Simple Start Business Software 6.0

Simple Start Business Software 6.0 is an advanced and intelligent software for with advanced inventory control capabilities and integrated point-of-sale features?

Are you looking for a complete business software that can help automate all aspects of your enterprise and provide you a competitive edge?

Simple Start Business Software may be just the product you are looking for. This software eliminates the need to juggle several business productivity tools by integrating the best-of-breed business software solutions into one cohesive and simple to understand product. It is engineered for nearly every type of industry and operation: retail, wholesale, mail order, distribution, service, manufacturing, ecommerce, government, etc.

Manage your entire company with this all-in-one business accounting program which offers A/R, A/P, G/L, payroll, invoicing and quotation, billing, sales order, advanced inventory control and purchasing, point-of-sale, commission tracking, CRM, time and attendance, contact management, marketing tools, email integration, integrated report designer and over 100+ comprehensive built-in reports and graphs.

As your business grows, so will Simple Start Business Software by offering more advanced software editions which are capable of expanding to 100 networked users and can provide web integration tools which can easily give your company the web presence it deserves.

Simple Start even includes easy-to-use import tools to help you switch from your existing business program and has an automated QuickBooks Pro conversion utility for fast migration.

Major Features:

1. General Features32-bit Architecture
   
   • Supports MS Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista
   • Over 600 pages of Comprehensive Online Help
   • Company setup wizard guides you through software implementation and includes over 100 business models for quick setup
   • Quickbooks database conversion included for easy migration from other systems
   • Customizable data entry screens
   • Shortcut Keys and Toolbar definable by user
   • Training Mode allows user to practice or experiment without harm to database
   • Accounting handled behind the scenes on all documents, so no real bookkeeping knowledge needed
   • Email documents and reports easily
   • File Backup utility included
   • Company Logo image can be added to all documents
   • Documents throughout program record employee, date and time
   • Security can be set to prevent access to certain areas of program
   • Audit all activities performed by a user
   • Over a hundred business reports to choose from or create your own savable custom reports with our built in report wizard tool
   • Reports can be output to Printer, Screen, PDF and Email
   • Query wizards which help you drill down on your data by any piece of information
   • Saved custom query lists
   • On-demand reporting of Query generated lists
   • Custom Data Views can be created for ad-hoc sorts and hiding / showing columns
   • Multi-Company Capable
   • Built-in Calendar
   • Built-in Calculator
   • Integrated Spell Checker
2. Accounting Features
   
   • General Ledger
   • Accounts Receivable
   • Accounts Payable
   • U.S. Payroll
   • Multi-tier Chart of Accounts
   • Bank Deposits
   • Bank Transfers
   • Bank Reconciliations
   • Multiple Bank Accounts
   • Unlimited Open Years
   • Check Printing
   • Customer Credit Hold
   • Customer Check Hold
   • Finance Charges
   • GL Account Drill-Down capabilities
   • Multi-tier Taxes
   • Integrated Time and Attendance system eliminates needs for Time Clock and integrates directly to Payroll
   • Supports Accrual or Cash Based accounting method
   • Automatic GL posting
   • Write-off bad debt feature
   • Recurring bill payments
   • Print or Electronically send  Vendor 1099's
   • Freely distributable Auditors Edition allows outside accountants to review/modify your financials from a remote office (i.e. similar to Quickbooks Accountant Copy feature)
3. Customer / Prospect  Features
   
   • Unlimited Customers and Prospects
   • Customer templates can be setup for quicker data entry of new clients
   • Supports user-defined fields for Customer and Prospect Records
   • Supports multiple contact info such as home phone, work phone, fax phone, email, etc.
   • Easily locate a customer based on invoice number, name, email, or any phone number on file.
   • Unique "Sounds-like" feature for searching customer or prospect names phonetically
   • Customer and prospect information can be easily imported  or merged from other systems
   • Specific customer fields can be disabled to customize and simplify customer data entry
   • Multiple Ship To addresses per Customer
   • Instant M-T-D statistical customer sales history for present and prior years
   • Automatic auditing of all field changes made to a customer or prospect record
   • Customer Classifications permits grouping of customers (corporate, reseller, end user, family, etc.) for reports and operations throughout the program
   • Allows for automatic duplicate customer checking to minimize data entry errors
   • Prospects can be easily converted to customers in one step
   • Prospects can be imported from mailing lists
   • Imported prospect lists automatically filter out duplicates and/or merges new information to keep your name lists up-to-date
4. Inventory  Features
   
