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Lachlan MacindoeKarbon Team

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Your #2021inKarbon snapshots!

Karbon customers! Keep an eye out in Triage for a small surprise today — your personalized #2021inKarbon snapshot. We hope this serves as a timely reminder of just how much you did during what was another challenging and turbulent year for most. Small ask— share with others what you achieved! If you enjoyed receiving this, we’d be grateful if you shared a link to your snapshot on social media using with the #2021inKarbon hashtag and mentioning our Karbon profile. Let’s fill up everyone’s feeds with #2021inKarbon!!!

2 years ago

Chelsea BurgessBeginner

asked in Ask a Peer

Emails from clients who have not been created in Karbon yet

Hello everyone,New here :) Our firm is currently using Practice Ignition to import clients once they have signed their proposal. The issue we constantly have is emails sitting in our triage from clients who have not signed on with us yet, therefore there is no client in Karbon to attach them to yet. We could create one ahead of time, but I think Karbon would double up on contacts if we do that.Wondering if anyone has any solution to this so they don’t just have emails sitting in their triage that need to be added to a work or contact.Help would be much appreciated or any advice. Thanks!

1 year ago

Megan SellsRising Star

asked in Ask a Peer

My Week: Assigned Notes & Emails

I’m making a serious effort to familiarize myself with My Week. My team is new to Karbon in general and I juuuust taught them how to manage their To-do, but since that’s getting replaced, I want to tell them to abandon that and get started using My Week ASAP. However...I can’t figure out how to solve a few problems. Two of the issues are actionable Notes and Emails. I encourage my team to be Inbox Zero, so I’ve drilled that they need to put reference info on appropriate Timelines and actionable items in as To-do (if it’s short term, like within the week) or as Work if it’s a long-term or repeat project. So, if a client emails an updated ACH form that needs to be applied to their recurring invoice from us, then that email gets assigned as a To-do item, so I will remember to apply that change in the very near future. Where on Earth would I find that if I don’t have To-do? Also, with To-do I can assign the To-do date for tomorrow if, for example, I know I am slammed with meetings today an

2 years ago

Jenelle EBABeginner

asked in Ask a Peer

Copying individual tasks one section to another section

Hi I have a one-off project that involves the same admin work relating to several clients in my practice, and I would like to copy the tasks I have created for each Client Section to all the others. Is there an easy way to do this?

2 years ago

Jenelle EBABeginner

posted in Ask a Peer

Amending Completion dates in work

Hi all, I am hoping that it is possible (or at least on the roadmap it will be possible) to amend a completion date to the day it was actually completed, even it it’s marked off after the event. I have an employee who is getting used to changing statuses as we go, and to be honest, I sometimes forget myself. However I can usually tell from items on the timeline of a piece of work when it was completed. If I mark things as complete in my regular cleanup of work, it gives a misleading picture of how long it takes to go through the various stages. Thanks.

1 year ago

Lovie

asked in Ask a Peer

Template for Tax Organizer Process

Is there a Karbon template or workflow available for the (end of the year) tax organizer process?

2 years ago

Tammy HendrixBeginner

asked in Ask a Peer

My work week view: overdue items

If I am using the my work week view, what happens to items that I do not complete with in the week?

2 years ago

kylenecarseCommunity Champion

asked in Ask a Peer

Colleague Utilization - Exporting Time

Does anyone know if there is a way to export the Colleague Utilization information such that time is exported in hours, like how it is visible in Karbon? When we export, all the time is in minutes… And my brain doesn’t work in minutes past 90 minutes - lol. vs exported:

2 years ago

Christian SoguelBeginner

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new API's to connect time in Karbon with other cloud apps

We are currently using a cloud-based ERP solution to manage our time sheets, but would like to use Karbon instead to manage time sheets. however there seems to be no API allowing us to perform such operation. Can you please let me know when you plan to develop further API’s to allow greater automation with other apps.Thank youChristian

2 years ago

JoyBeginner

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Using Karbon Time exclusively without Tsheet going forward

Hi, all, I wonder if anyone has stopped using Tsheet and started using Karbon Time exclusively. I have both sync at the moment, but I would like just use Karbon going forward. When I disconnect Tsheet, I cannot clock on Karbon Time. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks,Joy

2 years ago

MariaVRising Star

asked in Ask a Peer

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

3 months ago

KatharineBeginner

asked in Ask a Peer

How track client source

Anybody out there find a way to track within Karbon each client’s source? For example is a new client came to me as a referral from another client I want to always now how they came to me or from a specific promotion or referred by a specific attorney.

1 year ago

Christopher T Raines

asked in Ask a Peer

Sending one off emails

Looking for a solution to email clients for reasons not part of a workflow. i run into situations that i need to notify clients for some reason or another. Most of the time is wrapped around a work type. An example would be that need to email payroll clients in New York about upcoming min wage increase. Right now I’m exporting the entire contact list and workflow separately. i then i use a formula to match the client code in both files to pulling the email address. The process always takes me about a hour to send an email.

2 years ago

AndrewRising Star

asked in Ask a Peer

Effect of entering new client tasks after initial email sent.

