new for this week

This week we pushed out Appendix 14 to the CARS Website.

I had hinted at this last week about giving you some sort of documentation how to take an Excel export and create a working XML invoice that you can upload into CARS.

The link to the CARS Website where you can find Appendix 14 is here.

Another thing that I got a sneak peek at today is a WisDOT notification to help us identify when invoices are aging. We have a dashboard similar to what consultants have, except on ours we have a timeline to get invoices approved, which is 30 days. When an invoice sits inside someones CARS Application for more than 10 days without it being approved, the invoice shows up as a yellow status. If the invoice is more than 20 days since submitted, the status shows the invoice as red in color. Just another neat thing for us to make sure we are getting done with the work on time.

Finally, just when I thought I would see a lull in firms signing up to use CARS, I got about 3 or 4 smaller firms into CARS today. If you are working on invoicing and have subs that are not familiar with CARS, please enlighten them so we can get them all into the application.

The list of all firms in CARS is here.

The link to the CARS Training Videos is here.