JobView FAQ What are the features that come with Job View? Here is a quick ~3 min demo Do I need a...
Enable JobView With Manager SE 9.1 we are bringing a new view to the order screen called job view. See the instructions...
Adding Shop Logo to EST/RO/INV SE Setting Up a Shop Logo for Reports Your Shop Management system (version 6.0 and greater) is able to display your...
Save Your Changes To WIP and Order Screens Click on UserList icon Click on Add to create a User Name [or job function] Click on OK this name becomes...
Creating a Prior Balance For Customer Shop Mgmt Software requires internally generated Invoices for the bulk of accounting reporting. NOTE: You can click on Options at...
Search For Vehicle By VIN # Within the program, pressing F3 (Utilities, Find Customer) provides access to where you can enter a VIN number and search...
Posted Order Report Totals Higher Than Totals On Cash Receipts Report When you post an invoice with a current balance, the invoice will be posted as a Charge and will appear...
Posted Orders ’Grand Total’ Differs From ’Sales Receipts Summary’ Total The “Sales Receipts Summary Report” summarizes the totals of two different reports, the “Cash Receipts Report” and the “Posted Orders...
Catalog Configuration: WorldPAC 1.0 Credentials required User: Password: Technical Support: (800)-648-8991 Medium Thin Client Web based catalog, the WorldPac application must be installed on the...
How To Setup Fax for Estimates, Invoices, Revisions, etc Whatever fax software you install (WinFax, etc) creates an entry in the list of available Windows printers. Go to Setup, Reports/Printers and change...
Reward Your Customer Referrals So you’d like to say thanks to a current customer for sending you a new customer with some token of...
Gain Additional Business with Stored Recommendations Many shops report that they can stay busy when they go back to their customer database and send out Recommendations...
Control or Prevent Charge Sales When I pay/post an invoice, one of the payment types is “Charge”. I have updated all my payment types in...
Swap Personalized Plate To Customer’s Diff Car or Remove Plate How Do I Swap A Customer’s Personalized Plate To Their 2nd Car? (NOTE: Both Vehicles are in History file) Assuming...
Change the Order of Line Items on Order Screen Items transfer to order screen below the highlighted line. If you need to change the order, cut and paste functions allow...
How Do I Add/Edit Payment Types? Question: Is there a way to change the payment type in the “Apply Payments Dialog Box”? We have a need...
Tracking CRM Coupons in Mgmt Not every customer solicited through CRM will present the shop with the coupon(s) sent, but the mailing did it’s job....
Creating Storage Fees The management software includes a Late Fee function but that doesn’t fit this particular need of applying now without the...
Adjusting Columns On WIP / Order Screens NOTE: Click on UserList and be sure there is at least one name that these changes can belong to; if...
Symptoms Text in Word Document The document below includes text for the standard set of Symptoms that are included in the mgmt software installation. It...
Customer Is Non-Tax But Order Is Taxed? This is a common problem that results from retroactively changing the Customer tax status to non-taxable sometime after the initial entry, but...
Create All Customers Mailing Labels Use these steps to generate a master list of all customers for holiday mailing labels: Go to Reports, select the Followup tab; choose ANY template...
Why Don’t Report Numbers Match? Q. Sometimes I notice that report numbers don’t match between different reports. Why is this? A. Typically, the reports include/exclude some...
Fix Inaccurate Avg Part Cost You need to take the item down to ZERO QOH so that it is forced to start calculating Avg Cost...
Change Vehicle Ownership The Change Vehicle Ownership dialog box allows you to easily transfer a Vehicle from one customer to another. The screen...
Cust Followup Calling Report Go to Reports – Follow-up tab, double click any report entry (FL) to get to Follow-up tabs. Change selector and set date range...
Create a User / User List Name Stores Screen Preferences To ensure that any changes you make to the column width(s) or display order on the Work-In-Progress or Order screens...
Personalize Your Letters & Postcards The shop management software includes Followup Letters & Postcards that shop should take advantage of. This means that the template...
Use Part To Handle Fee Or Tax Here’s how to use the part mechanism to handle unusual tax or fee items; Areas highlight below are Category and...
How to Calculate Markup % and Margin Percentages Margin The percentage margin is the percentage of the final selling price that is profit. Markup A markup is what percentage...
SE Using Print Preview Export Option This article explains how to use the Export Report option visible on the print preview with any selected document or...
SE Using Custom Data Export Option The documentation below explains how to export data from the SQL database to Microsoft Excel.
Shop Mgmt Keyboard Shortcuts SE Below a document that displays all of the keyboard shortcuts per screen in the shop management software. It applies to...
Add a New Technician or New Service Writer in SE To add a new technician or service writer to your shop management program, follow these steps. Go to the Configurations menu, select Technician...
How To Add New Referral Type The management software includes a list of Referral types to define how a customer became part of the database. Users...
Florida State Reqs: Estimates & Invoices Florida Shop Management Users: To comply with the “Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Service Division of Consumer Services” all aftermarket shops...
’Un-Sell’ (Reverse) a Revision If you have to “un-sell” a job, just highlight all the line items transferred from the Revision, click on ‘Edit’...
Inventory Worksheets + Update Function Q: Getting ready to do annual inventory; are there reports to use during the actual inventory process? When finished, is...
How To Search Purchase Orders Click on Inventory menu and then select Purchase Orders; use Search on Purchase Orders by Vendor, Part #, date range, etc. For...
Use Part To Handle Fee Or Tax SE Here’s how to use the part mechanism to handle unusual tax or fee items; Fields highlighted are category and account. ...
Flagging a RO As Comeback The Comeback flag is established on the Symptoms screen. It includes a checkbox to establish the linkage between this second...
Creating A Manual Purchase Order Sometimes you need something from a vendor that is not integrated to the shop mgmt software for electronic parts ordering...
Clearing A Late Fee With F5 Batch There may be occasions where it becomes necessary to remove a previously assessed Late Fee from a customer’s balance. This...
Figuring Shop Overhead The shop management software includes a Profit Wizard (F12) to see at a glance how your shop’s profit picture looks...
Shop Management: How to Restore a Local Database Backup The following are instructions on how to restore a local database backup (.bak or .zip files) into the Shop Management program...
Export Data from Manager SE Followup Reports to .CSV format Manager SE: Steps to Filter Your Own Data for Custom Export File Click on the Reports icon to open the report selection...
How to Write Off Bad Debt Question: How would you handle/remove a charge account amount for a person that never intends to pay that you want to write off as...
How to Enter Vendor Invoice # Once in P.O. Worksheet to Show in Each Part Ordered for Warranty Later How to Enter Vendor Invoice # Once in P.O. Worksheet to Show in Each Part Ordered for Warranty Later When...