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   <title>Ideas to Improve your Business : Free Spectra add ons</title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://support.studioplussoftware.com/member_profile.asp?PF=22982" rel="nofollow">darkroomdevil</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Free Spectra add ons<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> Apr/18/2012 at 10:15pm<br /><br />Thanks Mark!&nbsp; That is a huge compliment coming from you!<br><br>The biggest thing for me and the reason i wrote the program is being able to search all the phone number fields at once ...<br><br>I have toyed with some changes to the client search.&nbsp; I haven't tested the theory but I am suspicious that there is a limit (probably 255 characters) that can be searched - the way the search works is I string all of the fields searched together in one long string with 3 spaces between each field - that is why I didn't take a chance and include clients notes in the search.&nbsp; Could add in that kind of flexibility for the user to select the searched fields down the road...<br><br>I totally agree that someone is going to have an idea, I will be sure to pass on any feedback I get!<br><br>I am excited to share my gift certificate program, it is close to release :)<br><br>Thanks,<br>Roger<br><br><span style="font-size:10px"><br /><br />Edited by darkroomdevil - Apr/18/2012 at 10:17pm</span>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://support.studioplussoftware.com/member_profile.asp?PF=22675" rel="nofollow">Mark Jeske</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Free Spectra add ons<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> Apr/18/2012 at 12:22pm<br /><br />Roger,<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The site looks great.&nbsp;You really covered all of the bases.&nbsp;I'm glad you specified that it was your baby and not ours.&nbsp; I think I'm going to use your client search as that is one of the enhancements on my personal list.&nbsp; I haven't pushed it much because I thought it was just how I used our data and I wasn't sure how much our customers would need it for family members.&nbsp; In this day of everyone having a personal cell phone and many modes of contact (SMS, Facebook, etc), it's become more important to be able to search it all no matter what piece you have.&nbsp; Please let us know about any feedback you get.&nbsp; I like your search interface, but knowing our customers, someone will have a suggestion we hadn't thought of.&nbsp; </div>]]>
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   <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://support.studioplussoftware.com/member_profile.asp?PF=22982" rel="nofollow">darkroomdevil</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Free Spectra add ons<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> Apr/15/2012 at 10:12pm<br /><br />Making it official :)<br><br>Free Microsoft Access add ons for Spectra (tested with Spectra Professional) at<br><br><a href="http://eleakis.com/spaccess" target="_blank">eleakis.com/spaccess</a><br><br>I have used my regular blog, but I wanted to separate the Spectra / access stuff (photo clients don't need to read about Access) ... so a new place for it and more organized :)<br><br>Feel free to visit, and if you have a request for an add on don't be shy.&nbsp; If I think the idea is useful for our studio I will do it no charge, if not for a modest fee.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Roger<br>]]>
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   <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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   <title>User Conference 2012 : Organization session List</title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://support.studioplussoftware.com/member_profile.asp?PF=23458" rel="nofollow">Photo9r</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Organization session List<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> Feb/21/2012 at 1:14pm<br /><br /><table width="99%"><tr><td class="BBquote"><strong><em>Originally posted by Photo9r</strong></em><br /><br />Hank, <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>There are a variety of reasons why your students may be showing up twice.&nbsp; First of all these reports are all based on Organization and Grad year.&nbsp; If you have a student who comes in for multiple sessions for their Grad images, you would need to use the "Advanced" session option for their additional sessions.&nbsp; This way they will only show up once.&nbsp; </DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Regarding previous sessions that show up that are not Grad sessions.&nbsp; Do you use the session type functionality within the software?&nbsp; If you set up different session types and give these session&nbsp;style associations such as "Organization", "Social Event" or "Neither".&nbsp; This will allow all the organization information to populate within the correct session.&nbsp; This will help distinguish between a Senior session, Family session or any other type of session.&nbsp; </DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>If this is confusing, don't hesitate to give me a call.&nbsp; I believe you have the list that we all filled out during the conference.</DIV></td></tr></table> ]]>
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   <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://support.studioplussoftware.com/member_profile.asp?PF=23458" rel="nofollow">Photo9r</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Organization session List<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> Feb/21/2012 at 1:11pm<br /><br />Hank,<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>There are a variety of reasons why your students may be showing up twice.&nbsp; First of all these reports are all based on Organization and Grad year.&nbsp; If you have a student who comes in for multiple sessions for their Grad images, you would need to use the "Advanced" session option for their additional sessions.&nbsp; This way they will only show up once.&nbsp; </DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Regarding previous sessions that show up that are not Grad sessions.&nbsp; Do you use the session type functionality within the software?&nbsp; If you set up different session types and give these session&nbsp;style associations such as "Organization", "Social Event" or "Neither".&nbsp; This will allow all the organization information to populate within the correct session.&nbsp; This will help distinguish between a Senior session, Family session or any other type of session.&nbsp; </DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>If this is confusing, don't hesitate to give me a call.&nbsp; I believe you have the list that we all filled out during the conference.</DIV>]]>
