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Is there a way to do a onetime invoice without creating a new opportunity?

In the process of cleaning up/standardizing takeoffs for properties. The issue is I assumed the Property Search page would allow me to put columns for takeoffs I’m interested in or selecting the three dot menu and “Export to Excel (all fields)” would include the takeoffs.But all it does is show primary takeoff for a property.I know the Opportunity Search page allows putting takeoff columns and exports all takeoffs. Since opportunities can have different takeoffs and we might have more than one opportunity for a property these can be inaccurate and require a lot of manual data cleanup to be able to use.Wondering if I am missing something on Properties to see all takeoffs or going at this the wrong way?

Hello, New here and first post. We are part way through integration and I am concerned we are not going to be ready for our go live date. Can anyone recommend a consultant or service that can assist us  in getting up and running and then provide support on how to maximize things? Thank you! 

Anyone have a trick they are using to bulk down load pictures? We have a property that is wanting us to send them a property for every work ticket which is 1200-2000 pictures a month. They have to be put into the customers system so we cant just send them with the invoices but I am thinking to save them with the invoice might be the quickest way at this point. Does anyone have anything different they are using? 

What’s the best practice for blocking time off on schedules? For example, I have a tech that will be off for three days at the end of the month. Ideally, I’d like to place something on the scheduling board that helps prevent him being scheduled work tickets on those days. 

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Hello, Community!We’d like to develop a more comprehensive yet interactive way to track client details on a personal level--essentially building a custom profile on the client.  We do not want to use a program that sits totally outside and detached from Aspire.  What plug-ins have you used that work well with Aspire and the API?If you have any internal Aspire tips & tricks, I’m all ears for those too!Thanks!

Good morning!  If you’re outside the greater Chicago/Milwaukee area, you use turf/PHC kits, and you’re open to networking, I’d love to chat with you!One of our branches uses kits for organic lawn programs, and we’re attempting to streamline our existing kits for our sales team to easily sell, while still maintaining the ability to track performance per work ticket.If you are open to sharing the kits you use, we’d gladly share our kits we we can both learn what works well for each other.Look forward to connecting!

Please help me vote this idea uphttps://feedback.youraspire.com/ideas/WAP-I-7597The concept is simple - being able to allocate kits -- or -- simply calculated multiple items used based on a single input and usage rate would significant reduce complexity for things like chemical tank mixes.For example; If I can create a “Round 1” kit to be allocated by the gallon, and the items in the kit are consumed on a per-gallon basis, then simply entering the number of gallons used should reverse-calculate the chemicals or items contained within that gallon.This would remove the need to create a fictitious items with a manually calculated cost per gallons outside of Aspire, as well remove the need to do a monthly inventory adjustment to balance inventory items with fictitious tank mix gallons.

Hello all,I’m trying to adjust a price for a kit in Aspire to adjust the margin, but when I type in the new number, a notification pops up that says, “You can only reduce the price by 0%.” It doesn’t let me change the price. It only happens sometimes but happens for things both catalog and one-time items.Has anyone run into this problem before? Do you have any idea how to fix it?Thank you,Emily 

We are in the process of setting up emails to send to our customers to confirm completion of some of our turf services, however it’s not allowing me to send the test email to myself to confirm that the formatting of the email came through how I was anticipating. I have tried to choose several different tickets for the test (all the correct service) and have tried several different email addresses to send it to besides my own, and I always get a red error box that pops up telling me that an error was encountered and to try again. Is this happening to anyone else? 

Hi all,I am currently using data from API for my reporting. I set it up in a way that it insert new data to my databaseHowever, I just noticed that deleted OpportunityNumber are not flagged, meaning I would not know which Opportunity has been deleted from API.Has anyone have the same issue?Thank you

Hello everyone!Has anyone put together a simple way to track which Aspire courses each employee has completed (and which are still outstanding)? I’m imagining a master spreadsheet listing all courses, ideally grouped by role, with an easy way to mark completion by employee.I’m happy to build this, but I wanted to check first if something like it already exists. Also, would anyone else find a template like this useful?

I believe many companies experience end-of-month close challenges due to this control gap.Please take a moment to vote on this idea. Thank you. https://feedback.youraspire.com/ideas/WAP-I-6591 I am writing to request improved system controls around invoice adjustment permissions, specifically for fixed-payment contracts.We have identified a recurring issue where invoice administrators—sometimes with limited experience—are able to issue $0 invoices on fixed-payment contracts in an attempt to override the Invoicing Assistant. While this may appear to resolve short-term workflow challenges, it creates significant downstream issues during month-end close, including billi

Does anyone know how to stop a cancelled work ticket from showing in route scheduling? The ticket is 100% cancelled, but continues to be available for scheduling no matter what I’ve tried. Screenshots are from the route scheduling and from the work ticket search.  

ASPIRE has the ability to add Complete to a Purchase Receipt as the final step to send to accounting.Cannot get a clear answer on how to activate.  Has anyone used this before. 

I am probably just misunderstanding how something works. But, I am wondering on inventory items why can I not update the purchase unit cost after the item has been created? I assume it’s because it will take the most recent purchase unit actual cost from historical purchases. But what if you haven’t purchased one ever and you need to update pricing for the coming year? In this particular case, I am wanting to update a chemical mix cost based on a new formulation.

On our smaller construction work orders, we typically set up billing with a 0% deposit and 100% payment at completion. This approach works well for us in about 95% of cases.We recently had a project that was delayed mid‑job, before reaching completion, and we would like to invoice a portion of the remaining balance (for example, 40%) at this stage.Given that this job is set up as Fixed Price on a Payment Schedule (not Fixed Price Open Billing), is it possible to issue a partial invoice prior to completion?For reference, we do use Fixed Price Open Billing on our larger projects.