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  <span class="mg-subject">Concluding Overview</span>
  <div class="mg-intro"><p>Review the full connected workflow and use a practical checklist to keep assets, work, contractors, customers, and finances under control.</p></div>
  <p>The Perfect Asset &amp; Maintenance Management System connects the operational and financial stages of maintenance, giving each job a traceable history from the first report to final payment.</p>
      <h3>The complete connected process</h3>
      <ol class="mg-flow">
        <li><strong>Customers</strong> identify the client receiving the maintenance service.</li>
        <li><strong>Facilities</strong> identify the site, building, branch, or property where work occurs.</li>
        <li><strong>Assets</strong> identify the equipment being inspected, serviced, or repaired.</li>
        <li><strong>Requests and schedules</strong> organise reactive faults and preventive work.</li>
        <li><strong>Images, files, comments, assignments, and statuses</strong> preserve evidence and progress.</li>
        <li><strong>Contractors and quotations</strong> support external pricing, communication, approval, and completion.</li>
        <li><strong>Invoices and payments</strong> connect services, products, expenses, receipts, and balances to the job.</li>
        <li><strong>Portals</strong> let customers and contractors participate using information made available to them.</li>
        <li><strong>Inventory and reports</strong> support preparation, cost control, and continuous improvement.</li>
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      <h3>Recommended operating checklist</h3>
      <ul class="mg-checks mg-checklist-box">
        <li>Confirm the customer, facility, and asset before logging a request.</li>
        <li>Use specific descriptions and attach clear evidence.</li>
        <li>Keep assignments, comments, priorities, and statuses current.</li>
        <li>Review scheduled work and required parts in advance.</li>
        <li>Check contractor contact details before requesting quotations.</li>
        <li>Preview email and SMS requests before sending.</li>
        <li>Compare scope, items, discount, tax, and total before approval.</li>
        <li>Confirm the invoice mode and bill items before saving.</li>
        <li>Record every payment against the correct invoice and monitor balances.</li>
        <li>Use reports to identify overdue work, repeated failures, cost trends, and improvement opportunities.</li>
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        <h3>One organised place for the full maintenance history</h3>
        <p>Whether you maintain one facility or many client locations, the system helps protect assets, reduce missed work, control costs, improve communication, and provide a transparent service. Every important action remains connected and easier to follow.</p>
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  <span class="mg-subject">Viewing Reports and Charts</span>
  <div class="mg-intro"><p>Filter operational and financial reports, compare trends, identify repeated problems, and turn maintenance records into better planning decisions.</p></div>
  <p>Reports and charts turn the records created during daily work into useful operational and financial information.</p>
      <h3>Open and filter a report</h3>
      <ol class="mg-steps">
        <li>Open <strong>Reports</strong> from the main navigation.</li>
        <li>Choose the report or chart you want to review.</li>
        <li>Set the relevant date range.</li>
        <li>Use available filters to focus on a customer, facility, asset, status, or financial category.</li>
        <li>Review the results and adjust the filters when you need a different comparison.</li>
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      <h3>Information you can review</h3>
      <p>Available reports may cover maintenance activity, income, expenses, sales, purchases, work status, and other records held by the system. Charts help compare periods and reveal changes that are difficult to see in individual jobs.</p>
      <div class="mg-grid">
        <div class="mg-card"><strong>Repeated faults</strong><span>Find assets or facilities generating frequent maintenance requests.</span></div>
        <div class="mg-card"><strong>Outstanding work</strong><span>Identify pending, overdue, or incomplete requests requiring attention.</span></div>
        <div class="mg-card"><strong>Financial trends</strong><span>Compare maintenance income, contractor expenses, sales, and unpaid balances.</span></div>
        <div class="mg-card"><strong>Planning demand</strong><span>Recognise busy periods and prepare labour, contractors, and inventory.</span></div>
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      <h3>Turn findings into action</h3>
      <ul class="mg-checks">
        <li>Increase preventive maintenance for assets with repeated breakdowns.</li>
        <li>Review replacement where repair costs continue to rise.</li>
        <li>Follow up unpaid invoices and investigate unusual contractor costs.</li>
        <li>Adjust stock levels for parts used frequently.</li>
        <li>Review response and completion processes when outstanding work grows.</li>
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      <div class="mg-note"><strong>Report quality depends on record quality:</strong> Accurate customers, assets, statuses, invoice modes, payments, and dates produce more reliable charts and decisions.</div>
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  <span class="mg-subject">Managing Inventory</span>
  <div class="mg-intro"><p>Track parts, materials, stock movement, suppliers, storage locations, reorder needs, and products added to maintenance invoices.</p></div>
  <p>Inventory covers the parts, materials, consumables, and products used to complete maintenance work. Examples include filters, cables, fittings, cleaning materials, pumps, replacement parts, lubricants, and safety equipment.</p>
      <h3>Add an inventory item</h3>
      <ol class="mg-steps">
        <li>Open <strong>Inventory</strong> from the main navigation.</li>
        <li>Add the item name and a clear description or identifying code.</li>
        <li>Enter the current quantity, cost, selling price, supplier, and storage location.</li>
        <li>Add an image and attach supporting product files where useful.</li>
        <li>Save the item and confirm it can be found through inventory search.</li>
