HighPower Staff Developer Focus: Carl Raymond

Sometimes you don’t always know the person behind the voice on the phone. We want you to know who is helping you to automate your business. Carl Raymond has been working with FileMaker for quite a number of years now. He initially started working just as a...

Case Study: Patient Care Solution

Poynton Chiropractic is a chiropractic office based in Cheshire, England. They have two main clinics: The Back Clinic and The Natural Doctor. The Back Clinic specializes in treating joint and back pain as well as migraines. The Natural Doctor offers natural...

Can You Use Desktop Layouts on Mobile?

The answer to that question is a solid “yes” and “no”. Yes, usually, a desktop layout will kind of work on the iPad. But because desktop layouts are not optimized for touch, the user experience can be pretty poor. The reason is mainly because of the size of the fields...

Is Your Business Outgrowing Excel?

Many businesses start with Excel. It is a great spreadsheet program and works wonderfully for what it was designed to do. But that is the catch; it will work great as a spreadsheet program but not as a tool to run your entire business. There are too many features...

FM 17 – What happened to Pro?

You may have noticed a name change with the new FileMaker Pro Advanced 17 release. FileMaker, Inc, used to provide two varieties of their desktop app: FileMaker Pro which retailed for about $329, and FileMaker Advanced which retailed for about $500. The Advanced...

FileMaker links with Shopify

FileMaker now has great web integration technologies. One of those integrations is available for Shopify, which is an eCommerce solution. There is a plugin called “fmECommerce” which will help you with this. fmEcommerce Link (Shopify Edition) v1.1 includes support for...

What Kinds of Businesses Use FileMaker?

I am always impressed by the great variety of businesses which use FileMaker Pro to either track their data or automate their business. Even though we have done this for a long time, there is always some business contacting us which is in a totally new field....

The Benefits of S.E.R.V.I.C.E.

If you have built out your FileMaker product and are ready to sell it to your target users, there is one step you need to do before you start: You need to decide how you will handle software support questions. As soon as you release your new software to the world, you...

Time Card App for Construction Workers

A nice mobile app we designed recently, let’s construction workers log into the job while they are out in the field. Now any worker with a phone, whether iPhone or Android, can open up their phone, and “clock in” on the job. It is very cool. They tap on the special...

How Many Steps in Your Funnel?

Having a good funnel system is a bit tricky. One the one hand it needs to have enough steps to create meaningful interactions with prospects at each stage. On the other, it cannot have too many or be too complicated. Some of the many multi-step options out there are...