🧠 If you are preparing for your first season of Snow in Aspire, these trainer-led recorded sessions will teach you the basics of Aspire through a Snow workflow! ⛄

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For the 2023 year, Aspire hosted trainings to prepare for the snow season. In total, we had 16 classes found below.

In this session, we will discuss basic system settings related to snow. We will also be going over the setup of Services and Items.

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This session will focus specifically on Fixed Payment estimating. We will discuss specific features to Fixed Payments contracts as well as how to handle overage services.

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Per Service Snow Estimating can encompass Per Service or Per Time, and Per Event type contracts. We will be discussing how to set these up successfully.

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T&M Snow billing can happen on a single contract or as part of another type of contract as well. We will discuss how to setup a T&M contract correctly as well as how T&M Services can be added to a Fixed Payment or Per Service contract.

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This session is a Q&A Review related to system setup and all types of estimating.

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This session will break down how to successfully setup Routes whether they are for in-house work or for subs. We will also discuss how to setup sub contacts so they can assign routes to successfully use Crew Mobile or the Sub Portal.

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Scheduling for snow events can be done multiple ways. We will discuss how to let crews or subs pick tickets, how to schedule all tickets for an event at one time, and how to setup scheduling lists to make this as easy as possible.

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Crew Mobile is a great tool for logging time from employees, logging equipment time for billing T&M, and allocating material used. This session will discuss how to use all these features correctly so invoicing can be smooth and efficient.

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Often, subs will enter their time after the snow event. This is possible through the Sub Portal. In this session, we will cover how to set up a sub to be able to log into the portal, how they can enter time, equipment, and materials, and how they can send time over to be approved.

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This is a Q&A Review of Routing, Crew Mobile, and Sub Portal setup and functionality.

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After an event, there is a lot of data to look through and verify before we can successfully invoice! We will discuss how to handle ticket management, time entry, and reports related to snow events.

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Purchasing material to inventory and paying subs can be a lot to keep track of. We will review best practices for handling these expenses and how to get Sub Expenses from As Needed tickets to generate information in Purchasing assistant to quickly get their invoices costed to the correct tickets.

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This is a review and Q&A of Production Reporting and Purchasing.

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Adding Event Notes to Invoicing, and creating those Invoices in bulk, is a must with today's snow invoicing. In this session, we will show how to create an event with details and have those details populate on Per Service and T&M Invoicing. We will also discuss some invoicing best practices when it comes to snow!

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After we have plowed and shoveled the snow, paid the subs, and invoiced the client, its time to see how we did! We will discuss some basic reporting to review our contracts as well as how to adjust earned revenue where it is necessary.

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This session is to for review and Q&A on Invoicing and Financial Reporting functionality.

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For questions related to Snow Basics, we will have open office hours to get your questions answered! If the calendar is empty, that means it is no longer offered for rest of season.