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Unearned income — not counting your chickens, or your money

“People put that money in the bank and consider it to be theirs. But it's not really. That's what unearned income, and our August update, is all about.” Paul Hemmings explains how to avoid counting your business chickens.

Synergy product update — 31 August 2019 — Unearned income

This month’s product update is a project accounting bonanza with the all-new unearned income feature. This is additional functionality that builds on the project performance feature we released in June. It helps our accounting-oriented friends track their liability — that is, any income invoiced before work has been done.

Synergy product update — 29 July 2019 — Update to project performance

This month's product update brings a few enhancements to Synergy project performance. After releasing the new feature a month ago to wide acclaim, we've taken the immediate feedback on-board and made some enhancements to improve the function. We've also updated the stage details page in the work breakdown.

#SynergyTips — Multi-currency invoicing

How can Synergy’s multi-currency invoicing update make your international AEC design project invoicing easy breezy? Technical content developer, Constantine Carluen shows you how in this SynergyTips post about our April 2019 update.

How to captain change in your AEC business — eight savvy steps

New initiatives, tech updates, project-centred work, evolving competition. It all piles up to push us and our AEC design businesses to continually change. We look at Kotter’s eight-step change management model so we can all make that fact a strength.

What the bleep is EVM? And why do I care? — Managing AEC project performance

Synergy’s June release gave you project performance management, which uses EVM to star-rate the health of your projects at a glance…. So what the bleep is EVM? Why should you care? And what’s with seeing these stars?

How Salt³ shook up their engineering firm with industry-specific management software

Shakin’ it up — Salt³ director Jo Garretty tells us how she shepherded the engineering consultancy’s expansion with AEC-specific software solutions.

tiny+

The tiny+ add-on for Synergy removes the need for double entry of records and project information.

Working better together — clarity in the cloud

Ever looked at your over-stuffed email inbox and thought, “372 unread emails? Yessssss!”… Nope, neither have we. That’s why we’re reminding ourselves why cloud collaboration means working better together, clearer communication, improved bottom line, and less eye-rolling at emails.

Using your project portal to put out for tender — so easy you don’t even need to stretch up!

Don’t emails annoy you? Seriously, don’t they? Emails are a terrible way to work together. Portals are the way forward, folks. Collaboration without collusion. Paul Hemmings shows you how much time, money, and sanity can be saved with Synergy’s update.

Hard benefits of software for AEC project management

What are the advantages of a project management software solution for architects, engineers and built environment design businesses? If that question makes you shudder, it’s alright. We’ve got you.

Invoices without borders — the benefit of Synergy’s multi-currency invoicing update

As an architecture, engineering, or construction design practice with an office that works in a particular currency, what happens when you have to invoice in other countries, where the invoicing is in a different currency? Paul Hemmings explains the benefit of Synergy’s multi-currency invoicing update.

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