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  1. Top 10 Questions: Emailing Contacts

    Overview By default, all templates that service minder builds on your behalf will include the Unsubscribe button. This is mandatory for all email communications to adhere to legal requirements. 1. Does the “Do Not Email” checkbox, include both...
  2. Pricing Bands

    Overview Pricing Bands are used to set up more dynamic pricing elements for Services and Parts . The list of bands are indexed by the quantity to determine the effective price for a given line. In both cases, the quantity entered for the lin...
  3. Inventory Tracking

    Overview When you want to make sure your trucks all have at least 100 widgets, service minder can help with Inventory Tracking. service minder does not  provide detailed inventory tracking (as with your accounting system - FIFO, LIFO.) The poi...
  4. Service Settings: Scheduling Mode

    Overview Services are the top level element that controls scheduling, pricing, and invoicing. To find these settings you can go to Control Panel > Services > Edit the service. Or you can Add a new service.  Scheduling Mode Located in the...
  5. About Dispatch

    Overview Dispatch is our "call center" module, meant for internal call centers. It can be used for globally searching contacts within the brand as well as scheduling appointments and more. There is also a  Dispatch Queue for following up on propo...
  6. Clocking In & Out

    Overview There are 3 primary methods to track user's time several different ways to support different pay models.  Traditional clock-in/clock-out times First appointment start time to last appointment finish time Total appointment dur...
  7. End of Month/Week Reporting

    Overview The End of Month/Week report is designed to calculate royalties and fees. This report gives the franchisor an aggregated view of the brand, but it also eliminates the "surprise" on a franchisee's side of what royalties are due. A brand...
  8. Create an Organization

    Overview Within service minder , we refer to the Organization as an account under the Brand . An organization is operated by the franchisee and the Brand is operated by the franchisor. Another way to think of it is each org is a location. One ...
  9. Proposal Reporting

    Overview This page discusses built-in reporting specifically for proposals. If these reports do not include the information for strategic initiatives for specific KPIs, we do offer ways of exporting data outside of service minder  to data analysis ...
  10. Common QuickBooks Questions

    FAQs Why are some customer payments sitting in undeposited funds? This just means they are sitting in a "holding" account in QBO. When those are invoiced the deposit should move over to the invoices as payments and won't be in the undeposited ...