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Masterclass training

Once you're familiar with the fundamentals, learn about our more advanced features and little unknown tips and tricks.

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Best practice videos

Best practices for Triage

Discover some best practices for using Triage to deal with your email more efficiently and ensure that nothing slips through the cracks.

Written by Andi Ancheta
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Best practices for To-do

Learn some advanced task-management tips for To-do, to efficiently manage what you are working on today, and plan what's coming up next.

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Best practices for managing internal work (6 mins)

Find out how you can use Work and Kanban in Karbon to manage all of the work going on throughout your practice.

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Templates, checklists & scheduling work

Learn about templates, work types, custom statuses to standardize your firm.

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Best practices for Automation

Save time and work more efficiently by learning best practices for Automators.

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Best practices for managing your day in Karbon (41 mins)

Best practices in Karbon with email, To-do, and Work that will ensure you get through your tasks in the quickest time.

Written by Andy Biggs
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Advanced Karbon workflows with templates and client tasks

Personalize Karbon's Templates to ensure a consistent approach to workflow management, and advanced techniques with Client tasks.

Written by Andi Ancheta
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Advanced training videos

Simple & complex workflow concepts (12 mins)

Learn the best practices for creating a variety of simple and complex workflows in Karbon.

Written by Ian Vacin
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Creating, refining & optimizing your workflows (11 mins)

Learn how to create, refine and optimize your workflow in Karbon.

Written by Ian Vacin
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Firm management concepts (13 mins)

Learn some Karbon best practices for practice management, including Automators, schedules, comments and work views.

Written by Ian Vacin
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Team collaboration concepts (9 mins)

Learn the concepts of some team collaboration essentials, including @mentions, assignments and snippets.

Written by Ian Vacin
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Client management concepts (14 mins)

Learn some client management essentials including work statuses, client tasks, decisions and Automators.

Written by Ian Vacin
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Right-for-Me training

Right-for-Me education: Choose your path

Karbon offers a collection of specific right-for-me education modules to support various job roles or key areas of interest.

Written by Evan Hall
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Advanced concepts

Advanced concept: Workflow management

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Advanced concept: Reporting & insights

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Advanced concept: Productivity

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Advanced concept: Data management

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Advanced concept: Client collaboration

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Advanced concept: Contact management

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Advanced concept: Team management

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Advanced concept: Capacity planning

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Advanced concept: Client acquisition

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General

Keyboard shortcuts in Karbon

You can quickly create a new Contact, Email, Note or Work, or open Global Search with a keyboard shortcut.

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Checking on items you have assigned to other team members.

Step by step directions to check in and follow up on notes and emails that you've assigned.

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Managing Leads in Karbon

Lead, Prospect, Introduction, Lead Management & Qualifying your leads.

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Managing Prospects in Karbon

A prospect is a potential client that you have a relatively high chance of converting into a client.

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What is the Kanban method?

Kanban is a style of workflow management. It provides a flexible approach to optimize workflows by visualizing all work on a single canvas.

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Effectively managing your day or week in To-do and Work

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How to manage colleagues on vacation or annual leave

Dealing with their email and work

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Tips for using Karbon to manage your tax workflow

How to manage your tax production system to pull in work when ready while ensuring all work is accounted for at the beginning of tax season.

Written by Andy Biggs
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Managing email

How Karbon replaces client & email folders in your email client

Many firms create folders for each client in their email inbox. Karbon does better by creating a timeline of conversations for each client.

Written by Andy Biggs
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Effectively managing Triage

There are five key things you should do to effectively manage your triage. This article discusses them in detail.

Written by Andi Ancheta
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Don't CC or BCC colleagues

Many claim their inbox is cluttered with CC, BCC and FYIs with no clear action guideline.

Written by Lachlan Macindoe
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Linking an email to an individual's timeline and an organization's timeline

You might want an email to sit on the timeline for a person contact and the timeline for an organization contact.

Written by Andy Biggs
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Deciding whether to action an email that involves another team member

There are a few details that Karbon exposes to make this decision easier for you.

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Managing contacts

Contacts & privacy

Create a client team and adjust the privacy level on the details tab of a contact

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Archiving inactive contacts and organizations

When you are no longer working with a specific client, it is a good idea to retain them in Karbon rather than deleting them.

Written by Andy Biggs
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Managing couples and marriages or families

We recommend creating an organization to represent marriages and couples and client groups to represent families.

Written by Andy Biggs
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Additional Resources

How to handle tax season in Karbon (65 mins)

Whatever your firm's focus, tax period consists of various deadlines, extensions and collaboration between multiple clients and teams.

Written by Andy Biggs
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