Do your onsite operatives still pop into the office to pick up paperwork? Are jobs still written on pre-printed forms? Do they pop back at the end of the day or week to drop off completed jobsheets? Have you ever considered the fuel costs of those extra journeys? Sometimes it's not…
Imagine going back to supermarket checkouts where every price is entered manually! In a few years time, we will probably be saying the same about other repetitive data entry tasks. A few years ago estate agents were putting QR codes on For Sale signs and some adverts are doing the same…
Looking forward to enjoying Christmas safely and making a happy, healthy and wise start to 2022. This year has been an exciting one for magic5 with the development of an iOS version of the app. Its been interesting to learn how Apple sends out apps in a different way to Android…
More and more magic5 users are taking advantage of our Sage connector. Orders and invoices are managed using Sage's accounting expertise while work and reports are handled by magic5. For example, an online order feeds into Sage, creating a pick list and managing the invoicing process. The driver receives a list of…
We are very excited to be testing magic5 on iOS devices It looks amazing on our iPads and iPhones but we need to make sure the existing functionality works properly with iOS-style buttons and navigation. No matter how good it looks, we need to maintain the powerful flexibility of magic5 on…
wishing you the best possible time that circumstances allow Happy New Year for 2021 exciting magic5 news to be…
Hi. I hope you are well and coping in these difficult times. This is how we are all starting emails at the moment. The hope is genuine - that neither you nor your family have suffered from Covid-19, that you have an adequate income for the foreseeable future, and that you…
magic5 have been working with ClicData to display results collected on-site in a graphical form. Give your customers and managers a login so you don't have to prepare your periodic reports. Data is usually based on released reports so you can sanity-check the figures first if you like. Detailed data can be gathered…
We are pleased to have got another tyre fitting company up and running this month. Using ideas developed a few years ago with an existing customer, we got them working on the same day that they phoned us so that the on-call operative could log jobs during the night. We spoke…
magic5 has lots of ways of viewing jobs or visits.There are planners, schedulers and lists ... some are included off-the-shelf, some are easily set up, and some are tailored to meet a specific need. Some are date-ordered lists, some are desk-diary-style, some show attachments or returned forms. Some show completed jobs,…
