, manual data entry can eat into valuable time, and critical expenses might slip through the cracks.
At CQ, we’ve developed a solution to simplify this process. With our new feature, overhead receipts added to CQ can now be seamlessly pushed directly to your accounting software—whether you use Xero, QuickBooks, or Sage. Here’s how it works and why it’s a game-changer for landscapers.
The Challenges of Managing Overhead Expenses
Tracking overheads like tools, petrol, and other non-job-specific expenses is vital, yet many landscaping businesses struggle with:
Disorganized Expense Tracking: Receipts are scattered, often ending up in multiple locations, making it difficult to get a clear picture of overheads.
Manual Entry Errors: Inputting receipts into accounting software manually is not only tedious but also prone to mistakes.
Missed Expenses: Without a centralized system, it’s easy to overlook deductible expenses, potentially costing your business money.
CQ’s Solution: Overhead Receipts Integration
To address these challenges, we’ve introduced a feature that makes managing overheads easier than ever. Now, when you add receipts to CQ for business expenses like tools, petrol, or PPE, they can be pushed directly to your accounting software as a bill.
Here’s how it works:
Add Receipts to CQ: Log your overhead expenses in CQ under the "Overheads" category. These aren’t tied to specific jobs but to the business as a whole.
Push to Accounting Software: With a single click, these receipts are synced with your accounting software (Xero, QuickBooks, or Sage), creating a bill for seamless financial tracking.
Track in One Place: All your overhead expenses are stored and managed in CQ, giving you a comprehensive view of your business costs.
Why This Matters to Your Business
This feature offers several key benefits that can transform the way you manage your expenses:
Save Time: Eliminate the need for manual data entry. By pushing receipts directly to your accounting software, you can focus on growing your business instead of getting bogged down in admin work.
Improve Accuracy: Reduce errors caused by manual input, ensuring every expense is accounted for correctly.
Gain Better Financial Insight: With all your overhead expenses tracked and synchronized, you get a clearer picture of how these costs impact your profitability.
Stay Organized: Keep all receipts centralized in CQ, making it easier to access and manage your financial records when you need them.
Why CQ is Different
At CQ, we design features based on real-world challenges faced by landscapers. This overhead receipts integration is just one example of how we’re continuously evolving our system to help you work smarter, not harder.
By connecting CQ with Xero, QuickBooks, or Sage, we’re giving you the tools to simplify overhead management and ensure that no expense goes unnoticed.
Take Control of Your Overheads Today
Managing overheads doesn’t have to be a hassle. With CQ’s new feature, you can streamline your expense tracking, save time, and keep your finances in check—all in one place.
👉 Book a demo today to see how CQ can transform your business management. Let’s simplify your operations and help your landscaping projects thrive!
Accurate supplier pricing is a cornerstone of running a successful landscaping business. Whether you’re quoting a client or managing your costs, having real-time access to precise pricing data can make or break your profitability.
At CQ, we’ve taken our live pricing feature to the next level by introducing supplier categories and discount rate integration. These updates are designed to streamline your procurement process, ensure pricing accuracy, and save you time. Here’s how these new features work and why they’re a game-changer for landscapers.
The Challenges Landscapers Face Without Enhanced Live Pricing
Without smart tools, managing supplier pricing can quickly become a frustrating task:
Difficulty Finding Suppliers: Searching through long lists of suppliers to find the right one wastes time and creates unnecessary delays.
Manual Discount Calculations: Landscapers often negotiate discounts with suppliers, but calculating these manually increases the risk of errors, which can lead to misquotes or reduced profitability.
Pricing Inaccuracy: When costs aren’t accurate or up-to-date, landscapers risk underquoting, which cuts into profits, or overquoting, which can lose jobs to competitors.
How CQ’s New Features Solve These Challenges
We’ve introduced two powerful tools to address these pain points:
1. Categories for Suppliers
Searching for the right supplier just got easier. With our new categorization feature, suppliers are now grouped into clear categories, such as plants, tools, and materials.
