Category Examples

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Inspections

Insurance

Listing

Loss Type

Management Gains

Maintenance Alert for Work Orders

Other Category Suggestions

Regular Service Tracking

Sales Tax

Work Order-Add notice to Problem Description

 

How to PDF document #294

 

Sales Tax

To generate a recurring transfer of a percentage of income received for a period.

 

Setup, Categories, New

Category Name – Chandler

Category Type – General

Comments – None

Owner/Property/Unit Profile

Category – Chandler

Qualifier – Owner’s Tax ID

Comments – Owner name and address

 

When Recurring Journal Entries, Tax Collections are run, restricted to this category, an ASCII file with the transfer transaction data will be generated.

 

Listing

One of the sets of amenities used for marketing purposes when a property is available to rent.

Setup, Categories, New

Category Name – Stove

Section – Kitchen

Category Type – Listing

Style – Label

Alert Type - Workorder

Sort Position – 4

Comments – None

Unit Profile

Category – Stove

Qualifier – Gas

Comments – GE Model G23, 4 burner, convection oven, self-cleaning. Bray and Scarf warranty.

Effective – 4/1/2005

Expires – 3/31/2006

 

The category information will show in the Listing folder of the Unit Profile and pop up when a work order for the unit is entered.

 

Maintenance Alert for Work orders

Setup, Categories, New

Category Name – Home Warranty

Category Type – Maintenance

Alert Type - Workorder

Reminder Type – Expires

Category is a label

Unit Profile

Category – Home Warranty

Qualifier – Company Name

Comment – any particulars

Effective – Start Date

Expires – End Date

 

Alert will display for work orders and create a reminder on the Expires date.

 

Work orders - add a notice to Problem Description

Setup, Categories, New

Category Name – Built prior to 1978

Category Type – Maintenance

Alert Type - Workorder

Category is a label

Enter the notice into the Comment field. Mark the "Comment is a template for new categories" checkbox.

Unit Profile

Category – select Built prior to 1978

 

Alert will display when you create a work order. Click on Copy to Clipboard button. Text of Qualifier and Comment field in profile will copy into the Problem Description field. Clicking Comment to Clipboard will copy in the information from the comment field in the profile and from the comment entered in Setup, Categories.

 

Loss Type

Setup, Categories, New

Name – Loss Type

Section – Reason for Loss

Category Type – Listing

Reminder Type – Effective

Sort position – 1

Category is a note

Unit Profile

Category – Loss Type

Qualifier – Reason for Loss (sold, owner move-in, Fired, Change Management)

Comment – any details

Effective – Date of occurance

Reports

Reports, Tickler Reports

Select date range

Unmark all checkboxes except Category Reminders

Limit to Category – Loss Type

 

 

Management - Gains

Setup, Categories, New

Name – Gains

Section – Reason for Gain

Category Type – Listing

Reminder Type – Effective

Sort position – 1

Category is a note

Unit Profile

Category – Loss Type

Qualifier – Reason for Gain (Craigs List, Rentals.com, Client referral, Newspaper ad, competitor referral, walk-in, Internet website, Yellow pages, Sales referral)

Comment – any details

Effective – Date of occurance

Reports

Reports, Tickler Reports

Select date range

Unmark all checkboxes except Category Reminders

Limit to Category – Gains

 

 

Inspections

 

1. Monthly inspections

Setup, Categories, New

Category==Inspection:January (one for each month)

Category Type==Maintenance

Alert Type==Work Order

Reminder Type==Effective

Category is a Label

Unit Profile

Category==Inspection:January

Qualifier==Inspectors Name (optional)

Comment==Inspection notes (optional)

Effective==6 months, or whatever the schedule is (optional)

 

When entering new tenant, put in 2 categories, one for 6 months from now, one for a year.  The Alert means that when a work order is entered you can see if an inspection is due soon.

 

 

2. Semi-annual inspections – January + July

Setup, Categories, New

Category==Inspection-Semi-annual-January*

Category Type==Inspection

Reminder Type==Effective

Category is a Label

Unit Profile

Category==Inspection-Semi-annual-January

Qualifier==Inspectors Name (optional)

Comment==Inspection notes (optional)

Effective==Next Scheduled Date (optional)

 

Entry will display on Event Reminders based on the Effective Date. An inspection list report can be generated by limiting to that category. A Tickler Report can be run based on the Effective Date and limited to the category.

 

*The category name should reflect the schedule and the start month whenever the schedule is other than monthly.

 

Name

Used for

Inspection-Semi-annual-Jan

Inspections scheduled for Jan+July

Inspection-Semi-annual-April

Inspections scheduled for April+Oct

Inspection-Quarterly-Feb

Inspections scheduled for Feb,May,Aug,Nov

 

 

Property Insurance

 

Setup, Categories, New

Name – Insurance

Reminder Type – Expires

Sort position – 1

Category is a Label

Unit Profile or Property Profile

Category – Insurance

Qualifier – Insurance Company

Comment – any details - type and amount of coverage and the contact information

Expires – insurance expiration date

Reports

Reports, Tickler Reports

Select date range

Unmark all checkboxes except Category Reminders

Limit to Category – Insurance

 

 

Tracking Regular Services

Regular services such as furnace and gutter cleaning can be tracked using categories.

 

Setup, Categories, New

Name – Gutter Cleaning

Reminder Type – Effective or Expires

Unit Profile

Category – Gutter Cleaning

Qualifier – Vendor

Effective Date - last time work was performed

Expires Data - next time work should be performed

Comment – any details - and a running commentary of work performed

Reports

Reports, Tickler Reports

Select date range

Unmark all checkboxes except Category Reminders

Limit to Category – Gutter Cleaning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Category Suggestions

Directions in Unit Profile

Pet description in Tenant Profile

Insurance information in Tenant Profile

Reasons for loss in Unit Profile

Agent of Record in Unit Profile

NSF Alert in Tenant Profile

Year built in Unit Profile