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Commercial Handyman Software: The Complete Guide for Property Manager and Commercial Accounts

Why Commercial Accounts Matter

One property manager can send more work than fifty homeowners. The work is steady, the addresses are known and the bills get paid on a schedule. The catch is that managers expect speed, documentation and clean billing, and they drop vendors who can't provide them.

What Commercial Accounts Need

• One client with many addresses, not a separate client for every rental.
• Access notes for each unit: lockbox codes, gate codes, tenant contact rules.
• Work order lists on each job so the tech knows the scope.
• Before and after photos the manager can show the owner.
• A PO number on the bill when the manager uses them.
• One monthly statement with every line labeled by address.

How HandymanBossPro Does It

A manager is one client; each rental is an address on the map with its own notes, items and history. Work orders go on the board like any other job, with the lockbox code and the list on the tech's phone. The tech completes with photos, hours and materials. If the client is set to monthly billing, every visit waits for a month-end statement where each line carries its address.

Start With One

Win one manager, do it well and ask for referrals. Managers talk to each other, and a vendor who answers fast and bills cleanly gets passed around. The rest of this series covers each type of account and the habits that keep them.

Keep Reading

Next in this series: Setting Up a Property Manager Account in Handyman Software. Before that came Choosing Commercial Handyman Software. For the full picture, go back to the commercial handyman software overview.