Tag Archives: Limo Anywhere Tips

  • June 7, 2023

Utilizing Reservation Manifests

As we navigate the digital landscape of 2023 where technological hiccups can occur unexpectedly, it’s crucial to prioritize preemptive actions. By establishing redundancies in your business, you create an additional layer of protection that ensures uninterrupted access and smooth operations. When an interruption arises, having these backups in place...

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  • May 15, 2023

Using Groups within Limo Anywhere

Regardless of the size of your operation, efficiency and organization are key to ongoing success. One Limo Anywhere feature that often goes underutilized is the Groups functionality. In this blog post, we will explore how Limo Anywhere users can leverage Groups to inform marketing efforts, gain valuable insights through...

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  • November 7, 2022

Utilizing Limo Anywhere’s Linked Reservation Feature

Limo Anywhere allows you to group multiple reservations together using the Linked Reservation feature. You can use this functionality to show linked reservations on forms or replicate changes to multiples reservations. View Linked Reservations Open a Reservation In the top right of the reservation, click ‘Link’ Note: ‘Link’ will...

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  • May 22, 2021

Ensuring Client Access to Your Website Portal

With the many different web browser options available to users, changes at the browser level often require businesses to adjust their websites or users to adjust their browser settings. One of the challenges to e-commerce businesses is how separate browsers approach privacy settings and the impact to the end...

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  • October 30, 2020

It Bears Repeating – Reservation Copy Feature

As an operator, you likely encounter situations where you need to create the same (or nearly the same) reservation multiple times. Maybe you are managing a board meeting and you need a private vehicle for each VIP passenger from the same company, or perhaps you run a daily parking...

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  • June 30, 2020

LA Net Real-Time Updates

This favorite feature is a staff pick from Senior Product Analyst, Jared Russum. With the latest updates to status mapping and workflow, real-time updates in LA Net are more functional ever; all states in the workflow, including affiliate states, are now activated for real-time updates. (For more on the...

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  • June 18, 2020

Invoices with Client PO Numbers

A question recently arose in the LA Peer Support Group regarding making a client PO number appear on their invoices. There are different ways to approach this depending on your operation and your clients’ requirements. We’ve outlined three scenarios below with some tips for each case. Your client gives...

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Making the Most of the Time, Part 2

Last month, we highlighted a few projects our clients might tackle right now, such as updating rates, cleaning up unsettled trips, and removing duplicates in Accounts and POIs. In this post, we’ll address another system project that could be a productive way to embrace this unusual time – populating...

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  • April 20, 2020

Making the Most of the Time

While we, like you, are feeling the pressure and uncertainty of this crisis and its effects on the industry, we have been heartened to see so many of you maintaining a positive outlook and being wonderfully creative and productive while business is slow. We see you finding ways to...

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  • April 16, 2020

Limo Anywhere Tips: How to Settle a Trip

First off, all of us at Limo Anywhere hope you’re healthy and safe, and we wish you strength and courage during this difficult period. In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we thought we’d share a series of Limo Anywhere software tips to help your organization get through these...

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  • February 29, 2020

It’s Only Logical – Utilizing Criteria Based Fees

In our last installment, we talked about setting up promotional pricing and discounts. Miscellaneous Fees, also referred to as Criteria Based Fees, are the flip side of that coin. These fees can be used to recoup not only pass-through expenses like tolls, parking, and taxes, but also the “hidden”...

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  • February 26, 2020

Super Savers – Setting up Promo Codes in LA

There are a lot reasons you might want to offer a discount or a special rate: boost sales during a slow season, offer an inside deal to employees or members of your partner organizations, draw attention to a new vehicle or a new service offering, thank a customer for...

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  • January 30, 2020

Using the ‘Export Customers’ Feature to Identify and Communicate with New Clients

We’ve seen and heard a lot of discussion among Limo Anywhere users about ways to communicate with your first-time bookers in order to turn a one-time transaction into repeat business, or better yet, turn a single experience into a long-term relationship. Ideas have included a welcome email, a phone...

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  • December 16, 2019

On the Grid – Dispatch Batch Edit and In Grid Controls

Tracking multiple drivers and multiple vehicles, changing flight times, traffic, and weather, adjusting for delays, and last-minute requests. There’s no doubt about it – Dispatch is your nerve center. Limo Anywhere has some favorite features on the Dispatch Grid to help you keep up with the fast-paced demands of...

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  • December 2, 2019

Limo Anywhere, Then and Now

As we prepare for the turn of a new year, we look forward to the many exciting new improvements we have planned. While we look ahead with such anticipation, we also find it useful to remember our history and appreciate just how far we’ve come. Here are just a...

