Texoma Home & Garden
Chris Schatte, owner of Texoma Home & Garden describes his experience with SBA and BCM as “Perfect!”. Texamo is a 12,000 square feet family owned garden center in Vernon, Texas that also provides landscaping services. They employ 8 to 10 people in the busy season and have one computer server, four desktop PCs and three laptops. In the past, Texoma was using QuickBooks and had several manual workarounds to manage their day to day operations. Not too dissimilar to the example I had written about in my earlier post describing my experience at the small food wholesaler in Southern California. In the case of Texoma, owner Chris Schatte used to waste a lot of time with manual invoice creation, tracking product lifecycle (for their plant stock) and tracking billable hours for the services they performed. Chris also wanted to make better use of his landscaping contract data which was stored in Outlook 2003 and was frustrated that he was unable to do so with the lack of integration from QuickBooks. He basically wanted to get more visibility into the business and be more efficient with the day to day business tasks. Chris migrated the operations of Texoma from QuickBooks to Small Business Accounting 2006 along with Outlook with Business Contact Manager after testing SBA in parallel to QuickBooks for several weeks. The rest, in his own words :
Video of Texamo using Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006 and Outlook with Business Contact Manager 2003.
Pl note the video link performs best only on high bandwidth (broadband) connections.
This is exactly what we designed the product for. We hope that Texoma and the millions of other small businesses out there in the country will never be frustrated again. Microsoft is here and we are devoted to serving them with software innovation.
