How to Add Customer Equipment
Add New Equipment Item in one of 2 ways:
- Manually
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- Customer text menu > Equipment
- Access
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- Customer record > Equipment tab
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- from the Equipment List click
New
- accept or select Customer
- enter a unique Unit No or Asset Tag
- fill in Service Info Details as desired
- Customize Labels in Company Settings > Equipment
- from the Equipment List click
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- type the label Text you prefer to see Note: Any Label without Text, will not show up in the Equipment information
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- enter Territory (may be auto-filled with the Customer’s Province / State, settings permitted - Company Settings > Equipment > Populate Territory field with customer province / state)
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- Asset Tag identifier code of choice - in this case, it represents the Serial Number (Asset Tag or Unit No must be present)
- Make / Model entered here will be remembered and added to the drop-down selection
- Year of the Equipment item
- Serial No of the Equipment item
- the next 5 fields can be labelled and used as desired
- Reading
- establish whether the Reading will be tracking
Steps or
Hours
- Current Reading gets entered each time a new Service Order for this Equipment item is entered
- option to have Spire prompt you to enter the reading when you save a Service Order - established in Company Settings > Equipment > Options > Prompt for Reading
- establish whether the Reading will be tracking
- Purchase Date loads from the Customer Invoice - or you can enter manually
- enter any Service Info Notes
2. Add New Equipment Item from Inside a Sales Work Order
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- Sales module >
- Sales module >
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- select Customer
- click on the Service Info tab
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- click on the Asset Tag
or Unit No
Browse button for the Equipment List
- click
Add
- enter the new Asset Tag or Unit No
- enter all information as described above
Save and Close
- continue to complete the Customer’s Work Order
- click on the Asset Tag
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- History tab displays all completed Service Orders for this Equipment item
Refresh - to load any Service Invoices that may have been entered since last refresh and that may not be displaying on this list
Service History List Filters / Search / Customization - see Equipment List Customization
- Service History Context Menu right-click line(s) in the list to display
Export Service History details in Excel or CSV format (see Equipment Export)
Edit Service Invoice selected (User Settings permitting) of non-financial information:
- Communication tab - see Service Manager - Customer Equipment Communication
- User Defined tab
- The User Defined Fields (UDF) allows you to add unlimited information fields, for use in list Filters, Excel exports, and for setting into forms and reports
- see User Defined Fields
Edit Equipment Item
- select the Equipment Item you wish to edit from your list
- click
Edit - or - double click the Equipment Item line(s) selected
- make necessary changes (you can also change the Customer No)
Save or
Save Close
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Delete Equipment Item (User Settings permitting)
- select the Equipment Item(s) from list
- click
Delete