The Basics
1. Configure Your MSP Profile
Start by setting up your MSP profile to personalize your SuperOps.ai experience. Here’s how:
Go to Settings > My MSP > MSP Information.
Fill in the required details, including your MSP's name, address, preferred currency for invoicing and contracts, and timezone, date, and time format.
Provide primary and secondary contact information.
Remember to click 'Save' to apply your changes.
2. Configure your mailboxes
Next, set up communication channels with your clients. To set up default mailboxes in SuperOps.ai,
Go to Settings > Domain and Email.
You'll find a default outgoing address and forwarding address. Customize these as needed.
To add additional custom mail servers, click 'Add New Mailbox.'
Check out this article for a detailed guide on setting up default and custom mailboxes.
3. Create or bring in your clients
You can create new clients or import existing clients into SuperOps.ai with a few simple steps:
To create new clients, navigate to Create > Clients.
Enter all relevant client information in the corresponding fields and click 'Save.'
To import existing clients, go to Modules > Clients.
Select the CSV import option and upload a file or manually enter data in the provided spreadsheet.
Alternatively, you can also bring in your clients from accounting tools like QuickBooks/Xero by integrating with them.
Check this article to learn more about Importing clients in SuperOps.ai.
4. Downloading and deploying agents on your client’s assets
You’ll need agent files for each client and site to deploy and start monitoring client devices.
Navigate to Modules > Assets > Download Agent.
Choose the client and site for which you want to deploy agents.
The agents for Windows, Mac, and Linux devices will be generated.
Download the corresponding agents and install them on the assets you wish to monitor.
5. Set Up Passwords/SSO
Protect your platform and client data by configuring security measures:
Navigate to Settings > Security Management > Technician Login.
Choose between setting up passwords or Single Sign-On (SSO) based on your security preferences.
Optionally, enable Two-Factor Authentication (TFA) for an additional layer of protection if required.
6. Manage Technician Permissions
Fine-tune your technician roles and permissions:
Navigate to Settings > Roles and Groups > Technician Roles.
Define the actions each technician can perform across platform modules.
You can also create technician groups based on expertise and associate them with specific clients by navigating to Settings > Roles and Groups > Technician Groups.
By following these best practices, you can effectively set up SuperOps.ai for your MSP, improving your client management, asset monitoring, and overall security.
Setting up SuperOps.ai’s PSA
1. Explore the Service Catalog
The service catalog is Square 1 of your invoicing process. Whether it's a product or a retainer fee, the services you provide have a home in the service catalog.
Add them on your own, or import them from bookkeeping tools like QuickBooks or Xero.
Check out this article to learn more about the different types of service items.
2. Integrate with Xero or Quickbooks
You can choose to integrate QuickBooks/Xero with SuperOps.ai for seamless accounting across a multitude of clientele. Upon integration, these tools will remain the only source of truth from which information will be obtained and used in SuperOps.ai for invoicing purposes.
Navigate to Marketplace
Scroll down to Invoice and Billing
Choose QuickBooks/Xero and click Integrate.
Map or Add customers/service items in QuickBooks/Xero to existing or new clients/service items in SuperOps.ai
Check out the below articles to understand in detail how you can integrate your Bookkeeping tools with SuperOps.ai:
3. Set up Contracts
Set up recurring items through contracts, or just add items to invoices and bill clients for them if you're running a break-fix practice.
To add contracts, navigate to Modules > Contract Templates
Click +create to set up a new contract template.
Give a name and description for the Contract and add service items to the contract.
You can also set up SLAs for the contract and add blacklisted services to it.
Check out this article to learn all about setting up client contracts.
4. Manage your fields
Choose what information you'd like to collect for your tickets, clients, and requesters.
Navigate to Settings > Advanced Configuration > Manage Fields
Here you’ll see Ticket fields, Client fields, and Requester fields.
Under each tab, you’ll find default and custom fields.
You can also create custom fields by clicking on the +Create button.
You can make these fields mandatory on creation or while closing.
Check out this article to learn more about ticket fields.
5. Define your SLAs
Mutually agree on service expectations and exceed them at every turn.
To create new SLA policies, navigate to Settings > Service Level Agreements > SLA policies
Click “+Create”
Add a name and description to define your SLA policy and enable the toggle button to make the SLA active.
Under SLA configurations, choose the conditions for which the SLA policy applies.
Define the first response and escalation time.
As a final step, choose who should the ticket be:
Escalated to if the SLA is breached.
Assigned to if the SLA is breached
7. Once you are done, click "Save."
Check out this article to learn more about SLAs
6. Set up automation
Let us do the heavy lifting for you. See how you can leverage powerful workflow automation to get work done faster. Automation in SuperOps.ai is broadly split into three:
Event Triggers: Scan tickets for specific conditions and perform an action, like ‘set properties’ and ‘assign tech’.
