360 Difference Products

• The 360 Difference Filemaker Suite of Software Tools

• Microsoft Excel and Apple iWorks Numbers Products

The 360 Difference Filemaker Suite

360 Difference is a suite of integrated software solutions we’re building for contractors and other project and service oriented businesses. Our custom designed FileMaker database system as a business management software core that serves as a foundation for business management applications that can be easily further customized and modified to meet our clients specific needs and desires.

With the 360 Difference system being designed in FileMaker 10 our applications will run on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms.

The 360 Difference systems are designed with salability and flexibility in mind so a contractor can easily expand and upgrade as they grow and their business matures. 360 Difference allows the small operator to take advantage of all the technology and a data architecture that needed to support larger contractors.

The moduleswe’ve developed or are developing cover tasks such as Estimating which is the first and core product in our 360 Difference Filemaker Suite. Other functions as well as:

• Production ( Job Costing}
  • Daily Job Reports
  • TimeKeeping
  • Scheduling (export basic baseline data to 3rd party project maagement tools)
• CRM
  • Customer/Client Preference
• HR
• Contract Administration
• Invoicing
• Document Management
• Employment Applications
• Employment Reviews
• Vehicle Management
• and more…

Our goal is to make 360 Difference a complete set of stand-alone cross platform FileMaker based management tools that together make up an integrated small office /home office work environment that will scale to larger enterprise level businesses.

Interoperability with Other Programs:

The 360 Difference system is also designed with interoperability with other programs in mind. On the Windows platform the data in the 360 system can be integrated with MYOB Account Edge with the free MYOB ODBC Direct Driver they provide and with QuickBooks using either the FM Books Connector or FileBooks Links plug-ins.

360 Difference a suite of integrated software solutions for contractors. Our custom designed FileMaker database system is a business management software core that serves as a foundation for building custom business management applications for both the Macintosh and Windows platforms.

The 360 Difference systems are designed with salability and flexibility in mind so a contractor can easily expand and upgrade as they grow and their business matures. 360 Difference allows the small operator to take advantage of all the technology and a data architecture that needed to support larger contractors.

The Capacity Based Markup Worksheet is an Excel Spreadsheet Workbook for developing a correctly structured and designed Loaded Labor Rate & Labor Markup for Contractors Using a Capacity Based (aka PROOF/Indexed/Labor Allocated Overhead) Markup Methodology.