Big Business 5.1.2 review
DownloadBig Business combines sales automation, a marketing database, contact management, inventory tracking, and full-featured accounting to run your entire company.
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Big Business combines sales automation, a marketing database, contact management, inventory tracking, and full-featured accounting to run your entire company.
While you concentrate on serving your customers and increasing sales, Big Business works behind the scenes to manage sales quotes, mailing lists, stock levels, shipments, payments, receivables, and more.
Designed especially for businesses that buy or sell products, Big Business has 90 company templates for retail, wholesale, distribution, and more.
Here are some key features of "Big Business":
SALES
Stores complete customer information and transaction histories
Stores Attachments, Notes, Tags, and twelve custom fields
Handles multiple ship-to and bill-to addresses
Prints custom sales reports
Tracks commissions and royalties
Memorizes common transactions
Calculates profitability and lets you change profit margins on the fly
Creates and places sales orders, automatically converts quotes to sales orders
Creates invoices rapidly, automatically convers sales orders to invoices
Invoices customers with complete payment and accounting histories
Tracks backorders and shipments
Lets you set reminders and keep a calendar
Manages complex sales taxes
Drills down multiple levels
MARKETING
Offers full-featured contact manager
Imports and exports data at any time
Improves company communication through built-in e-mail
Offers complete printing options, including labels, envelopes, mail lists, etc.
Targets customers by allowing you to add identifying tags to customer records
Converts contacts to customers or vendors at the click of a button
PURCHASING
Stores comprehensive vendor information and transaction histories
Stores Attachments, Notes, Tags, and twelve custom fields
Provides vendor purchase orders with backorder tracking and receiving histories
Completes purchase orders automatically using needed or order at least quantities
Offers drag-and-drop or automatic scheduling of payments
Automates check runs
Tracks discounts and discount periods
1099 and Tax ID# tracking
Maintains a secure audit trail and prevents overpayments
Uses vendor ETA Days to calculate sales ETAs
INVENTORY
Tracks backorders
Tracks item weight
Provides flexibility by letting you customize vendor and inventory fields
Lets you define up to five item price levels
Stores inventory purchasing data and transaction histories
Adjusts inventory items
Calculates inventory turns
Lists and manages items in product builds
Creates bundled inventory items
Generates purchase reports
Allows long item descriptions of up to 32K
ACCOUNTING
Maintains a general journal
Reconciles accounts
Complies with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
Has over 90 industry-specific chart of accounts
Prints financial reports that you can customize
Tracks bank account information with reconciliation histories
Transfers funds
Restricts transaction modifications by calendar periods
Generates deposit slips
Processes and prints checks
Connects to professional payroll programs
Tracks vendor invoices
Schedules vendor payments with easy rescheduling capability
Provides complete category and account information with budgeting capability
Lets you choose international currencies
Provides a complete posting view of transactions
Drills down from posting line item to transaction record
Notifies you of credit holds
Tracks accounts receivable/payable
INTERNET
Generates Web pages of items in inventory for online catalogs
Manages links for three-level pages
Lets remote users access data via a Web browser using the optional Web Server add-on
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Single and client/server versions available to grow with your company
Lets you create custom reports and forms
Provides a user-customizable toolbar
Stores employee information
Offers comprehensive password security down to the field level
Gives complete control over data entry
Offers calendar view of appointments/tasks
Appends notes to any transaction, vendor, customer, or item
Imports tab-delimited text from any program
Includes comprehensive on-line help
Based on a relational data model that integrates all company data
Provides over 190 standard reports, queries, and graphs
Offers plain English question and answer queries.
What's New:
Mac OS X 10.4.8 Update causes problems rounding numbers on Intel Macs running Big Business.
Big Business 5.1.2 is being posted with more changes to avoid problems.
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