Thanks for the boost

What info are you currently inputting into quickbooks (will help with what needs to be exported).

John,

Looks like you disabled your original blogs link (just one link that has all your blogs). I re-enabled it (under menus) and renamed it there as well.

Dominic

Sure thing

Hi Mike,

There's really no reason except to keep a competitor from buying it. It has no actual search engine optimization benefit to you. If you were to buy another domain name you'd be better off choosing one large city around you and getting cityhomeinspector.com

Lol, funny David. Got a ton of new features we're working on But a lot right now is going into the new Texas regulations requiring a new form by February 1 so some of the other things have temporarily been put on hold. I could make it so you could open a client file from the separate uploader program (Jon, this is only used if you're uploading something other than the inspection report) then it populates the client data automatically.

Jon, when you put the data into the program it's automatically put into the contract as well. So you'd only need to enter the data once. We will be adding an invoice feature into the program (though Dave's solution here is very useful as well) but not a full fledged accounting program. There are billion dollar companies out there like Quicken that make awesome software (Quickbooks) and our commitment is to making the best inspection software there is, not compete with them. What we can do (and have planned) is to make an export feature so you can export the data directly into Quickbooks. This will make it so you could pull the data directly into their program and not have to enter in anything twice.

Hi Jon,

If you're running Windows Vista make sure you have it running as administrator. Right click on the program icon on the desktop, click properties, compatibility and run as Administrator. Then go into the program and hit open template.

Let me know if that works ok for you!

Dominic

 
John, you could create a block that only appears on the blog pages, that would probably be the simplest.

Julian,

Yes and I started on the solution, I just haven't had time to finish it up as I've been working on the program. I have some pressing deadlines with the new Texas format being required by Feb 1 and am also in the middle of adding features that have to be complete before I can release the update. This includes tighter integration with the software, websites and credit cards. I'll get the links going soon too.

You can merge the NPMA33 form with your inspection report as an addendum and even upload it using our separate upload service program (won't work through the main program yet). We will be integrating the NPMA33 soon and have a drawing feature in the works as well for sketching a home out.

Jay,

Try: http://activerain.com/homeinspectionsoftware

Jay, you added me, I can't remember?

Congratulations to this months nominees. There are 4 HIP sites running!

Vote at http://www.nachi.org/forum/f2/poll-579-a.html

http://www.freedomexpressinspections.com/ - Charley Bottger
http://www.longislandhomeinspection.org/ - Hank Jaworowski
http://www.oklahomahomeinspector.biz/ - John Sopher
http://www.dapkusinspections.com/ - Linas Dapkus

Good luck!

I asked my dad about the process in Guatamala over New Years and he described just what you said. They are alway changin the rules or denying people's applications after they've been there months.

Glad it worked out well for you though!

I've been working on server upgrades today. You should be able to upload reports now. I've had to take it up and down a few times during the process.

Go to yahoo and type, link:www.yoursite.com , Google only displays sites over a Page Rank of 4. What terms are you using to see their is higher. Look at their page title, description and keywords as well as the content on the page.

Never pay for directory listings, google frowns on pain inbound links. The only exception are specific HI directories like homeinspections-usa that might actually bring you inspections. There are plenty of directories out there you can add your site to for free.

Very simple. Create Content->Blog Entry

Yeah definitely not impossible to do, just would need to rework how some of the items in the program currently work. Once I finish up a few of the larger HIP projects I'm working on I'll look into it. Thanks for posting this in a separate thread for discussion and in the main suggestion thread by the way!

Well if it populated unwanted comments then it wouldn't be working right!! It's a good idea and I can see the usefulness of it. It's also not going to be an easy thing to do as there will have to be a link created between selection panel and damage panel comments, which their currently isn't. I've added it into the growing book of features to add. I encourage more input on this and other features. I don't want feature bloat in HIP, so anything that gets added needs to have a good number of guys backing it.