

Aspire - Dashboard


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Web browser (OS agnostic)About Aspire
Aspire is a cloud-based business management solution built for landscaping businesses with over $1 million in revenue. Key features include customer relationship management (CRM), estimating, mobile time tracking, invoicing, purchasing, job costing, financials, and scheduling.
The CRM function of Aspire is able to track all key customer interactions and integrates with Google tools and Outlook to manage tasks, appointments and email correspondence. Users are able to create and manage tickets based on recurring maintenance and reported issues. Tickets enable users to monitor information such as budgets, schedules, hours used and remaining, materials and revenue earned and invoiced on a job.
Aspire enables users to create a...
Aspire - Dashboard
Supported Operating System(s):
Web browser (OS agnostic)Average User Ratings
Overall
Ease-of-use
4.5
Value for money
4.5
Customer support
4.5
Functionality
4.5
Likelihood to Recommend
Not likely
Very likely
September 2020
Leif from Simplified Landscaping, LLC
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Construction
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
September 2020
Simplified Landscaping Review
Aspire, while quite expensive has proven save us and increase revenue quite a bit. We have lost a lot of revenue in the past by not staying organized with billing and tracking time and materials to jobs better. It has easily paid for itself and then some and made my life a lot less complicated to manage.
Pros
Contractors think in labor, equipment, and materials in order to create an estimate. It was the only product on the market that I found that really honed in on those three areas and made it simple before getting more complex.
Cons
With any software comes a big learning curve. While Aspire couldn't have done a better job to deploy the software, I wish we had easier control over setting up estimate and invoice layouts. I also think the mobile app could have some more versatility added to it. Lastly if they had a better client notification side that would be helpful.
Reasons for Choosing Aspire
I verified with two other companies who I respect greatly. Both at the same time were going through deployment. Because I knew their companies well and how they operated, I knew that I had to take a look immediately.
Reasons for Switching to Aspire
Service auto pilot was a mess. It was very difficult to train new people on. Difficult to track materials. It didn't seem like it was set up very well for running large complicated landscape installation jobs. Seemed like it was better suited for weekly service accounts such as landscape maintenance and snow removal services, but not your landscape construction jobs. We started with it to get rid of all the spreadsheets and other programs we were using hoping to have just one program, but we never could pull away from all the other stuff. It added one more program and didn't even sink payroll with quickbooks.
Response from Aspire Software
Replied September 2020
Leif, thank you for your feedback! We're pleased to hear your investment in Aspire has paid for itself and that you would recommend our software solution to others. We love input on how Aspire can adapt to better fit the needs of our clients and your comments on layouts and client notifications will be shared with the team. Stay tuned for future updates, feedback like yours is what improves our software!
September 2020
Tracy from C. Caramanico & Sons, Inc.
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Facilities Services
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
September 2020
The Best Landscaping Production Software
Aspire has exceeded all our expectations and provides us with the real time knowledge of how we are performing as a company. Aspire is not a static software, they are always looking for new and better ways for the software to handle information and changes in the industry.
Pros
Aspire has organized our production information so everyone can find what they need instantly and be sure that it is current applicable information. Aspire has streamlined our invoicing, which in turn has improved our cash flow. Before Aspire I was given invoicing at the end of the month for all the projects completed during the month. Since going live on Aspire, invoices are sent as soon as tickets are completed. Aspire also streamlined our payroll process, what used to take hours in our old software, now takes minutes. Aspire also got us running on a PO system for purchases, we had tried before but we didn't succeed. Once we started on Aspire, we were able to finally get some controls on our purchasing.
Cons
The most challenges I have had are with customers wanting something special done to their invoices that can't be done within the system. However, I am able to print an editable version and send them what they want.
Reasons for Choosing Aspire
Aspire offered all the features we were searching for in a software. We needed to consolidate our production reports and have an easier way to track the profitablity of jobs.
Response from Aspire Software
Replied September 2020
Tracy, thank you for your feedback! We're pleased to hear you would recommend Aspire to others and that our software has helped streamline your processes. We love input on how Aspire can adapt to better fit the needs of our clients and your comment about more customizable invoices will be shared with the team. Stay tuned for future updates, feedback like yours is what improves our software!
September 2020
Christina from Carolina Creations Landscapes, Inc
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Construction
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
September 2020
Aspire Review by CWR
Overall i think Aspire is a good fit for our application. i think it provides a good system for job estimating and job costing.
