Name: Spire Virtual Conference 2022
Start: 14/10/2022 04:00 AM +00:00
End: 15/10/2022 12:00 AM +00:00

Spire Systems Inc. is an innovative developer of business management software for small and mid-sized businesses. Founded by industry veterans with over 40 years of combined experience, we create software that enables companies to gain better insight, streamline operations and maximize their business potential.
Our purpose is to solve business challenges and provide companies with the necessary tools and information to succeed. We help companies become more agile with software that gives them the flexibility and scalability to differentiate from the competition. Our business management solution is designed to help cut costs, improve margins and meet customer demand.
Our growth reflects our commitment to delivering excellence. We started out developing customized modules for existing accounting software and over the years, have evolved into developing our own complete business management solution. &nbsp;A key component to our success is that we listen to our customers and strive to help them meet their business goals.
We think differently and constantly look to create a better product for our customers. We challenge ourselves to meet and exceed all expectations. Our customers and business partners matter to us, and we always do what we promise.
We deliver software that is built for growth in this evolving landscape.
Our Core Values
 Sustainable We create software that keeps pace with the fast-changing technology industry. We build for the future to preserve investments and secure profitable relationships.
Progressive We are forward-thinking and dynamic. We embrace change and use it as a catalyst for innovation.
Integrity We demonstrate accountability by delivering what we promise. We will earn and maintain your trust.
Respect We value diversity and promote inclusiveness. We treat others as we expect to be treated.
Excellence We hold ourselves to the highest standards and strive to meet and exceed expectations.

Spire Systems Inc

Our Conference Support is here to help out and answer any of the conference platform questions you may have.&nbsp;

Help Booth

E-commerce Solutions for B2B
 We simplify promoting, selling &amp; managing products online for the most complex challenges B2B businesses face today.
Terracor is dedicated to providing various e-Commerce business solutions that improve and automate your day-to-day work processes. From providing implementations and expert consulting for your resource management software to developing web and desktop applications, our goal is to help you improve your business. With a complete set of specialized services offered, Terracor is here to help improve, automate, and build your business.

Terracor Business Solutions

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes get tax compliance right. In partnership with leading ERP, accounting, e-commerce, and other financial management system providers, Avalara delivers automated, cloud-based compliance solutions for transactional tax, including sales and use, VAT, GST, excise, communications, lodging, and other indirect tax types. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world in Canada, the U.K., Belgium, Brazil, and India. More information at avalara.com.

Avalara 

At CPolyzotis &amp; Associates, we empower your staff with the knowledge and skills they need, so your organization can achieve its strategic goals.

CPolyzotis & Associates Booth

Specializing in custom software, eCommerce integration and mobile solutions. Our applications extend the use of your accounting software, reduce data entry and streamline your workflow. We mostly create custom one-off applications but over the last 5-10 years we wrote a number of commercial packages:
Our eCommerce solution integrates with WooCommerce, BigCommerce and Shopify for an affordable $199/month. It uploads Inventory, Pricing and Pictures from Spire to the eCommerce platform and downloads online orders into Sales in Spire.
Pick My Stuff is a mobile Android app for picking sales orders and receiving purchase orders using a ScanSKU barcode scanner.
Count My Stuff uses the same barcode scanner and allows users to do mobile inventory counts.
Spire Inventory Barcodes allows you to print barcode labels from Inventory, Purchase Orders, Purchase History, Serial/Lot Numbers, Locations/Bins and Employees. It comes with sample labels (both sheet and continuous feed), which can be used &ldquo;as is&rdquo; or as a starting point for more creative projects.
Sell It Anywhere is an iOS app for salespeople on the road. Take with you all of Spire&rsquo;s customers, inventory, sales history and price matrices. It works live with a data connection or in batch processing without.&nbsp;
Time Trakker is your one stop shop for tracking employee&rsquo;s time. It fully integrates with Spire&rsquo;s payroll, sales order, job costing modules (and also links to ADP). Never spend another minute chasing employees for timesheets or re-entering them from the napkin they were written on. And soon to be released is our Android app where users can enter timecards even if they&rsquo;re not in the office.

