 De
Facto Software are pleased to announce the
release of version 4.4 of de Facto S5 Accounting and Business
Management software.
Driven as always by our mission to continually enhance the facilities
available to S5 users, and to extend the already comprehensive
and powerful abilities of the suite by adding new functionality,
de Facto S5 has once again raised the bar with this version
release. Some of the key developments in v4.4 are:
Delivery
Amendments/Returns - Sales
Order Processing
Sales Order Processing Delivery Amendments and Returns provides the ability
to handle returns from a customer as part of the dispatch confirmation procedure.
Thus in the case of damaged goods, the goods can be returned into either the
original or an alternate warehouse. In some industries, it is to be expected
that a percentage of the goods will not be accepted on receipt, for example
because of damage during transportation, or by failing to meet the required
quality.
One
particularly useful aspect of this feature is its ability to
handle returned goods using a different unit of measure to
those originally specified. Should you despatch in cases
or boxes, but need to return individual items, this facility
will be of particular interest.
Warehouse
for 3rd Party Stock (Customer Owned Stock)
This new facility provides the ability to manage stock within your storage
facilities which belong to a 3rd party. Whilst you do not own such stock,
you might be liable for such things as insurance costs, or storage costs.
Whilst
in your storage, the stock ownership may change hands. In such
cases, the goods themselves may not move, but the stock
may then belong to another 3rd party. Fine Wine merchants
are obvious examples of businesses which could benefit from such
powerful functionality.
Maintain
Vistas - Advanced Query Option
The Advanced Query Option enables the use of ‘raw’ SQL queries
within S5’s powerful Vistas. The user now has easier access to ‘Case’, ‘Union’ and ‘Group
By’ functions. As well as increased power and ease of use, this new method
results in increased efficiency in retrieving and analysing data. This typically
results in impressive gains in performance.
Landed / Delivered Costs for Stock Movements
In the same way as sales order deliveries and purchase order
goods receipts do warehouse movements and transfers now provide
the ability to uplift product values and accrue for related
charges from suppliers such as hauliers etc. This powerful
facility includes both calculated and manually entered charges.
On
the Fly Product Creation from within Sales Order / Purchase
Order Processing
Facilities have been added to allow for the 'Product Wizard'
driven creation of new products during order entry, this can
be especially
useful when handling 'special' products or working
in industries with limitless product combinations.
Output to PDF
New options exist for documents and reports to be output directly
PDF files. No additional licences are required as all software
is included in this latest release. The PDF options are also
provided for the automated e-mailing of documents to customers,
suppliers and staff.
Automated Invoicing - Job Costing
New facilities are provided for the automated creation of sales
invoices based on contract data held in the job costing module.
This can be used for any periodic billing exercise such as
support or maintenance contracts.
In
addition, many more features have been added
to S5, ensuring that de Facto
S5 continues to ‘Set
the Standard’ in Accounting and Business
Management software. Output to FTP
A new options exist for FTP output of all document and report
types. This can be especially useful when transferring document
based data to 3rd party FTP sites.
Price Lists - Fixed Price
Mark-up (Discount)
New option to handle fixed value ‘£’ discounts
on sales orders.
Job Costing Item Setup
Improvements have been made for the creation of Job Item budgets
when using period based budgets and forecasts.
Delivery Cost Invoicing
Small changes have been made to delivery cost processing including
the ability to ‘goto’ the original transaction
from this window.
Purchase Order Processing - Special Entry Window
S5 Now supports the ability to use custom data entry windows
for special data entry requirements.
Customer Specific Event Handling
Customers can now have their own specific event categories
and targets allocated to them, prompting for event targets
is able
to be handled via event reminders. This type of functionality
is especially useful in sales and support operations
Filing Cabinet
Items on Customer Product Groupings
S5 provides the ability to use filing cabinets on product analysis
and customer product groups. This can be useful when publishing
data to a web site which as at the product group level.
Customer
Address and Contact Logistics Notes
New logistics notes have been added at the addresses and contact
level these can all be auto prompted during order entry and
also allow the notes to be maintained from within the order.
Sales
/ Purchase Ledger Process Status
Ledger transactions now provide the same options as orders
for the user defined process status handling.
Sales Order Processing
Credits - Amend Goods Received Note (GRN)
The GRN resulting from goods being returned by a customer may
now be amended prior to processing of the credit.
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