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New Features in ManageMore
Version 3.0 (revision A-D)

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Been a while since you last upgraded your ManageMore business software?
Don't worry, the following features from prior revisions have been documented below so that you can catch up on the improvements and fixes made to ManageMore. 

Version 3.0 (revision D)

New POS Card Search Feature
Have you ever wanted to make it more convenient for your non-account based customers to return items to your business without the need for a physical receipt as proof of purchase?
If the answer is "YES", then you probably have several other questions as well.
How can I cross-reference returned merchandise back to a prior sale made without the original invoice number present?
Would I be creating  a security/fraud loophole by allowing returned merchandise without a receipt?
Are there any recognizable retail type businesses using this refund technique already?

In most point-of-sale transactions, there is little or no personal information gathered about the customer when purchases are made.  Although ManageMore has the ability for you to create customer accounts and associate invoice transactions to personal information, this technique does not work well in most retail type sales.  However, when a customer uses his/her credit card to buy something from your organization, this customer is in fact giving you one piece of very personal information that links him/her directly to the invoices in your database.

Through the use of the customer's credit card number, ManageMore can now quickly display all past invoices that were paid by a specific credit card.  When performing a refund, a "Card Search" button will appear on screen which will invoke a pop-up window for searching past invoice history on a particular card number.  Simply selecting one of these past invoices will cause the refund transaction to fill with the items that were purchased from the original invoice.  When a customer purchases goods by credit card, there is no need for that customer to present the original receipt since you can just as quickly retrieve the last invoices purchased using the card number given.

Since ManageMore automatically records how many items were returned on each particular item of a past invoice, there is no risk or security loophole that can be created by not requesting the physical invoice as proof of purchase.  Alternatively, the benefit of not requiring a physical receipt are quite evident... a) provides convenience factor for the customer, b) portrays professionalism to your business, and c)  expedites the refund process for customer service.

Today, many of the largest retail establishments do not require a receipt when the purchase was made by credit card.  Most notably, nationally recognized Circuit City electronic stores have been heavily advertising their "no receipt needed" return policy for quite some time now.  Other retail giants like Walmart, Target, and Comp USA also allow full returns through a similar credit card invoice matching technique.

Miscellaneous Improvements and Fixes
1. Data Integrity can now auto-correct any GL related problems that cause a one-sided journal entry.
2. Purchase Credits no longer have a disposition field on screen.  This was removed because of the advent of Vendor RMAs.
3. In Customer Wizard data entry mode, you can optionally go from the customer to a new task record.
4. A better designed GL Posting scheme was created to more similarly act as other parts of the program.

 

Version 3.0 (revision C)

In this revision,  we went back to the basics and polished up many of our core accounting features.  This includes many enhancements to our Accounts Payable, as well as some other nifty tools.

New Purchase Quote Feature
See  Lists... Accounts Payable... Purchase Quotes...
A new business document was added to the Accounts Payable system which allows an additional step before creating a purchase order.  A purchase quote (also referred to as a purchase request) can be used for a variety of business functions.  It is very similar to the same concepts of a Sales Quote on the A/R side of accounting.

With a purchase quote, anyone within your organization can request for items to be purchased without having authority to make a purchase order.  Purchase quotes are fully editable and can be opened or closed at anytime.  A purchase quote can easily be turned into a purchase order with a simple click of a button (by someone authorized to do so... security resource locking required).

A purchase quote can also be used as a bidding form for your vendors.  In other words, you can send out a purchase quote to several vendors with a request to match or beat the prices listed on the purchase quote.  This basically forces vendors to bid for your business.

Also see Setup... Forms... Purchase Quotes... for document setup

New Vendor RMA Feature
See Lists... Accounts Payable... Vendor RMA...
Another new business document was added to the Accounts Payable system which allows an additional step before creating a purchase credit.  A vendor RMA (also referred to as an RMA request) is used for requesting your vendor for permission to return items in exchange for a similar product, credit, or full refund.  Similar to the benefits of a customer RMA on the A/R side of accounting, a vendor RMA helps the flow of document processing for returns to a specific vendor.  Using this document will eliminate the need for reversing purchase credits when a vendor refuses to credit your account on certain merchandise.

 A vendor RMA is fully editable and allows you to reference the original bill that contained the merchandise.  Once a vendor gives approval for the RMA request, one can easily click a button and create a purchase credit from the RMA.

Due to this new document, you will find a new option in the inventory return processing screen that allows returned merchandise to create a Vendor RMA directly.
Special Note:  When using vendor RMA's with return processing, all merchandise is returned to stock immediately after creating the vendor RMA.  Once the vendor RMA is approved, the goods being returned will be removed from stock with the creation of a purchase credit.

Also see Setup... Forms... Vendor RMA... for document setup

New Vendor Care System
See Activities... Vendor... Vendor Care...

Based on our Customer Care system, a new specialized vendor care system was introduced to help out A/P departments. A centralized one-screen design has been implemented that allows you to get all transactional information about a vendor, update vendor information, and even create unlimited vendor incidents (just like Customer Care).

Some of the features of the vendor care system were previously found in the Vendor List part of ManageMore.  This is no longer the case.  In order to get a summary of PO's, Bills, Disbursements, etc., you will need to use this feature instead of previous methods.

Some enhancements to the vendor care system now allows you to easily filter the vendor documents to view only what you are interested in.  You can specifically display open PO's only, closed PO's only, paid purchase receipts, unpaid purchase receipts, disbursements, disbursement reversals, etc.

You will also find a convenient new statistics feature which provides historical purchases and returns for each vendor per month.

You will even find some quick shortcut buttons within the Vendor Address Label that allows you to go straight to the vendors website, send a vendor an email, or get a visual map of where the vendor is located.  These buttons are located at bottom right edge of the Vendor Address Label and will appear only if the proper information is on file for each vendor.

New Pay Bills Features
Finally, an easy way to pay all of your bills at the same time.  The new Pay Bill feature allows you to select all of your outstanding vendor purchases based on a variety of criteria's that you choose.  After selecting your criteria, ManageMore will create a batch entry that contains all of your unpaid bills.

Within this batch, you can easily mark and unmark the bills you want to pay and see your bank balance at the same time.  You can even drill-down into a receipt for further review before deciding to pay a bill or not.  Once you are done selecting the bills to pay, simply save the batch and then proceed to post the payments selected.  ManageMore will automatically create all necessary disbursements and even take you directly to printing your checks.

