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Debbie TheobaldBeginner

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BrooksWSuperstar

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Capacity Planning

How do others do their capacity planning?

1 year ago

Steve WortmanRising Star

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Lacerte setup for 2023

I’m setting up Lacerte 2023 and it still has integration with Intuit Practice Management” not Karbon. Is this just a failure by Intuit to change the name and can I proceed with it?

4 months ago

CoralSuperstar

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Time and Budgets

How do others use time and budgets? I’ve been using the timesheet function since April and staff love the timer feature - but I’m not sure on how to do the budgets and would like to understand it better. At the moment, all of our jobs are showing as being over budget.

2 years ago

ryannBeginner

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Virtual Assistant with Karbon Experience?

We are struggling to find good admin staff locally and the Karbon learning curve doesn’t help. Has anyone used a virtual assistant with Karbon experience? Any idea where to find such a person? I envision someone that knows Karbon through and through, who could work remotely for one or multiple firms, managing the day-to-day flow of information and work. I’d love referrals if anyone knows this person!

8 months ago

Amelia FreemanKarbon Team

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Sending Client Requests - How many people do you need to send one request to?

Hi Karbon Community! Sending to Multiple People (being able to send a client request to more than one person) is in development but I had two questions I’d love some more information on: How many people do you need to send one request to? Does the number tend to be the same or are there circumstances where you would need to send the request to more or less people? Thank you!

10 months ago

amlbmoRising Star

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Client work deadline management and reporting in Karbon - best practices?

Hi everyone, I’ve tried to search the Community but can’t find an answer for this.How do you make sure that you are not missing compliance deadlines for clients, and have good line of sight on them at least 30 days in advance? For example, do you set a protocol that for personal tax repeating work items, the work due date is always set at 15 days before the personal tax deadline for all clients? And similarly for sales tax, corporate tax, payroll, etc.? We haven’t really set such a protocol and found that different team members set different due dates for compliance-related work items (either a few days before the due date or after, if there are follow-up tasks to do such as confirming a Notice of Assessment is available from tax authorities after filing).This makes it difficult to quickly see the ‘true deadline’ for each compliance work item, and across all work items to identify risks/issues early.Would love your thoughts on this - how have you managed to document and monitor deadlin

1 year ago

Rob LileRising Star

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Calendar Integration question

Hi, I see on the Karbon release notes that Calendar Integration has launched?But I can;t see anywhere in myweek to ‘Connect to Calendat’It takes less than 30 seconds to set up the integration. Simply navigate to My Week and click on ‘Connect calendar’ and sign in to your calendar provider. Am I just jumping the gun or do I have to do anything to activate this feature?Thanks

1 year ago

yanqiBeginner

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Can not log in karbon account

2 years ago

Melissa_StoutBeginner

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New employee Karbon training

We are bringing on multiple employees over the next month or so and I am wondering how others train new employees on Karbon. I know that there is a training work item that will teach the functionality of Karbon, but how do you teach how your firm uses it? For example, time tracking rules, work item naming convention, review of work status and how/where to communicate internally. I have used multiple methods but think we can improve .

2 years ago

mikedoanRising Star

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Email Insights and Volume of Emails in Triage

I use Volume of Emails in Triage as a way to monitor if my team is getting through their daily traige. I really push the message that triage should be cleared out daily.Being a leader who tries to lead by example, I make sure that my traige is cleared daily -- with the exception of vacation, I make an effort to clear daily.So I go to check the leaderboard today and I find that I’m leading the pack on the number of emails in triage...92 emails! I can count cleared emails and I know that at no poinit this week have I had 92 emails in a day or even during the entire week. How is this metric being calculated and when is the data polled to update the Insight?

