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  • February 05, 2020

    Equipment Register Process Guide published

    BusinessCraft provides a wide range of functionality to address the requirements of handling the costing and invoicing of equipment including:

    This document focuses on use of the Equipment Register to handle the tracking, costing and invoicing of Equipment when used on a job that usually also includes the supply of labour and/or materials.

    The BusinessCraft Assets Module caters for both depreciable assets (which can also be considered equipment) and non-depreciable equipment. Equipment is identified in the Asset Register by setting the Equipment Reg field to Y, assigning an Equipment Code and Equipment Type.


    Related Document: Equipment Register

  • January 31, 2020

    Sale Group Modules now available in Contracts

    The purpose of Sale Group Modules is to address the problem of creating and maintaining multiple Sale Groups that comprise full workflows but are very similar in content as well as catering for the ability to swap defined segments of workflows in a streamlined manner. 

    Instead of creating those Sales Groups with a lengthy list of Events and Event Dependencies, BusinessCraft provides the option to use Modules which are Sale Groups in all aspects other than the Module flag for those Sale Groups has been set to Y and they comprise clearly identified segments of the overall workflow. This enables those Sale Groups to be selected as forming a part of one or more Sale Groups.

    For example, it might be considered too time consuming to create and maintain a House Build DA Sale Group and a House Build CDC Sale Group which are exactly the same other than for a small section of the workflow.  For example, some contracts may require Planning and others do not or some require additional Drawings and others will use existing drawings or the Sales process may vary depending on whether it is using CDC or DA. 

    Related Document: Contract Tables

  • January 17, 2020

    BusinessCraft Tradie Product Guide published

    The Tradie Application enables customers to provide controlled mobile device access to their BusinessCraft systems.

    When installed and with authorised access, third parties such as subcontractors can use the Tradie App to :

    • View/search for available jobs

    • View contact details for those jobs

    • Find Job Addresses and get directions using integration to Maps app

    • Make phone calls using integration to Phone app

    • Send emails using integration to default Email app

    • View Job Scope of Works and link new or existing photos to Job Scope

    • View and add Notes to jobs

    • Take photos and link to Jobs using integration to Camera app

    • Link existing Photos to Jobs using integration to Photos app


  • October 11, 2019

    Contract Refunds Product Guide updated

    The Contract Refunds Product guide has been rewritten to explain configuration, scenarios and EFT processing of contract Refunds in more detail.


  • September 13, 2019

    Contract Processing Guide published

    This guide provides details of the functionality contained in the Maintain and Transactions menus within the Contracts Module.

    For an overall process flow please read the Residential Building Tutorial.



  • August 14, 2019

    Banking Console Product Guide published

    The Banking Console is used to manage and reconcile Cashbook Module bank accounts including adding bank transactions from bank statements when not already in the Cashbook.

    Bank Statement transactions can be populated within the Banking Console either from the Cashbook Module or by importing a .QIF file. 

    In the near future, an option will become available to populate bank transactions automatically from overnight bank feeds.  


  • July 18, 2019

    Service Requests Product Guide published

    The BusinessCraft Contracts Module provides the option to createService Requests which enable the recording and tracking of service and maintenance requirements in relation to the Contract to which the Service Request is linked.

     

    Prior to using Service Requests for the first time, it is recommended that the sections of this document related to Service Request Tables and Service Request Setup and configuration are reviewed to ensure Service Requests are setup suitably.

    Related Document: Service Requests

  • June 25, 2019

    BC Timesheets Product Guide updated

    The BC Timesheets Product Guide has been completely updated including a new section explaining how to implement Employee/Manager security for BusinessCraft Timesheets.


  • June 20, 2019

    BC Go Installation Guide published

    BusinessCraft offers BC Go for use in the field for certain Contracts Module activities. BC Go is designed to sync data between the BusinessCraft server and remote devices. The application is designed primarily for use by Building Supervisors or other field staff in the construction industry that are required to work offline due to communication services not reliably available where they normally work. As a connection becomes available the data recorded offline can be synced back to the server and updated information available from the server is synced back to the remote device.

    BC Go was previously referred to as the Onsite Console and/or the Offline Construction Manager.

    Related Document: BC Go for Windows

  • June 12, 2019

    Accounts Payable Product Guides

    Product Guides for the Accounts Payable Module have been completed with Guides for Tables and Setup, Processing, Enquiries and Reports, and Taxable Payments Reporting.

    In addition, Process Guides are available for Invoice Event Based Holds and Supplier Back Charges.