From Lead to Payment: One Platform to Manage Everything for Service Based Businesses

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How ProjectsForce 360° Eliminates the Software Chaos and Gives Service Businesses a Single Operating System for Their Entire Operation

From Lead to Payment: One Platform to Manage Everything for Service-Based
Businesses

If you run a service based business whether that’s plumbing, HVAC, roofing, flooring installation, fencing, electrical work, or kitchen remodeling you already know the daily grind. A new lead comes in through a phone call. You log it into a spreadsheet. The estimate goes out via email. Scheduling happens in yet another tool. Your crew gets dispatched through a text message. Materials are tracked on a whiteboard. Invoicing? That’s a whole other system. And payments? You’re chasing those manually.

Sound familiar? You’re not alone. Most service businesses operate this way: stitching together five, six, or even ten disconnected tools to run a single operation. It works until it doesn’t. Jobs fall through cracks. Payments are delayed. Your team wastes hours on data entry instead of doing the work they’re good at.

That’s exactly the problem ProjectsForce 360° was built to solve. It’s the operating system for service based businesses one platform that takes you from lead capture all the way through to payment collection, with everything connected in between.

The Real Cost of Disconnected Tools

Before we talk about the solution, let’s be honest about the problem. Most service businesses don’t start with a messy tech stack on purpose. It happens gradually. You started with a CRM for leads. Then you added a scheduling app. Then a separate tool for invoicing. Maybe a shared Google Drive for documents. QuickBooks for accounting. Group texts for crew communication.

Each tool solved one problem, but together they created a much bigger one: no single source of truth. Your sales data lives in one place; your job data lives in another, and your financial data lives somewhere else entirely. When a customer calls asking about their project status, you’re scrambling across three tabs to piece together an answer.

This fragmentation costs you more than just time. It costs you revenue through missed follow ups, delayed invoices, and double booked crews. It costs you reputation when customers get inconsistent updates. And it costs you sanity when you’re working harder on managing your tools than managing your business.

Introducing ProjectsForce 360°: Your Entire Business in One Place

ProjectsForce 360° is an AI powered, all in one service business management platform that covers the complete lifecycle of your operations from the moment a lead enters your pipeline to the moment payment hits your account. No more juggling between disconnected systems. No more duct taping tools together. Just one unified platform designed specifically for how service businesses actually work.

Whether you’re a growing business just getting off spreadsheets or an established multi location operation managing enterprise partnerships and retail programs, ProjectsForce 360° scales with you. You start simple and unlock capabilities as your business grows no replatforming required.

What’s Inside the Platform

Here’s a look at the core capabilities that make ProjectsForce 360° the single operating system for service businesses:

Capability	What It Does
Lead & Sales Management	Capture leads, track opportunities, and convert more jobs. Integrated CRM with quotes, e signatures, and auto conversion to projects.
AI Powered Scheduling	Intelligent scheduling that analyzes weather, job requirements, crew availability, and geography to recommend optimal schedules automatically
Subcontractor Management	Manage employees, crews, or subcontractors from one dashboard. Track credentials, availability, and performance in real time.
Inventory & Material Tracking	Track materials from warehouse to job site. Vendor management, purchase orders, and auto receive from source feeds included.
Documents & Compliance	Centralized document storage, digital signatures, EPA lead tracking, permit management, and audit ready record keeping.
Invoicing & Payments	Generate invoices from completed work and get paid faster with integrated payment tracking and QuickBooks sync.
Mobile Field App	Full feature parity on mobile. Crews manage schedules, capture photos, sign docs, and complete checklists even offline.
Customer Portal	Branded portal for customers to track jobs, sign documents, chat in real time, and self schedule appointments.
Dynamic Dashboards	Real time analytics across projects, payroll, chargebacks, leads, and inventory. Build, clone, and export reports instantly.

AI Powered Scheduling That Actually Works

One of the standout features of ProjectsForce 360° is its intelligent scheduling engine. Traditional scheduling tools let you drag and drop jobs onto a calendar. ProjectsForce 360° goes further. Its AI analyzes weather patterns, job requirements, crew availability, travel distance, and even rotation percentages to recommend the optimal schedule for your team.

Imagine this: instead of spending 30 minutes figuring out which crew should handle tomorrow’s service appointment based on who’s available, where they are, and what materials they need—click “Schedule Now” and the system handles it. It factors in service time, item level duration, and geographic coverage to auto assign the right team to the right job at the right time.

That’s not theoretical it’s how businesses on ProjectsForce 360° are already working today. The platform has scheduled over 10 million jobs, managed more than 50,000 crews, and tracked over $1 billion in project revenue.