Our unique batch system design even allows multi-location companies to pay bills for each location separately from one another.  We are certain your A/P department will love this simple-to-use bill payment method over previous solutions.

See  Activities... Accounts Payable... Pay Bills...

Improved POS Sales Commission System
See Activities... Accounts Receivable... New Commissions...
By far, the most advanced feature introduced in this revision is the improved sales commission posting system.  The capabilities for accurately tracking commissions on an item (tangible or intangible) with up to 999 commission levels, 4 commission pricing schemes, unlimited split commissions, etc. are unique and not typically found in any off-the-shelf business software.

In prior revisions of ManageMore, we relied on a sales commission report to dynamically calculate sales commissions and chargebacks to the employee.  This method of sales commission reporting is fairly common among most business/accounting applications.  However, there are several flaws with its implementation.  Some of the shortcomings with report-based commission tracking are:

1. There is too much room for error with the date periods of the report (possible overlap could cause overpayment of commissions, or wrong dates could cause employee grievances with missing days of commission).
2. Running commission reports in the past can yield different results than what was actually paid to employees.  This can happen when commission structures are changed on commissionable items.
3. Chargebacks on commission can be inaccurate at times.  This can happen when changes are made to commission structures on inventory items or when tiered commission structures are used.

Some other problems with dynamic sales commission reporting can be:
1.  There is no automated way to offer a salesperson additional commission on a sale for a job well done.
2.  There is no automated way to reduce a salespersons commission on specific invoice items.

3.  There is no automated way to handle split commissions on a sale made between two or more employees.
4.  There is no automated way to offer a manager/supervisor commission based on all commissionable items sold by a department or location of the company.
5.  It is not possible to add a manual commission record for an employee  so that it can appear on his/her commission report.  Situations like quarterly bonuses, item spiffs, and more must be hand written on the commission reports.
6.  Tiered commission schemes (step and retroactive) can easily be tricked to pay out higher commissions for an employee.  With the help of an accomplice, one can reach a higher commission tier by simply making a large sale in one commission payroll period, and then have the accomplice return the merchandise in another period.

Now that we know the problems of dynamic sales commission reporting, we can appreciate better the new static sales commission posting method introduced in this revision.  The problems mentioned above are not an issue anymore because ManageMore now provides a static posting process for employee commissions.

The commission posting process works similar to many other posting functions found throughout ManageMore.  One simply has to pick the date range that needs selected for commission calculation, review/modify the pending commission selected, and then commit to the sales commission totals through a final posting step.

After posting the commission list, you can then run your sales commission report in a similar manner as prior versions.  The report will look almost exactly the same as prior versions, with the exception that ManageMore now relies on posted commission results, versus continuous calculated results.

Chargeback of partial or fully returned items are now computed by relying on prior posted commissions from the original invoice.  It doesn't matter if or when you change your commission structure since ManageMore knows exactly what was paid out on prior invoices and will prorate debit commissions back to the appropriate employee.

With this new commission system, we are also able to provide a very powerful manager/supervisor "all inclusive" commission scheme.  This scheme would allow different employees (i.e. like a manager/supervisor)  to receive commission on all items based sold within a department or store location.    See Lists... Employees... Employee List... Employee... Commissions Tab.

Another nice feature of this commission system is the ability to manually add your own employee commissions or change any commission amount prior to posting.  You can even change the employee's commission level as often as you want, and then re-generate the commission list to view an example of the commission payout.

For our prior customers, we have left the older calculated sales commission report in the program.  However, we have renamed it to "Estimated Sales Commission Report" to differentiate it from the preferred "Posted Sales Commission Report".

Improved Sales Quote Feature
In this revision, the sales quote was modified to support an open/closed document strategy.  This will help identify more easily which quotes are no longer valid.  Sales Quotes are automatically closed after being converted to an invoice or sales order.  A reference number will also be visible on the Sales Quote, so you can trace it the sale made.

Note:  Prior ManageMore customers will find that all sales quotes prior to this revision, will be referenced as opened.  It is not necessary to close these quotes unless you want to.  The quote expiration feature will not allow the conversion of a quote to a sales invoice/order, regardless if the document is opened or closed.

Redesigned Incident Screen
In order to give our program a consistent look throughout, a design change was made on the incident screen.  All the same information is visible, but laid out in a flatter one-screen look.  Since ManageMore now has vendor incidents (mentioned above), a small change was also made to allow incident codes to be identified for a customer, vendor or both.

Inventory Improvements
In Supertrack inventory, you will find a new stock status referred to as "Quantity Available".  This is not a new quantity scheme, but rather a calculation of quantity on hand minus quantity committed.  If you are not using the sales order feature of ManageMore, then you will find the quantity available to be the same as the quantity on hand always.

This quantity calculation is helpful for those who own the Sales Order Pro module and want a more accurate representation of what is available to sell, rather than what is in stock.

Point of Sale Improvements
See Lists... Inventory... Discounts... Promotional Discounts
With the advent of improvements in inventory promotional discounts, you can now introduce some of the more common promotions used by retail
 stores nationwide.  These include the ability to create offers like: "Buy 3 for $1.00", "Buy 1, Get 1 Free", "Buy 3 for $1.00, Get 1 Free", "Buy 4 at .50 cents, get 4 more at 50% off". 

Basically, you can create special promotional rules that will be followed no matter how you enter them at the point of sale.

New Memorized Transaction Feature
See Lists... Transaction Related... Memorized Transactions...
"If I only had a brain....", said the scarecrow. Well,  ManageMore now does... with the ability to memorize document elements so that one can more quickly fill-in repetitive and common transactions.  Certain memorized transactions can even have the ability to automatically recur based on any calendar combination you can think of.

Recurrence capabilities from a memorized transaction are quite powerful and can be used for a variety of circumstances.  The most common use is for handling common bills that occur continuously within an organization.

For example, most businesses will have common expenses like office rent, auto leases, security services, subscription fees, advertising fees, and more which happen on a consistent calendar basis (i.e. weekly, monthly, etc.).  All of these bills can be entered one time as a memorized transaction with recurrence. Once implemented, you will never have to manually enter these bills again.  A similar strategy can be accomplished for other document types as well.  With memorized transactions, ManageMore is truly thinking about your business documents all the time, so you don't have to.

