Is 17Hats Going to Make Your Business More Efficient With Less Effort?
Here are the basics of 17Hats, so you have a bit of a preamble on how it will work.
The short strokes of 17Hats are that this is a great program for lead vetting and follow-up (onboarding and engagement) and CRM, calendar, project, and workflow management. If you have recurring workflows with many steps and client communications that you need to track and tick off, this is a great fit!
The other side features provide terrific benefits if they fit right into your needs at that time, but not one of them is robust enough to be standalone. However, one thing to consider is the high rate of 17Hat’s product growth and the number of feature improvements on their road map. This will be a terrific program, especially if you are a start-up, solo or small business, and it will scale well, will you?
Projects consist of workflows within “folders,” aka projects. Workflows consist of tasks and actions to be completed. Lifecycles track the completion of workflows and/or projects and display the next stage of a workflow or project.
Contacts are cold leads, hot leads, customers and others. They are the starting point in 17Hats. You need to contact, and then you must create a project to do anything with that contact. Contacts can be sent to other applications using Zapier!
Custom Fields are an automagical tool for gathering information from clients & prospects, populating the CRM and then auto-entering into communications (think engagement contracts!) using “tokens.”
Lifecycles in 17Hats are an “at a glance” progress bar to track where you are in your projects. It is an obvious, high-level overview of the project and/or workflows.
Projects are a “folder” to organize all the workflows, documents, communications, time tracking, phone logs and such that relate to a contact. You can use one project for all of the above for a client. Or you can use many projects for each client. For the most part, you will need to have workflows set up and add them to a project to accomplish more than basic, single-action communication, notes, to-dos’ and such.
Workflows are a series of to-do’s, tasks, contracts, questionnaires, quotes, emails and more that will recur. Your workflows are completely customizable. They are put together using a series of templates that can be created ahead of time or on “the fly.” You can have many workflows using any combination of your templates. Or just a few workflows using the majority of your templates.
Templates (documents) are created ahead of time or can be created and edited on “the fly” or as you need them while you are working. 17Hats has robust template creation, which has features for “tokens” to make them individualized automatically and “forms” to get project information and client responses filled in or fillable. Clients can complete and “sign” docs as well. Templates are available for emails (including setting up several interchangeable signatures and adding attachments & links). You can also create questionnaires, contracts, items, quotes and invoices.
Additional Powerful Features.
Native Online Scheduling coordinates with your calendar, projects, services and workflows. This is a robust scheduler!
Products & Services to create quotes and invoices for clients. There is a native QBO integration.
If you are interested in 17Hats and all it can do for you, you can either get back to us, and we will help you rock this program right from the start. Or you can test drive it yourself, using this referral code to get a 10% discount. Code: wccttzrptt by visiting the 17Hats Website.
Tomorrow though, if you want to talk workflow and how to make them – contact me. Let’s go for a #WorkFlowRun together!
I sell my 17Hats workflow templates.
There are app-agnostic and Hubdoc/QBO/Plooto ones. We have workflows available for Quoting & Engagement, Year-End or Prospect File Review and for Standard Bookkeeping.
We also have PDFs, Excel, Word Files and Google Forms of all our templates that you can use to copy and paste into your own practice management program or create a workflow using Google and Zapier.
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