How It Works:
Suppliers are organized by product type or service category.
You can quickly filter and find the supplier you need, without scrolling through endless lists.
Benefits: ✅ Faster supplier search. ✅ More efficient procurement process. ✅ Reduced stress and time wasted on manual searches.
2. Discount Rate Integration
Manually applying supplier discounts is now a thing of the past. With our discount rate feature, you can input your supplier-specific discounts, and CQ will automatically adjust the live pricing to reflect the discounted cost.
How It Works:
Enter your agreed-upon discount rate for each supplier.
The system automatically applies the discount to live pricing, showing you the exact cost price in real time.
Benefits: ✅ Eliminates manual calculations. ✅ Ensures accurate pricing every time. ✅ Simplifies quoting and cost estimation processes.
Why These Features Matter for Your Business
These enhancements aren’t just about convenience—they’re about transforming how you manage supplier relationships and costs. Here’s what they mean for your business:
Save Time: Quickly find suppliers and get the right pricing without manual calculations or searching.
Increase Accuracy: Automation reduces errors, ensuring your quotes and cost tracking are always precise.
Boost Profitability: With precise cost data, you can make informed decisions, quote jobs competitively, and maximize your margins.
Enhance Flexibility: Whether you’re working with CQ’s network of suppliers or your own, these features adapt to fit your business needs.
See It in Action
📹 Watch Our Video: Want to see these features in action? Check out our quick walkthrough to learn how supplier categories and discount rate integration can simplify your workflow below.
Smarter Pricing for Smarter Landscaping
At CQ, we’re committed to solving real-world challenges for landscapers. These updates to our live pricing feature—supplier categories and discount rate integration—are designed to save you time, reduce errors, and give you a competitive edge.
If managing supplier pricing has ever felt like a headache, we’re here to help.
👉 Book a free demo today to explore how CQ can transform your supplier management and drive your business forward.
Managing documents is a necessary but often time-consuming task for landscaping businesses. Whether it’s work contracts for your team or agreements for multi-site jobs with clients, staying organized is a constant challenge. Documents get misplaced, information is hard to retrieve, and valuable time is wasted searching through files.
At CQ, we’re committed to simplifying your day-to-day operations. That’s why we’ve introduced a new feature that allows you to store documents directly within our system—organized by colleagues and clients. Let’s dive into how this feature works and why it’s a game-changer for your business.
The Challenges Businesses Face With Document management
For Colleagues
Managing staff documents is no small feat. Work contracts, PPE compliance records, certifications, and training documents often end up in various locations, both physical and digital. This disorganization can lead to significant problems:
Difficulty finding documents during audits or reviews.
Missing or misplaced safety compliance records, risking legal or operational issues.
Wasted time searching for files instead of focusing on your business.
For Clients
For landscaping businesses working with multiple sites or recurring clients, managing client documents can become overwhelming. Contracts, job specifications, and other essential paperwork need to be accessible at all times, but without a centralized system, it’s easy for things to go astray.
Lost or misplaced client agreements can delay projects.
Scattered records can create a disorganized client experience.
Missed opportunities to upsell or expand services due to incomplete records.
The Solution: CQ’s New Document Management Feature
To address these challenges, CQ’s new feature enables you to add and store documents directly within your system. This allows you to stay organized, save time, and focus on what matters most—running your business.
1. Adding Documents to Colleagues
This feature lets you store essential staff documents like:
Work contracts.
PPE compliance sheets.
Certifications and training records.
Key Benefits:
Centralized Storage: Keep all staff-related documents in one secure, easy-to-access location.
Compliance Made Easy: Ensure you’re always prepared for audits or legal requirements.
Time Savings: Quickly retrieve documents without digging through physical files or scattered folders.
2. Adding Documents to Clients
For your clients, this feature allows you to attach contracts, agreements, and job specifications directly to their profile in CQ.
Key Benefits:
Streamlined Organization: Have every client-related document in one place, ready to access at a moment’s notice.
Enhanced Professionalism: Impress clients with your organization and quick access to important details.
