ASEA Connect 2.0 vs ESS Workforce

With the Asea Connect app, you can easily share your way to success with tools that create word-of-mouth buzz and complement belly-to-belly efforts! Connect with new contacts and interact with your team by sharing exclusive, corporate-approved tools. You’ll have a vast array of marketing materials like videos, images, and more—all right at your fingertips! The powerful, yet beautifully simple design, along with compelling tools, makes growing your business simpler than ever.

 Contacts: Choose how to sync and manage your contacts. Swipe to sort them by interest level. You can make connections, add notes, or check out the Contact Feed to see the tools you've shared and contact actions. Tools: It has never been easier to share information about your products and opportunity via SMS text, email, or social media. Simply choose tools specifically designed to promote your business and share them with a contact. You'll receive a notification when contacts view a tool so you know exactly when to follow up! You can even add your own tools. Record or upload short videos to share with prospects. You can even add actions to your videos so prospects can interact directly in the video. These smarter interactive tools are called a Brightool and they provide more data for follow up with ActionAlert notifications in the Feed. No data connection? No problem! Simply download tools such as videos in the app beforehand for offline playback. Business: Access helpful links to build your business. Settings: Our simple Share Setup will help you upload a profile picture, define your 'why' in your bio, and add other info that will help contacts connect with you and learn more about your business and products. You can also configure notification preferences, watch QuickTips to learn about the app, and more. Learn: Empowering users by providing simple and effective training courses, lessons, quizzes, awards, and more. With videos, images, PDFs, quotes and more built into the lessons, you can learn more than ever and have fun while doing it.

ESS Workforce puts the whole field-service day in the crew's pocket: the week's schedule, the route on a map, the time clock, every visit with its instructions and parts, and the office side (jobs, estimates, orders, inventory, fuel, approvals) in sync with the company's ERP. Built by Garcia Innovations for irrigation, landscaping and other field-service companies. Each company runs its own instance, and your employer issues your account. YOUR DAY AND YOUR WEEK • A schedule of every visit, day by day, as a timeline, a list or a map • Clock in and out with geofence verification, with lunch breaks • Today's visits as pins on the map, with your own position • Swipe through the day's visit cards and jump to the next stop VISITS, STEP BY STEP • Directions, "on my way", start and complete, on one screen • Customer, address and instructions always at hand • Scan the parts you use with the camera • Notes with photos, shown to the customer when you choose • Crew leads close the visit and collect payment in cash or by sending the customer a card link JOBS, ESTIMATES AND ORDERS • Jobs group their visits, with notes and history per customer • Create estimates and orders from the phone • Material requests to the warehouse • Tool requests and assignments INVENTORY, WAREHOUSES AND FUEL • Type or scan a barcode to find any part • Stock by warehouse and by van • Fuel control: fills, cost, miles and tank readings per vehicle, by month ATTENDANCE, LEAVE AND PAY • Monthly attendance summary: on time, late and absent days • Entries, exits and hours worked, day by day, with where each one was recorded • Late check-in and out-of-area requests, approved from the phone with the actual time • Leave applications, leave balance and company holidays • Salary slips, ready to download, and for the office by week and by person • Weekly hours report, in English or Spanish • Expense claims TEAM HUB • Company feed with posts, photos, polls and events • Important announcements show who has read them and remind whoever has not • Posts from the crew can wait for an administrator's approval • Team directory with each person's activity • Push notifications for what needs your attention SIGN IN AND SECURITY • Face ID or fingerprint sign-in • Switch users on a shared phone • Keep your own phone, email and emergency contact up to date • English and Spanish ESS Workforce is the mobile app of the ESS platform, connected to your company's ERP. There is no public sign-up: your company's administrator creates your account. Location is used to verify the work area when you clock in and to show your position and your visits on the map. Something not working? Use Report Issue inside the app.