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Capture OpenAir Invoice Short URL And Take The “Send” Function To A Whole New Level.

By Jim Schein | March 14, 2023 | Comments Off on Capture OpenAir Invoice Short URL And Take The “Send” Function To A Whole New Level.
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OpenAir provides the ability to send a link to an invoice directly to the client through the “Send” page on the invoice itself. The “Send” link is highlighted in the…

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How Can I View a Retainer Balance in OpenAir?

By Alexis Jackson | March 6, 2023 | Comments Off on How Can I View a Retainer Balance in OpenAir?
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Retainers serve as an advanced payment of the customer agreement.  A retainer can be applied to the Invoice associated with the customer and deducted from the invoice’s total. On an…

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Manually Managing Task Percent Complete

By Richard Curzi | February 27, 2023 | Comments Off on Manually Managing Task Percent Complete
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The Percent Complete of a Task can be very handy when used to trigger billing events (Fixed fee on % complete billing rule) and revenue recognition (% Complete recognition rule).…

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Send Invoices From A Group Email In OpenAir

By Jonathan Sitterley | February 20, 2023 | Comments Off on Send Invoices From A Group Email In OpenAir
Send invoices from a group email

When sending an invoice from OpenAir, the sender that appears in the email will default to the user who sends the invoice, however this can be changed so that the…

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Converting Hours to Days for Billing in OpenAir

By Sibyl Parsons | February 13, 2023 | Comments Off on Converting Hours to Days for Billing in OpenAir

Using OpenAir billing rules, you can configure the rules to convert hours recorded on timesheets into days in order to invoice a customer by number of days. Within a time…

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Creating Dependent Dropdowns in OpenAir

By Robert Giordano | February 6, 2023 | Comments Off on Creating Dependent Dropdowns in OpenAir

OpenAir has the ability to link two custom dropdowns such that the values in the child dropdown will be dependent on the selection of the value in the parent dropdown.…

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When to Use Balanced Incurred vs Forecast instead of Incurred vs. Forecast

By Bianca Marinca | January 30, 2023 | Comments Off on When to Use Balanced Incurred vs Forecast instead of Incurred vs. Forecast

Balanced Incurred vs Forecast rule uses Internal Pivot Date when recognizing revenues. If an organization uses Accounting Dates this is a great option. For timesheets, the rule will recognize revenue…

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Allowing Users to Specify Report Filter Sets in OpenAir

By James Owen | January 23, 2023 | Comments Off on Allowing Users to Specify Report Filter Sets in OpenAir

If your company is like most, the OpenAir Reports module is used by many users in different parts of the organization to get and share information about your Projects, Users,…

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Why Approval Routing Cannot be Deleted in OpenAir – And How to Resolve

By Jimmy Morales | January 9, 2023 | Comments Off on Why Approval Routing Cannot be Deleted in OpenAir – And How to Resolve

If the ‘Delete’ button on an Approval Routing does not appear, even though it has no transactions routed through it, it can be due to the Approval Process being set…

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Trick for Using Blank Date Field in Form Permission Rule Logic

By Alexandra Goodrich | December 19, 2022 | Comments Off on Trick for Using Blank Date Field in Form Permission Rule Logic

OpenAir’s form permission rules are a great way to customize any forms—Project Properties, Timesheets, Expense Reports, etc. You can create your own logic to show/hide fields, make fields read-only or…

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