This current release supports the following memorized documents:
Inventory Transfer
Journal Entries  (This document supports automatic recurrence)
Purchase Quote
Purchase Order (This document supports automatic recurrence)
Purchase Receipt (This document supports automatic recurrence)

Note:  We are currently working on providing Sales Orders and Invoices with memorized transactions as well.  These should be available shortly.

To memorize an existing transaction, one only needs to retrieve a prior business document (mentioned above) and click on the folder icon that appears in the upper right corner of the document.  This will invoke a pop-up window that allows you to save a memorized transaction for use at a later time.

When you are ready to use a saved memorized transactions for quickly pre-filling new documents,  you will find a similar small folder icon present in the upper right corner of all  business documents.  Clicking on this icon will invoke a pop-up select window with all previously memorized transactions for that document type only.

New Recurring Task Feature (Task Complete Module)
Similar to recurrence of memorized transactions (mentioned above), you can now tell ManageMore that a specific task repeats itself based on a variety of calendar periods (i.e. daily, weekly, monthly, etc.).  This is extremely useful because so many activities are repetitive in the workplace.

Some common recurring tasks can be:
Company meeting reminders  (e.g. Every other Wednesday)
Clean-up work area (e.g. Every Friday)
Periodic customer maintenance/service calls (e.g. Every 2 months on the 1st day of that month)
Payroll Reminders / To Do's (e.g. Every other Monday)
Unemployment Tax Filings (e.g. Every 3 months)
Corporate Tax Filing (e.g. yearly by March 1)
Salary review reminders (e.g. yearly on Jan. 15)
Employee/Family Birthday reminders (e.g. yearly on each <Employee Birthday>)
Bank Deposits (e.g. Every Weekday)
Check Office Supplies (e.g. Every Monday)
Inventory Reconciliation (e.g. 2nd Saturday of every month)

Recurring tasks will ensure that your employees don't forget to do what they are supposed to do!

To setup a recurring task, one must create a task template (formerly known as a task type) and apply recurrence rules to the template record.  Afterwards, when a new task is created that references a recurring task template, ManageMore will begin handling the recurrence automatically. 

Note: A setting exists in the Setup Options area of the program that determines how many recurrence tasks will be created into the future.  This setting may need adjusted depending on how far into the future you want to view repeated tasks.


New Shipping Manager Module (Optional)
Just when you thought automation could not possibly get any better... ManageMore introduces the most automated way to ship packages easily with carriers like UPS, Fedex, USPS, Spee Dee, Airborne and more.

Using a specialized software interface that is certified by all major shipping carriers,  ManageMore can automatically communicate to the shipping carriers tracking system (via internet connection) and print the appropriate shipping labels, receive tracking numbers, and historically document all information related to a shipped package.

No need to use different shipping carrier software or use different online systems for each carrier you use.  ManageMore combines all shipping information into one simple screen, regardless of the shipping carrier you use.  You don't even have to fill in the shipping requirements, as ManageMore will do it for you based on the information provided at the point of sale.  It is truly a "point, click, ship" design with little room for error and no need to ever do double-entry work.

In fact, there are several other not-so-obvious benefits from using an automated shipping interface to the carrier.  For more info, go to www.managemore.com/shipping-software.htm or call our sales office to inquire about this advanced automation solution.  This solution is ideal for businesses like: mail order; telephone order; distributors; wholesalers; and other businesses that have considerable shipping volume.

 

Miscellaneous Improvements and Fixes
1. Statement processing can now default to your most common settings.  See Setup Options... Statements.
2. Serialized Inventory now has UDF fields that are automatically filled in based on entering serial numbers with dash separators.
3. Cellular Manager now has support for phones using the "GAIT" signaling format.
4. Task Types were renamed to Task Templates for more consistent naming convention in program.
5. Two new menu items were added in the Help Menu section.  "Additional Products and Services" will take you to a link on our website with the latest offerings by Intellisoft.  "Latest Features" will take you to this link on our website with the the latest capabilities offered in ManageMore.
6. Cellular Manager now supports user-defined Commission SKU for posting commissions to any GL account you prefer.
7. Cellular Prepaid Card Tracker Module now automatically places an "Item Hold" on SKU's that no longer have PIN's to issue for prepaid cards.  This will help alleviate the possibility of making a sale when prepaid card numbers are depleted.
8. Sales Orders have been redesigned to allow multiple prepayments against an order.  This means that layaway type transactions are now possible through the use of a sales order.
9.  Sales Orders no longer require the "Fill Sales Order" process to convert a sales order into an invoice.  A convenient button now appears on open sales orders for converting to invoices.
10. Purchase Receipts now allow changes to the location that the bill will affect.  This makes it easier for entering many bills without having to logout and login for each location.  NOTE:  This could also pose a security risk in some scenarios, so please be advised that locking the location resource field may be required in the Security Administrator.
11. Bank Accounts can now be setup with a specific location defined.  This limits other locations from selecting bank accounts that are not within their login location.
12. Bank Accounts now have a bank register that easily allows you to drill down to the details of each bank account.
13. Bank Accounts now have a balance limit feature which serves as a safeguard to prevent or warn users from charging/paying too many receipts against your bank account.  In other words, you can prevent a bank account from reaching a critically low level of cash or prevent credit card accounts from reaching their maximum credit limit.
14. Customer RMA's now have an expiration date that will prohibit the use of open RMA's after xx days from creation.
 
 

 

Version 3.0 (revision B)

In this revision, we were finally able to complete the Version 3.0 release (as we initially intended) with a full General Ledger implementation and a handful of other niceties to boot.  Version 3.0 was released a bit early because of an unexpected last-minute acquisition of a software competitor in early fourth quarter of 2002.  With this release, however, we not only accomplished our goals for a robust Version 3.0, but also added many other improvements across the board.

 

New General Ledger System
Finally, ManageMore is a full-fledged Accounting System!  We did our homework over the last two years, and produced an incredibly powerful General Ledger that will make your CFO, bookkeeper, or accountant quite happy.  However, you must own the ManageMore Professional Edition in order to gain access to all of the new financial functionality.  Users that own the Lite or Standard Edition will be given a limited opportunity to purchase the General Ledger functionality without having to fully upgrade to the Professional Edition.  Please speak with a sales representative for further info on this.

