Take payments through LakeOps, or run your own billing — both are fine
You do not have to run your money through the software. Two modes, both first-class: a pay button, or the completed-work report and your own way.
· 5 min read
Money
Pricing dock and lift work off your own minutes, getting paid without issuing invoices, sales tax, late fees, and collecting a spring balance.
Late fees without losing the customer
Yes, charge one. But its job is to change behavior, not raise revenue: announce it first, keep it its own line, and waive it once gracefully.
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How dock companies get paid without an invoicing system
You do not need invoice numbers or a QuickBooks sync to collect. You need the job to close, the work shown, and a button to pay.
· 5 min read
Is dock installation taxable? Sales tax on lake work
It depends on your state, and install, removal and repair can each differ. The traps: stacked jurisdictions, and a lake touching two counties.
· 6 min read
Turning callbacks into steady summer repair work
One at a time, July repair calls are a nuisance. A minimum charge, quoting from the property record, and batching by bay make them steady work.
· 5 min read
Collect the spring while the water’s warm
Install season ends with a burst of work and a tail of money. The one-afternoon June pass that closes out spring before summer buries it.
· 5 min read
How much to charge for dock installation and removal
Most shops price a dock install off what the last guy charged. How to build a real number from your own minutes per section, lift and canopy.
· 8 min read
Cards on file and deposits: getting paid without chasing
Deposits narrowly, cards on file broadly. Where each belongs, why a card quietly ends the chase — and why the consent wording is the whole game.
· 6 min read
Rebuild your price list from last season’s minutes
Your measured minutes, times what an hour of boat truly costs, plus the margin you choose. Where per-item, per-section, hourly and flat belong.
· 7 min read
What a dock install actually costs: minutes per piece
You have the fuel receipts and the payroll. The number joining them to the work is minutes per piece — and your crews’ clocks already hold it.
· 6 min read
The operator’s collections guide
Nearly everyone who owes you money is somebody you serve again in May. The ladder: ask, remind, put it in writing, price lateness, then phone.
· 9 min read
Bill the day the boat leaves the dock
Removal money dies between finishing the work and asking to be paid. Close the job at the dock, while the customer can still see the boat.
· 6 min read
Put your own shoreline on the screen
Create the account yourself, import your customer list, drop a few pins, and you’re looking at your own water this afternoon. No sales call, no setup fee, and nothing charged until your first season generates work.
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