   • Supports LIFO, FIFO, Last,  Average costing methods
   • Manage unlimited Tangible and Intangible(i.e. service) Items
   • Manage internal inventory office supplies
   • Manage serial number or lot based items when receiving or shipping
   • Up to 3 vendors per item
   • 3 price levels per item
   • 5 price breaks per level
   • Fractional Quantity capable
   • Item unit price precision to 2 decimal places
   • Track reorder point stock levels per item
   • Track  minimum/maximum stock levels per item
   • Track best/last cost, EOQ, and lead time per item
   • Inventory Templates for quick item additions
   • Quick on-screen price check feature for any item
   • Graph Inventory Levels
   • Bar Code Printing
   • Price Protection
   • Unit Measure Conversion
   • Item Kits and Item Groups
   • Audit Trail for Inventory Adjustments
   • Stock Transfer capabilities
   • Inventory Import feature
   • Reconciliation can create count worksheets and auto-adjust variances
   • Supports data collectors for faster inventory counts
   • Flexible tax setups on each item
   • Item label designer
   • Supports up to 5000 inventory items
5. Point of Sale (POS) and Invoicing (A/R)  Features
   
   • Fully integrated with A/R, Inventory and G/L
   • Free Credit Card Processing Integration
   • Allows for unlimited line items
   • Automatically updates inventory levels and account balances
   • Supports returns, redemptions, and other negative quantity line items during POS entry
   • Support for electronic cash drawers, receipt printers, pole displays, magnetic card readers, and barcode scanners
   • Credit Card Authorization supports AVS/CVV2/CVC2
   • Handles multiple tender types like cash, checks, credit cards, store credit, etc.
   • User definable tender type
   • Split tender capability
   • Cash Drawer reconciliation
   • Barcode scans item code or UPC
   • Bank deposit preparation
   • Summary/detail reports for filing all taxes
   • Prevent or Warn user of refunds on items past their return policy period
   • Instant Credit Card Purchase History lookup allows customers to refund items without a receipt
   • Promotional/Volume/
   • Customer-Level Pricing
   • Specific Customer Pricing
   • Allow changes to every facet of invoice line items
   • Quotations, Proposals, and Sales Documents
   • Easily email any transaction to a customer as a PDF file attachment through your own mail browser
   • Back Dates to allow posting to correct accounting period
   • Easily find invoice items by various means including unique Intellisearch lookup
   • Discounts can be handled per line item or as a total amount for the document
   • Special comments, warranties or instructions can be added to each invoice line item
   • Customer Shipping Instructions can be included per document
   • Historical reports maintain sales for an unlimited number of years
   • Alerts user when customer credit limit exceeded
   • User definable invoice terms and shipping methods
   • Process COD invoice and track payment until receipt
   • Batch Invoice Printing
   • Item drill-down and adjustments can be done on-the-fly
6. Purchasing and Payables (A/P)  Features
   
   • Purchase Quotes, Purchase Orders, Back Orders, and Purchase Receipt capabilities
   • View Purchase History
   • Auto Generate Purchase Orders based on max quantity levels, economical order quantity or best fit
   • Check Vendor Payment History
   • Memo alert feature for special reminder when purchasing certain items
   • Configure Preferred Vendors per Item
   • Create inventory items
   • on-the-fly while purchasing
   • Customizable payment terms
   • Maintain Item Quantity Held, Committed, and Ordered
   • Quick Auto-fill of purchase orders based on previous orders to same vendor
   • Automatically generates item labels for marked products in inventory
   • Purchase orders can be edited, printed, and reprinted at any time
   • Receive partial purchase orders
   • Cancel all or a portion of a purchase order
   • Automatic freight and discount prorating on purchases for precise inventory item costing
   • Numerous inventory reports and sales charts to analyze inventory performance and help forecast future ordering
   • Quick and easy Bills to Pay Feature can select invoices to pay based on multiple criteria
   • Support for standard laser/inkjet check forms including QuickBooks/PeachTree check formats
   • Memorized transaction feature can automatically generate Purchase Orders and Receipts based on any schedule (i.e. weekly, monthly, 5th of the Month, etc.)
7. Billing  Features
   
