___________________________ (= Business Management '99 =) ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Welcome to Business Managment '99 v3.07! FIXES FROM RELEASE 3.01 ----------------------- Fixed the "Adding records from another computer..." message. Added Supplier Payments. Now Posts Accounting from the invoice. Enhanced the interface of the First Time Setup Wizard. Fixed a few other minor glitches. FIXES FROM RELEASE 3.02 ----------------------- Updated the FindAccount function. Bugs in the Invoice forms taxes. Fixed the "no printer" crash :-) Logo graphic file formats. (.gif, .bmp and .jpg now supported) Fixed a small glitch in View Past Invoices. Fixed the Import error when importing to a newly created database. Default Markup for Adding Inventory items. Made current using date the default for new transactions. Various changes to the accounting journals... Added messages to tell user Sorting was finished for customers, inventory, suppliers. Associations Restore properly now. FIXES FROM RELEASE 3.03 ----------------------- Fixed Net Income & Drawings in Accounting (Balance Sheet). Fixed loading transactions to load the proper accounts in journals. Append is now disabled in Import when there are no existing records. Fixed bug in adding first record for Accounting Journals. Fixed selling price for Purchases Wizard. Fixed up a few hourglass and normal mousepointer methods. FIXES FROM RELEASE 3.04 ----------------------- A few minor interface enhancements. Updated the help file to reflect program changes. FIXES FROM RELEASE 3.05 ----------------------- Fixed our active-weblink URL. (not sure if working under Windows NT) Minor fixes to the display of transactions in the Accounting Journals. FIXES FROM RELEASE 3.06 ----------------------- Fixed underline when customer/supplier found in the payment form. Fixed the format for General Ledger printing. Changed the Supplier.CSV file replacing common names to different supplier names. Fixed up the Inventory Statistics grid. Minor name fix to the Setup program. PROGRAM TESTING AND UPDATES --------------------------- HUGE THANKS for your help testers!!!! A few program changes were made in some concern to a few of our testers opinions and wishes. Thanx! Stay updated: Frequently Asked Questions, Bug Reports, Update Fixes, Troubleshooting, Tips & Tricks will be posted here: http://www.circuitz.com/ Contact us: Questions about registration, mass licensing? sales@circuitz.com Questions about the website? webmaster@circuitz.com Comments to the programmers, questions about features? jsemple@circuitz.com cjkowalski@circuitz.com REQUIREMENTS ------------ 32-Bit Requirements Windows 95 or higher, Windows NT 3.5 or higher IBM Compatible 486 DX 40 MHz or greater 8MB RAM 10MB hard drive space free Recommended Windows 98 Pentium 100 or greater for speedy transactions 32MB RAM 30MB hard drive space free (space for databases) INSTALLATION ------------ 1. Setup Business Management '99 with the install program. 2. Enter information into the First Time Setup Wizard. 3. The First Time Setup Wizard is available in the View menu of the mainscreen incase you exited the FTSW the first time you ran the program and you still must continue with data entries. REGISTRATION ------------ Business Management '99 is limited use shareware. We allow you to test all of its features before deciding to purchase the registration. You may only run the program 5 times or use it for 30 days legally before registering. Read the available prices for registration and decide which registration suits you. Send in for your registration via e-mail immediately so you can have the appropriate company information on invoices and financial statements. FEATURES IN THIS RELEASE ------------------------ First Time Setup Wizard: guides you through various steps in setting up your business with Business Management '99. Set up company information, config, databases, forward your account balances to get started in your accounting fiscal period. Importing: this feature allows you to import a standard Comma Seperated Values (CSV) file into BM99 that can be exported by Microsoft Access or Microsoft Excel. You must follow the data order for the data to be imported properly, see help. Company Information: setup all of your company's information, taxes, tax registration numbers, which will appear on invoices and other financial printouts. Configuration: setup your business logo, account details, inventory pricing and quantity, current invoice number, and invoice printing details. Invoice Wizard: a quick shortcut to all of your invoice needs. Sales Invoice, Services Invoice, Credit Invoice, Estimate, Miscellaneous Sale, View Past Invoices. Customers: store customer names, addressing information, phone/fax numbers, account number, e-mail and current account bill. Inventory: store all of your necessary inventory information like description, stock no., quantities, pricing, markup percentage, and associations for grouping. Quick Search, Complete Search, Inventory Statistics. Suppliers: store account number, supplier name, address information, contacts, website & e-mail information. Databases Sorting: sort customers, inventory, or suppliers in order by account number or stock number. Backup & Restore: Backup and compress databases into the 'Backup' directory, then restore and extract from backups. Salesperson Logins: add salesperson first names, initals, full names, etc. and passwords if you wish to track sales information for each salesperson. Accounting: forward account balances into each account, then use edit Accounts to finalize any changes to be made then activate the journals for use. At year end perform adjusting and closing entries then printout any financial statements if you wish to do so to begin a new fiscal year. Sales Journal, Cash Receipts Journal, Purchases Journal, Record Purchases, Cash Payments Journal, General Journal. General Ledger Reports, Trial Balance, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Edit Accounts, Year Ending Adjustments. WHAT'S COMING UP IN THE FUTURE? ------------------------------- The following are in no order of preference and are in discussion, if you have any ideas please e-mail them to us. ODBC Compliance using Access DAO/Jet Databases! * VERY SOON * Purchase Order Invoices. A/R & A/P Subsidiary Ledgers. Display Current Unpaid Invoices. Enhancements in Backup & Restore. Associations/Accounts Sorting. Configuration for Printing on Pre-Printed Invoices. Customized List Searches. Exporting of Databases to Make Other Amazing Queries or Tables. Daily Information. Printout Receipts for Customer Account Payments. Don't allow Associations, Suppliers/Supplier Codes to become outdated. Update and Convert program built into setup to fix databases for new versions. Uninstall Program (Our program does not use the registry but will in the future versions.) Sending e-mail from within the Customer or Supplier Database.