The administrative shop settings tab gives collision shop management the ability to generate a number of different settings for their users, for security, and for other features they can customize to their shops.
Administration Settings
The shop administration settings form is where management fills out general information about their collision shop. This includes name, address, important emails for management, how often sick and vacation time is renewed, default tax rate, and more. Users will want to keep this form consistently updated as changes arise.
Users
The users tab is a clear list of all of the current users a collision shop may have in the program. You can view their name, access level, customized home page, and session timeout. Those with high enough access levels have the capability to add or delete any users, and there is no additional charge per user.
Labor Categories
This tab lists all of the labor types within your shop setting. This feature allows users to enable/disable, categorize, and name labor types. Each labor type can be given a rate, tax percentage, cost, and closing minimums for your business. Settings for one shop can also be cloned to other shops.
Labor Teams
Labor teams is a tab where users can view different teams throughout the collision shop. For example the paint department may be considered a team, and when breaking down the team into members you can see the different rates paid as their wage.
Sales Goals
This tab is where users can edit their sales goal from month to month. If the collision shop did extremely well one month and beat the sales goal dramatically, administration can come into these settings and change the future sales goal to keep challenging their staff.
Holidays
Keeping track of what days off the shop has as a whole can be beneficial, and with this feature it is straightforward. Employees may not know which holidays their collision shop is closed for, and knowing this information earlier can give the staff time to plan with their families.
Job Scheduler
The job scheduler settings is where administration can go in and edit what work load that collision shop location can handle. Users can input lots of information such as minimum hours a technician is required to work per day, how many deliveries can be scheduled per day, or a maximum for jobs scheduled depending on their size.
PDF Email Lists
The PDF email list in the administration settings has the ability to create automated emails for specific departments. Synergy allows users to create an email for statements, invoices, re con, receipts, and purchase orders. For example, when a user goes into a repair order and the customer wants an emailed receipt, that can easily be completed with this feature. In that case the user can go directly into the receipt tab of the RO and then the email statement tab. From there the program will automatically fill in the customers email, then send the already created automated email.
