General Settings
This article is a step-by-step guide to help Administrators set up General Settings in Fixably.
- Release Notes
 - Newly Released Features
 - Getting Started
 - Roles & Permissions
 - Manifests
 - Order Management
 - Automations
 - Employee Management
 - Customer Management
 - Customer Portal
 - Stock Management
 - Part Requests
 - Price Lists
 - Invoicing
 - Reporting
 - Custom Fields
 - Integrations
 - GSX
 - Shipments
 - Service Contracts
 - Configuring Your Environment
 - Incoming Part Allocation
 - Appointment Booking
 
Table of Contents
- Using an Administrator account, from the Fixably Home Screen, select your User Name menu and then click System Settings.

 - From the Settings menu, click General.

 
General Settings
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Locale - Fixably can be configured to work in any location. The locale settings enable Fixably Administrators to set the default currency and other location-specific settings.

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Timezone - The Timezone setting configures the time settings for the entire environment. This setting configures the entire Fixably environment and supports a single timezone.

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Repair Business Type - Fixably supports multiple types of repair businesses. Select what makes the most sense for your business.
 
 
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Require Business ID for Companies - Enabling this option will require setting a Business ID in Company Profiles.

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Lock products - Removes the ability to create new or modify existing products from those with User access permissions. To create a new product or change an existing product, a Fixably Administrator will need to perform the required action. 

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Validate Order - Restricts the ability to close orders in Fixably unless one each of the following note types are added to the order: Issue, Diagnosis, Resolution. If any of these notes are missing, the Close button will remain unavailable.

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Set default reception note type to "Detail" - Sets the default note type to Detail in all orders.

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No shop assistant auto inside - Disables automatically setting the Internal Location to In Service when a Fixably user with the Shop Assistant role adds a device to an Order.

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Hide "Charge" option - Removes the Charge option from the Payments menu for all users.

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Do not require orders to be charged - Allows orders to be marked as Picked Up or Shipped without being Charged or Invoiced in the Payments menu.

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Additional references - Creates custom-defined reference fields that are displayed in all orders in Fixably. 

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Note minimum length - Define the minimum number of characters required in notes. Notes saved with fewer characters than this value will indicate that the minimum length has not been met.

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Round prices - Three rounding options are available for Products retried via a GSX Integration.
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- No rounding - retains the selling and exchange price retrieved by GSX.
 - Round to the nearest whole number - rounds up the selling and exchange price to the nearest dollar.
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Round to the nearest 10 - rounds up the selling and exchange price to the nearest 10 dollars.
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- All price rounding is applied before any applicable tax is calculated.
 
 - All price rounding is applied before any applicable tax is calculated.
 
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Show 'Out of Warranty' prices on printouts - When warranty products are added to an Order, the product pricing is shown as $0.00 on Printouts. With this setting enabled, a column is added after the product information that displays the non-warranty price of the product. 
 
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Allow Dispatch Undo - This setting allows Administrators to undo a Product that has been accidentally Dispatched from the system. 

 - Social Security Information - For regions that require specific social security numbers listed on Paperwork, enable the below settings as needed.

- Enable support for social security number
 - Enable user social security number in macro
 - Enable user social security number in API
 
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Enable this option will allow only one device belong to an open order - This setting prevents creating a new Order via a Macro for a device already attached to an open Order.