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Weekly Tip – Tuesday 5/22/12

KyleM — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:15:30 +0000

1) In our latest version of Profit Tools we have added the ability to display a calendar to certain date fields (see screen shot below). In future versions we will continue to add this feature to more date fields. If you have a particular field you would like this feature added to, please email Support@ProfitTools.net. [...]

Weekly Tip – Tuesday 5/15/12

KyleM — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:35:49 +0000

1) Document Imaging Archiving -Did you know that even though each of the images being saved on your server is rather small, over time they will eventually take up a large enough amount of space on your hard drive that they will need to be archived? The archive feature, which is accessed from the Imaging [...]

Weekly Tip – Tuesday 5/8/12

KyleM — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:30:37 +0000

1) To more efficiently provide the level of customer service that you deserve, we would like to ask that you direct all email communication to the appropriate email addresses. For technical support please email support@profittools.net. For EDI support, please email edi-support@profittools.net. For training, please direct the email to your assigned trainer. Or, if you are [...]

Weekly Tip – Tuesday 5/1/12

KyleM — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:47:36 +0000

1) Did you know our Profit Tools Mobile Direct module will not only send the itinerary events to the driver, allow the driver to update equipment information and itinerary events, but it will also allow the Profit Tools user to send email messages to the driver (the outbound message can also be configured to send [...]

Weekly Tip – Tuesday 4/24/12

KyleM — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:27:24 +0000

1) Is warehousing part of your business? Did you know Profit Tools has a Warehouse Interface Module allowing you to interface with Traker Systems an Inventory Management System? New orders from Traker are created in Profit Tools via an EDI process. Profit Tools supports the ability to specify a single shipment template to be used [...]

Weekly Tip – Tuesday 4/10/12

KyleM — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:39:07 +0000

1) Did you know when using the Settlements Module you can use the Amount Owed Search feature to search for driver pay information by a specific container, shipment, chassis, or tractor? You can then print or export this information to a report or an excel spreadsheet. This means you can find all of the driver [...]

Weekly Tip – Tuesday 4/3/12

KyleM — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:58:18 +0000

1) We have been informed that Hamburg Sud is going to contract with IAS to process EDI transactions. To all of our customers that are looking into implementing EDI with Hamburg SUD, Profit Tools is compatible with IAS. We already have NYK and other trading partners that have live EDI implementations with IAS. 2) Intuit [...]

Weekly Tip – Tuesday 3/27/12

KyleM — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:15:59 +0000

Did you know that if you have company owned power units, and you are routing them in the itinerary section of Profit Tools, we can show you how to track the service history of your equipment? A free report titled Tractor Service History is available in the Reports Library. The report is for company owned [...]

Weekly Tip – Tuesday 3/20/12

KyleM — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:52:46 +0000

Did you know with PCMiler and the Profit Tools Fuel Tax module you can produce a report (State Breakdown Report) that will print/export the number of miles driven in each state for each tractor over a period of time. This information can then be exported to a file and imported into PCMiler Fuel Tax. Also, [...]

Weekly Tip – Tuesday 3/13/12

KyleM — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:14:36 +0000

1) Did you know Profit Tools now has the ability to obtain rail billing verification via Track & Trace on export shipments? You can even add a column to your Dynamic Dashboard that will automatically update users when the rail billing is in place. 2) For our LTL customers we have a new feature whereby [...]