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Plain answers for shop owners, from our research. Every number names its source.
Supply-house tickets that never made the invoice: a weekly check in Jobber, Housecall Pro or QuickBooks
Put every ticket next to its job’s invoice on Friday. What Jobber, Housecall Pro and QuickBooks do with a supplier ticket, and Florida’s sales tax rule for contractors.
Does Jobber or Housecall Pro end double entry with QuickBooks?
Partly. What each tool’s help pages say still gets typed twice, what happens with QuickBooks Desktop and how to price the minutes.
Deposit, permit, Notice of Commencement, lien: the Florida dates for one job, in order
Every deadline on one home AC job from the 2026 statutes, what changes under $15,000 and the lines for plumbing, roofing and electrical.
How to follow up on an estimate in Florida, and when a reminder text needs consent
When to call, what to say, what Jobber’s reminders do and why the reminder goes to you first.
Florida security deposits: the 15-day and 30-day dates, built into your move-out list
When the deposit goes back, when the claim notice must go out and how it may be sent, from F.S. 83.49, with a move-out list that counts both dates.
Find your slowest nights: reading your Toast or Square report against Gainesville’s calendar
Where Toast and Square show sales by night and by hour, and the UF and Gators dates to mark before you compare one week with another.
Can your software text customers in Spanish?
Jobber and Housecall Pro change what your crew sees, not what customers get. QuickBooks Online switches invoices customer by customer.
How to count what a missed call costs your business
A plain formula, what to pull from your phone company and why the big numbers in ads do not fit your shop.
Answering service or text-back: what each costs you, and what each records in Florida
Four prices read on the vendors’ own pages, and what each product keeps of your calls under Florida’s recording law.
How to get 30 days of call history from your phone company
Carrier by carrier, where a Gainesville shop downloads the past 30 days of calls, and one pass through the file to find the calls nobody returned.
How fast should you call back? What the speed-to-lead studies measured
Where the five-minute rule comes from, what it counted and how to time your own call-backs from your call history.
Texting your customers in Florida: five rules in plain words
What a missed-call text may say, when you need written consent and how to handle STOP.
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