Production Schedule Overview

Mothernode can display jobs in Production using standard calendar month, week, and day formats. Each format offers a different perspective with greater detail. The hierarchy is as follows: ORDERS –> JOBS –> WORK CENTERS Orders The default landing view for the calendar is the month view for orders. The list on […]

Using Job Cards

Mothernode Job cards are used to schedule and manage various jobs within an order. Each line item gets its own Job Card for scheduling and managing. For practical purposes, you can combine line items that will go through the same workflow, using the Groupings option. See grouping items for production […]

Submitting line items for production

Mothernode includes an optional production module that allows for sales orders to enter into a fabrication process before being shipped and invoiced. Even with the production modules activated, not all orders or line items have to go through the production processes. If your workflow requires your products to be fabricated […]

Production Orders Overview

Production Orders Production Orders (or Orders in Production) are essentially Sales Orders that have been submitted to the shop for building, construction, assembly, or fabrication. Production Orders are optional and used to track shop orders and can include some or all line items from within the sales order. Orders in […]

Ready for Production

Ready for Production Mothernode’s Ready for Production Module (RFP) is a  listing screen of all orders that include line items that need to be submitted to the shop for production.  This process is initiated by the user in the (sales) Order. Once the order (all or some of its line […]

Grouping Items for Production

Mothernode gives shop managers the ability to create jobs for production that allow the grouping of line items that use parallel workflows. For example, an order with 3 line items that each include a quantity of 10 can be combined into a single job, containing all 30 items if they […]

Time Zones

Mothernode CRM lets companies and users set their timezones within the application. Regional time settings are used when timestamping information throughout the application to communicate to all users when certain events occurred.  For example, date and time stamps are used when records are created and modified by users or events […]

Production Dashboard Work Centers

Mothernode’s Production Dash (List view) is one of many ways Shop Managers can stay on task with everything they have currently being worked on in all departments along with their status. Shop managers and production personnel can easily filter on the jobs and orders they want to see and get […]

Adding Images to Transaction Line Items

Mothernode CRM gives users the ability to add images to their transactions, giving their customers a visual representation of goods and services offered. Using images is optional and doesn’t have to be used in every instance. Line item images are available in Quotes, Orders, Purchase Orders, and Works Orders. Images […]

QuickBooks Sales Tax (QuickBooks Desktop)

QuickBooks Sales Tax (QuickBooks Desktop) When importing into QuickBooks, you will need to manually enter sales tax percentages into your Sales Tax line items. The way QuickBooks is designed, sales tax line items must manually be assigned a percentage and a payee. When exporting from Mothernode to QuickBooks Desktop, we’ve […]