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HowTo – Put barcode labels on inventory and scan to add to invoices
Hey! We launched the first draft of the barcode scanning functionality - it works great so far imo. Hope you like it too.. If you need a barcode scanner, this is what we got - it works well and feels good; Here is how it works at a basic level; We generate a...
Changes – tons of stuff for the last 3 weeks!
Wow.. What a blur. We've had a lot of great feature requests for the site and we've been racing to get many of them implemented! Google Calendar Sync! Add address line 2 Add quick-update for ticket status Some IE bug fixes Add multi location support back in! Rebuilt...
Security and Privacy
Hey all - we received a number of inquiries from our great beta users about how we handle security and privacy. We wanted to be ultra clear about it, and are in the process of creating proper documents to state how we feel about the issue. They are long documents, we...
Changes – lots of bug fixes – week of 2012-08-06
Hey all, we just released about 25 new builds in the last week and wanted to give a quick rundown of what was there. Signup form clarification - tried to illustrate what the subdomain is Admin tools for us Signup confirmation page can auto sign you in to your...
HowTo – a deep dive into computer repair shop workflow
This is the workflow that one shop has used for a number of years and so far seems to work really well. It doesn't get in your way, keeps communication high with your customers, and leaves a lot of room for interpretation of many of the steps. Reply in the...
HowTo – Adjust the sales tax for your invoices
Here is a short deep-dive in to how you can adjust sales tax for your invoices. As always, let us know if you need more power - we are open to adding features to help make your business run easier!
Fun arduino project – put a status light in your shop!
One of our beta test repair shops was playing around with arduino and made a status light for their repair shop - check out the video http://drpcfix.com/troys-blog/10-troysblog/199-fun-with-arduino-hooking-up-a-shop-status-light.html
HowTo – Get your basic settings out of the way and get started
Hey there - we really wanted the system to be out of your way, and let you jump right in - so one of the things we had to do was make some assumptions for you when you create your account. We put in some placeholder settings that don't prevent you from using the...
HowTo – How one shop avoids syncing to an accounting platform
A common request is "syncing to quickbooks" - we can come up with a simple way to export a file that quickbooks "offline" will take, but it doesn't help the half of the shops that use quickbooks online, or all the other accounting packages out there. We wanted to...
Changes! Lots of new goodies, bug fixes, and new stuff coming
Hey everyone - thanks to all the people that have been signing up, especially from Europe - you are making us globalize the app a little bit 🙂 Just added; Currency support for many countries, we added some generic support for about 50 locales 7 bug fixes to; Payment...