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Google  Mapping - Free with all stations

Google Mapping - Free with all stations

All stations now have access to Free Google Mapping which includes the following features:

  • Geo-locate address and get latitude and longitude 

  • Move mapped icon to actual location and update latitude and longitude. 
  • Turn by turn directions from office to service location

  • Multiple views:

  • Street level

  • Satellite

  • Map with and without terrain

  • Use Google maps option when mapping a site.

  • Fixed colors per Route:  In reference file 32 for friendly route codes, you can assign a fixed color for each of your route numbers. Makes it easier to see when displaying multiple routes in F4 and F5

  • F4 - Work Order Dispatch - Displays all displayed work orders color coded by route and icons change when Dispatched is checked off to close out work order. Use tool bar icon Export to Maps.

  • F5 - Service route - Displays all stops with routes by color and icons change when service is completed. Use tool bar icon Export to Maps.

Web Service Statement:
You can now print or make a pdf of a web service statement that details each service with date, time, route, route day and stop number  of all services for the selected time period. Reports\dispatch\tab 7 Stop by stop.  Emailing will be available in next update.
 
Attachment To Invoice
Feature to attach any type of document when emailing an invoice, i.e., pdf, jpg, etc. now remembers last setting to minimize clicking on repeat documents

 New Features Coming Soon

  • Sales station : New search and customization view setting. Allows each user to customize the views to their specific needs.
  • Driver's station:  
    • Multi-week service indicator at stop listing. Drivers will know if a site is serviced more then one a week
    • Supervisor route listing will include estimated revenue.
Train Yourself on TAC Online
Fast-Start Step-by-Step Self Training 

Our new weekly series  of videos helps you bring on new employees and have existing employees cross-train to improve office operations.   
Every week we will publish a new video so you get a complete coverage of the entire business cycle.  They will be added to the Train Yourself on TAC Online section on the videos page on our website.

As of today, our  video series includes: 
 
 See Your Account Balances Online
on Our Website
Did you know you can look up your account information and pay your invoices  
on the Clear Computing website?
 
Go to our live support at http://www.clearcomputing.com/ and get your login and password. Then click on green button "My Account" to see your information. 


If you're a TAC Online user, you can put a Customer Portal on your website and give your customers access to their account history and service information.  Your customers can even pay bills right from your website.

Contact our office for more information.

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Food Spoilage Guide For The Rest Of Us!
Finally, a way to know what to pitch and what to save! (I know this is a long list, but you'll thank me!)

THE GAG TEST 
Anything that makes you gag is spoiled (except for leftovers from what you cooked for yourself last night).

EGGS 
When something starts pecking its way out of the shell, the egg is probably past its prime.

DAIRY PRODUCTS 
Milk is spoiled when it starts to look like yogurt. Yogurt is spoiled when it starts to look like cottage cheese. Cottage cheese is spoiled when it starts to look like regular cheese. Regular cheese is nothing but spoiled milk anyway and can't get any more spoiled than it is already. Cheddar cheese is spoiled when you think it is blue cheese but you realize you've never purchased that kind.

MAYONNAISE 
If it makes you violently ill after you eat it, the mayonnaise is spoiled.

FROZEN FOODS 
Frozen foods that have become an integral part of the defrosting problem in your freezer compartment will probably be spoiled - (or wrecked anyway) by the time you pry them out with a kitchen knife.

EXPIRATION DATES 
This is NOT a marketing ploy to encourage you to throw away perfectly good food so that you'll spend more on groceries. Perhaps you'd benefit by having a calender in your kitchen.

MEAT 
If opening the refrigerator door causes stray animals from a three-block radius to congregate outside your house, the meat is spoiled.

BREAD 
Sesame seeds and Poppy seeds are the only officially acceptable "spots" that should be seen on the surface of any loaf of bread. Fuzzy and hairy looking white or green growth areas are a good indication that your bread has turned into a pharmaceutical laboratory experiment.

FLOUR 
Flour is spoiled when it wiggles.

SALT 
It never spoils.

CEREAL 
It is generally a good rule of thumb that cereal should be discarded when it is two years or longer beyond the expiration date.

LETTUCE 
Bibb lettuce is spoiled when you can't get it off the bottom of the vegetable crisper without Comet. Romaine lettuce is spoiled when it turns liquid.

CANNED GOODS 
Any canned goods that have become the size or shape of a softball should be disposed of. Carefully.

CARROTS 
A carrot that you can tie a clove hitch in is not fresh.

RAISINS 
Raisins should not be harder than your teeth.

POTATOES 
Fresh potatoes do not have roots, branches, or dense, leafy undergrowth.

CHIP DIP 
If you can take it out of its container and bounce it on the floor, it has gone bad. 

UNMARKED ITEMS 
You know it is well beyond prime when you're tempted to discard the Tupperware along with the food. Generally speaking, Tupperware containers should not burp when you open them.

GENERAL RULE OF THUMB 
Most food cannot be kept longer than the average life span of a hamster. Keep a hamster in or nearby your refrigerator to gauge this.
 
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