ConnectWise Manage does stop revenue from falling through the cracks.
March 20, 2018
ConnectWise Manage does stop revenue from falling through the cracks.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with ConnectWise Manage
We use the ConnectWise rule of if it isn't in ConnectWise it didn't happen! I remember when we first started using ConnectWise and how our monthly revenue went up due to everything getting billed and not lost in a poor CRM we were using at the time. We require every event be put into ConnectWise even if it is not a billable event.
- Managing our Agreements works very well in ConnectWise. It is very easy to update an Agreement by adding an addition.
- I know some folks have issues using the Project Board in ConnectWise but we don't seem to have an issue. I use the Project Board for our Training schedule, my ConnectWise improvement list, Quarterly Review, etc. I also use it for Business Processes improvement.
- We find invoicing from ConnectWise works very well and clients are using our payment portal so we are getting paid the same day in most cases.
- Reporting. Yes, there is a report writer, but I just can't seem to find the time to sit down and create custom reports. I would like to see more standard reports available without having to spend a lot of time learning a program to create reports.
- Support goes up and down in quality. Sometimes you will get a response with the correct answer and other times you can tell that no matter how much detail you put in the ticket they just couldn't understand the issue.
- Online knowledge base and documentation don't seem to be keeping up with the new enhancements. I will be working to configure something and find they have changed the name of the setup table I need to be looking at. This isn't very often but the faster the enhancements are pushed out it seems the slower the time for the documentation to catch up.
- We are no longer losing revenue from an engineer not writing up the service call as they do it at the time of service onsite or remote support.
- ConnectWise's ongoing business training and video is very helpful and sometimes gives us new ideas to increase our bottom line that we didn't think of.
- Tracking engineers' expenses is much faster and they get billed to the client. Before ConnectWise, the engineers would end up submitting expenses long past the service which made invoicing the client for travel after the fact was not a good experience.
I had looked at Autotask when I was looking for a CRM for IT and at the time it just didn't compare with ConnectWise. ConnectWise had much more features we needed and also their sales team was very helpful in explaining the features and limitations. We were using Commit CRM at the time and it just wasn't cutting it especially with the write up of the service performed.