Service/Machines Initial Setup Checklist

Review service Product Categories

Open the product categories list view from Administration on the Navigation menu. Expand the non-stock category tree then:

• Check all the product categories you need for service are set up in a way that suits your reporting requirements. For example, you may want a category for 'Service labour' and one for 'travel' or just one for Service with subcategories.

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• Review the sales revenue, cost of goods and stock on hand accounts on all the service categories. 
  If you wish to break up your general ledger to reflect the different service charges you will need to step up the general ledger accounts firstly. 
• Add or change the categories as required
• For the Non-Stock Products for Labour and Travel ensure that you set up the Non-Stock Costing method to “ProductSupplierCost" on the General Tab.

Check you have a product unit standing for technician time

Open the product units list view from Administration on the Navigation menu:

• Check that you have a product unit of 'Hour' that has the 'is time' checkbox ticked and has rounding set and the Quanitty = 1. If you wish to charge the whole hour and not charge for half hours or quarter hours or round up or down, then set the rounding method to None. 

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Setup service territories

Open the territories list view from Administration on the Navigation menu:

• Make sure there is at least one territory set up and that the Is Technician checkbox is ticked

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• Ensure to add the Users/Technicians to the territory

Setup users for technicians

Open the users' list view from Administration on the Navigation menu:

• Check that a user exists for each technician

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• Ensure the technician users have the technician checkbox clicked
  
  

Review Service Order Activity actions

Open the system types list view from Administration>system types>service-order-activity-type

• Check the 'service-order-activity-type' required to support your service calls exist. You need to create the productid first then add one activity for each kind of time you might log on service jobs, such as travel, labour, senior technician labour etc. 

• Make sure the value of each system reference is equal to that productid.
  When service order calls are finalised, service order lines are created from the call activities. But this will not work if the value on the system reference is not equal to the productid of the correct service product

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Review service products

Open the product list view from Inventory on the Navigation menu then search for and find every product that you use for service work. For each product:

• Make sure you assign the correct Non-Stock Product Category being one of the service categories you checked in the step above

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• You need a separate labour product for each labour rate. 
• You do not need a separate labour product for each service order type. You can use service order types such as 'Maintenance' and 'Workshop' to split up your labour reporting without using different labour product codes
• Ensure you have a product for travel and for special labour types like senior technicians etc. if the rates are different

• Delete the product units for each product and set the default sell unit to be a unit that is a unit of time such as hours for the Labour product and Hours for the travel product.

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• Ensure that the Products have the correct 'Type' assigned to them. Example productid = Labour, Type= Labour; Productid = Trav Type = Travel Time and so on.

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• Change the status of any service products you do not need anymore to 'Archived'
• Do not change the product code of any products
• On the Supplier Tab on the product of Travel and Labour, ensure there is a primary supplier. Set the “Cost Price 1” to be the nominal hourly cost.  
  
  

Machine Products:

• Ensure that for every Machine, the product that stands for the Model is on the General Tab within Products. The Manufacture and Model need to be on the Machine Product in order for the Machine Profitability Report to Run when selecting a Product.

  Ensure that if a manufacturer is to be charged for Warranty Work on a machine that the Manufacture cardid is assigned to the product that stands for the Machine. Set up of Manufacturer Warranty on Service Order & Inserting the Service order for Warranty
• Ensure that on Cards, the cardid is ticked for 'Is Customer' and 'Is Manufacturer'. 

  
  

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Review and setup order types

• Order types allow you to group and classify your service orders. They are also used to calculate totals on service reports.
• Open order types in system administration order types. Review the types of orders available and check they suit your requirements. The standard order types such as Warranty and Maintenance may not sufficient for your requirements
• Order types are used on the Service Order itself.

Check the workflow nodes are setup for SRVORD and SRVQUO and SRVWAR transaction types

Review the Standard Set of Standard Notes for Fault Descriptions and Repair Descriptions

• Log onto readysell>administration>standard notes