Houzz Launches Houzz Pro Business Software for Irish Pros
Houzz Pro brings renovation pros business management software and marketing features in a single solution
Houzz is announcing the launch of Houzz Pro for Irish renovation professionals, a suite of software tools that renovation pros can use to manage their residential construction businesses.
Houzz Pro is the only business software on the market that builders and renovation professionals can use to manage the full project life cycle, including attracting and converting new clients, creating estimates, communicating with clients and handling billing all in one place.
The new tools are just one aspect of the Houzz Pro Resilience Initiative, designed to help pros strengthen their businesses, stay connected to one another, their clients and their teams, and tap into the power of the Houzz community.
Houzz Pro is the only business software on the market that builders and renovation professionals can use to manage the full project life cycle, including attracting and converting new clients, creating estimates, communicating with clients and handling billing all in one place.
The new tools are just one aspect of the Houzz Pro Resilience Initiative, designed to help pros strengthen their businesses, stay connected to one another, their clients and their teams, and tap into the power of the Houzz community.
Homeowners on Houzz have said that their renovations would have been better with full project visibility – into progress, actual costs, timing and changes. Houzz is stepping up to help pros provide a better customer experience.
The new tools within Houzz Pro enable construction professionals to manage their businesses from their desktop computers or from the Houzz Pro app. Builders and renovation specialists who subscribe to Houzz Pro can also benefit from new marketing and advertising features, such as enhanced analytics, and new profile features, such as a company highlight video and featured reviews.
Read on to learn about the major features of this new offering from Houzz.
The new tools within Houzz Pro enable construction professionals to manage their businesses from their desktop computers or from the Houzz Pro app. Builders and renovation specialists who subscribe to Houzz Pro can also benefit from new marketing and advertising features, such as enhanced analytics, and new profile features, such as a company highlight video and featured reviews.
Read on to learn about the major features of this new offering from Houzz.
1. Manage leads
With Houzz Pro, construction pros can manage their client pipeline from any source, including Houzz, allowing them to stay top of mind with potential clients and win more projects.
Within Houzz Pro, builders and renovation specialists can communicate with their leads, add internal notes about projects, and attach relevant files and photos.
With Houzz Pro, construction pros can manage their client pipeline from any source, including Houzz, allowing them to stay top of mind with potential clients and win more projects.
Within Houzz Pro, builders and renovation specialists can communicate with their leads, add internal notes about projects, and attach relevant files and photos.
A scheduling tool within Houzz Pro integrates with the pro’s calendar, making it easy to schedule meetings with clients and potential clients. When a lead becomes a client, the entire communication history moves seamlessly to the new project.
2. Create estimates
The new estimate creation tool within Houzz Pro enables builders and renovation specialists to build fast, accurate estimates.
Pros can upload estimates or use the new estimate creation tool within Houzz Pro, which enables builders and renovation specialists to build fast, accurate estimates from scratch. Pros can save templates they have customised for use on future projects.
Construction pros using the Houzz Pro tools can send estimates via email or chat to clients for approval with a digital signature.
The new estimate creation tool within Houzz Pro enables builders and renovation specialists to build fast, accurate estimates.
Pros can upload estimates or use the new estimate creation tool within Houzz Pro, which enables builders and renovation specialists to build fast, accurate estimates from scratch. Pros can save templates they have customised for use on future projects.
Construction pros using the Houzz Pro tools can send estimates via email or chat to clients for approval with a digital signature.
3. Collaborate with clients
The messaging tool within Houzz Pro tracks the entire client communication history, including chat, email, photos and documents, payment requests, invoices, change orders and timelines, and all client approvals.
The messaging tool within Houzz Pro tracks the entire client communication history, including chat, email, photos and documents, payment requests, invoices, change orders and timelines, and all client approvals.
4. Keep clients up to date
Pros can use Houzz Pro to proactively communicate project status to clients through a built-in dashboard. Pros can choose which content they want clients to see on the client dashboard before sharing it, and a preview function allows pros to confirm everything is correct before sending.
The dashboard includes message history; a graphic and interactive project timeline that pros can build and then share with clients, and daily logs, where pros can share regular updates of what’s happening on the job site, photos and more.
Pros can use Houzz Pro to proactively communicate project status to clients through a built-in dashboard. Pros can choose which content they want clients to see on the client dashboard before sharing it, and a preview function allows pros to confirm everything is correct before sending.
The dashboard includes message history; a graphic and interactive project timeline that pros can build and then share with clients, and daily logs, where pros can share regular updates of what’s happening on the job site, photos and more.
