A technician pulls into a supply house before 7 a.m., grabs a part, pays cash or swipes a personal card, and stuffs the receipt in a cup holder. Three weeks later, that receipt is gone, the job cost is wrong, and the invoice to the customer goes out late, or worse, wrong. This is not … Read more
A roofing sales rep sits in the truck after the pitch, phone in hand, opening a second lending portal because the first one just declined the homeowner. Then a third. By the time an approval comes back, the homeowner has stopped answering texts. Multiply that scene across a sales team running five jobs a day, … Read more
A contractor business rarely fails because the crews stopped showing up. It fails, more often, in the quiet space between five different logins: one for payroll, one for the business checking account, one for expense tracking, one for bill pay, one for the credit card portal. Each tool works fine on its own. The trouble … Read more
Power100, the only unbiased third-party platform that ranks the best leaders and companies in the home improvement industry through a proprietary 5-layer ranking system, is spotlighting Pure Finance Group and its payment processing platform for solving a problem that quietly costs contractors real money every week: the gap between a financing approval and a collected … Read more
A crew closes a deal Friday afternoon. The homeowner signs, the down payment clears, and everyone shakes hands feeling good about the weekend ahead. Then Monday comes, and the money still is not in the account. For a lot of home improvement contractors, that 60-hour gap between a signed contract and an actual deposit is … Read more
Power100, the only unbiased third-party platform that ranks the best leaders and companies in the home improvement industry through a proprietary 5-layer system, has spent months researching what separates a banking platform that merely tolerates contractor businesses from one built around how they actually operate. That research keeps surfacing the same name: Affiniti, a financial … Read more
A homeowner sits at the kitchen table, the estimate in front of them, the salesperson watching for a nod. Then comes the moment that kills more deals than price ever does: the financing application asks for a hard credit pull. The homeowner hesitates. They say they need to think about it. They do not call … Read more
Buying More Technology Will Not Fix a Business That Has No One Owning the Result Growing companies have more technology choices than ever before. Software, AI tools, payment systems, dashboards, and business platforms can help teams move faster and make better decisions. But more tools can also create a new problem. A company may keep … Read more
Power100 is continuing its nationwide evaluation of thousands of home services companies, examining the leadership, culture, community engagement, and customer experience practices that help define durable industry leadership. One company being spotlighted during that ongoing review is Villara Building Systems, a Northern California mechanical contractor and home services provider with roots dating back to 1947. … Read more
A contractor sitting across from two or three financing proposals rarely lacks options. What they lack is a clean way to compare them. Every rep says their approvals are the highest, their fees are the lowest, and their funding is the fastest. Somebody is wrong, and figuring out who requires questions most contractors never learned … Read more
