Understanding the Menu and Toolbar Options in REST Professional
Overview
The toolbar consists of a set of icons for the most commonly used functions and is shown with the window screen set to 1280 x 720 resolution.
All the icons have tool tips associated with them. Simply rest your mouse pointer on the icon and a message is displayed explaining the function of that icon.
This document will cover:
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Menu and Toolbar Options
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How to Switch between Sales and Property Management toolbars
Menu and Toolbar Options
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Navigate through the menu options:
- Files Menu – Provides access to all of the master files, such as your owner, property and tenant files as well as access to chart of accounts, insurance policies, users, web advertising
- Transactions Menu – All transactions and reversal options are located in this menu, such as rent receipts, creditor disbursements and invoice enrty, journals etc
- Reports Menu – All reports for owner, tneants and creditors are accessed through this menu together with property maintenance and management reports etc. Owner and creditor payments are also made from this menu
- Cashbook Menu – holds all receipts and payments reports as well as the bank reconciliation, banking, audit reporrts and jourals and transactions reports etc
- Holiday booking menu – this displays if you have a Holiday Bookings module installed only
- Other Menu – Provides access to miscellaneous options, including mail merge, diary list and settings for your rest program, together with system recovery and files update functions
- Help menu – Gives you access to the news feed and our rockend website, where you can access our knowledgebase, book training and log a support call, also gives you information on your file path and version information
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Navigate through the Toolbar Options:
Rent Receipts – Enter receipts for rent, tenant invoice payments, bonds and tenant invoice credit. You can also charge selected owner and tenant fees
Creditor Disbursement – Enter creditor disbursements ready to be paid, if setup in system options this will create an outstanding disbursements
One Off creditor payment – Post & Print a creditor disbursement for immediate payment 
Banking - Print and clear the banking
Banking reconciliation - Access the bank reconciliation screen
Smart Search – Enter a name, partial name or alpha index to search files for that name
Owner – Add, change or view an Owner 
Property – Add, change or view a Property
Tenant – Add, change or view a Tenant
Security deposit – Enter a Tenant Deposit Receipt
Sundry receipt – Enter a Sundry Receipt from anyone other then the tenant
Quick disbursement – Enter Quick Disbursements or manual cheque where no printing is required 
Tenant Invoice – Enter a Tenant Invoice 
Property maintenance – Add or view property maintenance jobs
Creditors – Add, change or view a Creditor
Action Diary – Create or maintain and action/conversation diary 
Calendar – Display all action items on the calendar
Wizards – Access the Change of ownership/Inspection Update, Owner Payments & End of Month/Backup/Restore Wizards
Padlock – Use this button to lock your screen while you are away from your desk or change user/password. Note: By locking your screen you are still actually logged in
Calculator – Displays the Rent Calculator which can be used either whilst in a tenant file or simply by clicking the icon without anything else open
Printer – When a masterfile is accessed, this icon can be used to print or preview the Ledger/Owner Statements
REST Document Management – Access documents, images, email etc saved within the document management
fileSMART Document Management – Provides direct access to fileSMART login screen to search within fileSMART
Help – Access REST Professional help menu which is searchable and allows you to access all release notes for REST
How to Switch between Sales and Property Management Toolbars
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to switch between Sales and Property Management Toolbar. This can also be accessed by going to Other > Toolbar View
NOTE: Each user can have a default toolbar. Go to Files > User > User Profile and select Property Management or Sales from the Toolbar View drop down list. Only users with the highest security level Statistics /Company Details/Passwords & Above can set a user’s default toolbar view.