3 months ago

MariaVRising Star

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Adding multiple e-mail addresses to an email

I am sending a bulk email to a group of clients. I am sending the email to myself and the bcc’ing the group of clients. I have the list of emails in a document. In Gmail, I used to just copy and paste the emails and wa-la, they are all added. But I can’t copy and paste in Karbon.Does anyone know of a way to do this?Thanks in advance. Maria

2 years ago

maxSr. Karbon Community Guide

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Update roles on existing work using the API

General Info Issue Possible countermeasures More Information Code Samples** UPDATE **There’s a bug in the API that does not let us GET or PUT “UserRoleAssignments” so this project is on hold until the bug is fixed. Here’s the email from the ever helpful @StuartK.General InfoThis post is under construction… I will continue to update and add more content here based on conversation below.IssueCredit: @Tom Kneeland When using Intuit Practice Management (IPM), there are certain limitations that we will address here.Possible countermeasuresProgrammatically add or update roles using the API and Python (doable) I have programmatically added roles with Python API calls I’ll share code when I fully understand the issue Automatically add roles using webhooks and a webhook handler like Azure Logic apps or Zapier (doable at a small cost) Explore, submit feature ideas to fix issues with IPM (Subject to others)More InformationTom’s original post:...I am an IPM user, which is still Karbon. It turns

1 year ago

Becca WilliamsRising Star

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Automating My Week

My company has been successfully using To do for years, all of our templates and automators are built around it. Now it seems that My Week will be replacing To do and I am trying to figure out My Week but I can’t seem to wrap my head around it.First, when all of the tasks are completed and a work is even in the Completed status, why doesn’t it automatically move to Done? This seems like an unneeded step. I understand if all my tasks are done but if the work isn’t done it shouldn’t move, but if the entire work is done?Then, there seems to be no automation for it, if an automator triggers a task to be due this week, it doesn’t move the work to My Week, it just stays where it is. This might be fine for recurring work but for tax work where I am often waiting on clients it’s a problem. I have automators that make my tasks due when a client completes their task list but it stays in To Plan until I manually move it. Also, there should be different views. It seems you can only view by s

1 year ago

Sean Martin, CPA

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Automation for adding emails to client timelines

When we finish a year-end, for example, we send the communication via HubSpot email template. We then have to manually go into the Karbon ‘sent’ items and add that email to the client workpiece and timeline. Is there a way to automate this that anyone has uncovered? It seems like in Zapier the only available options are: Trigger for when a new contact is created Trigger for when a contact is updated Trigger for when a new organization is created Trigger for when an organization contact is updatedBasically, the end state we are searching for is:Email is sent from HubSpot to client X email X is associated with client X + organization X, and is added to the organization timeline. We don’t mind if it isn’t added to the specific workpiece, but that would be an added bonus! Any help would be greatly appreciated.Are there any product updates in the works for email templates within Karbon, or some tracking so we can tell if task lists have been opened? Cheers,Sean

1 year ago

maxSr. Karbon Community Guide

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Change repeating work's start date - is it possible?

Hi Karbon Community!I had a weekly bookkeeping client setup to start on Tuesday and to be due on Friday, but I just want it to start and be due on Friday.Is there a way to update the repeating schedule without deleting and starting over?I thought I could change the start and due dates of a work item and the repeater would take over from there, but that hasn’t happened.Does anyone have experience with this? The help articles and community topics mostly deal with setting up recurring work for the first time. -- Edit --Alternative answer from @LD7E:An add on to this option if there are a lot of recurring work items that need to be deleted. Set an end date on the current repeating work item that is a day or more before the next work item that has already been created. Once you save this it will automatically delete all future work items. Then you can go in and change the work start date of the last work item completed to the new day of the week you want the work to start and create the new

2 years ago

Marty McCutchenBeginner

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How is everyone tracking recurring internal tasks?

I am looking to create a list of recurring admin task that I perform. I am hoping this is the last year i have to do any of this stuff. I’d like to create a recurring Work project and assign the Work to an office manager next year. Some of the tasks I want to put in the Work are:Renewing tax software license - Nov 15 Rolling forward tax software - Dec 1 Rolling forward depreciation software - Jan 31 Pay state CPA firm dues - Feb 15 Updating engagement letters - Dec 15 Renewing technical subscriptions - various EtcAny ideas would be appreciated.I am trying to Clockwork my firm.Thanks,Marty

2 years ago

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