How To
Setting a Default Email Template for Sending Out Multiple Emails
When using the Email Invoices feature in Decorus you are able to set a default invoice template. This can be set individually for each Sage company you have linked within Decorus To set you default template, click the spanner icon at the top of the ...
Creating and Setting Default Email Templates for Mailing Individual Invoices
To set default email templates, open Preferences and click on the Email tab. In this window you are able to set the default email template used for a number of actions. In our case we are looking at the Default Invoice field Clicking the grey box to ...
Wrong Property Showing When Receipting Rent
This is an issue that relates to department codes and commonly occurs when a department code is shared by two properties. In the example we have below, we can see that the Property is set to Propert Road (Test). We have posted this month’s rent into ...
Adding a company logo
This article shows you how to add a company logo which will then appear on invoices, receipts and statements. Click on the 'Configure' icon Click on the 'Contact Details' tab Click on 'Logo' Upload your relevant logo Click 'Exit' To then set the ...
Using Printers with Decorus on Remote Desktop Servers
If you have your Decorus installed on a Remote Desktop Server you will be able to print just as if your software was installed locally. There are some settings you'll need to make sure are selected when you connect to your Remote Desktop Server, we ...
Dealing with landlord split ownership
Dealing with Landlord Split Ownership (This will only work on Fixed Term not Periodic Tenancies) For example if the ownership is split 50/50 between Landlords, you can attach both to the property as 50/50 ownership, however it will only recognise ...
Using Printers with Decorus
Decorus gives users the ability to print information from most major views in the software. In this guide we will be going over where these options are and how they work. Printing from Module Overview View such as the Property Centre, Tenancy Centre ...
Setting up Business Hours
To set business hours in Decorus, go to preferences and select the diary tab - This will update your diary day view to display a difference in colour gradient for working hours -
Updating Nominal Accounts – Deposit/Rent/Fixed Service Charges
To add a nominal code that is not already in Sage: · Go into Sage · Click on ‘Nominal Codes’ · Click on ‘New’ · Add the details necessary · Click ‘Save’ · Go to Decorus for Sage · Click on the ...
Clearing Receipts to the Landlord
Go to the ‘Tenancy’ module, select the relevant Tenancy and click on ‘Tenancy Receipt’ This will bring up the 'Receipt' window with the tenancy details pre-selected Before Posting a receipt please check the following: The bank account details are ...
Adding an EPC Graph
Decorus can store your EPC Graphs for use in marketing through portals, web uploads and brochures/windows cards. These can be added from the ‘Marketing’ tab in a property record. Here you can also fill out the energy and environmental performance of ...
Clearing Down Tenant Schedules
Tenant charging schedules schedules can be cleared down to a set date in Decorus. Please make sure to Back Up both your Sage and Decorus/LLM data before doing the following. Go to Preferences and under the 'Data' tab select 'Clear Down Tenant ...
Clearing Down Jobs
You are able to clear down jobs to a set date by going into the data tab in preferences (Please see screenshot below). You are also able to choose whether you want to only include Archived jobs in the deletion -
Printing Receipts in Decorus
Printing Receipts in Decorus Decorus is able to print receipts directly from the software. The transaction types that are available to be printed are both SR and SA. To print off a receipt, go to the ‘Activity’ of a contact or tenancy record and ...
Property Availability
The software determines whether a property is available or not based of the 'Include in Rental Advertising' tick box in the property record. If this is ticked then the property will show in available and let you add tenants to it - When you change ...
Syncing Diary Events to Outlook
To Sync diary events into Outlook, first make sure that 'Sync with Outlook' is ticked on the diary record - Once all the events that you want to sync through are ticked, click 'Send to Outlook' on the diary module home screen.
Changing the Default Column View
Decorus allows you to customize your columns to suite your needs. This can be done in the 'Block', 'Property', 'Tenancy', 'Jobs', 'Contacts', 'Applicants', 'Landlords', 'Suppliers' and 'Diary' module. Either as a one off, by going into the module, ...
Setting up Automated Backups
Using the 'Sidekick' add-on Decorus is able create automated backups. To set this feature up, go to the user list and select the user account that you want to run the backups. In the ‘Sidekick’ tab along the bottom of the ‘User Admin’ window, you ...
Adjusting Details in a Tenancy Agreement
To adjust the details on an active tenancy agreement, you will need to revert the tenancy to pending. Changes cannot be made to a tenancy that is Active as at this point the agreement has been made with the tenant. To revert the tenancy to pending, ...