DMCL

Gemini Logic Inc. is an IT consulting company specializing in the implementation, training and support of business management, accounting and customer relationship management software solutions.
We've built two powerful products that let you extend the features of your Spire Software.&nbsp;
1) <a href="https://www.geminilogic.com/hubspot-spire-connect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spire Connect For HubSpot</a>&nbsp;- Sync your Spire Customer Data to HubSpot. A bi-directional integration eliminates duplicate entry by allowing your sales/marketing teams to push selected customers (Companies and Contacts) into Spire directly from HubSpot. This initial connection creates a link between the two platforms that will pull transactional information from Spire back into HubSpot relating to that specific customer.
2) <a href="https://www.geminilogic.com/shopify-spire-connect">Spire Connect for Shopify</a> - Spire Connect automatically sycns products, customers, inventory availability, sales order and fulfillment data with Shopify. Easily manage your product information, including varients, seo details and warehouses in Spire and update pricing and availability across your channels.&nbsp;
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Gemini Logic

GMDH is an innovative global provider of supply chain planning and predictive analytics solutions. GMDH solutions are built on a 100% proprietary technology and handle every part of the demand and inventory planning process, providing complete transparency across the entire supply chain.
We create advanced software solutions which bring the power of the GMDH modeling and forecasting algorithms to non-mathematicians, providing accurate, flexible forecasting for business.
Our GMDH Streamline product is a demand forecasting and inventory replenishment planning solution, which allows businesses to maximize return on their capital investments.
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Why choose Streamline?
1. Fast implementation
2. Improved accuracy of the forecast
3. Cost efficiency
4. User-friendly experience

GMDH Streamline 

Go Integrations is a fast-growing consultancy firm with over 20 years of combined experience helping small and medium-sized businesses grow through the use of best-in-class CRM and eCommerce solutions that integrate tightly with their preferred ERP, Spire Systems.
Our goal is to help businesses meet today&rsquo;s challenges while providing a path for future transformation, allowing them to get the most out of their software and grow to new heights.
We currently offer solutions in the form of:
<ul>
<li>Zoho CRM Integration: This includes the bi-directional flow of data between Spire and Zoho CRM.&nbsp; All of this information allows for the Along with the CRM Zoho also offers solutions for Marketing; Customer Service; Project Management; and Remote Work/Collaboration to just name a few.&nbsp; Once the Spire data is loaded into Zoho's ecosystem it can pass between these applications to provide all departments with the critical information they need to perform at the highest level. </li>
<li>eCommerce Integration (Shopify, BigCommerce &amp; WooCommerce): Through our integration engine we establish a bi-directional synchronization of data (Customers, Orders, Products) to ensure that the information between these systems is always accurate. </li>
<li>Zoho Analytics: Through the usage of another one of Zoho's powerful applications you can build in-depth, comprehensive Business Intelligence reports that go beyond a single data source and allow you to consolidate information coming from all aspects of your business (Accounting; Webstore; CRM; Marketing; etc.) to build true comprehensive KPIs on your business.&nbsp; Best of all it is 100% cloud-based so data is accessible anywhere at any time, including mobile with sophisticated sharing and permission-based control settings.</li>
<li>Zuper FSM: Through this leading Cloud-based FSM (Field Service Management) system, companies are able to keep connected with their teams in the field, including GPS tracking, Geo-Fencing and Route mapping to allow your field teams to work smarter not harder.&nbsp; With integration to Spire, users can see Inventory availability; sync work orders and invoices as well as possibly Equipment sales for asset tracking.</li>
</ul>

Go integrations 

INFOtrac is a powerful software "environment" with features, functions and tools that help you run your business efficiently with automation for today's world. &nbsp;See how INFOtrac can become the centre of your businesses universe .&nbsp;
The INFOtrac "Environment" is designed to integrate deeply into Spire and connect to the other software and on-line systems that your business relies on so you only have to enter data once! &nbsp;Finally, you can elimintate the need to enter data in multiple software applications and systems.
Manage prospects, customers, vendors, orders and any other business processes your business requires. &nbsp;INFOtrac's customization allows us to provide you with a custom solution for a fraction of the cost of custom software.