 We will briefly highlight some of the new General Ledger features in this document.  However, for a more complete list of functionality and specifications, we recommend you to visit www.managemore.com/general-ledger.htm

Improved Chart of Accounts
The original chart of accounts table that was part of ManageMore has been changed dramatically.  Many new fields were added to properly accommodate the new General Ledger. An Account Type table was added so that ManageMore can identify a GL account number as an  Asset, Liability, Expense, etc. 

Some other notable changes:

1. A GL account can now be a sub-account to another GL account number (up to 5 levels deep).
2. A GL account now has a balance amount for maintaining a proper Balance Sheet.
3. A GL account can now be classified as a statistical account.  This type of account does not affect the GL in any way, but shows up on GL reports to display any statistical information you desire.
4. A GL account can have an alias GL account associated to it for simpler lookup on more commonly used accounts.
5. A GL account can be associated to a particular tax line on common government forms. (future release will support creating common government forms automatically with your financial information already pre-filled)

 Journal Entry Creation
With any General Ledger system, one should expect the ability to create a journal entry.  Our journal entry screen has been laid out in a similar fashion to other document types in ManageMore.  Much of this screen is self-explanatory to anyone who understands journal entries.

See Activities... General Ledger... New Journal Entry

Account Reconciliation
ManageMore provides an easy-to-use screen for reconciling any GL account you have defined.  The most common use is for bank reconciliation, however, you are not limited to this account type.

See Activities... General Ledger... New Reconciliation

Budgeting
As a bonus to our General Ledger system, ManageMore introduces a very powerful budgeting system.  A straightforward budget wizard screen will take you through the steps of creating a budget for your GL accounts.  Our design allows you to create as many different budget plans as you would like and easily compare the accuracy of your budgets at anytime. 

See Activities... General Ledger... New Budget

Fiscal Periods
ManageMore's General Ledger was designed to be flexible for both the small and mid-size companies in mind.  ManageMore does not use fiscal periods in the traditional sense that is most commonly thought of by accounting connoisseurs.  This is because our General Ledger reporting is based on an open date range.  ManageMore handles updating all of the financials into the fiscal periods of your choice automatically.  There is no need to even close or create your fiscal periods on an annual basis. 

The General Ledger automatically assumes you will be using a 12 month fiscal period for posting.  However, for more complex business models, you can choose from Monthly, Monthly plus year-end closing, Biweekly, weekly, every four weeks, 5-4-4, or even your own custom periods.

See Setup... Accounting... General Ledger... and check on "Allow Fiscal Periods..." only if you wish to create fiscal periods that are different from the default 12 month year.

Fixed Allocations
ManageMore provides a very unique and innovative solution for distributing costs to one or more GL accounts.  With our fixed allocation feature, one can assign costs to multiple GL accounts (by weighted percentage) from a single GL account.  ManageMore automatically handles posting to each of these allocated GL accounts for you.

For example, businesses that provide budgets for their departments may want to more accurately allocate expenses to each department.  One might have a utility expense (e.g. Electric, Water, Phone, etc.) that could be allocated correctly to each department, depending on their estimated consumption of that expense.

General Ledger Posting
ManageMore allows you to decide how you want to post your transactions to the General Ledger.  For smaller businesses, you can have ManageMore automatically post to the General Ledger on every transaction created.  Businesses with high-volume transactions or frequent transaction back dating can choose the more traditional method of posting to the General Ledger manually.

The setting to decide how GL posting will be accomplished can be found under Setup... General Ledger... on the check box titled "Allow Transactions to Automatically post to General Ledger."  If you do not choose the automatic posting method,  you will find the manual posting process under Activities... General Ledger... Post Subledgers.

What do I need to do to start utilizing ManageMore's General Ledger?
ManageMore customers who have upgraded to this version for support of the General Ledger will need to do some clean-up before posting to the General Ledger.  For this reason, auto-posting to the General Ledger is disabled immediately after upgrading to this release to allow you to setup the GL properly.  

The following is a list of to do's to ensure a smooth transition for older customers:
1. You must re-visit your Chart of Accounts in ManageMore and properly setup each account.  The account type (i.e. Cash, Accounts Receivable, Inventory, Cost of Goods Sold, etc.)  and account balance must be entered for each GL account.  Optionally, you can re-group your chart of accounts as sub-accounts of a master GL account.  Some proper planning may be necessary for achieving the ledger breakdown that you desire.  Consult with an accountant on how best to layout your chart of accounts.  Alternatively, ManageMore can provide a preset chart of accounts if you wish (please contact technical support on achieving this).  Note:  The account number itself is not critical as you can change it at anytime.
2. You must re-visit your Supertrack Inventory and ensure that all items have been properly tagged with the correct Income GL account, Cost of Goods GL account, Inventory GL Account, Expense GL Account, and/or Adjustment GL account.
3. You may want to re-visit your Tax Code table and assign a tax liability account for each tax code (only if you want to post taxes to separate GL accounts, else ManageMore will take care of posting all taxes to one GL account).  See Lists... Transaction Related... Tax Codes... Accounting Tab.
4. Under the menu item Setup... Accounting... there are a few areas that require GL accounts.  Namely, the Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Deposits section. 
5. You must decide whether you will require special Fiscal Periods to be setup for your business.  ManageMore assumes the more common monthly GL period layout by default.  However, if you need to change this, please see Setup... Accounting... General Ledger.

If you have properly setup everything mentioned above, you can now consider turning on the auto-post feature (See Setup... Accounting... General Ledger) if you prefer ManageMore to handle posting to the General Ledger automatically.  Note:  Activating this feature pre-maturely will result in unexpected error messages at the time of creating transactions.

For customers preferring the more traditional GL month end posting process, please see Activities... General Ledger... Post Subledgers.

 

New FIFO/LIFO/Last Inventory Cost Methods
Up to now,  ManageMore was only able to address the average cost method of inventory accounting.  With this release, you can now optionally choose between First-In First-Out (FIFO), Last-In First-Out (LIFO), or Last cost method of inventory accounting per item.  See Lists... Inventory... Supertrack Inventory Lists..., select a tangible item and click on the Options tab.  There you will see the Inventory Cost Method field with all the supported cost methods to choose from.

