The Auto Complete screen allows you to create shorthand codes (text, dates, etc.) and their corresponding longhand explanations. Shorthand fields consist of the primary data, while the longhand field is a descriptive, memo field. Auto Complete feature is implemented while writing a memo for time entries, expense entries, and invoices. It is a critical timesaving feature in BillQuick Online.
Auto Complete is a powerful tool used in the billing process. It is common for accountants, attorneys, architects, engineers, etc. to write invoice memos. Memos are one of the billing decisions made during the process, whether added from Billing Review or Invoice Review screen. A typical billing cycle involves preparing hundreds or even thousands of invoices each month. Typing memos for them can be very time consuming. Auto Complete reduces non-billable time spent preparing bills and memos significantly. With a few keystrokes, standard text can be inserted into memos for dozens or hundreds of invoices.
Auto Complete feature can be used with other BillQuick Online features. For example, using Auto Complete and the Billing Review batch change feature, you can quickly create a memo with common Auto Complete codes, then batch copy the memo to hundreds of invoices. You can edit memos using enhanced shortcut keystrokes for font attributes, cut and paste, undo, alignment, and more.
In the memo pad, you enter the shorthand codes that expand the text to the actual longhand description entered in the Auto Complete screen. The text is not case sensitive. Type the first few characters in the memo. BillQuick Online suggests the complete text on using the keyboard spacebar. For example, type "inv" for invoice. BillQuick Online replaces the shorthand with the entire item, invoice when you press the spacebar.