Check out this article to learn more about event triggers.
2. Time Triggers: These automation rules execute actions based on time-related conditions
3. Runbooks: Automation that helps you execute SOPs for recurring issues.
7. Work with runbooks
If you have routine processes, runbooks can speed them up and bring your team on the same page. With runbooks, you can set a:
Standardized process-based reply templates
Detailed list of tasks to be completed
Predefined flow for easy approvals
Check out this article to learn more about Runbooks.
8. Set up time-tracking
Time is money, isn't it? Track time precisely and convert it into revenue. The auto-timer ensures that you're capturing all the value your team's creating, so you're never leaving money on the table. Even if you're multi-tasking, zooming out and managing your timers is always just a click away.
Navigate to Settings > Contracts and Billing > Time Tracking
Choose a default service item to be shown on the timer tab.
Select the auto-timer checkbox to start time tracking. The auto-start timer works when the ticket is opened for the first time a ticket is assigned to a technician.
9. Quote and Invoice setting
Control your global quote and invoice preferences on a single page.
Navigate to Settings > Contract and Billing > Quote and Invoice settings
Schedule invoices, set payment terms, and customize quote and invoice settings right here.
Click here to learn more about Invoicing in SuperOps.ai
10. Billing and Invoice audit
It's important to have complete visibility into what is being added to your client's invoices. The invoice audit gives you a bird's eye view of all line items your team's added across your clients.
Navigate to Modules > Invoice Audit
Here, you’ll see a list of worklog items that require your approval.
You can also revise the billable quantity and unit price of the work item and add some sweet discounts to a work item before you approve it to give clients a little surprise!
Once you’ve approved a worklog item, the item will then be moved to the billing queue.
Worklog items in the billing queue will be automatically added to the next scheduled invoice for the client.
Check out this article to learn more about auditing worklogs.
Setting up SuperOps.ai’s RMM
1. Set up Policies
Set up policies for proactive asset monitoring and alert management. You can define these policies at a hierarchical level or an asset group level.
Hierarchical Policies
This is a type of policy that follows a hierarchy by deploying policies through distinct levels. The order of levels for the hierarchical policy is as follows: Global → Client → Site → Asset.
To set a new hierarchical policy, navigate to Settings > Asset Management > Policy Management and select a Mac, Windows, or Linux policy.
You can set up the following policies:
Alert Management
Intelligent Alerting
Patch Management
Schedule actions
Antivirus and Backup
Software management
Check out this article for a detailed explanation of all of the above policies.
2. Group-based Policies
With group-based policies, you can create asset groups that apply to a specific set of devices, based on the asset's properties.
To set up group-based policies, navigate to Settings > Asset Management > Group-based policies
Click here to learn how you can set up asset groups and policy sets
2. Create software bundles
Curate software bundles with all the software available through Chocolatey for each client persona and deploy them automatically on your client's devices with ease.
To create a new software bundle, navigate to Settings > Asset Management > Software Bundles
On the software bundle page, you’ll be able to create and manage software bundles for your clients.
Click the + Create button on the top right to create a new software bundle.
Give the bundle a name, click the + Software, search for the software you want, add them, and click Save to create the new bundle.
You can now install this software bundle on your client’s network of assets by adding it to an asset policy.
Check out this article to learn more about Software bundles.
3. Configure the System Tray icon
Make frequent actions easily accessible to your clients. The system tray is an icon in the taskbar of your laptop or computer. This icon contains a list of actions that you can perform in a single click without opening up any applications.
To set up the system tray icon, go to Settings > Agent & System Tray. Scroll down to the system tray section to start configuring your system tray.
Add a name for your system tray, and upload your MSP logo to reflect your brand.
Next, you can start including all the options you want to display on the system tray.
Once you’re done, you can preview the system tray and see how it looks on your Mac and Windows devices.
Click the save button to complete the configuration. The system tray, once enabled, will be automatically deployed to client devices in the network through the SuperOps.ai agent.
Check out this article to learn more about Menu items in the System tray icon.
4. Reporting Module
At the end of the day, You can't improve what you can't measure. Our intuitive dashboards bring crucial insights to the limelight and empower you to make faster, more meaningful decisions.
You have default dashboards that you can start using right away and you can also create customized dashboards.
To create a new dashboard, navigate to +Create > Dashboard.
Give the dashboard a title and description.
Drag and drop the widgets that you want to add to the report.
You can create a new widget from the dashboard page itself. To do that, click on the + icon near All Widgets.
Once you are done, click "Save."
Check out this article to get an overview of the default reports available in SuperOps.ai