Tigerpaw Software

Avantages

I've used a lot of CRM's in the past and, as I'm learning more, TigerPaw is pretty slick. Most of the problems that we have stem from how it was implemented and not how it functions, so make sure you have someone to guide you. We're trying to go change many our of processes but it's slow and daunting. Thankfully, TigerPaw has been readily available and their support is responsive and thorough. I find their daily ask-the-experts invaluable.

Inconvénients

Reporting. I can get customized reports created, but I would like to be able to design and create my own reports more easily.

Avantages

- All-encompassing product that touches every facet of our 20-year-old IT managed services/PrivateCloud/hosting firm
- The Matrix...perhaps the most powerful tool available in any PSA for easily assembling information in an actionable view (you can even export it to Excel). No SQL dev needed; no Crystal dev needed. Just all your info with cool calculations, drill-downs, and filters. Simply awesome
- Automatic synchronization with QuickBooks. No export/import files or juggling data around. It just synchronizes our Tigerpaw data right to QuickBooks
- Excellent workflow engine. Love this feature. Keeps our sales and technical teams in-the-know. If something is taking too long, getting too old, or amassing too much time, Tigerpaw tells us. It also alerts us about warranty expirations, software license renewals, carrier contracts, even sales tax certificates...long before they expire.
- Connect pretty much any way you want. Use your desktop, use the web interface, use the mobile interface...Tigerpaw is everywhere on every device all the time.
- Automatic contract and agreement invoicing. As an MSP, this is crucial for operation. Contracts and agreements automatically invoice and process credit cards for us. Huge time savings
- Time sheets. I've seen other systems and no one has anything quite like it. Check the availability, utilization, and billable time for techs in a single view. Great for finding gaps in billable times. Wonderful for techs to make sure they are hitting the mark.
- They listen. Perhaps the most important thing! Contacting Tigerpaw with suggestions or reaching to support is a positive experience handled by thoughtful people that actually use the software each and every day.

Inconvénients

- Some things take a few more mouse clicks than we prefer.
- The interface needs a bit of love
- More partnerships and tie-ins would send help and would send the product into orbit.

Avantages

I love that this is an all in one solution for your business. It allows you to maintain inventory, create price-book items, quoting, input service orders, invoice clients, manage purchase orders along with a ton of other features. once of the best things is the service orders where technicians can login and add a service order. in here they can type up their notes, add in time logs, attach expense logs and items serviced. it allows you to basically keep track of client inventory and the age of client items. The reporting functionality along with the other functions are completely customization to each individual organization.

Inconvénients

the only issue with this software that when you try to email a quote, invoice, service order or other document through the software, the client will sometimes receive it as a winmail.dat file instead of a PDF file. this is due to the PDF converter in the software not completing the conversion correctly even though it looks like it created the PDF successfully. but this does not happen all the time.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

I was hired to implement the software, then head up materials management. The service techs that I have dealt with have been extremely knowledgeable not only about their software, but also about how to implement it properly for my company. They have the patience to get into my system, walk me through how to set it up, the tables necessary, and the implications each answer will have and how to choose the best option. I greatly appreciate their patience.

Inconvénients

Only once out of about a hundred calls did they not respond in a timely manner, that's far better that any organization I have had to use prior to Tigerpaw.