Chapter 6 Contact
Contact helps you manage Additional Contacts from Customers, Vendors, Employees. Contact also includes Notes used for system notifications and messages to other users.
Customers are often companies and their Contacts are people, roles, ship-to addresses. For a large customer you may have hundreds of Ship-to's invoiced as one big company.
Contact provides the tools to manage lookup and linking so you have Ship-To's, Email Addresses, and presets like Sales Tax or Ship Method easily selected and ready to use.
Customer Ship-To's
Customer Ship-To's are the main use for Contact especially with your large customers.
On Quote, Order, or Invoice after selecting Customer, click Other in Ship-To to choose a Contact to fill in Shipping Name, Address, Email, Tax Status, Store, and much more.
Choose Live List in My Prefs, Dialog Prefs, to use a dynamic list with column Filters. Filter to find addresses instantly among hundreds of Ship-To's for national customers.
Customer Email Addresses
Customer Email Addresses is another popular use for Contact for emailing to multiple.
In Print Options for a Quote, Order, or Invoice choose Send Email To and select a few. Contacts for the customer will be listed and selectable by name or title to send as CC's.
Note Done
Note Done lets you mark a task, system notification, task from another user, as Done.
Note Done can be added as a column in MyNotes and then clicked to check it as done. Done also appears on the Note window under the Schedule Date and Time options.
Chapter 128 iPad Orders 16
iPad Orders lets you enter orders at a trade show, customer site, or in your showroom.
Updated for Apple 2025 Database, iPad Orders custom-connects to your BigBusiness, giving your people mobility, fast, reliable data entry, and flexible workflows they need.
Scan barcodes or custom labels with built-in camera or a fast bluetooth wireless reader.
BigBusiness 16
BigBusiness 16 is updated along with BigBusiness 15, to support new iPad Orders 16.
In BigBusiness you select the Customers and Items to have to order in iPad Orders 16. Sync and your iPad is loaded and ready to process orders with or without connections.
Once you have your orders connect from wherever you have network access and sync. New Orders are created, Customers are updated, and any new data needed is retrieved.
iPad Server
iPad Server lets you connect iPads securely to your BigBusiness to create new orders.
Setup lets you set iPad Server to run automatically on a selected Port to connect iPads.
iPad Scanner
iPad Orders lets you use bluetooth scanner for reading barcodes or labels for fast entry.
Gemini Profile
Gemini Profile helps share your settings for using Google Gemini including API Keys.
Gemini Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, is a Google AI that converts text into an image. Image tool on the Item card requires setup including getting your API Keys to process.
Image Tool
Image tool helps you select or create a new image using an AI solution and past images.
To start this tool is a button on the Item card that works with Gemini to create images. It sends the existing image and description to use to generate the new image and shows.
This setup is for testing and uses paid services for images within Google Workspace. It appears an image from a prompt is 3.9 cents and uploading an existing image is 33.9.
Image Create
Image Create helps you make a new image using AI and a text description you provide.
BigBusiness can send a request like, Create a picture of, plus your Detail Description. In the example the words, beach blanket babylon, were used and AI created this image.
Nano Banana
Nano Banana is a codename for Gemini Flash Image--AI to help create and edit images.
BigBusiness tests Nano Banana using free connection and apparent per-image charges.
Pictured, the banana is modified with the prompt to "make old-timey" which succeeds.
Image Retouch
Image Retouch helps you gussy up your blah images using AI to add lettering or style.
BigBusiness can connect to Gemini for pay-per-image re-imaging using new Image tool. This requires setup of Gemini connection and billing and so forth, to work with a click.
Not frictionless but amazingly easy to take a product photo and add lettering or style.