Pros
The aspire software offers a lot of solutions we needed for our business. The fact that the billing ties to QB is invaluable in my opinion. The PO system has saved us hundreds of thousands in unauthorized / or incorrect billing. Deployment was a nightmare at first, we definitely didn't make it easy on our consultant, but he also did a pool job of guiding us in the correct direction. We had a change in consultants about half way through and she got us back on track.
Cons
There are small issues that are annoying... when you email a PO to a vendor it doesn't save a record on the opportunity or work ticket it's associated with, also it doesn't recall any email addresses, so you have to type in address every time. super waste of time. in the scheduler i sometimes have issues finding the work tickets i want to schedule (not sure if that's user error) Often times a work ticket will report committed costs against purchase receipts that have been received and approved making EOM procedures difficult, especially if the purchase receipt was approved ina closed month. I don't thnk the payroll function works for us... (not certain bc i don't do payroll)
Reasons for Choosing Aspire
The team thought it looked easier to use.
Reasons for Switching to Aspire
Salesforce was good for Customer service documentation... not so much for job tracking. we needed a system that would complete both.
Response from Aspire Software
Replied September 2020
Christina, thank you for your feedback! Job tracking is so important for reporting profitability and we are pleased that we could fill that gap for you, along with saving you thousands on fixing billing issues. We love input on how Aspire can adapt to better fit the needs of our clients and your comments about purchase orders, and auto-populating email addresses will be shared with the team. Stay tuned for future updates, feedback like yours is what improves our software!
September 2020
Theodore from Hively Landscapes
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Construction
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
September 2020
Better, Faster, Stronger
Our experience has been a very positive one. Customer support during implementation was very good. Ongoing support for users is excellent with very fast response times and knowledgeable representatives. Aspire is constantly making improvements to the system based on user recommendations and so far, each new version release has improved our user experience.
Pros
Intuitive user interface. Logical data query format makes finding granular data very easy. Reports are easily customized and shared with other users. Customer support during implementation was very good. Ongoing support for users is excellent with very fast response times and knowledgeable representatives.
Cons
Initial concern was pricing. Aspire appears expensive when compared to similar systems but it actually saves our organization money through better management of the sales and production process, resulting in better gross margin and revenue per employee.
Reasons for Choosing Aspire
Better access to information, better support, better remote access options.
Reasons for Switching to Aspire
Asset is a robust system but customer support is essentially non-existent. This ultimately limited our ability to fully utilize the system which made it a frustrating roadblock to any success.
Response from Aspire Software
Replied September 2020
Theodore, thank you for your feedback! We're pleased to hear you would recommend Aspire to others and that our software has saved you money and improved your profit margin. We are always honored to be a part of our client's success. Stay tuned for future updates, we will continue to improve Aspire to meet the needs of our users!
September 2020
Lauren from Fine Earth Landscape Inc
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Graphic Design
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
2.0
Customer support
3.0
Functionality
5.0
September 2020
Aspire Financial Area
Overall it has helped but the financial problems with us, them, the trining we received, whatever has me feling like a stepchild instead of one of the family. We pay a lot to have this; I want that problem fixed.
Pros
The pros are definitely the connectability of everything in one place. I am able to do much more work in half the time. Implementing this has cut my office staff which really adds to the bottom line. I was able to see waste by implementing Aspire through labor over usage, overall operations, and office staff. This made me make changes to all of these areas which has really added to our bottom line profits.
Cons
The financial section is very clunky. The journal entries or moving payroll over to quickbooks does not integrate easily. I would like to run on a Cash basis. This system is all accrual. I still have yet to be able to get accurate financials so I think my business is better but I can't gauge that yet. That to me is the most ridiculous and will have me leave Aspire if we can't get it fixed asap. I would rather have nothing then messed up financials.
Reasons for Choosing Aspire
Thought it was the best cutting edge and had the most support to help us with shortfalls.
Response from Aspire Software
Replied September 2020
Lauren, thank you for your feedback! We appreciate your input and all comments are brought back to the team to help Aspire continue to evolve in order to further meet the needs of our users. We are pleased to hear your bottom line has improved since implementing Aspire and would like to offer further support to ensure you have clear, accurate financials you can trust. It looks like one of our customer success managers has been in touch already, and he will continue to work through any issues you are experiencing.