Finding subcontractors easily - use Service Central
There are lots of different reasons why subcontracting might be a good step for your business. Perhaps you've taken on too much work, and need to subcontract some out to keep the customers happy. Perhaps you're expanding but don't have quite enough work to justify a full time employee yet. Perhaps you want to target bigger jobs but don't have the capacity.
If you're new to subcontracting or even if your business often subcontracts but you're tired of being let down by your existing subbies, using Service Central to find and manage your subcontractors is an excellent idea.
How does subcontracting through Service Central work?
You'll follow a process just like all the customers - you'll post a job. You'll enter all the details about the job, when it's scheduled, what you're looking for, what kind of job it is. Because you know exactly what you want, you'll be able to post a job that has lots of detail, so you'll get the right businesses responding every time. You can asked for 1, 2 or 3 businesses to respond.
You'll get responses, gather their quotes, and make your selection. You'll complete the work together, and you'll manage payment to the subcontractor. If it's gone well, you can mark them as a 'Favourite' which means they'll get any jobs in future first.
Benefits of subcontracting through Service Central
Locate subbies that want to do the job, when you need them - not phoning around your pool of subbies to find the ones that are available.
With 1, 2 or 3 quotes you'll know that you'll be receiving competitive quotes which will reduce the overall cost of the job and improve your profit margins.
The admin around managing the subbies' licences is not your core business. Let Service Central do that for you. We don't allow any business without a valid licence and up to date insurance accept a job posted on our site.
Track the jobs using the online CRM system, and manage a pool of 'favourite' or 'blacklisted' businesses.
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