Seamless Project Management: Perfect for businesses handling multi-site jobs or recurring work, where accurate records are critical.
Why This Matters for Your Business
CQ’s new document management feature is more than just a storage solution—it’s a way to enhance your business operations: ✅ Save Time: Eliminate the hassle of searching through scattered files. ✅ Stay Compliant: Easily track and store necessary staff documents to meet legal and safety requirements. ✅ Boost Efficiency: Keep all documents tied to their relevant colleague or client, making access simple and fast. ✅ Enhance Client Experience: Provide a professional and organized approach to managing client relationships, especially for complex jobs.
See It in Action
With CQ, document management is easy and intuitive.
Want to see the full process? Check out our video walkthrough to see how you can upload, manage, and retrieve documents effortlessly.
Simplifying Your Business, One Feature at a Time
At CQ, we know that running a landscaping business comes with enough challenges—keeping track of important documents shouldn’t be one of them. Our new feature is designed to make your life easier by organizing everything in one place.
Whether you’re managing work contracts for your team or keeping client agreements organized, CQ’s document management feature ensures you’re always prepared.
👉 Ready to simplify your business operations? Book a free demo today and let’s chat about how CQ can help your business thrive.
Managing leads is the backbone of any successful landscaping business, but it’s not always easy. Re-entering client details, tracking where leads come from, or even capturing specific project requirements can feel like an endless struggle. These inefficiencies not only waste time but can lead to missed opportunities and incomplete data.
At CQ, we’ve listened to your challenges and developed two powerful new features that make lead management faster, smarter, and more effective. Let’s dive in!
The Challenges Landscapers Face
Re-entering Client Information
Imagine this: A client you’ve worked with before reaches out for a new project. Great news, right? But then comes the tedious task of entering their details all over again. This not only eats up valuable time but increases the risk of duplicate entries or errors.
Tracking Specific Lead Details
Ever wondered which marketing channel is bringing in the most leads? Or wished you had a way to track specific client preferences, like whether their garden faces south or how they heard about you? Without the ability to customize lead details, these insights often slip through the cracks, leaving you without the data you need to optimize your business.
The Solutions: CQ’s New Features
We’ve developed two game-changing tools to address these pain points:
1. Use an Existing Customer as a New Lead
With this feature, you can effortlessly create a new lead using an existing customer’s information. No more re-entering details or worrying about duplicate records.
How It Works:
Select an existing customer.
Automatically populate their details into a new lead.
Adjust the information for the new project as needed.
Benefits:
Save time and reduce admin errors.
Keep your records clean and organized.
Focus on nurturing the lead instead of entering data.
2. Add Custom Fields for Leads
Every business is unique, and so are its data needs. With custom fields, you can add and track the specific details that matter most to your business.
How It Works:
Create custom fields such as “Referral Source” or “Garden Direction.”
Input relevant information for each lead directly into these fields.
Use this data to gain actionable insights and improve decision-making.
Benefits:
Easily track how leads found you (e.g., Facebook, Google PPC).
Store specific client details, ensuring nothing gets overlooked.
Tailor your CRM to suit your unique business needs.
Why These Features Matter
Together, these features do more than just save time—they revolutionize the way you manage leads:
✅ Increased Efficiency: Spend less time on admin and more time growing your business. ✅ Improved Accuracy: Reduce the risk of data errors or missed details. ✅ Actionable Insights: Use custom fields to understand where leads come from and tailor your marketing strategies accordingly.
These tools empower you to stay organized, work smarter, and focus on what you do best: delivering exceptional landscaping projects.
See It in Action
Check out the video below to see how easy it is to use these features:
Want a closer look? Watch our video walkthrough to see how these features work in real-time and how they can transform your lead management process.
Conclusion: Built for Landscapers, By Listening to Landscapers
At CQ, we believe the best solutions come from truly understanding the challenges you face. These new lead management features are just one example of how we’re continuously improving our platform to meet your needs.
If lead management has ever felt like a hassle for your business, we’re here to help. Book a free demo today to see how CQ can save you time, streamline your processes, and help your business thrive.