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  • October 28, 2019

Scheduled Messaging Top 5

Are you familiar with Limo Anywhere’s Scheduled Messaging feature? This tool was designed to create more efficient communication in the day-to-day operation of your business, improving the flow of information in real time. Probably most of you are using this to some degree, sending an email or text when...

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  • September 30, 2019

Using Custom Payment Methods to Track Lost Revenue

There are so many Payment Methods already available in Limo Anywhere – including all kinds of credit cards, vouchers, cash, check, donation, refund, trade, even barter! How could you possibly want more? The truth is, custom Payment Methods can be used in many ways, and we’ve seen some great...

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  • August 27, 2019

How to use Read Back Scripts as Alerts

This week Limo Anywhere would like to help their users think outside the box. Limo Anywhere has a feature called Read Back scripts, that was designed for employees that were taking reservations over the phone. These Read Back scripts give employees the ability to read back the script or...

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  • August 20, 2019

Tips and Tricks on how to use the Global Search Tool

For the past two weeks, we have provided our users with tips and tricks to improve their Limo Anywhere skills. This week we want to focus on the Global Search tool. To get started it is quite simple, all you have to do is go on the Global Search...

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  • August 15, 2019

Learn how to use Print Preview as a tool!

Limo anywhere users can now use Print Preview as a resourceful tool, here’s how! By clicking on the print icon, you can view forms for a reservation or an invoice, and you will notice it lists all of the standards default forms, as well as the custom forms. There...

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  • August 13, 2019

Welcome to Fort Worth!

A message from Limo Anywhere President Sean Arena Greetings, fellow LA Academy attendees! As we near the event, I just wanted to pass along a few of my local favorite dining and entertainment recommendations for those of you Fort Worth newbies. We will be hosting a cocktail reception the...

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  • June 30, 2019

Getting Out the Vote

Do you ever wish you had more say in the features of your favorite products? It would be great to suggest a new ice cream flavor to Blue Bell or get that app you use all the time to use predictive text. Usually the chances of influencing a big...

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  • May 31, 2019

Custom Statuses

There are many ways that you can customize your Limo Anywhere system, but one of the easiest and most useful is found under MY OFFICE, in System Settings. Once you navigate to this area, by default you will land on the Service Types page. Here you can see a...

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  • May 17, 2019

Make More Money With Promo Codes and Miscellaneous Fees

Limo Anywhere can make your business run more smoothly as well as help you make more money. LA has several options that you can set up under the Rate Management tab to make your business even more profitable. Promo Codes and Miscellaneous Fees allow you to increase revenue without...

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  • April 19, 2019

An Update on Limo Anywhere Upgrades

At Limo Anywhere, we are constantly working to make our livery software the best it can possibly be. The improvements we make are significantly informed by interaction with our clients. We want to do whatever we can to make it easier to run your business. Over the past week,...

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  • January 20, 2019

Limo Anywhere Training Resources

Limo Anywhere software is designed to be intuitive and user friendly, but as with any new tool, there is always a learning curve. We’ve developed multiple methods of training for our customers. Pick one you like, or try a variety to get the most out of LA. Limo Anywhere...

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  • January 2, 2019

Check Your Inbox

At Limo Anywhere, we try to use as many means as possible to communicate with our clients. We have a dedicated private user group on Facebook; we offer automated texts; we post information to this blog; and we send out regular email updates to our users and to people...

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  • December 17, 2018

Manifest Backups—A Fail-Safe During Downtime

One way to reduce work stress is to build in redundancies. Don’t rely on one method or system for critical components of your business. Make sure your phone calendar syncs with your desktop calendar. Back up your data on hard drives and the cloud. And set up manifest backups...

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  • November 29, 2018

Client Spotlight: Prime Limo & Car Service

Editor’s Note: Client Spotlight is a recurring feature on our blog. In it, you will meet fellow operators, learn about their business, and gain valuable insights into using Limo Anywhere to its fullest capacity. To be featured in Client Spotlight, please contact clientfeature@limoanywhere.com. In early 2011, Shawn Dolani was...

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  • January 15, 2018

Writing Off Bad Debt May Be Good For Your Limo Anywhere . . . and Your Bottom Line

Sometimes unintended consequences can be a good thing. Recently, Limo Anywhere customers with a high volume of open invoices in their system were affected by a bug. We quickly deployed a fix, but the situation got us thinking about old invoices on a larger scale.

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