See also Chapter 3 in the BSBI MapMate Book and the BSBI data entry guidance
Preparing the initial settings in MapMate
Preparation can make data entry easier - best done before you go ahead and start entering your data!
Data entry settings video
Some suggested shortcuts for speeding up data entry
Data entry shortcuts
Additional guidance on how to set up 'taxon validations' to prevent unlikely species being entered by mistake is available.
See Data exchange - syncing and importing records for how to import data from other MapMate users.
Adding null records
To record a null record in MapMate, set abundance to '-7'.