Effective communication is the backbone of any successful landscaping business. Whether it’s managing client relationships or coordinating with suppliers, every phone call, email, or meeting matters. Yet, keeping track of these interactions can be a monumental challenge—until now.
At CQ, we’ve developed a powerful new feature: action logs and email tracking. This update ensures that every interaction is logged, tracked, and easily accessible, creating clarity and accountability in your workflows. Let’s dive into how it works and why it’s a game-changer for landscapers.
The Communication Challenges Landscapers Face
For Jobs
Managing client communication can feel like juggling a dozen spinning plates:
Important details from emails, calls, and meetings get lost in the shuffle.
Follow-up tasks are forgotten, leading to delays and missed opportunities.
Information is scattered across different tools, making it hard to find when you need it.
For Suppliers
Dealing with suppliers brings its own set of challenges:
Conversations across multiple jobs blur together, creating confusion.
Clarifying past agreements or instructions becomes time-consuming.
A lack of centralized communication records leads to inefficiencies and misunderstandings.
How CQ’s Action Logs and Email Tracking Solve These Challenges
For Jobs: Centralized Communication Records
Log Every Interaction: Track calls, emails, meeting notes, and tasks in one place.
Assign and Follow Up: Assign tasks to team members, set reminders, and ensure nothing slips through the cracks.
Email Integration: Automatically track all sent and received emails, creating a clear and comprehensive history for each job.
For Suppliers: Simplified Collaboration
Log Supplier Interactions: Track discussions about material deliveries, pricing, and timelines across multiple jobs.
Create a Central Record: All communication with suppliers is stored in one place, making it easy to reference past conversations.
Resolve Disputes Faster: Clear logs provide evidence to quickly clarify misunderstandings or resolve issues.
Key Benefits of CQ’s Communication Tools
Enhanced Organization: No more digging through emails or searching for handwritten notes—everything is centralized and easy to access.
Increased Accountability: Assign follow-ups and track their progress, ensuring every task is completed on time.
Improved Collaboration: Teams can stay aligned by accessing shared communication logs, reducing miscommunication.
Transparency and Evidence: Maintain a clear, auditable trail of communication to resolve disputes or misunderstandings.
Time Savings: Spend less time searching for information and more time focusing on your business.
How It Works: A Walkthrough of the Features
Action Logs for Jobs
Imagine you’ve had a call with a client to discuss changes to a project timeline. Here’s how you’d log it in CQ:
Open the job’s action log.
Add a new entry: select “Call,” summarize the discussion, and assign a follow-up task to your project manager.
Set a reminder for the follow-up task.
Action Logs for Suppliers
Say you’ve spoken to a supplier about material deliveries for three upcoming jobs. Here’s how CQ simplifies it:
Log the call under the supplier’s profile, summarizing the key points discussed.
Attach the relevant job details to the entry.
Reference this log anytime you need clarity on what was agreed.
Email Tracking
All emails sent and received through CQ are automatically tracked. This means:
You can view the entire email thread directly within the system.
Incoming responses are linked to the relevant job or supplier.
Nothing gets lost, and you have a complete history at your fingertips.
Why CQ’s Communication Tools Matter for Your Business
Managing communication effectively is about more than just organization—it’s about transforming the way you work: ✅ Save Time: Stop searching for scattered information. Everything is stored in one place. ✅ Boost Accountability: Assign and track tasks to ensure follow-ups happen on time. ✅ Enhance Collaboration: Keep your team aligned with a centralized log of all interactions. ✅ Protect Your Business: Maintain an auditable trail of communication to resolve disputes quickly.
Smarter Communication for Smarter Landscaping
At CQ, we understand the importance of clear and organized communication. Our new action logs and email tracking tools are designed to eliminate the chaos and bring structure to your interactions—whether it’s with clients or suppliers.
Ready to revolutionize the way you manage communication?
👉 Book a free demo today to see how CQ can simplify your operations and help your landscaping business thrive.
