What do flooring store owners need more of? Time.
It’s not more salespeople or bigger showrooms. It’s always time to work on the business, not just in it. This means time to focus on marketing, train the sales team, improve operations and implement systems that move the needle, but there’s never enough time in the day to get to them.
In reality, running a flooring store is relentless. There’s always a job to coordinate, a customer to follow up with, a payment to chase or a problem to solve. When you’re buried in the day-to-day, things that would grow your business get pushed to tomorrow.
What is the Real Cost of Not Having the Right Tools?
Most flooring store owners don’t think their software is the time problem. It’s a paperwork problem, communication problem or scheduling problem. Unfortunately, all of those issues are a result of not having the right tools. Because of this, running your business requires more of your time than it should.
Re-entering the same information three times to move a job from quote to invoice is a waste of time. The same rings true when it comes to chasing down a paper file to answer a customer’s question. When you can’t see how a job performed until the end of the month, that’s more time. Rebuilding installer pay because of a disconnected process on a Friday afternoon is also time you won’t get back.
Flooring store owners spend hours managing the mechanics of their business between the paperwork, duplicate entry and manual reconciling. Those hours could be going toward marketing, training, growth or any of the things that actually build a stronger operation.
What Changes When the Tool Does Work?
What’s the difference between a flooring business running on a disconnected manual process and one running on a connected system? Besides efficiency, it’s the time you get back.
The right flooring business management software handles everything. From first sales order to final installation, information only goes in once so your team can focus on outcomes rather than mechanics. Here’s what happens:
- The salesperson focuses on closing.
- The owner focuses on marketing.
- The operations manager focuses on training.
Everyone works on the part of the business that requires their expertise rather than spending half their day on tasks that could be handled by a good system.
Why is Affordability as Important as Time?
The right flooring business software gets time back. That said, for flooring store owners, a tool should also make sense financially.
Legacy flooring software isn’t cheap. That’s because it comes with multiple costs including:
- Large upfront costs
- Hardware requirements
- Licensing fees that don’t scale with a small or mid-sized operation
In many cases, an initial price tag only manages a small part of your system, leaving you to piece together the rest yourself.
Kronus Flooring Software is affordable. There isn’t a large upfront cost or additional hardware cost. With our system, you get everything including:
- Sales orders
- Inventory
- Scheduling
- Installer management
- Quoting & Invoicing
- Reporting
All of that is in one place and runs alongside QuickBooks Online for accounting. For flooring businesses that have to pay more for software that does less, it’s worth comparing.
What Will You Do With the Time?
At Kronus Flooring Software, our goal isn’t to replace paperwork. We want to give business owners more time to build their business. This means more time for marketing, training for salespeople and operations improvement.
Every flooring store owner wants more time. Contact us to book a demo and see how much time you can save today!
