Archive for the ‘Setup’ Category

The next release of P1Wired is right around the corner, and with the new release you’ll get these added benefits, plus more. You can now pre-set the length of your appointments, so if your senior session is typically 15 minutes, you set the length to 15 and it will automatically create the appointment for the allotted time. You can, of course, change it on any given appointment.

You are now able to add negative line items to P1Wired, so if you wish to discount an order or apply a gift card, you can!

In Setup / Products, you can select to view all items, or only active items, making managing your price list even easier. Further, if a price is marked as inactive, you will no longer see it when you’re adding items to orders.

We have added a couple of new buttons from the “More” menu: Schedule and Orders. Schedule will send out emails that were automatically created via workflow, and the Orders button will allow you to quickly look up orders based on a number of different things, from here you can also quickly update the order, whether it’s a delivery date, marking workflow as complete, or taking a payment.

We have also made a change to the dashboard, providing an “at a glance” look at orders that have an outstanding balance. Afraid your staff may see this information? Use Security – General / Roles to limit what staff can see and do.

We also noticed that not everyone uses order dates on orders, and those clients were being missed in Marketing. We have added the flexibility of marketing to clients who have placed an order, with or without an order date.

We’ve also increased the amount of info available from the calendar, both monthly and weekly, so when you roll over an appointment, you can see the type of appointment that’s scheduled, the client, and the start and end times; quickly providing all the important information you need.

We have simplified check entry and adding the chart of accounts the check should be allocated too. Simply type in the first letter of the chart of accounts you want, and it will auto-fill for you.

All these enhancements will be available in your studio’s site by September 15, 2010.

P1Wired just added a new feature to the Category and SubCategory drop-downs on the Add\Edit Customer window.  P1Wired created this feature to simplify the set up associated with new customer data. Currently in P1Wired, when you want to add new customer codes, you go to the setup option, find the tab you are looking for and add your new codes.  We realized this may be too many steps in a photographer’s workflow.

Simple and Easy — with this new feature, just click on the Category combobox, the first value will be [Add New].  Go ahead and select [Add New] and up pops the Add\Edit Category window.  Just add the new code and press the save button, your code gets added and applied to the customer you are adding.  

This new feature should be a big time saver and allow the photographer to add a new code on the fly. This was a great suggestion from one of our users and we will be adding this functionality to all the combo boxes in our next release — scheduled for July 2010.

P1Wired released 15 new features in our studio management software on May 15th. This post describes two more of the features included in the new version of P1Wired.

P1Wired has multiple tabs on the customer form to allow you to store all the great data you receive from your customers. To provide a simple and easy way to review any new data in a tab, P1Wired has added highlight hinting. If there is information added in a tab, it will show up as a different color in the customer form. There isn’t the need to click through the tabs in the customer form because the color highlighting will let you know if there is new customer information — it will be a real time saver.

P1Wired also added some new validation features to the studio management software. The validation features will assist the photographer with the data entry in the software program and insure a better level of quality control. This will also be a big time saver for the photographer.

When you first sign into P1Wired photography studio management software you will notice that there is sample data. This sample data is resident in P1Wired to provide you the opportunity to test out the functionality and features with real data. The sample data will allow you to simulate the experience you will have with the data from your own business or studio. Once you are done with this experience let us know and we will clear out the data so that you can start putting in your information.

1. Click here
2. Enter your information
3. Select “Tech Support” from the drop down menu
4. Enter “Sample Data” in the subject line and “Please delete the sample data” in the message box

Our Tech Support will address your request in a timely fashion. After the data has been removed you are ready to begin setting up your photography business in P1Wired.