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Co-founder of Timter Tony Short
Tony Short, co-founder of Timter, describes how he has built a new game-changing app for heating and ventilation engineers using his 30-year’s experience as a tradesman – and how it could give them more control over their business and help them boost their earnings
enables you to run your whole business from your phone– with no need to boot up a computer after work. We’re so confident in the app and its time-saving ability. We believe those in
the heating and plumbing industry can make more money by freeing up at least four hours a week from admin that can be better spent on fee-earning projects. For example, someone charging an hourly rate of £35 who works 45 weeks a year could add £6,300 to their annual income.
Describe your product?
Timter is a business tool available for heating and ventilation engineers that runs entirely from a smartphone. It handles most major aspects of business management including job quoting, project planning, time tracking, product ordering, stock management and invoicing. Billable extras on projects can be recorded and more easily communicated to
the client, while costly mistakes can be eradicated. The app enables engineers to manage fixed-price projects and those where
What is Timter?
Timter is the first fully mobile business app that gives self-employed tradespeople complete control over their business via the mobile in their pockets. All aspects of an HVAC project can be quoted, managed, tracked and invoiced via the app, so engineers can run their business efficiently on the go. We launched in February this year after last year’s periods of lockdown gave
me the opportunity – and impetus – to advance the development of the app. I started designing it with my co-founders three years ago after thinking that there had to be a more effective way to run a trade business. It’s tough to juggle everything you need to do and there were so many
inefficiencies in the way I used to work. Ordering and managing products is time consuming. It’s hard to keep track of your stock and your projects, and paperwork is the bane of most tradespeople’s lives – eating into their evenings and weekends. We’ve developed Timter to address all of that – streamlining business
processes and freeing people up to boost their earnings by doing more of what they’re best at. Timter is specifically geared to self-employed tradespeople, and
you may be charging based on time and materials. You literally can have everything to hand. Another benefit is the extensive catalogue of professional products available
through Timter. And if you need to buy more materials for a job, then you can add new products to it by scanning the barcodes. It can be quite frustrating when you don’t have the right parts for a job or find
you’re ordering something you may have somewhere else, like in the van. With Timter, you can track your stock so you know exactly what you already have. These features have benefits for your suppliers and your customers, too. Suppliers will be grateful for professional purchase orders emailed over clearly displaying each product and when and where it needs to be delivered to or collected from. Customers will be presented with professional-looking quotes and invoices that can help them to keep track of their budgets.
What is driving the demand for your product?
The pandemic has put pressure on many of us trade professionals and highlighted the importance of digital tools to help us become as efficient and
8 July 2021
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