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Automate the Deactivation of a Project when All Tasks Are Closed

By Kim Albanese | April 10, 2023 | Comments Off on Automate the Deactivation of a Project when All Tasks Are Closed

Ever come across projects that remain active in your OpenAir instance despite all tasks being closed? Don’t have time to audit this as regularly as needed but want to ensure these projects are deactivated so…

Copying OpenAir Dashboards From One User To Others

By Ronn Breaux | April 3, 2023 | Comments Off on Copying OpenAir Dashboards From One User To Others

OpenAir allows you to create multiple OpenAir Dashboards in order to display data in charts for monitoring important data.  Often Dashboards are built by power users where key data is…

Using Auto-Approval Thresholds in OpenAir

By Ali Walsh | March 20, 2023 | Comments Off on Using Auto-Approval Thresholds in OpenAir

A rarely used feature of OpenAir is the auto-approval thresholds. This feature is particularly helpful for organizations that do not have other business applications to provide these controls; or for…

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.

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…

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?

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…

Manually Managing Task Percent Complete

By Richard Curzi | February 27, 2023 | Comments Off on Manually Managing Task Percent Complete

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).…

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

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…

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…

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.…

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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