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Hi Garrett, Where are you attempting to view / modify the data from? Can you post a screenshot of the error? If you have trouble including a screenshot in your reply, feel free to send it to me in an email. --Audisho

Was given the account from a consultant who had it.  If there's an answer as to where to find it in the admin area, perhaps that would help someone else, but this is resolved for me.

Hello, I don't know what my client's "customer account" is -- and neither does the client!  I'm assuming this must be some sort of unique ID.  Is it found somewhere within the admin interface?  If so, please advise.   Thanks.

Hi When I setup Method and Quickbooks for the new year, I imported my old orders from my previous CRM system as Sales Orders in method. We were having issues with importing Invoices without using a paid tool and from our point of view the sales orders gave us the visibility of previous business we needed.  Whilst these hadn't synced with ...

Started a new Method account for a new client - copying some screens from another account - having issues related to custom fields that I have never had in years of using Method... I can add a custom field "EyeColor" for example (text, 100 chars) on the Customer table.  However, when I try to modify or view the data, ...

Hi MM, You’re certainly free to create items in Method and the ability is available via our stock screens. You can find this by navigating to QuickBooks > Lists > Items. You will however, need to sync to QuickBooks for various other purposes. One example is that QuickBooks handles the application of payments. Payments are not applied ...

Hi furrywombat, Unfortunately, this goes beyond the scope of what you can accomplish via customization. There’s no way for a Method screen to send info to an external web page or receive data back from it. --Audisho

Hi Trish, You need to match the correct contact using the Entity field on the Contacts table. This is a dropdown of the FullName field from the Customer table. I did mention this in one of my previous replies. Please be sure to read my instructions carefully, as mistakes in customization can easily lead to data corruption. --Audisho

Hello Audisho, This is working, kind of. I am able to push the data from a custom field "altphone2" from my customer record to the custom field "altphone2" in my primary contact record. The problem is this is applying to every primary contact of every customer. What parameters must I set to apply this change only to the ...

Hi Trish, The primary contact will have a value of “Contact” in the SpecialType field. Secondary contacts will have a value of “AltContact” and Method-only contacts will have a blank value. I hope this helps. --Audisho