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[quote user="Rolf"]Any suggestions on how to fix this?[/quote] Any Money or Decimal field in Method will always store as 2 decimal places regardless.  The decimal limitation you see on the field and in the table is for display purposes only.  In my screenshot you'll notice I have 4 decimal fields each set to 0, 1, 2 and 3 ...

I want to assign a project manager for each job creation. Is there a way to create a dropdown of Project Managers in the New Customer and Edit Customer screen even though some might not be users of Method yet?

I would like to rename the drop downs in job status to make it clearer for our employees. For example the current dropdown are Awarded, Inprogress, Completed, NotAwarded. I want to rename them as: Awarded/Approved Inprogress/JobStarted Completed/Closed Not Awarded/Closed If I can also create a box that allows the job started date to be ...

Only the new customer job entries will have the Method assigned job #. I need the current job numbers that we created, for all our past and current jobs, to remain assigned, as is,and not change. We want to start the Method job# creation as of the day customization is complete, and use it only for the new customers from here on. All previous info ...

[quote user="Rolf"]Any suggestions on how to fix this?[/quote] I'm just reviewing the money field type with 0 decimal places and will post back if there's an issue (or workaround). ~C

I have a field of type Money which I would like to restrict to whole $ amounts only, and have set the formatting option to 0 decimal places.  If I type in a whole number value, it works fine.  If, however,  I type in a value with a decimal point, then regardless of the actual decimal values, or how many decimal places I type in, ...

dottie, This is actually better handled through custom fields in QuickBooks.  Open any customer for editing the click into the Additional Info tab - there's section on the right hand side that says custom fields.  Click the define fields button and you'll get a popup to enter more information.  Call the field whatever you ...

Will both choices also reflect in Quickbooks through Method. For example if I sign into quickbooks only, will the job#'s that Method assigned to the new jobs also reflect in Quickbooks. and if I select the simpler customization (option 1) is there a way to include the prior job Number,s that we created for jobs already opened, in this field ...

[quote user="dottie"]Is there a way to customize, so that Method generates it's own particular job# when a new job is entered under a customer?[/quote] If you don't care what number they are given then you can simply use a field like RecordID from the customer table since this field will never duplicate.   If you want ...

[quote user="AutumnW"]Is it possible to process checks/e-checks through Method or only credit/bank cards?[/quote] This is possible if you have the correct payment gateway setup.  Your "process with payment gateway when saving" box will change to reflect the type of payment you're trying to process ...