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,…
Knowledge is power when it comes to keeping an eye on all the units you’re servicing, maintaining, and installing. Or maybe you want to see every credential of a member of staff. You might be interested to see what happened on the last 5 site visits. magic5 allows you to see any and…
We think the answer to that question is yes, absolutely. And if you know what you need that isn't already there, we can make magic5 do it for you. More magic5 users are coming on board with our Sage link, using foreground and background two-way conversion. This means that information added…
We’ve been working on lots of extra ways to make filling in job sheets easier for you – the whole of magic5 software is aimed at minimising the amount of time you spend on paperwork, and maximising professionalism and communication between you and your client. On our journeys throughout the years,…
Adding images to the device gives extra help to operatives Did you know that an image can be added to the form ? The user doesn't need to select anything - the image will just appear. This is brilliant for reminders on how to do a task, such as measurement points or…
To 'X' or not to 'X', that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler testing 'text' with resultValueX To check against the description of an item in a list Or, with resultValue, check just the id And, if it changes, still obtain the required result? Actually, there is no need for drama ... ... resultValueX tests…
Two questions I've been asked this week are: how do I attach documents to my jobs, and how do I reactivate or copy a completed job? Both are everyday functions in many magic5 workplaces, and will be documented in the next release of the help text but here is a sneaky…
