Setups
Ohio's Sales Tax Holiday
Ohio has a "sales tax holiday" from Aug 1 through Aug 14 2025. During that time, any part $500 or less, is NOT subject to sales tax. The following is the link to the Ohio Department of Taxation that states the qualifications Ohio Department of ...
Managing Payment Methods
MaxxTraxx comes with 27 different payment methods to use for closing out Repair Orders. You have the ability to hide the ones you don't use and edit the ones that you do use. To find and edit these payment methods: 1. Go to Setups, the gear icon in ...
Did you know that MaxxTraxx has a built-in time clock and technician tracking?
Did you know that MaxxTraxx has a built-in time clock and technician tracking? The Service and Corporate versions of MaxxTraxx feature a built-in time clock. This feature includes both a time clock for recording attendance, and a job clock for ...
Did You Know - It is a good time to review your Repair Order layout.
With the release of MaxxTraxx 9.0, several changes have taken place to the look and feel of the program. While you are getting used to the new features, take a look at your repair order and parts counter invoice legal requirements. The following ...
Toolbar Inactive When RO Open
The top toolbar can be set to be "Active" or "Inactive" when you have an RO open. When the toolbar is active you can navigate to your Quick Picks, Customer, Parts, etc. tabs and check other things, then return back to your RO without having to close ...
Did you know you can quickly and easily change your labor rate
If you are changing your shop labor rate in MaxxTraxx it only takes three mouse clicks and some typing! First click on the "Setups" icon (the gear in the upper right corner of MaxxTraxx), then when the Setups window opens click the "Repair Orders and ...
Adding Product Codes to Part numbers or Labor Services
Product codes are a great way to extract greater detail from parts sales, inventory, and labor sales reports. MaxxTraxx has two default groups built in: GI for parts General Inventory, and GL for General Labor. You can add to those groups for ...
Adding a new Zip Code to MaxxTraxx
While MaxxTraxx does have a built in address verification system, there are times when you will still need to add a Zip Code to the system. Click the gear icon to bring up the settings screen. Go to "Zip Codes." Click "Add Zip Code." Add the Zip ...
Repair Order and Part Invoices Setup
Repair Order and Part Invoices Setups are a bit lengthy but will help the users to see the various features in MaxxTraxx and help decide what they want to program to do. Have them navigate to the Setup Menu and click on Repair Order and Part ...
Adding a Workstation
Once the new computer is connected to the local network, follow these steps to create a shortcut for MaxxTraxx: Browse to the MaxxTraxx Server: From the new computer, open File Explorer and browse the network to locate the “Scott Systems” folder on ...
Change Labor Rate
To change labor rates go to: 1. Setups (Gear icon in upper right corner). 2. Repair Orders and Parts Invoices (Under the Blue General column item B) 3. 1st screen Labor Rates, click Save after changes 4. Updated labor rates do not change any ...
How to install the MaxxTech Photo Application for Android Smartphones and Tablets
Answer: The MaxxTraxx Tech App for Android Smartphones and Tablets is designed for technicians to be able to enter vehicle odometer readings and take photographs with their Android device that will attach to the Repair Order they choose. These ...
Signature Capture Setups
We've increased the capabilities of our integrated credit card processing signature capture. Signature capture can now be turned on for every step of the process whether you're getting confirmation on an estimate or taking a payment. To turn this on ...
How To Setup Low Inventory Warning
Click on Setups from the top menu Choose This Workstation from the dropdown Then choose Printing and Miscellaneous Info Right in the middle is 'Low Inventory and purchase Warning Setups' Make sure both boxes have a check mark in them That will ...
How To Set Up Part Price Matrices
MaxxTraxx has the capability to create several Matrices for your part price calculations and can have differently Matrices assigned to your Online Vendors. Creating a Parts Matrix: Click on 'Parts Mgr' on the tool bar at the top Choose 'Part Price ...
Setting up Yahoo Email in MaxxTraxx
1. Open a browser window and sign into your Yahoo mail. 2. Follow the instructions in this article for the next steps: https://help.scottsystems.com/support/maxxcares/ShowHomePage.do#Solutions/dv/364381000002780253 3. Once you receive your secure ...
Using the Spell Check and AutoCorrect Functions in MaxxTraxx
Click on Setups Click on This Workstation Select Spell Check Check the Turn Spell Checking On For This Workstation box if you want to utilize the spell check functions Click the Edit The Dictionary to add, edit, or ignore words Click the Edit Options ...
Adding a color banner to the Parts & Service Counter
You can add a background color and change to font color for your company's name to your Parts and Service Counters Click on 'Setups' from the top menu Choose 'Company Information' from the dropdown Click the 'Display' blue link on the left Under the ...
How to Customize MaxxTraxx Service Counter and Parts Sales Counter Header Colors
Click on Setups Select Company Information from the drop down menu On the left side of the window that opens, you’ll see six options in blue, click on Display. On the bottom half of that window you will see the two options for changing colors in the ...
How do I setup supply charges for all customers
Click on Setups, choose Repair Orders and Part Invoices. Click on Misc. Charges on the left Miscellaneous Charge Description is Supply Charges; you may change the description to how you want it to appear on the repair order Enter a percentage you ...
Maxxchat is grayed out
Verify that MaxxChat is set up correctly in Setups, i.e. under Setups/Company Information/Security, Turn off System Security is unchecked and Use Maxx Chat is checked. Check Windows Firewall, try shutting Private Network Settings to Off. If the above ...
WorldPac not working on new workstation
Most likely WorldPac wasn’t enabled in this workstation setups. If you were logged into MaxxTraxx when you downloaded Speedial, log out of MaxxTraxx then log back in. Choose Setup Choose This Workstation from the dropdown Choose Printing & ...
Digital Inspection Feature
Create unlimited Digital Inspections to assign to your techs for various tasks including vehicle inspections or other checklist-type functions Be mobile! Perform the Inspections anywhere in the shop using Windows tablets or laptops. Easily mark items ...
Mailing Label Sizes
Navigate to Setups Company Information Printing Defaults from the left pane The label and paper sizes for different print jobs can be selected If the paper size or label configuration you want to use is not listed in the current defaults, you can add ...