This article will go through the following topics of Scheduler:
- Appointment Scheduler
- Assigning Technicians in Scheduler
- Assigning Technician and Job Clocking direct from the Customer Order > Service Job
- Editing an Appointment
- Deleting an Appointment
- Log Technician Leave Time
Prerequisite
- The Dealership's Default Working Hours have been set up in the Account Settings > Settings & Controls - Shop Settings
- Each relevant Technicians has been set up for Payroll Clocking and Job Clocking and their default workdays have been set in Account Settings > Users - Time Clocking Staff

Appointment Scheduler
- From the Blackpurl Header > click on

- Let's break the Scheduler screen down for you:

- Day View
- Week View
- Month View
3. Appointments can be created by clicking on New Appointment
4. This is the date range for your appointments. Using the toggle you can scroll to the other date ranges
5. This will indicate how many hours have already been booked and how many hours are still available
The system calculates the total time by how many techs you have and how many hours they work that day
For example, if you have two techs that work 8 hours each, there are 16 hours available to be booked for that day.
- In our example, we are going to book in / make an appointment for 1.5 hours to do a 10,000km service on Kristelle Dubois' BMW on the 7th January 2022.
- At the top of the screen - click
OR
- Navigating to the date and either morning or afternoon you want and then clicking on the
If you create a new appointment this way, the date and morning/afternoon time will auto-populate.

2. If there is already an existing Service Job, you can link this appointment to it by searching for the relevant Service Job and selecting it
3. In the Untitled appointment section - it will allow you to give the appointment a name
4. You can search for the Customer Name (or create a new customer) - Once you have selected the customer, the system will ask you to select what Unit the appointment is for
5. Type in the concern including any notes from the customer ie what the customer would like you to check etc
6. Who is paying? Customer Pay / Third Party / Internal
7. Estimate hours - how many hours you think it is going to take
8. If the appointment is going over multiple days, move the toggle to indicate Make multi-day
10. You can assign a Technician at this time (if required)

- The Scheduler for the 7th January 2022 in the morning has now changed and our estimated time of a 1.5-hour appointment has now been taken into consideration.

ASSIGNING TECHNICIANS IN SCHEDULER
- When you were creating the appointments, the dealership had the option of assigning a technician


- Once you have opened the unassigned section, it will list all service jobs that have not been assigned to a technician

To assign a Service Job appointment:
- Click and hold on the appointment in the unassigned section
- then Drag and drop the appointment over to the time slot you want, under the technician you want

If you make an error, just click/hold on the Appointment again and then drag/drop again onto the new technician or time slot
Do this for all the unassigned appointments to organize your technician's day
- If a Customer Order > Service Job has not been linked to this appointment, once you have assigned an appointment to a time slot and technician, the system will automatically create a Customer Order > Service Job for you.
We have also introduced icons to indicate the status of the CO > Service Job
They are abbreviated ie prog = In progress, so at a glance, your technicians can see what status the CO > Service Job is in.
ASSIGNING TECHNICIAN AND JOB CLOCKING DIRECT FROM THE CUSTOMER ORDER > SERVICE JOB
- There is also the ability to Assign Technician and for Technicians to Job Clock on / off directly from the Customer Order > Service Job > Technician Time section

EDITING AN APPOINTMENT
To edit an appointment it is as easy as clicking on the appointment either in the Scheduler itself or from the Customer Order

In both instances the Appointment window will pop up for you to change the details on:
In the Scheduler - if it is just a quick change or moves ie moving from one tech to another, you can use the drag and drop
DELETING AN APPOINTMENT
If you have technicians assigned to the appointment, these will need to be removed by going into the appointment and clicking on beside each technician that has been assigned
Then you will need to close out the relevant Service Job that the Appointment is attached to.
You can do this by deleting all line items off the relevant Service Job and then actually Remove Service Job
LOG TECHNICIAN AWAY TIME
We need the Scheduler to reflect away time so the dealership is not booking in appointments or assignment jobs to technicians when they are not even going to be there
For our example our technician Frank Jones will be away from the 30th November 2020 to 5th December 2020 on annual leave.
The best way to do this is to Log Leave time
- From the Single Day View tab, click on Frank Jones' name

- To record his annual leave, click on
and complete



- Now if you go to that date range within the Scheduler, it will indicate that Frank Jones is away and no appointments will be able to be assigned to him.