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ConnectWise PSA | Calculating MSP Costs

Calculating MSP Costs Knowing the Costs of Providing Service To accurately track the profitability of a service agreement, the costs as well as the revenue corresponding to that agreement need to be entered into Manage. Knowing your costs as well as your revenue is critical to making decisions about how to price your service offerings so they are, and can remain, profitable. What are the Costs of a Managed Services Agreement? The costs of an

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ConnectWise PSA | Handling HaaS

How do you HaaS? Hardware as a service (HaaS) is becoming more common with MSPs.  Clients benefit from the reduced upfront capital expenditures and having up to date equipment.  MSPs benefit by establishing consistency and uniformity between client networks, increasing client “stickiness “ and increasing their company’s value with the purchase of depreciable fixed asset. While selling HaaS is more popular there are multiple models for how to sell it.  A true HaaS offering has

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ConnectWise Automate | Dark Mode

Many prefer the Dark Mode when available.  The Automate Control Center Desktop Client actually has Dark Mode functionality built in.  Let’s see how to enable this mode. Before: After: How to Activate Click your profile icon at the top right-hand corner of your screen. Select ‘Preferences’. How to Activate Set theme to ‘Dark’. Save. That is all it takes to implement the Dark Mode.  May the Dark Mode Force be with you.

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ConnectWise Automate | Optimizing your Browse Screen

Technicians spend most of their time at the computers ‘browse’ screen. By default, there is a lot of computer information presented. Some of it we’ll need and some we won’t. Did you know you can modify the columns to meet your needs? Maybe the ‘service version’ is an unnecessary field and is just taking up space? Maybe ‘Last Contact’ is important to you, yet the column is so far to the right that you need

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ConnectWise PSA | End Work Flow Mysteries

Workflow messaging is great, but it can be tricky to determine which specific rule triggered a notification. This usually becomes an issue when you have multiple workflow rules sending out messages every day. In the past, it was really difficult to figure out which workflow rule was responsible for a particular message. However, ConnectWise has recently introduced a couple of new tools to make it easier to troubleshoot and identify which rule generated a given

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ConnectWise PSA | Member Templates

Creating new members in Manage PSA is a process – assigning defaults, granting permissions, and setting restrictions so members have the appropriate access to records within your system. Use Member Templates in ConnectWise PSA to help standardize settings for new members.   Member Templates provide default values that can be applied to new members as they are created. It’s a great tool for speeding up the onboarding process and ensuring consistency in member settings within a

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Enter Member Costs for Accurate Financial Reporting

To take full advantage of ConnectWise reporting for agreement and service margin, as well as administrative overhead costs track the hourly cost for all Members in ConnectWise. The majority of Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Technology Service Providers (TSPs) monitor product margins in ConnectWise by factoring in product price and cost. However, savvy business owners understand that the bulk of their expenses and revenue stem not from product sales, but from services rendered. Utilizing ConnectWise

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Robin Robins 2024 Boot Camp | Booth Winners

Tuesday  Darlene Larsson – DataSHUR Corporation Cameron Poucher – Creative Resources Technology Group, Inc. Chris Sarkisian – Evolution IT Services, Inc. Wednesday Sabrina Sullivan – Net X It Solutions Daniel Walsh – Penn Systems Group Danielle Bradford – DandyIT Marion Gutierrez – 210 IT Thursday Rochelle Ingram – We Define IT Richard Reiffer – Fusion IT, LLC Leo Bletnitsky – Healthy Technology Solutions, LLC  

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Go Shopping in the ConnectWise Marketplace Partner Exchange

Th ConnectWise Marketplace Partner Exchange is a great resource for ConnectWise partners. If you are looking to build something custom in ConnectWise PSA, such as a Report Writer report or a project template, don’t try and re-invent the wheel, check out the ConnectWise Marketplace Partner Exchange first.  The Partner Exchange offers thousands of partner contributed templates for service & project boards, project templates, surveys, html templates, configuration setups, Report Writer reports and more. Another resource

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Automate, Server 2012, and you!

What’s going on? As of June 3rd, on-prem ConnectWise Automate instances installed on Windows Server 2012 R2 will lose the ability to communicate with cloud-hosted PSA servers. We did some digging to determine what functionality is lost until Server 2012 Automate instances have their server OS updated to a modern version. Companies can no longer be imported from PSA to Automate. Contacts will stop synching between the two platforms. Alert ticketing generated by Automate’s monitors

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