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Purpose 🧠
Indirect properties, services, and opportunities are used to record hours for employees that won’t be direct costed to a job.
Typically, this is used with crew members for non-job related work, such as internal training, or for hourly office administration that would be clocking in and out through Aspire's Mobile application.
In other words, they are used for your company's internal processes and time.
Workflow of the Overall Process
Step 1: Create Indirect Properties (This article)
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Step 3: Create Indirect Opportunities
📌 Note: Because the Internal Property field is required to set up a Branch in Administration, you must set up an indirect property for each branch.
Creating an Indirect Property
An indirect property should be created in the property list for each company branch. Once created, this indirect property will be set on the branch record.
To create the indirect property, first go to the Properties module in the blue side menu.
Click New Property at the top right and a new property record will appear.
For the Property Name field, enter Indirect as well as the Branch Name. For example, Indirect - Chesterfield.
Keep the Branch field as Main. You will change this after creating your new branch record.
Next, enter the address that will be the physical location of the branch.
Click Save in the upper right and now it's time to create the branch record in Administration.
Creating the New Branch
Now that you have created your property, this next section will focus on adding the indirect property in the Internal Property field of the branch record.
📑 For more information on other fields within the Branch record, review our article Adding a New Branch in Aspire!
Navigate to your Profile Icon ➡️ Administration ➡️ Organization ➡️ Branches.
Click New at the top right to create a new branch record.
Click the internal property dropdown and then click the indirect property you created earlier.
When all known fields are filled out, click Save at the top right.
Adding the Created Branch into the Indirect Property
Return to your indirect property by clicking the Properties module.
Search for your indirect property in the Property Search list then click into your property.
Once you return to the indirect property record, click the three dot menu and select Edit Property.
From the Branch dropdown menu, click the branch you just created.
Click Save. You now have your indirect property associated with the branch you created. Repeat this process for any additional branches needed!
📌 Note: Indirect Properties are used for indirect services only and not for shop maintenance work or other services/opportunities!
If you're in implementation, the next step later in your onboarding will be to review and create indirect services. Click the links below to move to the next article!
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