As items are purchased, sold or returned, ManageMore will handle all the proper cost layer calculations for each transaction created.  To view the cost layers of an item at anytime, see Lists... Inventory... Supertrack Inventory Lists..., highlight the item in the listbox and press the FIFO/LIFO cost layer button on the toolbar.

 Improved Cash Drawer Management
The cash drawer system has received an overhaul to accommodate businesses with more complex cash drawer scenarios.  The new design allows employees to open and close their own cash drawer, separate from the deposit and reconciliation posting stage.  We have also eliminated the employee from choosing the location and employee initials to use for their cash drawer.  Based on preset options in the Setup area of ManageMore, the program will uniquely create a cash drawer for the employee or location.

There is also an override cash drawer option that will allow a manager to affect someone else's cash drawer without having to login as that employee.

See Setup... Accounting... Deposits...

New On-The-Fly Inventory Creation
When dealing with purchasing documents (i.e. Purchase orders, Purchase Receipts, Disbursements), one will now have the ability to optionally create an SKU on-the-fly while working on a purchase document.  This is useful for many purposes like: A purchasing agent wanting to add a new item that is offered by its supplier; A bookkeeper who wants to use a different SKU for categorizing an expense; or a more convenient way of quickly receiving new merchandise that was not already defined in inventory. 

Two options are provided for creating new items-- Quick Add or Manual Setup.  The quick add option is the fastest way to create a new inventory item and works by relying on pre-defined inventory templates.  The manual setup allows you more control of setting up a SKU, if special considerations must be recorded.

This feature can be viewed as a button titled "Create Item" on the purchase order, purchase receipt, and disbursement document.  A setting in Setup... Accounting... Purchasing... titled "Allow adding of items while entering purchasing documents" can control whether you want this feature or not.  Security Administrator can also be used to control this option.

Improved Warranty Tracking
A new setting now exists when setting up a warranty code that is to be used with your inventory items.  This new "Return Period" field setting tells ManageMore how long (in days) a customer has to return an item back to your company for refund/exchange.  ManageMore will automatically warn/prohibit an employee from creating an RMA or Refund Invoice with any items that have had their warranty/guarantee period expired.  A password control was added so that a manager or supervisor could override the warranty expiration and allow the return anyway.

See Setup... Accounting... Invoices... Security for setting up a password for warranty override.  Also see Lists... Inventory... Inventory Related... Warranties... for the setting "Allow Returns on items after xx days".

Note: This feature requires that an inventory item be assigned to a warranty code before creating an invoice.  Furthermore, prior invoices already generated in ManageMore prior to this upgrade will not work with this feature (even if you had a warranty code already assigned to an item).  Only invoices generated from this revision and forward will be able to utilize this new feature.

Improved Inventory Commissions
A complete redesign of how commissions are handled with Supertrack Inventory items now exists.  This new design allows for easier changes to commission structures by creating a separate table that defines the different commission structures you use for all your inventory items.   You now only have to reference an inventory item by a single commission coded value.  This coded value will then relate to a table that defines how the commission is to be applied for all items that use that commission structure.  This technique makes it much easier to make commission changes than previous versions.  With just one change to a commission structure, you automatically affect all items that relate to that structure.

Other notable improvements:
1.  An inventory template can be associated to a commission structure so that new inventory items can be more quickly setup with commission rules.
2. Commission structures can now have up to 1000 commission levels associated to them (Previous versions only supported 2 levels).
3. Tiered commissions can now be setup for each of the eight price levels on a supertrack item (Previous versions ignored price levels with tiers).

New Precision support in Supertrack Inventory
For businesses that deal with fractional quantities (i.e. hours, gallons, tons, etc.) or inventory items that are cheaper than a penny (i.e. electronic components, candy, paper, etc.), there is now three new settings in the inventory setup area that allow for more precision with quantities, unit cost, and unit price.

New Unit of Measure (UM) support in Supertrack Inventory
For businesses that deal with purchasing items in one unit of measure (i.e. pounds, cases, gross, dozens, etc.) and selling in another, there now is the ability to setup each inventory item with a purchase UM and sale UM.  Unit of Measure can also be handy for identifying the quantity unit of measure used when selling to a customer.  For example, if you invoice a customer for 2 hours of labor, the invoice can display the charges "2 HR" or "2 HOUR"  as the quantity charged.

Pager Related Improvements
Some major improvements have recently been made to the Pager Industry manager recently.  New tables have been created that better organizes your data, improves data entry and offer more detailed description capabilities at the point of sale and when billing.

First, a Pager Region table was created to allow an unlimited number of regions to be defined to a particular frequency.  The old design had a limit of 16 regions and has been superceded by this new table.  With the new pager region table, one can now force a description override that will allow an alternate description to appear on invoices and statements when a pager is associated to a particular region.  For example, instead of all customer statements printing as "Extended Coverage Service Fee", you can now have more meaningful statements like "Miami to Orlando Coverage Fee" or "Tri-State Coverage Fee". 

The upgrade process should have automatically created this region table for you based on active pagers in your database. You must add any other regions that you support to this table as you will no longer be able to type any region on a pager activation record.  See Lists... Industry... Paging... Pager Regions.

Second, a Pager Voice Mail table was also created with similar capabilities to the pager region table mentioned above. See Lists... Industry... Paging... Pager Voice Mail Types.

Other improvements include:
1. The pager notes fields has been increased to allow paging carriers with Glenayre terminals to create a longer custom programming string.
2. Improved Auto-Invoice mode allows this feature to be on by default, but can be unmarked when multiple pagers need activated for the same customer. 

Note:  In order to use the Region or Voice Mail description override properly, you must tell ManageMore what recurring fee to override.  Please see Setup.. Industry... Paging.... General.  Two new options will be listed entitled "Region Description Override" and "Voice Mail Description Override".  Select the appropriate recurring item that will be affected by this feature.

Miscellaneous Improvements and Fixes
1. Ship To Address can now be edited after saving an invoice.  Optional password protection has been included in Setup... Accounting... Invoices... Security.
2. Optional password protection has been added when changing price levels on an invoice.  This allows you to have a manager or supervisor override the pricing structure of an invoice without exiting the transaction.  See Setup... Accounting... Invoices... Security.
3. Optional password has been added to authorize trade-in/returns on an invoice.  This allows your employee to fill out the invoice with returns as intended, but requires a manager or supervisor to enter a password for final approval.  See Setup... Accounting... Invoices... Security.
4. Optional password for changing invoice/payment dates now exists.  See Setup... Accounting... Invoices... Security and Setup... Accounting... Payment... Security.
5. Support for compounded interest charges when running the finance charge process
6. Freight on Purchase Receipts is now be allocated in a prorated manner to all items received by weight or quantity.  This allows for a more accurate representation of cost of goods sold.
7. Optional setting can force purchase orders to be used when receiving merchandise through a purchase receipt.  See Setup... Accounting... Purchasing...
8. New support for lot number based inventory items. Allows you to track products that are serialized by the barrel, container, crate, etc.  You must own the Serial Number manager module to utilize this feature.
9. Redesign of the Inventory count process now shows the invoice adjustment being created prior to posting the variance changes.
10. Improved Return processing window now allows multi-select capabilities when returning items to stock, discarding, or returning items to a particular vendor.
11. An employee can now be assigned to a location region rather than a specific location.  This allows you to restrict an employee to login of certain locations only.  You will need to arbitrarily create region codes in your location table for this feature to work.  Also, you will need to go to the Security Administrator... Security Maintenance... Users... User properties tab.
12. An employee can now be defined as a point of sale operator only (with optional logout after each transaction).  This feature causes ManageMore to go directly to an invoice upon login.  You can then optionally logout the user after each transaction (in case multiple users are sharing the same computer).  See Security Administrator... Security Maintenance... Users... User properties tab.
13. Locations defined with Location Type of "Inventory Allocation", "Holding Facility", or "Transit" now perform slightly different than in the past.  A location defined in this manner cannot be logged into (in order to avoid clerical errors).  These types of locations are primarily reserved for dealing with special scenarios and are meant to be used with documents like purchase orders, purchase receipts, inventory transfers, and inventory adjustments only.
14. Packing Slip forms can now be printed automatically when creating an invoice.  Packing slips are useful when shipping merchandise because it allows you to place a document on the outside of your shipping box that summarizes the contents to the recipient without divulging its dollar value.   The packing slip will print at the same time you print the invoice itself.  See Setup... Forms... Packing Slip to define the form.  To activate the packing slip feature, you must choose a shipping method that has been setup for printing this document.  See Lists... Transaction Related... Shipping Methods... and mark "Automatically print packing slip for this shipping method".
15. Fixes were made to the Inventory count process that caused a few oddities on importing and when dealing with serialized inventory
16. New user defined field capabilities for the Employee, Vendor, and Task record.  See Setup... Options... and under Employee, Vendor or Task categories, there will be a Screen Prompt Tab that allows the defining of UDF.
17. Improved Purchase Receipt / Disbursement feature now allows for directly affecting a GL account versus an SKU Item
 

 

Version 3.0 (revision A)

Our most impressive upgrade to date is now ready and it has rightfully earned the designation of ManageMore Version 3.0.  For the last several months, we have been field testing and re-designing the look and feel of ManageMore to accommodate dozens of new features and improvements to the product.  With this new version, Intellisoft is also now able to provide several new exciting modules that have been designed to greatly enhance the capabilities of ManageMore.

For starters, don't be intimidated by the fact that most of the program's window layouts have been dramatically altered compared to prior versions.  At first glance, many of the familiar Table Windows and Forms throughout the program will feel awkward to some of you.  Large Buttons that used to be spread across the bottom of all database tables,  have now been repositioned as graphical icons within a toolbar at the top of these same windows.  This dramatic new windows layout resolves two main issues we were struggling with as ManageMore capabilities continues to expand:

A. How to introduce dozens of new capabilities without cluttering up windows with too many rows of large buttons.
B. Coming up with creative ways to identify what a button does with only enough space for 2-3 words to fit.

We believe we have accomplished this in Version 3.0 with an MS Windows-Style toolbar look... all without sacrificing ease-of-use and functionality from within ManageMore. 

New Table Window Layout
Our new window toolbar design can be found throughout many of the database list lookup tables under File... Lists.  Notable improvements and changes are:
1. Small graphical icon buttons across the top of all list windows represent identical functionality as the larger button concept from prior versions (i.e. Insert, Change, Delete, Print, etc.) but with less window space and more room to add new capabilities at a later time.
2. Toolbar buttons now show a Tool Tip Message Box when your mouse pointer hovers over the images.  Actions that a button will take are more thoroughly described within a pop-up message box compared to previous versions where a short one or two words were placed on a button.
3. Sort Order Tabs have been relocated to the bottom of all lists for a cleaner design and to avoid possible confusion by expert window users who are not used to tabs being represented as a sort order identifier.
4. Tab colors have been changed to work with your Windows Settings
5. Tables have been extended to show a larger portion of a particular data set

New Custom Views Feature
With the new table layouts, we are now able to provide extremely powerful capabilities that give you total control of how you view/filter/report on your database files.  Tables within ManageMore are no longer just screens for adding, editing and deleting records sets.  Now, you will be to decide how your tables are displayed, sorted and even printed using custom views (Alt+V).

1. Custom Views (denoted  on the toolbar as a left-right arrow image and also found as a drop list to the right of most search entry fields) give you the ability to determine how data tables will appear to you.  You can re-arrange the data columns anyway you like and even instruct the custom view to sort the database in any ascending/descending order based on any fields.   Also, mouse right-clicking on any column will give you the option to hide or unhide the data column quickly. You can also perform mouse Drag-and-Drop on columns to move them around on-screen for a quick-and-dirty way of re-arranging a table.  We recommend you ultimately choose the icon on the toolbar to build your custom views and save them permanently for easy retrieval when returning back to your data sets.
2. Built-in Reporting (denoted on the toolbar as a printer image) now gives you the ability to printout the table based on the fields you choose and sort order method selected.  Just like custom views, report layouts can also be saved permanently for future use.  Even the smallest tables in ManageMore now provide a way for you to print out the information!

New IntelliQuery Feature
Although prior versions of ManageMore offered some form of Intelliquery (i.e. Query-By-Example) capability, there were some limitations and issues with the manner in which it worked.  The new Intelliquery functionality works directly from within the List Windows and offers many more advantages.  The Intelliquery feature can be found on most Windows that display tables and is located within the window toolbar as a small magnifying glass (Alt+Q).

With IntelliQuery, one can choose to create and save as many different custom queries as needed or just build a query on-the-fly.  Different from prior versions of QBE that relied on screen fields for its queries, IntelliQuery offers you many more fields to select from and offers more advanced boolean and mathematical functions that can be applied to the query itself.

When a query is run, record matches will be denoted on the table with a small checkmark icon next to them.  A set of VCR controls will also become present at the bottom right of the screen for allowing navigation to the next/previous record match of your query.

Some other notable features of IntelliQuery are:

Queries can be now printed using the same report engine mentioned above in custom views.  The combination of QBE and flexible report printing means that ManageMore can now offer you an excellent built-in report writer tool.  In many cases, one will be to generate and print their own customized reports without the need for an external report writer tool (i.e. Crystal Reports) or the need to export data sets from ManageMore.  Reports have the ability to do group breaks, totaling, averaging, and record counts very easily.

New Reports and Report Explorer Layout
With the advent of more than a dozen new reports added to ManageMore, we decided it was also time for a better approach to display the multitude of existing reports within ManageMore.  Under File... Reports... Report Explorer... you will see that a new drop-down tree list window is presented that supercedes all other report windows from prior versions.  This drop-down tree view provides better clarity when grouping similar reports and offers a "Favorites" feature where you can assemble your most commonly used reports in one viewing area or as a menu item on the program.

You will also notice a design change to the report windows that is similar to the changes made on many of the database tables throughout the program.  A toolbar now exists across the top of all report windows with various actions that can be taken depending on the software modules you own.  Highlight your mouse over each button for an explanation of the features you can accomplish.

 New Accounts Payable Reports
Vendor Aging Report - list of purchase receipts by vendor, with aging for each transaction, total aging for vendor.

Vendor Mailing Labels - labels for vendors

New Customer Reports
Customer List - reorganized so that all sort orders are accessed via one window; now includes sort orders by salesperson and billing code.

New Analysis Reports
Customer Profit Analysis - Total sales, cost of sales, profit, and profit percentage by customer.
Monthly Sales Analysis - Total sales by category, customer, department, manufacturer, or SKU, grouped by month for up to twelve consecutive months.

New Contact Reports
Contact List - list of contacts and contact personal information.
Contact Mailing labels - labels for contacts only

New General Ledger Reports
Journal Entry Reports - updated to include totals for journal entry, and detail items.

New Inventory Reports
Category List - list of inventory categories, category ids.
Count List - reorganized so that all sort orders are accessed via one window.
Department List - list of inventory departments, department ids.
Item Activity Detail - all transactions pertaining to an inventory item are listed, including purchase receipts, transfers, adjustments, sales, and refunds.
Item List - simple listing of inventory items grouped by category, department, or manufacturer, including on hand and cost information.

New Contacts List Feature
For some businesses, a distinction between customers and contacts is very important.  Contacts are potential customers that you may be in the process of soliciting through direct mail, telemarketing or other advertising means.  Contacts are usually considered temporary records that help provide a distinction between people you do business with and not.  A contact record contains many of the same fields found on a customer record.  Contacts behave similarly to customers in ManageMore, except that you cannot reference any accounting related transactions to a contact record.  Once a contact is ready to become a customer, a convenient convert button is provided that will automatically transform a contact record into a customer record so that you can quickly begin invoicing for your products or services.  See Lists... Contacts...  Contact List... for entering contacts into ManageMore.  Experiment within ManageMore's Customer Care Window to get a feel for how ManageMore deals with contacts versus customer accounts when a lookup is performed.

New Customer Template Feature
Entering new customers into ManageMore has never been easier with the new addition of customer templates.  Simply,  create default settings for common customer types (i.e. individual, company, reseller, family, etc.) and ManageMore will fill-in over a dozen fields into the customer record.  See Lists... Customers... Customer Templates.

New Database Import Feature
Importing database information in an automated process can be an enormous time-saver for those businesses who want to transfer information from another external software product.  ManageMore now provides you the ability to easily  import customers, contacts, vendors and inventory items electronically.
Save hours of manual labor by setting up our import wizard tool to do all the work.  ManageMore will even intelligently prohibit you from potentially causing data duplication or importing invalid data by denoting problem records for your review before committing to the imported data set.

Email Pro Improvements (Optional)
One of the most exciting things in our Version 3.0 is the major improvements made to our optional Email Pro module.  We truly have outdone ourselves by providing the first-ever fully integrated email client within a business software solution.  Email Pro can now be setup to handle all of your inbound and outbound email with similar capabilities to that of Microsoft Outlook. The big difference is that you have total access to all inbound/outbound email histories and much better security when it comes to file attachments.  Email Pro also includes built-in address books, an improved bulk email engine, and internal email capabilities for communicating among employees within your organization.  You can even setup Email Pro to auto-respond to any incoming emails that you own.

There are too many new capabilities to explain all of the Email Pro features here, so we recommend customers who own the Email Pro module to visit our web site at www.managemore.com/email-software.htm for more information.

New PDF Express Feature (Optional)
A new internet enhancement feature has been added that allows all reports and many transactions (i.e. invoices, purchase orders, payments, inventory transfers, etc.) to be emailed to any recipient... right from within ManageMore.  This handy capability will take documents and convert them to industry standard Adobe PDF files and attach them to any outgoing email you send.  Recipients will receive an identical impression of the report or document for them to view or print if desired.   Optionally, reports can be delivered to the internet via FTP so that multiple individuals can view report information from your web site or a secured web server location.  Now your data can be truly mobile!
There is an Introductory price of $149 (regularly $199) for this tool  up until December 31st, 2002.  Please contact our sales department for more information.

New Job Scheduler Feature (Optional)
Our newest addition to the ManageMore business software suite is a high-powered scheduling tool that automates the running of many reports and certain recurring activities.  Job Scheduler. For more information on this exciting tool, please visit
http://www.managemore.com/job-scheduler.htm

Task Manager Improvements (Optional)
Customers who own the Task Complete product can now setup ManageMore to automatically check for new tasks and notify you the moment new To Do's, appointments, etc. are ready for your review.

New "Count Physical Inventory" Feature
For businesses with larger inventories, a much better way of auditing your physical inventory counts now exists within ManageMore.  Instead of counting your products and then manually figuring out what needs to be adjusted up or down in inventory, you now have a special inventory count screen that will help you determine what to count and how often to count.  You can then quickly enter your manual counts(or import them) and ManageMore will automatically create the necessary inventory adjustments for you.

Inventory Count Features/Benefits Include:

1. Count Process will now build a list of items that need counted based on your criteria and create a batch entry so that you can enter the manual counts.
2.  A Physical Inventory count sheet is automatically produced from the inventory count process so that count sheets and batches are synchronized for faster data entry
3.  Advanced ABC Analysis counting scheme for optimal count rotation of larger inventories
4. Support for importing counts from files generated by a wide variety of data collectors that support ASCII output.
5. Automatic Inventory Adjustments based on differences found in the inventory count process.

Electronic Statement Improvements
Major improvements were made to the manner in which ManageMore would email statements to recipients.  The entire look and feel of the statement can now be easily modified to your taste.  Company Logos, customer advertisement, banner ads, etc. can be placed on the statement by simply modifying the html template or text template. The file "mmstmt.htm" and "mmstmt.txt" are used as the templates for creating electronic statements. 

You will find several % Tag Lines that denote where ManageMore will place its information.  Everything else within the body of the templates can be modified to your liking.

Print Preview Improvements
When previewing reports or documents on screen,  you will notice a new screen design and much improved capabilities. 

1. Navigation pane for quickly jumping around specific pages of a report.
2. Better Zoom In and Zoom Out capabilities with customized step zoom
3. Flexible pages to print options like "1-5,8,10-12" or "1,5,8,9" or "EVEN" or "ODD" or "ALL"
4. Powerful searching capabilities for find text anywhere within the previewed report
5. Familiar control panel layout similar to Adobe's Acrobat document viewer

Pager Related Improvements
1. Added Lookup button for coverage regions on Pager Activation form and Capcode Inventory form.
2. Added SKU description on Pager form for easier viewing of pager information.
3. Added "Two-Way" Message Class throughout the Paging Manager Module  (Support for RCC interface not available yet)

Cellular Related Improvements
1. Setup for import file of Cellular Audit Pro easier with new import wizard
2. Added SKU description on Cellular form for easier viewing of cellular phone information
3. Default residual ending date can now be setup based on xxx days from the effective date of activation
4. A new setting exists that can prohibit ESNs from being activated from a different location than your login location

Miscellaneous Improvements and Fixes
1. Quote transactions are now fully editable.  This means you can go back to an existing quote and make changes to any portion of the document as needed.
2. Quote transactions can now be automatically converted to sales orders (if you own the Sales Order Pro module).
3. Inventory Transfer transactions now provide for a tracking number field which can be edited at any time.
4. Supertrack Inventory items now keep statistical track of any discards made through the return processing window.  As you decide to "get rid of" defective or worthless product, a running total will be held for you to analyze at a later time.
5. Internet FTP Profiles have been added under Setup... Options... so that you can define all remote web servers where ManageMore will be able to access for reporting to the world wide web.
6.  Customer incidents now show an incident number on-screen so that you can provide this to a customer as reference.  Furthermore, you can do a customer lookup by the incident number right from within the Customer Care screen if you add the incident number to your customer search methods.
7. Statistical Information from within the Customer Care now includes more customer fields that can be displayed on the initial screen without having to drill-down into the customer record.
8. Improvement to Accounting Export feature allows for the transaction location to be exported to Quickbooks as a class.  Quickbooks utilizes the class as a way of grouping journal entries in a logical manner.  Classes can be helpful if you want get different general ledger information by store location.
9. Correction made whereby trade-in items were not being moved into return processing after refunds.
10. Correction made on Purchase Receipts where the bill reference was not displaying.
11. Correction made in Inventory Adjustments that allowed an already existing serialized item to be added back into inventory accidentally.
12. Purchase Credits that reference a Purchase Order now optionally allows you to decide wheter PO quantities should be reinstated to the original purchase order or not.  This is particularly useful if you have accidentally created a purchase receipt against a P.O. and want to quickly reverse the receipt and put back the P.O. to its original pending status.
13. Customer Aging Reports now have a "Skip customers with no account balance" setting for easier reporting.
14. Correction made to RMA's whereby redemption items were not being properly carried over to the refund transaction
15. Label Reports section has been eliminated in favor of placing label reports in their respective categories.
16. Invoices now have some limited editing capabilities with the salesperson, P.O. number, and memo fields.  The salesperson field, in particular, is important because it lets you correct any discrepancies over invoice commissions on particular transactions already created.
17. Due to the new invoice editing feature for salespersons, a new security setting was also added under Setup... Accounting... Invoices... Security... to prevent unauthorized changes to the salesperson field.  This is a very important security option, as it prevents untrustworthy employees from going back to prior invoices and adding their initials to them for commission reasons.
18. Wallpaper graphics were removed from a variety of windows throughout the program to boost screen re-draw performance for customers using remote technologies like Terminal Services, Citrix, PC Anywhere, etc.
19. Several new default settings existing under Setup... Accounting...  These are : Vendor Payment Terms, Vendor Shipping Method, Force Invoice Printing, Force Payment Printing, Force Sales Order Printing, and Force PO/PR Printing.
20. New Restocking Fee feature added to Supertrack Inventory that allows you to define a percentage amount that will automatically be deducted per SKU when and RMA or Refund is performed.  A minimum day range can also be set so that the restocking fee only applies when products are returned late.  See Supertrack Inventory... Options Tab for the new setting.
21. New setting exists where one can decide whether they prefer purchase receipts to automatically fill-in with remaining quantities requested from a purchase order.  The prior method of forcing employees to count merchandise as it is received is still considered a better auditing technique, but may not always be necessary for smaller companies.  See Setup... Accounting... Purchasing... for the new checkbox setting.
22. Tax Breakdown button is now available on invoices and sales order transaction for viewing multiple taxes and determining that all is ok.
23. New Search Methods were added to allow lookup of customer by a Transaction Number or Payment Number from within the Customer Care window.  You will need to add this to your search list in order to take advantage of these searches.  Goto Setup... Preferences... Search Methods.

Special Note:  Due to the vast amount of changes in field controls and new windows in Version 3.0, we strongly recommend you re-evaluate your program security settings to ensure that sensitive information is still properly hidden or disabled from view of certain personnel.

 

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