Trying Garage Door Software Before You Commit: The Live Demo and the Free Trial
Every software company says its product is easy to use. The only way to know is to use it. For a garage door company, that means seeing a real job card with a real door on it, running through the safety checklist, and watching a tune-up come due on the map. GarageDoorBossPro gives you two ways to do that before you pay anything: the live demo and the free trial.
Try It From Wherever You Are
The demo and trial work the same in every country covered in Garage Door Software Outside the US: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. All you need is a browser.
The Live Demo: A Sample Garage Door Company
The live demo at my.garagedoorbosspro.com/demo.html is a fully-stocked sample garage door company. There is no signup. Open it and click around.
It is set up the way a working company would be, with customers, addresses, equipment, jobs, estimates and invoices already in place. That means you can see the features with real-looking data instead of empty screens.
What to Look At in the Demo
A useful tour for a garage door owner:
- Open a property. Look at the equipment saved on the house: the garage door with its size and material, the opener with its model and HP, the springs, the bay.
- Open a job. See how the equipment shows on the job, and how the From House picker fills it in.
- Look at a completed tune-up. See the door safety inspection, the readings, the condition and the recommendations, and the Garage Door Safety Inspection report.
- Open the Waiting List. See the map with pins colored not due yet, due now and overdue.
- Open the dispatch board. Look at jobs by day and van, and try auto-routing.
- Look at an estimate and an invoice. See the line items from the service list.
- Find a monthly account. See how one statement covers every address.
Thirty minutes in the demo will tell you more than any feature list.
Show the Demo to Your Team
The demo is not just for the owner. Hand a phone to your most experienced tech and let them look at a job card. Ask whether the door, opener and spring details are what they would want to see before pulling into a driveway, and whether the checklist covers what they check on a tune-up. Show the person on your phones the dispatch board and the Waiting List map. Their reactions will tell you quickly whether the switch will be easy or a fight, and what to set up first if you go ahead.
The 14-Day Free Trial
Once the demo looks right, the free trial lets you set up your own company. It runs 14 days and needs no credit card. In two weeks, you can:
- Add your service list with your own prices
- Add your vans and techs with PINs
- Bring in your customers with a CSV import, with addresses placed on the map automatically
- Run real calls from the dispatch board and the tech app
- Send estimates and invoices
- Set up tune-up plans and watch the Waiting List
Two weeks is enough to run a full cycle: calls come in, techs work them on the app, invoices go out, customers pay.
Getting the Most From the Trial
A few tips to make the trial count:
- Use real calls. Test data tells you whether the buttons work. Real calls tell you whether the software fits your day.
- Put one tech on the app early. Their reaction on day two will tell you a lot.
- Fill in equipment at every house you visit. By the end of the trial, the From House picker will already be saving time.
- Try one property manager or commercial account on Monthly. See whether the statement is what your managers want.
- Run the door safety inspection on a tune-up and print the report for the homeowner.
A step-by-step plan for those first days is in Your First Week on Garage Door Software: A Day-by-Day Plan.
After the Trial
When the trial ends, choose a plan: Start at $59/month, Pro at $89/month or Crew at $199/month. Each includes the office, the tech app and the customer app, with a monthly text allowance of 500, 1,000 or 2,000 texts sent and received in the US and Canada. Pick the plan that matches how many vans you run and how much you text, and keep working.
If the software is not right for you, you have not spent anything to find out.
To see every feature you can test, visit the GarageDoorBossPro garage door software page.
Try It With Your Own Calls
Click through the live demo, then run your own garage door company on GarageDoorBossPro for 14 days, no card needed.
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