SupplyPro GM For Residential Painters

With SupplyPro GM, you can monitor, accept or request changes to new SupplyPro POs directly in SupplyPro GM — these orders will come directly into your new order inbox from the builder. In the simple-to-follow interface, you can confirm all information about the project at a glance, including price, drawings, specs, and supply lists. If you’re working with builders that are not using BuildPro, we can assist by automating the retrieval of new orders from other builder web portals. You can also enter and schedule orders for POs into the system from other sources. 

In SupplyPro GM, you can create custom pre-job checklists for your people in the field to complete. This will help you track the readiness of the job, material requirements, which crew to assign and confirm estimated subcontractor payments. Once you’ve confirmed the supplies you need for the job, you can issue Inventory pick lists or accurate PO’s for drop-ship with the click of a button. Multiple deliveries are easy to set up — new POs can be sent on-demand or at pre-specified points in the process.

Scheduling and dispatching are some of the most important areas in which SupplyPro GM can improve your painting operations, by optimizing the efficiency of your crew management. You can minimize painting crew downtime at the same time as improving your response time to new orders, changes and a builder schedule that is a continuously moving target, by knowing the exact who, when and where of your field resources, in real-time all the time. 

You’ll be able to view your existing work orders by date, builder, subdivision, city, crew, supervisor and more to help you manage ever-changing schedules and keep an eye on upcoming jobs and tasks. When you receive a new order and are ready to assign the work, it only takes a tap of a button to see all your team schedules, the stage of their current job progress and when they will be ready to start a new job. Assign one or multiple crews to projects as needed with simple drag and drop or quickly generate schedules for multiple crews and jobs based on work type, location, or skill level, as well as availability. 

How do your painters clock in at the site? Simplify the process with SupplyPro GM. Workers can begin and end their days with the tap of a button on their mobile apps. Manage crew rates and pay your employees and subcontractors by the hour or based on completed square footage, linear footage or tasks completed. 

You can design a step by step workflow that makes the most sense for your operation and create customized checklists to ensure quality of work and to keep your painting crew on task. Plus, you can visually track field progress from the office throughout the day, with color-coded status updates. Your field communications work even where the internet is not available.

And what if mistakes or something unexpected happens? A request for last-minute changes, a discrepancy between specs and verbal communications? Your field crew can initiate a request for an Extra PO and support the request with comments and site images, keeping the builder aware of all issues and providing the back office with a log of PO’s to chase from the builder. 

You can also allow your field team to reschedule jobs if other trades are behind on their work or painting supplies haven’t been delivered on time. All the stakeholders, including you, are notified immediately, giving you the opportunity to quickly relocate idle teams and/or solve any supply problems that are holding you up. 

When the job is done, the builder gets instantly notified, initiating the payment process. Your team can also take photos, complete punch lists and record the details and proper completion of the job. After all, you only get paid for work you can document. 

You probably deal often with service work too, and much of that service work is billable. Painting service work is often billed by-the-hour, so SupplyPro’s time tracking and ability to separate billable and non-billable time simplifies preparing service work invoices. 

SupplyPro GM automatically queues up every builder PO as an open invoice, ready to be issued when work is completed. Invoices flow seamlessly to popular accounting systems such as QuickBooks and Sage Construction solutions.

SupplyPro also gives you the detailed crew and time records you need to make paying your painting contractors easier.