Updated Articles

  1. QuickBooks Online Best Practices

    Overview There are not many settings attached to QuickBooks Online; however, we receive many questions about it. It is incredibly important to set up your QBO sync to service minder  in the right way for your business and your accounting. It will...
  2. Channels, Campaigns, and Revenue Forecasting

    Overview A customer's Lead Source is broken into groups called  Channels , then subgroups within each channel called  Campaigns .  Channels are a marketing term that could be similar to "marketing funnel" or "entrance to the brand." It r...
  3. MailDrop

    Overview MailDrop is a great way to make sure all your customer communications are stored in one place. Sure, you've got them in your sent folder, or stored off somewhere in the cloud. With MailDrop, you can now save them right in service minder . ...
  4. Email Delivery

    Overview Email delivery is always a challenge. Mail providers are doing everything they can to stop your email from getting to their clients and both spammers and legitimate email marketers are doing everything they can to get their email deliver...
  5. Brand Level Reports and Downloads

    Overview Brand-level Reports and Downloads can be found within the Dashboard. They each have their own tab at the top of the page. Reports can be viewed and worked with directly in service minder  before downloading, whereas Downloads have a fe...
  6. 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 a...
  7. 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 ...
  8. Managing Users and Service Agents in Organizations

    Overview This article is for Brand Administrators. Actions explained in this article require access to the Dashboard. This article will review: Settings and Navigation Managing Users Managing Service Agents ...
  9. Finance and Surcharge Fees

    Overview Here you may learn how to charge a customer a finance charge and/or credit card surcharge (credit card convenience fee) on an invoice. Before you set up a Credit Card Surcharge in our system, please review your state's surch...
  10. Deploy to Organization

    Overview Deployment refers to the ability for Brand Admins to send out configurable settings from one org to the other. The purpose of this feature is to allow the brand to make decisions about email templates, parts lists, etc., then build and...