INFOtrac Solutions Inc

It all began in 2009 when Gerhard (a.k.a The Chief Spectator) was both bored and unhappy at his current workplace. His boss was great, and all but The Chief Spectator's vision for life and other things was not in line with his boss. So one day he dreamed of starting his own business and his boss caught wind of his dreams. From there on everything went down the hill. Fast forward a few months and The Chief was self-employed and had a lot of time on his hands to dream the world in place.
 Very soon he had few people interested in his dreams. Well, not so much the dreams themselves but the results the dreams could produce for their businesses. Then after a while, it turns out that these people liked him and started telling other people. From there on things started growing rapidly. So naturally, it turned into an obsession to please new and existing customers alike.
Fast forward three more years he had his first crew member on board. Then another crew member and then another one and yet another one. Check out The Chief Spectator&rsquo;s the crew and you will see for yourself

iVersa

Nylus is a cloud-based fully customizable Field Operations Management system that consolidates all your operational software into one simple platform. Our system allows you to manage your field people in an all-in-one approach, therefore, decreasing operational costs and optimizing your field services. We work very closely with our customers to fit a solution to their business&rsquo;s precise needs as well as integrating your SPIRE specifications into the dispatching jobs. You build your system to fit your budget using our modular add-on and only pay for what you need. Choose from our 20+ modules or GPS options to handle everything from safety management, punch clocks, customizable forms, contactless remote sign-offs, geo-fencing, customer notifications, or timesheets.&nbsp;
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Nylus Field Service 

Sales Channel to ERP Automations
Through integrations, OrderEase reduces manual processes throughout the order management lifecycle.
EDI Trading Partner Workflows:
From order to invoice.&nbsp; An integrations with Spire provides you with the option to leverage OrderEase to integrate with your shipping software and EDI trading partners.&nbsp; Order workflows are configured based on business needs which allow automation of the following&nbsp; Primary EDI transation automation includes:
850, 856, 846, 810, 997&nbsp;
Additional EDI transactions are available based on the trading partner specifications and testing requirements.
PDF to ERP:
Receive PDF orders from your buyers, convert to a digital order, and have them pushed into Spire.&nbsp; Eliminates manual order entry, reduces order entry errors, and requires no change management for the customers.
eCommerce Integrations and Drop Ship:
Easily set up a drop ship program for resellers.&nbsp; With integrations to eCommerce platforms, offer a direct (D2C) drop ship program or offer resellers access to drop ship product data to populate into their integrated eCommerce store.
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-&gt; Fully bilingual (English / French)

OrderEase

Accept debit and credit cards on mobile, online and in stores with leading Canadian merchant services partner Payfirma. Since 2010, Payfirma&rsquo;s made it easy for people to operate and grow their businesses. To do that, they&rsquo;ve built one of the most innovative payments platforms in the market: PayHQ. PayHQ makes it simple to accept any kind of payment, any way you want to do business, and creates a single view of all your payment information so that you can make smarter decisions.&nbsp;

Payfirma

SpireAssists creates products to enhance your use of Spire.&nbsp; Although the SpireAssists brand is quite new, there are 50 years of experience in this industry behind us; experience designing and implementing custom solutions tailored to specific customer needs.
The origins of SpireAssists are similar to Spire themselves: BusinessVision.&nbsp; Peter Wright started with BusinessVision in 1993 in technical support, rose to Manager of Information Technology, then an independant BusinessVision Partner in 1998 and on to being a Spire partner since 2013. We have helped hundreds of clients solve problems, design and implement solutions, and generally make stuff work.
SpireAssists goal is to identify the most commonly asked for features that are not already available and fill those needs with easy to use tools that do exactly what you need in the simplest way possible.&nbsp; We can also handle those not-so-common scenarios with custom solutions tailored to your specific requirements.

