The contractor is the center of the platform.  The majority of business information starts with you the contractor, and is managed by you through the entire cycle of a remodeling job or service call.  MyOnlineToolbox is an Internet platform for contractors that is both a business application and an online collaboration solution.  From an application perspective, MyOnlineToolbox allows contractors to log in to their own secure online application to organize the daily operations of their business. It does what any application should: maintain a contact database, schedule work, create estimates and invoices and keep track of payments. Collaboration connects contractors, homeowners, subcontractors, suppliers and other professionals together.  Whether you collaborate is up to you, but we know you will!

Scroll over the picture to learn about product features after you read the rest of the below.  Sure, we have general business functions for MyOnlineTolbox, but we feel you should first know what makes us different.

 

In 2008 DELL awarded MyOnlineToolbox a TOP 10 INNOVATOR.  In 2009 FORBES our company was awarded one of AMERICA'S MOST PROMISING BUSINESSES.  Most of our success come from seeing our industry going through a change and surrounding ourselves with business savvy, tech savvy contractors.

Contractors need as many ways to effectively communicate with their customers and prospects.  Some customers want to talk, some still prefer a fax, while some others prefer email and many customers wish to collaborate (similar to you participating in a forum, but in the case of MyOnlineToolbox, you share Job information with a customer who goes back and forth with you on line and all data is saved in your database).    The best news is that MyOnlineToolbox gives you all the options at your fingertips from the more traditional methods to the more advanced.  We allow you to stand above the competition since everything is at your fingertips no matter whether you are at home, the office or on the road.  An overview how to connect with your customers can be found here.   

But there is more!   Your customers may also be other General Contractors.  By joining the MyOnlineToolbox community, you are making yourself visible to other GCs who may wish to pass job leads and work orders to you more efficiently.  Making yourself visible tells other GCs that you are as equally concerned about being a tech savvy business person as well as good craftsperson.  So go ahead and sign up for Free.

Your contractors need you in order to get more jobs.  Gone are the days where you need to leave voice mail messages and play telephone tag to pass a job lead to your subcontractors.  Getting contractors to tell you their prices for work has never been easier.  MyOnlineToolbox allows the easiest methods to deploy jobs and verify that the contractor has picked up the job.  Your subcontractors will be happy with no more wasting time and gas coming by the office to pick up paperwork.  MyOnlineToolbox allows you to invite any one, ten or even a hundred subcontractors on to the platform (for Free).  You can pass whatever information you have directly to your contractor who will have their own secure business environment to accept your jobs.  More information about connecting to subcontractors can be found here.

Imagine being able to fax a purchase order to a Home Depot or Lowes associate while you are on the road (without a fax machine).  Of course you can email your suppliers the purchase order if they allow that.  It is just too easy of a time saver.

We are connected to the business cycle. For example, contractors sometimes create estimates for homeowners on a piece of paper and just leave it on the homeowner’s kitchen table. Many times contractors have to go back to the office to accumulate various pieces of information to provide an estimate. Either way, follow-up usually relies on the homeowner calling back the contractor. The MyOnlineToolbox platform allows contractors to run their business over the Internet and send electronic estimates, invoices and messages to the homeowner to review materials, prices and schedule dates. The going back and forth will take place within the platform. This protects both parties to ensure everyone is in agreement on every step of a job through payment.  So go ahead and sign up for Free.

Benefit to contractors
The most cost effective way to run your business with no on-going commitments. You run your business independently or in conjunction with others, it’s up to you. For example:

• Opportunity for jobs just by being visible in the community platform
• Controlled communication to other parties involved in the job (customers, suppliers and other contractors)
• Mobile capability to fax or email doc's from the pick-up truck
• Direct purchase of materials or services from anywhere on the road
• Estimates and invoices are completed faster and immediately deployed to those waiting for them

Benefit to homeowner customers
Avoiding conflicts by having everything about a job online in a shared environment to ensure the materials, costs and scheduling are always agreed upon. No more leaving voice messages and telephone tag. Everyone can communicate when most convenient.  The information between homeowner and contractor is private, and no one else (such as subcontractors) can see it.

Benefit to suppliers
Have a nice formatted purchase order with company name, contacts, and product numbers clearly readable makes it that much easier to have supplies ready when you finally show up at the store.  

There are tens of thousands of evolving contractors who are gravitating towards the Internet and mobile computing. You can benefit by being connected to this evolving community centered on the contractor and homeowner. 

The MyOnlineToolbox product never loses value and creates a reinforced bond between you, your customers, subcontractors and your vendors.

MyOnlineToolbox brings a unique connection between your company and other evolving of tech-savvy contractors, homeowners, suppliers and service providers.  And it all centers on you the contractor. 

What better way that to simply begin to use the system and start collaborating with others?  At a minimum, make yourself visible to others in order to market yourself as a tech savvy, business savvy contractor.  You can sign up with no obligation.  You will begin to get used to it with minutes and will probably have your first estimates out in less than thirty minutes (depending on your experience with Internet solutions).  So go ahead and sign up for Free.