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   <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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   <title>Ideas to Improve your Business : Customer Deposits GL Account</title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://support.studioplussoftware.com/member_profile.asp?PF=22982" rel="nofollow">darkroomdevil</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Customer Deposits GL Account<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> Feb/16/2012 at 9:11am<br /><br />I wrote a Microsoft Access program for for balancing to Customer Deposits.&nbsp; It was a way for me to sort out how customer deposits worked (also, we handle gift certificates a little differently than SP suggests, so I wanted to make double sure I wasn't making any mistakes in how we have things set up).&nbsp; <br><br>I wrote it for public use as a way to make sure it was polished enough for anyone in our studio to use, but I can see the possibility that this is one of those niche problems that there might be no interest in ... ;)&nbsp; <br><br>If anyone is interested email me at roger@eleakis.com and I will email you the Access file - it is in Access 2000 format so any version, Access 2000 or newer will run it.<br><br>Thanks<br>]]>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://support.studioplussoftware.com/member_profile.asp?PF=22982" rel="nofollow">darkroomdevil</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Customer Deposits GL Account<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> Feb/16/2012 at 12:34am<br /><br />This is for those that post to accounting software ... <br><br>I was year end balancing for taxes and attempted to check the Customer Deposits balance, and found that it was not an easy task!&nbsp; I did figure it out and found a couple of errors, and also that I had originally come up with the wrong starting balance from our switch over from our old system.&nbsp; If I had known what I know now it would have been easy ... <br><br>I had thought the Customer Deposits account represented the deposits we had received, not that simple.&nbsp; So here is what I now know, all spelled out ... :)<br><br>The only things that effect the Customer Deposits balance are&nbsp; ...<br>- Payments post to increase Customer Deposits<br>- Invoices post to decrease Customer Deposits<br><br>The SP Customer Deposit Reconciliation Report ...&nbsp; This report states 'reconcile with your accounting software ... for Cash Basis accounting methods'.&nbsp; What SP means by 'cash basis' is that it will balance if all posted invoices were paid in full (no receivables). <br><br>Instead of the Customer Deposits account being the outstanding deposits it is really the following ...<br>Open Deposits, which are those payments that have been posted that are not connected to a posted invoice.&nbsp; Less the unpaid balance on all posted invoices.<br><br>SP has no way to look into the past to see the receivable balance on posted invoices&nbsp; (within the program - I did it with MS Access), but you can see what they are now.&nbsp; So, create a filter to show invoices that have been posted and have an open balance that d&#140;s not equal zero.&nbsp; Go to the invoice list screen, apply the filter you created to the list, make sure the Open Balance field/column is in the grid and click on the Show Totals button to get the total Open Balance.<br><br>Then run the Customer Deposits Reconciliation Report - take that total and then subtract the Open Balance total on posted invoices.&nbsp; That is the real and accurate amount that the Customer Deposits balance should be in your accounting software.<br><br>Examples:&nbsp; Clients pay you $1000.&nbsp; $600 of which is attached to an Invoice that has posted and has a total of $800, so a balance due of $200.&nbsp; So for each way of figuring the balance ...<br>$1000 in payments minus $800 in posted invoice equals = $200<br>or<br>$400 in Open Deposits ($1000 minus $600) minus $200 in posted invoice's receivables = $200<br><br>Note - The Customer Deposits Reconciliation Report has As Of Date option - because of the above entering a past date d&#140;s absolutely no good if you ever post invoices that have a balance due!<br><br>Take care<br>~Roger<br><br><span style="font-size:10px"><br /><br />Edited by darkroomdevil - Feb/16/2012 at 12:38am</span>]]>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://support.studioplussoftware.com/member_profile.asp?PF=23460" rel="nofollow">Hank Lamb</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Organization session List<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> Feb/09/2012 at 7:32am<br /><br />Good Morning,<br>Hope someone can help with this.&nbsp; I print Organization Session&nbsp; List for the schools I work with to give me and my schools an idea of where we stand with the seniors. If a senior has been in for two sessions, their name shows up twice on the list. I even have a senior who was in the computer prior to being a senior, and their previous sessions &nbsp; (non senior related) show up on this report even tho those sessions don't have an organization or year graduating field. This is more an inconvenience than a problem.<br><br>I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing this, and if not maybe you could inform me as to how you are handling their record.<br><br>Thanks for your help.<br>]]>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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   <title>User Conference 2012 : Introduction</title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://support.studioplussoftware.com/member_profile.asp?PF=22681" rel="nofollow">Matt Hunt</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Introduction<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> Jan/23/2012 at 2:54pm<br /><br />Welcome to the StudioPlus User Conference 2012 Forum, where attendees (and others) can continue the great discussions, exchange of ideas, and relationships online.<DIV></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>]]>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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   <title>Ideas to Improve your Business : Gift Cards - Gift Certificates Light Bulb</title>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Author:</strong> <a href="http://support.studioplussoftware.com/member_profile.asp?PF=22982" rel="nofollow">darkroomdevil</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Gift Cards - Gift Certificates Light Bulb<br /><strong>Posted:</strong> Jan/07/2012 at 7:51am<br /><br />also, because we post a few entries a year to Quickbooks directly for stuff that happens that d&#140;s not come from a client transactions we use our quickbooks reports to figure our income for taxes. &nbsp; This is off the cuff as I don't have the formula in front of me, but since we report on a cash basis our quickbooks income formula for the year looks something like ...<br><br>Profit for the year<br>minus Customer Deposits beginning balance<br>plus Customer Deposits ending balance<br>minus purchased GC Liability beginning balance<br>plus purchased GC Liability endng balance<br>equals income for the year<br><br>Having the purchased GC liability account be correct makes this possible :-)<br>]]>
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