This image shows an example of the first scene in a highlight video, a marketing feature now available through Houzz Pro.
5. Attract clients with new marketing tools
In addition to business management software, Houzz Pro subscribers can use new marketing and advertising features, including website building and hosting services, to stand out, build their brands on Houzz and attract new clients.
5. Attract clients with new marketing tools
In addition to business management software, Houzz Pro subscribers can use new marketing and advertising features, including website building and hosting services, to stand out, build their brands on Houzz and attract new clients.
- The highlight video allows pros to show their businesses through an engaging multimedia experience, including photos, reviews and key business information.
- The featured review showcases a handpicked review prominently on the pro’s profile and Houzz directory listing.
- Enhanced analytics through Houzz Pro gives subscribing pros insights into how their profiles are resonating most with the Houzz community.
- Website building and hosting. Subscribers to Houzz Pro can have the Houzz team build, host and manage a professional website as part of any paid subscription package.
6. Communicate your vision
Professionals can use Houzz Pro’s built-in room measurement tool to scan the floor and capture a room’s dimensions, accounting for existing windows or doors.
The tool will store the room’s dimensions and generate true-to-scale floor plans of the client’s home or property. Pros can save and modify these plans in the Houzz Pro 3D floor planner on a computer.
The 3D view can help clients visualise the layout and scale of products within a space, as well as design updates, such as removing a wall or adding a wall colour, a window or furniture. At any point in the process, pros can generate a 3D rendering for a space by clicking on the Walkthrough view. Or they can click on the Dollhouse view to display a room’s design from above.
Professionals can use Houzz Pro’s built-in room measurement tool to scan the floor and capture a room’s dimensions, accounting for existing windows or doors.
The tool will store the room’s dimensions and generate true-to-scale floor plans of the client’s home or property. Pros can save and modify these plans in the Houzz Pro 3D floor planner on a computer.
The 3D view can help clients visualise the layout and scale of products within a space, as well as design updates, such as removing a wall or adding a wall colour, a window or furniture. At any point in the process, pros can generate a 3D rendering for a space by clicking on the Walkthrough view. Or they can click on the Dollhouse view to display a room’s design from above.
7. Schedule remote consultations
The Houzz Pro Video Meetings feature makes it easy for both homeowners and pros to set up a virtual discussion at any stage of the project. Designers can make any meeting a video meeting and continue to build rapport with clients through virtual conversations.
When designers integrate their calendar with the Houzz Pro Video Meetings scheduler, they have the option of promoting virtual consultations on their Houzz profile and in their directory listing. This enables homeowners beginning a new project to directly book an introductory video meeting and connect when a pro has availability.
When a homeowner wants to book a video meeting, a calendar with the pro’s availability will pop up. The homeowner can simply select a preferred date and time. Homeowners can provide their name, email, postcode and a short description of their project.
The scheduled video meeting will then automatically be added to both the pro’s and the homeowner’s online calendars with a meeting link.
The Houzz Pro Video Meetings feature makes it easy for both homeowners and pros to set up a virtual discussion at any stage of the project. Designers can make any meeting a video meeting and continue to build rapport with clients through virtual conversations.
When designers integrate their calendar with the Houzz Pro Video Meetings scheduler, they have the option of promoting virtual consultations on their Houzz profile and in their directory listing. This enables homeowners beginning a new project to directly book an introductory video meeting and connect when a pro has availability.
When a homeowner wants to book a video meeting, a calendar with the pro’s availability will pop up. The homeowner can simply select a preferred date and time. Homeowners can provide their name, email, postcode and a short description of their project.
The scheduled video meeting will then automatically be added to both the pro’s and the homeowner’s online calendars with a meeting link.
The Houzz Pro app is available today on iOS and Android for Houzz Pro subscribers.
Houzz Pro subscription packages are priced to fit any budget or team. Visit www.houzz.ie/pro to learn about features and pricing.
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What do you think will be most useful about Houzz Pro for your business? Share your thoughts in the Comments.
Houzz Pro subscription packages are priced to fit any budget or team. Visit www.houzz.ie/pro to learn about features and pricing.
Tell us…
What do you think will be most useful about Houzz Pro for your business? Share your thoughts in the Comments.
“Houzz Pro was born from listening to feedback from our pro community, and it’s important to us that this powerful solution is both affordable and easy to use,” he says. “We understand pros in our community are facing new challenges with Covid-19 and, given these unique demands, we are providing the software to all our existing pro subscribers as part of their subscription.”