SpireAssists

Swiftcount's mission is to make your inventory count.&nbsp;
With a simple, dynamic, and reliable web and mobile interface, Swiftcount connects seamlessly to Spire and helps you track all aspects of inventory movements.&nbsp;
With Swiftcount you can create sales, Ship orders, receive PO's, perform full and cycle counts, track bin locations, print labels among other things.
The Swiftcount team has been working with Spire from day one and focuses on promoting best practices in your warehouse.
Things like adding barcoding and scanning for speed and precision are core to the functionality.
We also support more advanced features like serials and lots, curbside pickup, live transfers. wave picks and much more.
The platform is easy to implement and use and very competitive with a very hands-on onboarding approach.

Swiftcount

Bonnie McIntyre

DMCL Ltd

Michael Craig

Natalie Lopadchak-Eski

GMDH Inc

Derek FitzPatrick

Go Integrations

Gerhard Peters

iVersa Inc

Boris Radulovic

Giselle Blagobin

Nylus Systems

Warren Patterson

Order Ease 

Albert Amar

SwiftCOUNT

Keith Webster

eCommerce for Spire by Terracor

Peter Wright

Wright-Way Business Solutions

Jermaine McKinnon

Avalara

INFOtrac

Spire CEO, Al Romeyn, &nbsp;is excited for you to see what Spire has been up to this year and to tell you about what is coming. I know you will be happy to see that Spire is listening to you.

Al Romeyn

Welcome & What's New in Spire 

Does it ever seem like there aren't enough hours in the day? You feel like you're busy pushing through your tasks at work, yet so much gets left undone. If only having more hours in the day was an option!
Happily, it might actually be an option, in an indirect way. It's possible that you aren't getting as much done in your day because of how you manage your time. Our Spire Conference 2022 KeyNote speaker, Al Ruttan will cover topics such as:
- Productivity - Get more of the things that matter most, moved from your "To Do List" to your "Done List" - Improved Quality - Focusing on what matters improves the quality of your work - Be In Control - Be more decisive in the work going on your daily calendar - Be Less Overwhelmed - Planning means less stress and chaos and more...
Conference attendees will learn the above and be given a PDF workbook with practical tools to help them organize their day, eliminate distractions, and get more done.&nbsp;

Al Ruttan

Time Mastery for the Busy Professional - Spire Conference 2022 Key Note 

Experience the scientific benefits of Doodling by joining us for a healthy brain break. Hit pause on your to-do list and learn a new skill that can be used anywhere, anytime to reduce stress, boost creativity, and improve productivity. &nbsp;
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Melissa Lloyd

Catherine McGuire

Break Time & Virtual Doodle Session

The heart of any accounting system is its General Ledger. This session will cover how to search for accounts or entries within the GL, and investigate transactions such as recurring or reversed journal entries and allocations. Use bank account reconciliation and budgets to ensure your accounting is up to date and on track. And see what reports are available for listings and financials.&nbsp;

Warren Flett

GL Must Knows 

Inventory is a key component in Spire. This session will show you how to properly set up and maintain inventory, trust that Spire is accurate and how to maintain proper levels of product. Learn how to investigate product discrepancies easily and quickly.

Inventory Items & Transactions 

Every software is user friendly once the user becomes friendly with the software. In this session we will take a look at getting comfortable in your new Spire software. We&rsquo;ll explore user settings, keyboard shortcuts, using the calendar and chromium browser.

Cindi Polyzotis

Getting Comfortable with Spire 

This session is designed to address some of the more challenging and complex scenarios that payroll can present. Because managing your own payroll is an important part of many organizations, we&rsquo;ll cover basic rules, top ten troubleshooting issues you can fix on your own, best practices for tax table updates and open Q &amp; A.

Introduction to Payroll & Updates 

Businesses need accounting, but there's more to it than just debits and credits. In this session, we discuss how various aspects of Spire can be used creatively to provide novel and useful solutions. We'll look at sales processing options, email and communications, alerts, setting up recurring orders, leveraging features for value, and more.

