Category: The Basics

  • Proofing Records

    Expenses Fields on the expense return and their usage. Mileage Fields on the mileage return and their usage. Clocks Fields on the clock return and their usage.

  • Command Catalog

    Shoebox commands start with “Hey, Simon…” … these are just the basics

  • Editing records

    All records returned from Shoebox commands are editable / returnable on their face. This includes “review” requests that may consist of tables containing hundreds of records. All editable on their face. In other words, you can reply to the records email with the record tables included, edit the records in place, and then send. If…

  • Label Table

    Labels for beSpokn records

  • Speaking in Pairs

    This is how Requests are structured … with a message head, where the type of action and the type of record are named The rest of the Request is you, Speaking in Pairs:

  • Two Mileage Types

    Let’s start with this: there are two basic types of mileage entries. One is what we call a stand-alone record, where you include a starting location for the request, and an ending location. The mileage record that you see is the computed driving distance between the two locations, start and end. The other that happens…

  • Mileage Anytime

    You can enter mileage as it occurs, and a lot of our users do. Others have been really, really happy to do all their mileage at a sitting, or multiple sittings, as the case may be, entering all of their historical mileage records sometime later on… which is to say maybe long after they happened.…