Upcoming Answers 5.0 Key Features
The next release of Answers is almost here! Customers
will be able to down-load Answers 5.0 in just a few days. The newest version of Answers contains over
60 new features
of which most were a direct result of enhancement suggestions
submitted and voted upon by our users last fall. Just a few of the
high-lighted new capabilities are listed below.
Make sure your system administrator
has signed up for your company's preferred installation date
using our web sign-up form.
They should have received an invitation to schedule your
upgrade on 08/12/19. Reminders will be sent out later
this week to those customers who have not yet signed up for
an upgrade date.
- Users can now change the Sold From Warehouse # in Order Entry on Sales Orders, Returns, Quotes, and Warehouse Transfers even if the transaction has data and line items entered on it already or has been previously saved.
- Options to restore cancelled Sales Orders, Returns, Quotes, Transfers, and Purchase Orders and the ability to revert back to earlier versions of changes for this same transaction.
- Revamped Toolbars in Order Entry provide quicker 1-click access to many additional features previously available only from the drop-down and right-click menus.
- Maximum # of Alternate Ship-To Addresses per customer has been increased from 90 to 9900 and from 9 to 99 for general addresses that can be used on all customers.
- Authorization field in Order Entry has been expanded from 15 to 24 characters to match the length of Contact names.
- Ability to preview Pick Tickets as PDF's prior to printing.
- Ability to add attachments or change the email recipient and/or message on automatically emailed invoices done directly from Order Entry.
- Ability to schedule Price File Imports to run and update later on an Effective Date.
- Ability to create and review Suggested Vendor Returns from inactive or slow moving inventory items similar to reviewing suggested Purchase Orders for possible replenishment.
- Next part number and Similar part number searches have been added to Vendor Returns and Inventory Adjustments.
- Check-Box options on Inventory Notes to control where the notes are displayed automatically.
- Ability to enter new Sales Returns and Warehouse Transfers directly from the Salesman's WorkCenter.
- Ability to apply the same note to multiple invoices in Accounts Receivable.
- Ability to indentiy inactive customers and flag them as such.
- The number of possible expense accounts on A/P Invoices has been increased from 10 to 20.
- A new Average Days to Pay calculation is now tracked on Vendors similar to Customers.
- Ability to void some types of G/L Journal Entries that were not posted automatically as a result of other substantiating detail by the system.
- Up to 3 routing numbers and bank account numbers can now be setup for ACH Direct Deposits on each employee.
- For those running automated End-of-Month, cut-off dates affecting purges have been changed to be based on a "Number of Days to Keep" which will keep an administrator from having to edit specific cut-off dates each month. Additionally closing dates, cut-off dates, and closing period numbers will roll forward automatically each month.