Katie Griffin

Rick Notman

Sales Management & Best Practices 

In this session, we will explore the Spire fundamentals. Must knows for every new Spire user. How to easily navigate through Spire in your day-to-day role. You&rsquo;ll walk away with tips that you can start applying immediately. We&rsquo;ll be covering:
<ul>
<li>Helpful user preference settings</li>
<li>How to use Spire's powerful Google-like search</li>
<li>Email merge in Spire</li>
<li>Creating, saving and using filters&nbsp;</li>
<li>Document attachment</li>
<li>User Defined Fields</li>
<li>And more!</li>
</ul>

Spire Tips & Tricks 101 

According to Wikipedia, Accounts payable (AP) is money owed by a business to its suppliers shown as a liability on a company's balance sheet. An accounts payable department's main responsibility is to process and review transactions between the company and its suppliers and ensure that all outstanding invoices from their suppliers are approved, processed, and paid. Processing an invoice includes recording important data from the invoice and inputting it into the company's financial or bookkeeping system. After this is accomplished, the invoices must go through the company's respective business process to be paid. We will discuss and show how Spire can help to streamline your day-to-day Accounts Payable processes.

Accounts Payables Best Practice

Requisitions and Purchase orders are an important part of many Spire users&rsquo; day to day procedures. Learn how to create purchase orders either directly or via requisitions from inventory shortages or sales backorders, linked to the PO. From there we&rsquo;ll briefly take a look at how to enter received stock quantity, generate the vendor invoice and how to access purchase and sales history from within the Purchase Order module. Finally, we'll see what vendor settings and best practices make purchasing easier to manage.

Better Purchasing Processes

Production manager is a Spire additional module that is extremely useful if you are manufacturing or assembling inventory for use or sale. In this session we discuss kitting, and how it differs from production (manufacturing). We explorer an end to end manufacturing example with a complex multi-level bill of material. We discuss how features like requisitions, in conjunction with the production module, can create a powerful solution, integrating the purchasing, sales and inventory management aspects of you business.

Production Manager 

Take a step away from the computer monitor, stretch your legs and come back refreshed in 10 minutes to continue with the rest of your conference day.

10 Minute Break

Spire is highly configurable, with options to do a lot of things that might not be obvious from a default installation. This session covers many topics, including a deep dive into: -Interesting uses of communications -Tips for managing orders more effectively -Ideas for navigating Spire more efficiently -Short cuts to save time (kit/macro/copy from documents) -Hints on managing multi-warehouse stock -Barcodes, UPC codes and automating processes in Spire.

Spire Tips & Tricks 102 

Do you service products? If so, then Spire&rsquo;s service manager will help track that service and maintain a great relationship with your customers. Spire&rsquo;s Service Manager add-on will help improve customer satisfaction and increase the efficiency of your service business. This add-on gives you quick access to all service records, making it easy to track the history of each piece of equipment.

Service Manager 

Cashflow for any business is crucial. In this session we will introduce you to Accounts Receivables and managing the money you receive. We&rsquo;ll review how in Spire you can make live entries or create batches in either the base or other currencies, set filters by aging periods, access customer history and information. We&rsquo;ll look at Credit Card Payment and how Spire manages split tenders. Finally, we'll see how sending customer statements can encourage prompt cash receipts.

Accounts Receivables Must Knows

Join some of our Spire team as we open up the virtual floor to a live Q &amp; A session. Did you have a question while attending the conference today that didn't get answered in the training sessions? This is your chance to ask it! We'll take about an hour and try to address as many questions as possible.&nbsp;

Spire Virtual Conference 2022

Agenda

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Al Romeyn

Spire Inc.

Rick Notman

Warren Flett

Katie Griffin

Matt Kalina

Cindi Polyzotis

Al Ruttan

Melissa Lloyd

Scott Hammell

Keith Webster

Bonnie McIntyre

Michael Craig

Natalie Lopadchak-Eski

Derek FitzPatrick

Sheldon Waters

Gerhard Peters

Giselle Blagobin

Warren Patterson

Boris Radulovic

Peter Wright

Albert Amar

Jermaine McKinnon

Catherine McGuire

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Spire Systems Inc

Help Booth

Terracor Business Solutions

Avalara

CPolyzotis & Associates Booth

DMCL

Gemini Logic

GMDH Streamline

Go integrations

INFOtrac Solutions Inc

iVersa

Nylus Field Service

OrderEase

Payfirma

SpireAssists

Swiftcount

Speakers24 Speakers

Booth16 Booth