After a long day on site, the last thing you feel like doing is invoicing. But faster invoicing means more time for work that matters, and money from completed jobs in your pocket sooner.
Many field service businesses across the UK are unknowingly losing time and money on invoicing, and they all have one thing in common: they're invoicing outside of their job management system.
If you're still raising invoices in Word, Excel, or your accounting software instead of your job management system, you’re wasting time and losing money.
Discover what invoicing is really costing you, and how a connected system fixes it.
Time lost to double data entry and reconciliation
When jobs and invoices live in separate systems, details from completed jobs have to be manually re-entered every time you raise an invoice. Like with any manual process, it’s easier to make mistakes that lead to inaccurate invoices.
It’s not just rekeying that’s the problem. With jobs and invoices spread across multiple systems, every invoice has to be matched back to its job to make sure customers are billed for the work you’ve carried out. That takes time, and it’s time that could be spent elsewhere.
Slow cash flow from late invoicing
It’s easy for invoicing to slip down your list when you’re managing jobs and invoices across multiple systems. But every day an invoice goes out late is another day you're waiting to get paid. For field service businesses managing a high volume of jobs, those delays add up. The longer your invoicing cycle, the longer the gap between completing work and seeing money in your account.
Revenue lost to missed invoices
Late invoices are one thing, but what about jobs that never get invoiced at all? When jobs and invoices are managed in separate systems, completed jobs can fall through the cracks and customers are never billed. It might only happen occasionally, but across weeks and months of work, missed invoices add up to real lost revenue. And without a clear view of invoice status, you might not even know it's happening.
How a connected job management system solves these problems
Connected job management systems like Eworks bring jobs and invoices into one place, reducing the need to re-enter data into separate systems and giving you a clear view of all invoices.
Invoices and accounts in sync
With Eworks, your invoices and accounting software work together. When an invoice is raised, the information flows straight through to your accounts. No rekeying or reconciling. It's one less thing to manage at the end of a long day.
Create and send invoices from the job site
From our mobile app, your field team can raise and send invoices straight from the job site the moment work is completed. No waiting until you're back in the office and no jobs slipping through the cracks. The faster the invoice goes out, the sooner you get paid.
Stay on top of outstanding invoices
Eworks gives you a clear, real-time view of every invoice. See who's been billed, who's paid, and who still owes you. No more manually tracking down outstanding payments or cross-referencing multiple systems. You always know exactly where you stand.
Is invoicing taking up tonnes of your time? Tired of late or missed invoices?
It may be time to consider invoicing in your job management system. Discover what invoicing could look like in your field service business with Eworks. Invoicing in Eworks is freely available to all customers, making it a valuable tool that costs nothing extra.
