Switching software shouldn't mean retyping every customer you have

The season's winding down, and you're looking at next year's software bill again. You've thought about switching before. Then you picture typing hundreds of names, addresses, phone numbers, and gate codes into a new system, one customer at a time, and you put it off another year. Or someone offers to move them for you, for a fee. So what would it take to switch without starting over?

Your list already exists

You don't need to rebuild anything. Your customers are already written down in your current software, a spreadsheet, or your phone contacts. Most software can export your customers to a spreadsheet file. Make sure the export includes names, addresses, phone numbers, email, and any notes you've been keeping, like gate codes or the dog in the backyard. That file is everything you need to switch.

Your customer list already exists. Moving it should take an afternoon, not your whole winter.

Run My Lawn Biz takes the list as it is

Run My Lawn Biz takes your customers as a CSV file, rows pasted straight from Excel or Google Sheets, or the contacts off your phone. You don't reformat anything to fit. It matches your columns to ours and only asks about the ones it wasn't sure of. Every row becomes a customer with their property, so you never type an address twice, and anyone already in your account is recognized instead of doubled up. If your notes are a column, they come along too.

You can see it before you rely on it

Everything you imported shows up together, so you can look it over before you schedule a single job from it. If something's off, like addresses in the wrong column, you don't fix it one customer at a time. Undo the whole batch, fix the file, and bring it in again. Your file is read in your browser and never uploaded. One import covers up to 500 customers, so a bigger book goes in a few batches.

One thing stays behind: cards your customers saved with a payment processor stay with that processor. Run My Lawn Biz records the payments you collect.

Winter is the time to do it

Moving your list in the slow season means you're not learning a new system while the phone rings and the grass grows. Spend an afternoon bringing your customers over, run a few quiet weeks on it, and walk into spring with your whole book where you need it.