   • Recurring and incidental Billing
   • Templates allows for billing various services to customer
   • Multiple billing periods allow you to bill as often as needed
   • Multiple billing terms (i.e., weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, annual, etc.)
   • Support for 28-day billing periods
   • On-screen bill presentment
   • Customer statement reprint for any prior billing period
   • Several professional statements to choose from
   • Export statement info to third party printing service
   • Suppress printing of bills for certain customers
   • EFT integrated in billing process workflow
   • Email customer bills (HTML)
   • Allow template customization of electronic HTML bill
   • Allow dunning messages to appear on statements
   • Allow Bill P.O. Reference
   • Suppress bill printing based on min. balance, customer type, etc.
   • Company Logo printing
   • Watermark printing
   • Optical Mark Recognition support for Pitney Bowes bill sorting equipment
   • Barcode printing on statement for faster batch payment processing
   • Auto-incrementing dunning messages
   • View/Create incident notes for each customer
   • Tag specific incident notes to auto-popup when customer is accessed
   • Create employee tasks for reminder and follow-up calls to overdue customers
8. Customer Relationship Management (CRM)  Features
   
   • Tasks/Appointments/
   • Reminders capabilities
   • Intra Company Mail
   • Customer/Vendor History Calendar
   • Customer Care screen facilitates instant inquiry access to a customer's history of quotes, orders, invoices, payments, incidents, tasks, emails, etc.
   • Last 25 customers accessed can be re-visited anytime
   • True Email browser integration eliminates need for MAPI interface to products like MS Outlook
   • Manage multiple internal/external email accounts from within system
   • Address Book to store and retrieve email addresses for employees, customers, vendors, prospects, etc.
   • Create personalized folders for organizing and prioritizing your emails
   • Easily forward email or set rules to route email to another account when you are not available
   • Setup shared email accounts that an entire department can respond to
   • Quickly respond to email with user-defined templates and signatures
   • Schedule tasks (i.e., to do's, appointments and call backs) for yourself or assign them to other employees or departments
   • Recurring tasks can be setup to remind employees of routine tasks that need accomplished at set times or intervals
9. Order Entry  Features
   
   • Manage any kind of order document-- Work Orders, Web Orders, Service Orders, Layaways, and Contract Pricing documents
   • Create sales quotations or estimates and easily convert them to invoices
   • Allows partial shipment of sales orders
   • Allows comments, misc. charges, and labor charges on sales orders
   • Accepts payments and deposits at time of order
   • Allows prepaid sales orders
   • Future Date orders to be invoiced at a later time
   • Cancel all or a portion of a sales order
   • Sales orders can be edited, printed, and reprinted at any time
   • Fulfillment screen can display all pending orders in FIFO with availability status for completion to make invoice
   • Generate pick tickets
   • Warn user of low stock levels
   • Alerts user when customer credit limit exceeded
10. Marketing / Analysis  Features
    
    • Customer Tracking/Profiling
    • Prospect Tracking/Profiling
    • Track Return on Investment using Advertising Codes
    • Integrated mail-merge capabilities
    • Supports printing to dozens of common Avery address label formats
    • Built in Lists and Labels Feature allows you to design your own custom labels, business cards, business forms, bar-coded Employee ID cards, etc.
    • Salesperson Performance Charts
    • Best and Worst Sales Item Charts
    • Sales Trends Charts
    • Advertising Statistics Chart
    • Profit Analysis Chart
      

Requirements:

1. Minimum:
   
   • 1024x768 VGA
   • 14"17" or 19"
   • Pentium 400Mhz
   • 128 MB RAM
   • 500 MB Available
   • MS Windows 2000/XP
   • 48kbps data line
2. Recommemded:
   
   • 1024x768 VGA or higher 
   • Pentium 2Ghz or higher
   • 256 MB RAM
   • 1-5 GB Available
   • 1-5 GB Available
   • MS Windows 2000/XP Pro/Vista
   • Internet Explorer 5.xInternet Explorer 7.0+  or FireFox
   • 110kbps or higher (ISDN, DSL, Frame Relay, T1)
3. Comments:
   
   • Depends mostly on OS
   • Connection from a remote workstation to ManageMore Server

   WareSeeker Editor