Built for Every Trade, Not Just One

Many field service management tools are built with a single trade in mind and then awkwardly adapted for others. ProjectsForce 360° takes a different approach. It serves service businesses across multiple trades plumbing, HVAC, roofing, electrical, flooring, fencing, doors and windows, kitchen and bath, generators, and commercial security with workflows designed for how each trade actually operates.

A plumbing business needs permit tracking and EPA compliance documentation. A roofing company needs weather aware scheduling. A flooring operation needs material tracking tied to measurement data from tools like MeasureSquare and FloorSoft. An HVAC company needs equipment lifecycle management and warranty tracking. ProjectsForce 360° doesn’t force you into a one size fits all workflow. It adapts to your trade, your programs, and your way of working whether you handle private jobs, commercial accounts, retail programs, or all three.

Seamless Integrations with the Tools and Partners You

Already Use

Switching to a new platform shouldn’t mean abandoning the tools and partnerships that already work for you. ProjectsForce 360° integrates with the business tools and partner ecosystems that service businesses rely on every day.

Business & Productivity Integrations: QuickBooks, Five9, RingCentral, Tableau, MeasureSquare, and FloorSoft—ensuring your financial data, communications, measurement tools, and analytics platforms all connect seamlessly.

Retail & Partner Program Integrations: For businesses working with retail partners, ProjectsForce 360° connects directly with programs from The Home Depot, Lowe’s, Costco, Floor & Decor, BJ’s, and Blinds.com. Leads flow into your pipeline, measurement data syncs automatically, and program requirements are tracked within the platform.

These aren’t surface level connections. Financial data pushes to QuickBooks. Communication tools connect through the platform’s notification system. Retail leads convert directly into actionable jobs. Everything talks to everything so you’re never re entering data or switching context.

From the Field to the Office, Everyone Stays Connected

ProjectsForce 360° isn’t just a back office tool. Its mobile field app gives technicians full access to schedules, job details, photos, documents, and checklists even offline. Crews can capture before and after photos, collect customer signatures, raise support tickets, and complete inspection checklists right from their phone. When connectivity returns, everything syncs automatically.

On the customer side, a branded portal lets clients track their job status, sign documents, chat with your team in real time, and even self schedule open appointment slots all without creating an account. It’s secured with one time passcodes, eliminating login friction while maintaining security.

For business owners and office managers, role based dashboards provide real time visibility into every aspect of operations. Owners see the big picture. Dispatchers see crew availability and job status. Finance teams see invoices, payroll, and chargebacks. Everyone gets exactly the view they need, updated in real time.

Compliance and Documentation Without the Filing Cabinets

For service businesses working with enterprise partners, retail programs, or in regulated trades, compliance isn’t optional it’s the price of doing business. ProjectsForce 360° includes a built in regulatory and compliance suite that handles EPA lead documentation, permit tracking, credential management, and audit ready record keeping. Every action is logged with a full audit trail: who changed what, when, and from where.

Documents, photos, and videos are stored centrally with real time signature tracking, color coded signing states, and the ability to annotate or download from any device. When an auditor or program manager comes knocking, your records are already organized and ready not scattered across email threads and filing cabinets.

Real Results from Real Businesses

“I was able to TRIPLE my business with ProjectsForce 360° in just 6 months! It has definitely been a wonderful investment for my business.”

— Time Crume, Crume Installations

“ProjectsForce 360° built the highway. Now we're deciding how fast we want to drive and where we want to go. The platform grows with our ambition”

— Greg Edwards, Marc's Flooring

“The ProjectsForce 360° app is the perfect tool for what installers do. It’s easy to use and well laid out; you can see the information you need at a glance.”

— Heaton Construction

These aren’t edge cases. ProjectsForce 360° is managing real work for real businesses every day over 10 million jobs scheduled, more than 50,000 crews managed, and over $1 billion in project revenue tracked across the platform.

Security You Can Trust

ProjectsForce 360° is built with enterprise grade security at its core. The platform is ISO 27001 certified, ensuring that every layer of infrastructure meets strict, independently audited security controls. SOC 2 Type II compliance is currently in progress, which will provide additional independent assurance around security, availability, and confidentiality. Features include two factor authentication, encrypted credentials, role driven access controls, and full action tracking across the system.

Why Now Is the Time to Consolidate

The service industry is evolving fast. Customer expectations are rising. Partners and clients are demanding more transparency and faster turnarounds. Your competitors are getting more efficient. The businesses that will thrive in this environment aren’t the ones working the hardest they’re the ones working the smartest, with systems that eliminate friction and give them a complete picture of their operations at a glance.

Every day you spend switching between disconnected tools is a day you’re leaving money and efficiency on the table. ProjectsForce 360° gives you a way to stop the chaos and start running your business from a single, unified platform that grows with you.