What do you get for the monthly fee?
It is a great question. The first thing I want to point out is that my software is a full ERP system. To get a full ERP system from some of my competitors, you will need to buy multiple systems (Signvox and Shopvox combined for example. There are other softwares just like this, not just them). Once you add those together, and have x number of employees (competitors price per employee), we will all be in same price range. If you have over 20 employees, I think Vujade might even come in cheaper depending on the program purchased.
There are two choices that every sign guy must make when it comes to project management. Do I keep doing what I have been doing in the way of paper and folders, or do I want to go to a project management system? If you want to stay with paper, I cannot help, so I will just talk about the companies that want to go to a project management system.
Once you decide to go paperless (to some degree) each company will decide if they want to pay someone to program their own system (own) or have someone else deal with the software and hardware upgrades, keeping up with the market, and continuing to upgrade the system that is always evolving along with the sign industry (lease).
Vujade that is on the market is actually my 3rd system that I have created. The first two systems were shells of this 3rd version, and I spent nearly 60K on each of the first two having it programmed. With this in mind $385.00 * 12 = $4,620.00 a year for Vujade. 60K / 4,620 = 12.98 years. So if you buy a system, it will not be upgraded and you have to live with it for 13 years if you decide to buy your own with a price comparison.
So, now that I hope I have convinced you ride on my coat tails and have me deal with the big up front costs, let me tell you what you get. (I know, I know, passionate CEO and his long winded speeches.)
First, the hard drive. The system you will be logging into will be triple redundant. You will be running on the first server, and a second one will be mimicking behind it in case of failure, and then very night at midnight it backs up to a third server. The server is 4GB memory, and 50GB of storage. I believe I am giving the biggest storage area up front compared to my competition. The speed to your data will always be as fast as possible. Your bandwidth of where you log in will be the deciding factor for speed and not the Vujade cloud.
The Vujade software itself is based on a project oriented theory. Instead of having a sales section and a design section, you now have a page where everything for that specific project is in one place. Why would you want to have different numbers for your design and proposals that are for the same project? Each project in Vujade has the same number design, estimate, proposal, shop order and invoice to keep your sanity and your shop all on one page.
To talk about one section, Vujade has a full estimating section for helping with your estimates; including inventory, raw labor, direct overhead, general overhead and mark up levels. As you build your personal estimating section, Vujade has a site setup that is always unlocked for you to manipulate your personal system to what levels you want each section to be. For example, you might have one month where your general overhead is .37 and the next .36. We have a site setup section so you have access to everything at all times.
Once familiar with the system, you will be able to shape Vujade to your company. I highly doubt one system will look like another once set up. No company is the same, and my software is built to adapt to your company culture.
I could go on and on about all the neat things that it does (more then I already did) but I am confident you will get your monies worth. (Did I mention the drag and drop calendar with built in work in process?)
I started in a shop when I was 17 packing letters into boxes, moved up to sales for a national sign company and ended up sitting on their board before moving to Vujade. I can honestly say I have been in your shoes and I wanted to make a system that was easy to use and not overwhelming to get the job done.
Okay, I am done and getting off of my soapbox. I hope I answered some questions and I will be happy to give a demonstration. Take Care and thank you for reading.