      </ol>
      <h3>Keep quantities accurate</h3>
      <p>Update stock when products are purchased, used, returned, transferred, or adjusted. Record movements promptly so staff do not plan a job around parts that are no longer available.</p>
      <h3>Use products on an invoice</h3>
      <p>On the invoice's Bill tab, change the item selector from <strong>Services</strong> to <strong>Products</strong>. Search for the required inventory item and select it to add the part or material to the customer bill.</p>
      <h3>Prepare for maintenance work</h3>
      <ul class="mg-checks">
        <li>Review upcoming scheduled work and reserve commonly required parts.</li>
        <li>Use stock alerts to identify items approaching their reorder level.</li>
        <li>Keep supplier, cost, and selling-price information current.</li>
        <li>Use consistent product names and codes to prevent duplicate items.</li>
        <li>Investigate unexplained adjustments or differences between recorded and physical stock.</li>
      </ul>
      <div class="mg-tip"><strong>Operational benefit:</strong> Accurate inventory reduces job delays and helps the billing team charge for the actual parts used.</div>
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  <span class="mg-subject">Using the Customer Portal</span>
  <div class="mg-intro"><p>Give each client a dedicated place to submit maintenance requests, add evidence, follow progress, review invoices, and make online payments.</p></div>
  <p>The Customer Portal gives clients direct access to the maintenance information made available for their account. It improves transparency and reduces the need for repeated calls or emails.</p>
      <div class="mg-grid">
        <div class="mg-card"><strong>Report a problem</strong><span>Create a maintenance request and describe the issue without contacting the office separately.</span></div>
        <div class="mg-card"><strong>Add evidence</strong><span>Upload supporting photographs and files to help the maintenance team understand the fault.</span></div>
        <div class="mg-card"><strong>Track progress</strong><span>Review requests and follow the current status of the job.</span></div>
        <div class="mg-card"><strong>Review and pay</strong><span>View quotations, invoices, payment status, and make online payments when enabled.</span></div>
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      <h3>Submit a maintenance request</h3>
      <ol class="mg-steps">
        <li>Sign in to the dedicated Customer Portal using the account details provided.</li>
        <li>Choose the option to add a maintenance request.</li>
        <li>Select the relevant facility or asset when those choices are available.</li>
        <li>Describe the problem clearly and add images or files.</li>
        <li>Submit the request and return to the portal to follow its progress.</li>
      </ol>
      <h3>Track work and financial records</h3>
      <p>Customers can review maintenance updates, quotations, invoices, amounts paid, and outstanding balances that your organisation has made available. When online payments are configured, they can make a payment through the portal and review the updated status.</p>
      <h3>Manage portal-ready customer data</h3>
      <p>Staff should keep each customer's email and account information accurate, connect facilities and assets to the correct client, and update job statuses consistently. The portal is most useful when the underlying maintenance records are current.</p>
      <div class="mg-note"><strong>Privacy:</strong> Each customer sees only the information made available for their account. Always connect records to the correct customer before sharing portal access.</div>
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  <span class="mg-subject">Managing Invoices</span>
  <div class="mg-intro"><p>Receive full or partial payments, review history and outstanding balances, print or email receipts, and manage invoices from Income, Sales, and Expenses.</p></div>
  <p>After an invoice and its bill items have been saved, use the billing component to record payments and keep an accurate balance and transaction history.</p>
      <h3>Accept a payment</h3>
      <ol class="mg-steps">
        <li>Open the invoice and review the final bill total.</li>
        <li>Select the payment method, such as Cash, Card, Mobile Money, or Bank Transfer.</li>
        <li>Select <strong>Pay</strong> and enter the amount received.</li>
        <li>Select <strong>Pay and Checkout</strong> to save the payment against the invoice.</li>
      </ol>
      <p>You can accept the full total or enter a smaller amount for a partial payment. The <strong>Paid</strong> value shows how much has been received, while <strong>Balance</strong> shows what remains outstanding.</p>
      <h3>Record later payments</h3>
      <p>When another payment is received, reopen the same invoice and record the additional amount. Do not create a replacement invoice merely because the customer pays in instalments. Use <strong>Order History</strong> to review dated invoice updates, payments, totals, and balances.</p>
      <h3>Print or email the receipt</h3>
      <ul class="mg-checks">
        <li>Select <strong>Print</strong> to open the receipt for printing or saving as a PDF.</li>
        <li>Select <strong>Email</strong> to preview and send the receipt to the customer.</li>
        <li>Confirm the invoice is linked to a customer with a valid email address.</li>
        <li>Review the invoice number, date, items, quantities, discount, tax, total, paid amount, method, and balance.</li>
      </ul>
      <h3>Use the invoice management pages</h3>
      <p>Open <strong>Income</strong> for customer service invoices. The Income Bill Management page lets you search, use date ranges and filters, find unpaid bills, open invoices, add items, record more payments, review history, and print or email receipts.</p>
      <p>Open <strong>Sales</strong> for product-based customer invoices and <strong>Expenses</strong> for contractor and supplier invoices. Keeping the correct mode separates money received from money spent without breaking the link to the maintenance work.</p>
      <div class="mg-note"><strong>Balance control:</strong> Review outstanding invoices regularly and record every payment against the original invoice so customer statements and reports remain accurate.</div>
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