Updated Articles

  1. Grid Custom Fields and the Grid Report

    Overview Grid Custom Fields give you a structured way to capture repeatable information on appointments. With the latest enhancements, grids can collect more flexible data and feed that information into a dedicated Grid Report for complia...
  2. What's New in ServiceMinder: August 14, 2026

    Recent updates include new ways to work with maps and routes, expanded Grid Custom Fields and reporting, more flexible recurring services, additional scheduling and payment options, and significant performance improvements for TaskBoards. Appoin...
  3. What's New: Grid Custom Fields and the Grid Report

    Overview Grid Custom Fields give you a structured way to capture repeatable information on appointments. With the latest enhancements, grids can collect more flexible data and feed that information into a dedicated Grid Report for complia...
  4. Custom Fields

    Overview Custom Fields allow your organization or brand to capture additional information that is not included in the standard serviceminder fields. They are useful for storing unique operational details, collecting data required for reporting, or ...
  5. Proposals Settings

    Overview This article outlines key settings that impact every proposal you send to contacts. To control master settings for all proposals, navigate to Control Panel > Proposals .  This article will review: General Se...
  6. Understanding Route Optimization and Fleet Routing

    Overview Route Optimization and Fleet Routing are both add-on routing tools in service minder , and it's easy to mix them up since they live in the same part of the app and share a lot of the same underlying logic. The difference comes do...
  7. Optimizing an Individual Service Agent's Route with Route Optimization

    Overview Route Optimization rearranges appointments already assigned to a Service Agent or team and updates their suggested start times to create a more efficient route with less drive time between stops. It works with one Service Ag...
  8. Contact Settings

    Overview Contact Settings can be found in the Control Panel. This article will review: General Settings Presentation Defaults General Settings Learn more about  Contact Managed By  and  Contact Ow...
  9. Scheduling Settings

    Overview Scheduling configurations will determine the frequency of appointments you are offering, how appointments display on your calendar, whether or not customers can schedule their own appointments in the contact portal and much more. This ...
  10. Maps and GeoZones

    Overview The Maps page is simple at first glance, but its many features allow for strategic planning and execution of route schedules by utilizing the power of Geographic Zones (aka GeoZones). This article will review: Settings and...