Well the sales dept. at Acowin (acowin.com) offered to do an online demo for me to show me how their software works. They spent two hours working with me and answering my questions. The guy also was QB certified and helped me with a couple of things there also.
They have a new something coming out which they won't reveal any details about now but it comes out in Sept or so. Says it is going to be a revolution in the field to office communications link. Supposed to be so obvious to use that your field guys won't need any training to use it.
I've still not decided yet who to go with but I'm leaning towards them at the moment versus Wintac. I've taken a relook at Ayanova. I had some questions and got an email that said to download the operator manual for more info. It is a 700+ page document. After spending a half hour or so on it I decided to not persue that option. It is very well priced and may work very well but there are other programs which offer more things to help your business operate more efficiently that I couldn't tell if Ayanova offers them or not.
I had a thought and I'm looking into having my web guru make a page for contractor software reviews. I thought I would include catagories for review such as their support, annual fees, initial cost, cost for additional license, usefulness, refund policy and of course a overall ranking of 1-5 star popularity.
I and many of you have spent countless hours searching for the ultimate software for our situation such as accounting, estimating, service management etc. only to not find anything to help with the decision process.
It won't cost much to get it up and running and I think it will be a great help to those contractors looking to make a good purchasing decision. It is bad when you purchase something and find out it is not what you're looking for at best or worse, it's worthless and/or they refuse to issue a refund! If I decide to go through with it and make it a reality I'll post a link to the page.
