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  1. Managing Proposals: Accepting, Printing, and Scheduling

    Overview This article explains how to manage proposals in ServiceMinder, including sending proposals to customers, accepting them internally or externally, viewing and printing proposals, and scheduling work once a proposal is accepted....
  2. Change Orders

    Overview Once a proposal is accepted, it becomes locked and cannot be edited. If the customer wishes to make changes, you will need to create a change order. A change order acts like a proposal but is attached to the original proposal and labeled...
  3. Proposal Options

    Overview Proposal Options  gives you the ability to group detail lines together to give the contact options they can select. Detail Lines are grouped together with the same Option Name. As you add additional lines, you can start typing an option...
  4. Inventory Tracking

    Overview If you need to make sure your trucks always carry at least "100 widgets" at all times, ServiceMinder’s Inventory Tracking can help. While it doesn’t provide detailed accounting-style tracking (such as FIFO or LIFO), its purpose is to let...
  5. About Service Settings

    Overview Services are the core of service minder  scheduling and workflow. Every appointment, proposal and invoice will have a Service associated with it. The name you give a service is what will show up when you're scheduling, for example, or ...
  6. Marketing and Reputation Management Integrations

    Birdeye Collect reviews, convert leads, run surveys, text customers - all in one place. As soon as an appointment is completed or a customer is invoiced, we'll automatically send their info over to Birdeye. They'll take everything from there. W...
  7. Drip Triggers

    Overview service minder  Drips allows you to hook into all sorts of events in real time. Drips is the heart of service minder automation and integration capabilities. You can build sophisticated automations and integrations. If you really want t...
  8. Route Optimization and Fleet Routing

    Overview Route Optimization and Fleet Routing are both add-on services. If you have not purchased them as part of your service minder  subscription, then you will not be able to use these features. You can purchase them by going to Marketpl...
  9. API Payload Examples

    Lead Capture - Add/Update Contacts Endpoint:  https://serviceminder.io/api/contacts/addupdate Example payload: { "Matches": [{ "Name": "Testing SM", "Phone": "785-555-5555", "Zip": "12345", "Email": "te...
  10. Top 10 Questions: Scheduling

    1. Is there a way to cancel the start of an appointment if you accidentally hit start? In the app there's an "Unstart" option, if you go to the appointment. You can also go to the appt in the web view, click Edit, and scroll down to the bottom...