Proof wins
Show them paperwork, not a discount
Same-day reports, tracked safety checks, one tidy invoice — that's what wins the whole account, because it makes their compliance problem go away.
Problems / win-commercial-accounts
How to win the accounts that control dozens of jobs
One property manager or committee controls dozens of jobs. You don't win them with a cheaper price — you win them by taking a worry off their desk.
5 industries share this problem · prices checked 27 July 2026 · no affiliate links
What to know
Per door
Price per property, not per job
One rate and one invoice format keeps a big account easy to run — for you and for them.
Calendar
Strata committees switch once a year
Committees change managers around AGM season. That's when the pitch lands — put it in the diary.
How to implement this today
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Pick three property managers, commercial sites or committees worth pitching.
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Build a one-page proof pack from your software: sample report, compliance tracking, response times.
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Price it per door or per property — one rate, one invoice format.
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Send it with a standing offer, and put strata pitches in the diary for AGM season.
The fixes, industry by industry
4 of 6 fixes are already in software you might pay for.
Pick your industry to see what applies to you — or browse the lot. Prices as checked in each source guide on 27 July 2026.
Already in software you might pay for · 4
Pest Control≈5 commercial sites worth pitching/quarter
Offer commercial sites a set inspection schedule
Cafés, food manufacturers and strata blocks need documented pest programs on fixed cycles for their own audits. A per-site proposal — schedule, reports filed, evidence exportable — wins the contract from the operator selling single visits.
ServiceM8 Proposals$0 — included (Growing plan)
Electrical≈3 agencies worth pitching
Offer property managers a compliance package
An agent with eighty doors wants one electrician who tracks safety checks and smoke alarm interconnection across the whole rent roll, not eighty separate bookings. A per-property proposal with the dates managed for them wins the roll, not the job.
ServiceM8 Proposals$0 — included (Growing plan)
Property Managementevery listing pitch
Win new managements by showing compliance is handled
Owners are nervous about safety-check obligations — in Victoria the two-yearly electrical and gas checks extend to every rental agreement from October 2026. A pitch that shows the per-property compliance calendar, dates managed and records kept, wins the door from the agency that shrugs.
PropertyMe reminders + a one-page pitch$0 — included
Strata & Owners CorporationAGM season, every year
Pitch new schemes at AGM season, with your reports as proof
Committees change managers in a window each year, and they choose on service, not price. A one-page pitch showing your compliance calendar, arrears performance and reporting cadence beats a fee discount from an agency that can't demonstrate either.
Platform reports + a one-page pitch$0 — included
Bought or built separately · 2
Cleaning≈3 agencies worth pitching
Pitch property managers for all their properties at once
One agent controls a stream of vacates. A standing arrangement — same-day reports, guaranteed re-cleans, one invoice format — beats chasing individual tenants for the same jobs one at a time.
A letter and a per-property rate$0
Pest Control≈3 agencies worth pitching
Pitch property managers for all their properties at once
One property manager controls dozens of doors needing end-of-lease flea treatments and routine pest work. A standing arrangement with clean per-property reporting beats forty individual homeowners for the same revenue.
A letter and a per-door rate$0
When not to solve this with software
No source guide names a tool to avoid here — the boundary is in the pitch itself: the two trades' guides both price per door and warn implicitly against winning on discount, because an account won on price is lost on price. The software's role ends at generating the proof.
The source guides
Every fix above comes from a Comora AI guide, researched and price-checked by hand (27 July 2026). The full playbook for each industry — the thirty-day order of work, the complete stack, the official setup links — lives on its guide:
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