Hi all. So I’ve setup a client task, sent the email to the the client requesting information and then noticed a further query. I’ve now updated the client task with the new item. Do I need to resend the email or will the client see the new task automatically? TIA

2 years ago

JarvisBeginner

asked in Ask a Peer

How to create a work template or work item with NO client

There are some processes each year in our tax practice that are done in bulk and are not attached to a specific client. The task in question is software updating and data rollover, although there are several more that I would like to be able to schedule in Karbon.When I create a new work template or item, the Client field must be filled in order for me to create the work. I have tried selecting different Work Types, and that has not helped.

2 years ago

Diane AmatoBeginner

asked in Ask a Peer

Disassociate an organization with a person

We have a married client who got divorced. We originally set them up individually in Karbon and then associated them with an organization, i.e., individually: James Smith Jane Smith Organization: Smith, James and Jane. The work was associated with the organization for the couple.Now that they are divorced we will still complete their individual returns. I made the organization inactive and removed it from the individual records. However, when I look up Jane Smith the organization still appears in parentheses next to her name. I thought that removing the association in her individual record would eliminate it so I was surprised to see it.Any ideas on how to remove this association, assuming it can be removed?

2 years ago

Ben ZacharyBeginner

asked in Ask a Peer

Any effective tips for pausing triage?

I’ve turned my triage notifications off, which is great! However, any time I use the navigation bar, it shows me an updated total of how many unread items are waiting for me in Triage. This pulls me back in to Triage when I should be focusing on work. Any tips for avoiding this? Or is there a way to stop the navigation bar Triage counter from showing?One potential solution I’m going to try is to just close the navigation bar, and save browser bookmarks so I can navigate that way in Karbon to different modules so I don’t have to open the navigation bar back up.

2 years ago

Ezra LortzBeginner

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Updating all created Karbon Work by updating template

If I create a template, then use it 30 or so times and have all of them as recurring work, but then realize that I want to update the template, can I do that without deleting everything and completely remaking all of the work?

2 months ago

MiyaRising Star

posted in Ask a Peer

To-Do List Notification?

Anyone here thinking that it will be a good feature if you will get a notification or just a simple “red” bell icon at the top that you have a pending due on your to-do list?

2 years ago

mmaliberatoreBeginner

posted in Ask a Peer

Feature Request - Client Group Level information

Hi Karbon,Would you please consider including a “Group Level” client information section, which flows through to all members of the group. Currently, we need to edit team members for each entity.The other information (notes, etc) flows through the timeline in the “Client Group” contact, which is awesome.However, if we need to change, for example, client team members, we need to do this for each entity, and also for the “Client Group” contact. This is necessary for “@team” purposes, etc.There may be “entity by entity” matters which needs to be changed at an entity level. That is ok, and I’m not suggesting changes in this regard.Perhaps there is a “Client Group” field/section which only triggers when an organisation or contact is linked into a Client Group. That way, any information changed in this “Client Group” Section flows through to all the other group entities and the “Client Group” contact.Cheers,

2 years ago

Terri SvihlaRising Star

asked in Ask a Peer

Emails copied or shared with colleagues automatically

We are considering a team member change for a client that we do extensive bookkeeping work for. We often assign some facets of the work to interns or junior staff and rotate that work so that they get new client experiences. That said we don’t particularly want our client to be aware that another junior staff or intern is doing their work! The client emails the currently assigned junior staff with task information, etc. How do we best use client teams or any other karbon features that would automatically assign emails from this client so that the new intern assigned as well as other team members working with this client will get information needed to do the bookkeeping work? Does the team member that is the email recipient get the email in his triage and then tags it to the work and that is how the other team members get notification of the email? Or is there a setting that would put all emails from that client in the triage of all team members?I am new to karbon and still learni

2 years ago

Kaitlyn PorcheBeginner

asked in Ask a Peer

Font Color of Statuses

Does anyone know why some of the statuses show up as green and others do not? What designates a status to show up green or not? I have attached a screenshot for reference.

2 years ago

Terri SvihlaRising Star

asked in Ask a Peer

How to do follow up in karbon

I would appreciate ideas on how to use karbon for follow up. I am a new user. Example, if i assign an email to a staff member, I would like to have a follow up reminder so that I can check that the email or task was in fact completed by the colleague. How do other users use karbon tools to follow up on things that are delegated but need to be verified for completeness?

2 years ago

Christopher T Raines

asked in Ask a Peer

Automated emails to clients if extension is required

I’m looking for a way to send an automated email to client IF an extension is required for planned work.The work would start on 1/1 with a planned as work status. i would like to have the client emailed after a certain number of day if the work status is still has a work status of planned. Is this possible?

2 years ago

maxSr. Karbon Community Guide

posted in Ask a Peer

Anyone using the API?

Hi All,I’m starting to dig into the API a bit and am having some trouble getting it off the ground. I’m a beginner, but a quick learner and I feel like I’m missing a small piece.What I want to do is refresh my work list in an Excel document so I don’t have to keep exporting reports from Karbon for my capacity planning. I think I’m missing an important step in how Karbon authenticates the connection.Here’s what I have for my query in Excel:And here’s the error I’m getting:I’ve tried a couple different things with no difference. I don’t want to hard-code the API Key to the query, but I’ll try that next to see if it works.I did notice that when you use the copy function from the website, it pre/appends spaces to the string. I removed both spaces and it still won’t authenticate.

2 years ago

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