New features available to you and 4.4 customers are:
Accounts Receivable (a lot like AR-1027) - Locate an Invoice using Customer Information
Increase efficiencies by tracking down an Invoice with minimal details, such as with the one unique piece of information that they will probably know - their telephone number. In case they have their customer number or Ship-to-Code, you are able to view on those too. Working with Lookup Customization Wizard, have a swift and reliable query with personalized criteria, and set up a title for your Custom Lookup which you'll be able to work with in the long run.
Accounts Receivable (similar to AR-1200) - Cash Receipts Entry
Within the Cash Receipts Entry window you can now immediately identify the right customer account by means of an invoice number that may have been referenced. When the right transaction is determined, the Customer No. field is populated with the relevant customer number. If ever the invoice is not paid, or will show a balance, the Amount Received and Invoice No. fields, and related fields on the Lines tab are populated.
Account Receivable (similar to AR-1027) - Search for Invoices by Lot or Serial Number
You can now look for invoice transactions by lot or serial number using the Accounts Receivable Invoice History Inquiry and Sales Order Copy From windows. The application will locate either the Item History or Invoice History file determined by your choice in Accounts Receivable Options.
Accounts Payable (NEW!) - Record Wire Transfers
Efficiently pay your suppliers through wire transfers, record and alter them using enhancements in Accounts Payable. Whenever you set up the new wire transfers features in Manual Check and Payment Entry, the application can make a distinctive Wire Transfer No related to the transaction. You are able to print the wire transfer specifics on the Check History and Payment History reports, and they're going to show up in Vendor Maintenance, Vendor Inquiry, Invoice History Inquiry, and Payment History Inquiry. In case you have Bank Reconciliation integrated with Accounts Payable, the wire transfer details will also show up in Check, Deposit and Adjustment Entry, Reconcile Bank, Bank Reconciliation Register, as well as your Bank Recap Report.
Payroll (similar to PR-1018) - Make Automatic Earnings Codes for Each Employee
Use Automatic Earning Codes to enhance your efficiencies maintaining proper Payroll details and less time carrying out manual input. Record particular benefit allowances in accordance with hours worked, by setting up earning codes for every employee. By using the Auto Pay feature, an unrestricted volume of earnings codes and the matching earnings type (fixed amount or percentage of pay) can be established for every staff member to be sure the relevant line items are automatically formulated and put into their paychecks.
Sales Order (similar to SO-1096) - Improved Duplicate Purchase Order Visibility and Safeguards
Your capacity to avoid submitting duplicate customer orders and implement your organization rules is boosted in 4.4 Product Update 1. Along with your own power to check for duplicate Customer PO numbers in Sales Order and Accounts Receivable Entry files, youâll likewise be able to immediately check in the Open Sales Order, and Open Sales Order Invoices. If you are maintaining history, Product Update 1 additionally checks for duplicate PO numbers in Accounts Receivable History files.
Every time a duplicate Customer PO Number is found, you will have the ability to view them in an Inquiry screen window, organize the information, drill down into further details, and print the information. Considering that these features are implemented with Business Objects, the rules you set up are going to be enforced when using Visual Integrator and any 3rd party add-ons that use the Bus Object interface.
Sales Order (similar to SO-1271) - Additional Purchase Controls
To enhance your ability to enforce business rules or to observe policies, you will now be able to manage the items available for sale by select customers, or control the sales of items by the ship-to-state. Work with Role Maintenance to set up which users are provided with the ability to override the restricted items. The limits are applied when picking alternate items in Shipping Data Entry and when exchanging an item with a different item in RMA Entry and RMA Receipts Entry.
Sales Order (similar to SO-1035) - Expanded Options for Quick Print
A new Quick Print tab in Sales Order Options will let you choose the type of documents you will wish to Quick Print. Through this feature, once you print you will have the ability to go back to the source document, such as a Sales Order or an Invoice, with corresponding capabilities as Keep Window Open After Printing. To reinforce your workflow, Quick Print can also be accessible from Sales Order for picking sheets, shipping labels and COD labels. This functionality is particularly ideal for customers with numerous warehouses to ensure that picking sheets could be efficiently printed, or for workflow efficiencies in order that an order could be ready while a concern with an important customerâs account is checked.
Sales Order (NEW!) - Print Back Ordered Data on Picking Sheets
Quicken the means of determining items that are on backorder when inventory is received, and improve customer satisfaction by increasing your customer Order Ship Complete percentage. When using this new option, your customers will be able to view the total quantities that they ordered, even if the whole amount of a selected item is on backorder.
Sales Order (NEW!) - Avoid Duplicate Picking Sheet Printing
To assist you in eliminating duplicate shipments of goods, we have integrated more flexible controls and further safeguards to eliminate unintended duplicate Picking Sheet Printing. These new features could be exceptionally valuable for high volume company with massive employees, several shipping sites and warehouse shifts. In cases where a duplicate is picked to be printed, it is possible to wish to use a warning message to help avoid the duplicate printing of picking sheets. Once you don't elect to receive the message, the facts is written to the Activity Log. A picking sheet will never be printed whenever the source sales order is in use in Sales Order Entry.
Job Cost (similar to JC-1046) - Define Allowed Job Statuses in Data Entry Tasks
Increase accuracy and streamline the procedure for entering information into your projects, for example to restrict an accidental posting to closed jobs. Specify the types of job statuses you wish to grant for each of your data entry screens in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Inventory Management, Job Cost, Payroll, Purchase Order, and Sales Order. The kinds of status include Bid, Open, Hold, Late, Complete, Closed, and All. Use Role Maintenance to establish the permissions you want to grant, which will include the ability to override the options youâve put as the default.
Inventory Management (NEW!) - Search by Lot or Serial Number
Through the Item Maintenance and Item Inquiry menus do a search for any transaction type by Lot or Serial Number. Moreover, it is possible to lookup for a transaction using any combination of the following criteria: by Item Code, Type, Transaction Date, Reference Number, Vendor Number, Customer Number, Warehouse, or User Defined Field (UDF).
NEW! - Improved Credit Card Security
To improve the ability to safeguard credit card information, new user preferences have been included so you can select users that can print or show fully formatted credit card numbers. The credit card data will be secured for unauthorized users by masking the credit card numbers. Two security event roles have also been incorporated to permit you to identify which roles can change, or delete, the encryption key for credit card numbers. Industry standards recommend that you change this key annually, or even more frequently. Also to boost your credit card security, the key used to encrypt the credit card data is now kept independently from your company data. With the use of the Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200 alternate directory feature, your key is going to be held in a different physical location than your company data.
A new Credit Card Audit Log will provide: