Announcing the Release of the ABS "Quick Start" Database
September 29, 2008
Advanced Business Systems has experience - experience with real companies using Microsoft Dynamics NAV every day. Our clients have told us how much they love their new tools, but sometimes they are surprised that certain functions are missing from the software as it comes from Microsoft. The staff at Advanced Business Systems agreed. So we put our heads together and came up with a list of functions that should be present. We proudly offer it as our "Quick Start" Microsoft Dynamics Nav database as part of the service you expect. Included are:
1. Enhanced AP Checks - This enhancement adds more options to basic NAV for printing of 3 part AP Checks. It allows the user to select either Stub-Stub-Check, Check-Stub-Stub, or Stub-Check-Stub formats. It accommodates either Blank or preprinted checks and handles MICR encoding of Check Stock. Other capabilities include extended check stub and a check memo field available on the Payment Journal.
2. Vendor Default G/L Accounts - certain vendors (for example utilities and telephone companies) will always be linked to certain expense accounts in your Chart of Accounts. This addition allows you to enter a default G/L account number on a Vendor card. Every time you create a Purchase Order or Purchase Invoice, this G/L account number will automatically be copied onto the document.
3. Enhanced Payment Journal/Suggest Vendor Payments - Microsoft Dynamics NAV has a wonderful tool that allows you enter payment parameters and generate a list of invoices to be paid in the Payment Journal. Our enhancement adds several new functions:
a. The user can see the AP batch total dollars of the check run in the
journal.
b. The user can see the total amount being paid to an individual
Vendor for all invoices in the check run.
c. The user can easily batch delete invoices they don't wish to pay.
d. If desired, the Suggest Vendor Payments routine will copy the
vendor's invoice number to the journal and subsequently to the
check.
4. Batch Financial Statement Printing - Instead of running through Financial Statements individually and printing them this enhancement allows you to predefine the Financial Statements and their desired column layouts. The date is updated and they are all printed in batch at the touch of a button.
5. Positive Pay Export - This enhancement allows users of Dynamics NAV to easily upload a file to the Bank for Positive Pay purposes. Banks are increasingly using this process to eliminate the possibility of check fraud.
6. Document Approval Process Improvements - Improved Security regarding the issuance of Purchase Orders and Sales Orders.
Additional Features to be available in 4th quarter of 2008:
7. Bank Download of Cleared Items - To ease the Bank Account Reconciliation process we have a facility to download cleared items from your bank account and automatically set the "cleared" flag in NAV.
8. Email of Sales Orders, Sales Invoices, Statements and Purchase Orders using email addresses of contacts on Customer & Vendor Cards.
9. Non Summarized Posting to General Ledger from Sales & Purchase Documents.
These above Features will be automatically available to all new customers of Advanced Business Systems when we install and initialize their database. For existing customers of ABS we can make these features optionally available during your next upgrade or can merge desired features into your existing database as requested.