Well, it’s been a while since we have sent out a newsletter, so it’s about \ntime. We have many new features we’ve added to Digital Wrench, and are planning \nmany more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, if you have version 5.1 or earlier, you should really get an upgrade, \nespecially if you’re on a subscription. The codes that we send out for \nsubscriptions will soon end if you have 5.1 or earlier. We show that you have \nversion **FUM:U5**. Please call or email us if this is not correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We will be happy to help you upgrade, especially if you’re on a network and \ndo not know how… just give us a call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a web page documenting the upgrades to Digital Wrench by clicking \nFile, Check for new updates. Here is where you can click on the new versions and \nsee what was added. To update, click on the ‘Get Newest Update to Digital \nWrench’ button. Make sure you know what you’re doing if you’re on a local area \nnetwork sharing computers. It’s important all computers are on the same version. \nAgain, call if you have any doubts or questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, lately we’ve added some more marketing features that allow you to send \nbulk custom emails to your customers. The built in reminder feature now has HTML \nto make the letters really stand out. While you can use it for automatic \nreminder creation, you can now select and query customers by work \norders\/invoices or vehicles. The Letter Editor only allows you to select \ncustomers by a customer query, so this is an advancement. You can still use the \nletter editor to create email lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We just talked a customer that uses Digital Wrench for his marine repair \nshop. He sent out a newsletter using the Letter Editor and got 42 new \nappointments. Last winter he did the same thing and had the best Winter \never. So, it looks like taking a little time to send a newsletter actually \nworked. (Yes, we need to learn this lesson as well!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the long term things we are working on is to create a labor guide from \nyour previous labor. This will be done using the components that are ‘hooked up’ \nto the vehicles. We’ve had parts linked to the components for quite a while, and \nwe just added labor. The idea is to use your past work orders to create a master \nvehicle list along with labor that you’ve done on those vehicles. That way \nyou’ll be able to use your own history as a guide. The more you do, the more \ndata will be created that you can use. The only caveat, you’ll need to \noriginally pick the labor items from the labor list. And you’ll need the current \nversion of the software as the labor was just added to components in version \n5.3.04. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, when sending an invoice as a PDF attachment in an email, you can \ncustomize the email. You can use HTML or just plain text, and you can tell the \nprogram to automatically use a particular email you’ve selected in the company \nsetup. You can always select another email to use. It uses mail merge so you can \nput in tokens for the vehicle, the invoice information, and of course customer \ninfo. This makes a very professional email that gets sent with your invoice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have created a message board for your use. You’ll need to sign up to use \nit. Nobody is on it yet, so it will be boring at first, but hopefully folks will \nbegin to use it and share information about how you or they use Digital \nWrench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Click here for Forum<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Click here for Update \nPage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n We’d like to thank all of our customers for their feedback. This is what \nmakes Digital Wrench a functional program with the right stuff. Please feel free \nto make suggestions in the Digital Wrench Forum above. If you see a suggestion \nand you would like it as well, please reply to that suggestion so we can see how \nmany people want a certain feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our company VMT Software is going well because of you and all of our other \ncustomers. We appreciate that. If you would like to write a review and haven’t \ndone so, please click on our review link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remember, if there is something you need in the program, it might already be \nthere. So give us a call and ask. If it’s not there, we just might add it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, it’s been a while since we have sent out a newsletter, so it’s about time. We have many new features we’ve added to Digital Wrench, and are planning many more. First, if you have version 5.1 or earlier, you should really get an upgrade, especially if you’re on a subscription. The codes that we … Continue reading “February 2019 Newsletter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/repairordersoftware.com\/repairordersoftwareblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/repairordersoftware.com\/repairordersoftwareblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/repairordersoftware.com\/repairordersoftwareblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/repairordersoftware.com\/repairordersoftwareblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/repairordersoftware.com\/repairordersoftwareblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/repairordersoftware.com\/repairordersoftwareblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/repairordersoftware.com\/repairordersoftwareblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/repairordersoftware.com\/repairordersoftwareblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/repairordersoftware.com\/repairordersoftwareblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/repairordersoftware.com\/repairordersoftwareblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}