BidMagic User Group

Purchase Manager Question

Bob — Thur, 02 Sep 2010 01:36:08 GMT

Is there a way to check an entire column in purchase manager or do you have to check each item in a column? If only one at a time, it is very cumbersome. Having the ability to check all in a column on a large sale would be very nice. Thanks for the response.
Bob Ivey

Forum: BidMagic for Residential & Commercial AV Installers

Items by Phase

uberhome — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:38:25 GMT

If I create a package called Phone/Cable plate for instance, I am asked for the phase. In this case, the mud ring goes in at the rough-in stage, but the plate and inserts go in at the trim stage. What stage should I assign the package to?

Also, can I leave the price of the finished package blank and have it roll up the labor and materials associated with the package?

Thanks
Shane

Forum: BidMagic for Residential & Commercial AV Installers

Default Cover Page

ChoiceAudio — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:47:33 GMT

I saved over the default cover page and would like to start over with the default page to design a new one. Where can I download the default cover page?

Forum: BidMagic for Residential & Commercial AV Installers

Features Requested

ChoiceAudio — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:43:08 GMT

Ability to have two closing documents so one could be terms and conditions which almost always is the same and one scope of work which never is the same

Programming Labor Hours with separate default rate.

Ability to have tax or non tax for each labor group independently. Example would be a keypad, non-tax on prewiring it and installing it in the wall, but taxes on the programming.

Forum: New Features Requests

BidMagic Project Management Update Coming Soon!!

richriehl — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:08:29 GMT

2010 is the year that BidMagic is ramping up our Project Management capabilities. For years we have tried to locate a solution for installing dealers to manage everything that happens after the sale.

We started with a simple group calendar interface where you can assign work orders, service calls and meetings. Then we sent over the work orders from the finished proposals, including project breakdowns and the number of hours required for each. The calendar connects to a complete CRM system that is included. This won the EHX award for best sales and installation aid.

Now we are taking this to the next level. We are adding Outlook Exchange to send those calendar events directly to Outlook. Outlook is a great place to manage emails, contacts and calendars. Exchange transforms Outlook into a multiuser system where your whole company can work together.

Events on the calendar will show up immediately in Outlook for PC users. Plus, most smart phones allow their NATIVE calendars, contacts and emails to sync with Outlook.

This means we do not need to create specific software for iphones, blackberries, androids, etc. Outlook talks to all of their built-in functions.

The end result is field techs receive work orders, contacts and calendar appointments on their phones and can clock in and out of the jog remotely.

The office can track results from all techs and jobs, viewing real time progress on work orders.

We have added a state of the art server to provide hosting for all of our users. Checkout our Project Manager page at BidMagic.com and contact sales if you have questions.

Forum: BidMagic for Residential & Commercial AV Installers

Each Items

Hashay — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:50:35 GMT

On the bid can you have it show the each price and the extended by device?

Thanks

Forum: BidMagic for Residential & Commercial AV Installers

Prices

Hashay — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:46:19 GMT

Is there a way on the Customer Bid to combine labor into each line item instead of it being posted by location? Keep up the great job. Love the software.

Forum: BidMagic for Residential & Commercial AV Installers

Template Customization

tmclaughlin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:58:32 GMT

I've followed the video tutorial regarding customization and I want to have the LABEL "Design, Project Management" say "Project Management". I also wanted to change the LABEL "GST Tax" to "Maintenance". I've done everything the tutorial said to do and the "Custom4" template is changed to reflect my changes yet, when I generate a preview the original Custom4 is what appears.

Help

Forum: BidMagic for Security Dealer / Installers

Cover Pages

Bob — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:27:49 GMT

Is there an easy way to use different cover pages with our having to move things around in Word. As a dealer who does home theater, phone systems, and alarm systems, I find that the default cover page would be more practical if there was some kind of drop down box that we could choose different cover pages from. Also using the same approach would be great with the opening and closing documents. If a specific directory is specified for these documents, when you drop down the box, it would be much easier to access these documents.<br>Thanks, Bob Ivey<br>

Forum: BidMagic for Residential & Commercial AV Installers

SharePoint Integration

jaxonraye — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:08:25 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone currently have Bid Magic integrated into a SharePoint environment? I believe this could be useful for document storing, sharing calendars, appointments, projects, as well as reports.

If anyone is not familiar with SharePoint, check out this link that discusses the functionality: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/product/capabilities/Pages/default.aspx

Let me know if anyone is doing this currently.

Thanks,

Justin

Forum: New Features Requests

Windows 7

Sdynamo — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:53:24 GMT

I need to re-install Windows on my file server/workhorse. I was looking to install windows 7 so I can avoid 3 hours of XP updates. Is Bid Magic Win7 compatible?

Forum: BidMagic for Residential & Commercial AV Installers

Buyer Payment Schedules

dschaening — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:12:04 GMT

I am trying to find this feature in v 7.1 and I am having no luck. Please point me in the right direction, thanks!

Forum: BidMagic for Residential & Commercial AV Installers

bouncing emails

jchuchla — Thur, 03 Dec 2009 22:26:30 GMT

I've been trying to contact support with some newbie questions since monday (it's now thursday). Everytime I try to send an email to anyone at bidmagic.com I get an error back a few hours later. Phone calls have also gone unanswered.

It appears that your mailserver is enforcing new mail rules that the rest of the world doesn't yet support. Here is the body of the return email including the error.
Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists:

support@bidmagic.com
A problem occurred during the delivery of this message. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please try resending this message later, or provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator.

The following organization rejected your message: owa1.exchangecarrier.net.

Sent by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Diagnostic information for administrators:

Generating server: exchangecarrier.net

support@bidmagic.com
owa1.exchangecarrier.net #554 5.4.6 Hop count exceeded - possible mail loop ##

Original message headers:

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Forum: BidMagic for Residential & Commercial AV Installers

multiple vendors

chrishall — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:05:00 GMT

would like ability to have multiple vendors for the same item.

Forum: New Features Requests

attach spec / sales sheets

chrishall — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:03:50 GMT

i need the ability to attach spec / sales sheets to the products.

Forum: New Features Requests