Big Business 9 adds Item Comments to Item Adjustments to easily record Lots or Serial Numbers or other specifics about each item being adjusted.
This Solution decribes this feature. (6492)
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Bundle Price is a custom, calculated Column for Items Search.
This Solution describes using this option. (6751)
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Big Business tracks several ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) for anticipating Vendor deliveries and setting customer expectations or scheduling fulfillment.
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Add Order At Least combines Order At Least and When Below to determine a Target Quantity when using the feature to Auto-Complete a Purchase Order. (6194)
This Solution provides detailed information for selecting compatible labels from the many standardized label sizes available. (3224)
Setting the History View Duration
You can determine how many days of transaction information are displayed in the History view of Item Cards. The default is to show all transactions, but you can enter a specific number of days if you prefer.
If you set a specific number of days, all open transactions are displayed, even if they are outside the time period you specify. Similarly, transactions dated in the future (after the current time and date maintained by the computer) are always displayed.
To set the History view duration:
In the Item Preferences window, enter a number of days in the Display History field. (3091)
Selling an Item into a Negative Quantity on Hand in Big Business Version 2.0 may result in incorrect values in the Item's Average Cost and Total Cost.
See Solution#3052 (Adjusting for Incorrect Item Average Costs) for details and a fix. (3025)
Big Business includes the option to Auto-Generate an Item Code in the form of a serial or sequential number. (3039)
Selling (or Building from ) Items which are Inventoried which have a negative Quantity on Hand uses the Cost, rather than the Average Cost, for any postings. If this value is zero when it should be a positive dollar amount, Inventory valuations and Cost of Goods Sold numbers may be out of balance until the Item is purchased and its Quantity on Hand restored to a zero or positive value.
Big Business 2.5 continues to allow you to overdraw your inventory (Invoice an Item prior to entering the Vendor Bill for the Item) and incorporates numerous new features to prevent anticipated problems. (3210)
The ability to delete unused Items en masse has long been requested by Big Business Users who generate numerous Quotes. Many companies want to be able to Quote from an imported catalog of Items. In the end, they may only end up selling a fraction of the Items they imported for Quotes.
The Items that are sold contain historical transaction information and can not be deleted. The Items that have only been used in Quotes can be deleted by first deleting the expired Quotes, then the Item Card.
Item Batch Delete (and Quote Batch Delete) facilitate this process.
In the picture above is the dialog for the Batch Delete, but notice also the Item List behind. The Batch Delete has already been run on the entire list, leaving the 65 Items that contain transaction histories. All other Items were deleted. (3126)
Big Business includes the option to mark Items as Obsolete. Marking an Item Obsolete removes several Item attributes including Bought, Sold, Inventoried, and the values in Order At Least, When Below, and Quantity Needed.
Once an Item has been marked Obsolete, it can no longer be added to any transaction (e.g. Invoice, PO, Item Adjustment). It is recommended that you wait to mark an Item Obsolete, until the possibility of a customer return, special order, or correction becomes unlikely.
If an Item has inventory values, clicking Obsolete will give an error, "You can only Obsolete Items for which all inventory totals are zero". (5538)
Big Business 7 adds the option to Update Items as Obsolete. (6127)
Big Business uses Preprinted Statement forms from Deluxe, which must be correctly aligned. Settings in the Cusomer Prefs let you make an adjustment to the position of the printing (6171).
Big Business lets you select the Sales Tax on an Invoice. This is convenient if Sales Tax on the Customer Card is different--for example an out-of-state customer who is normally exempt, purchases in person and needs to pay local sales tax rates. (6173)
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Selling (or Building from ) Items which are Inventoried which have a negative Quantity on Hand uses the Cost, rather than the Average Cost, for any postings. If this value is zero when it should be a positive dollar amount, Inventory valuations and Cost of Goods Sold numbers may be out of balance until the Item is purchased and its Quantity on Hand restored to a zero or positive value.
Big Business 2.5 continues to allow you to overdraw your inventory (Invoice an Item prior to entering the Vendor Bill for the Item) and incorporates numerous new features to prevent anticipated problems. (3219)
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Defining Royalty Terms for Items
Big Business Version 2.0 lets you define royalty or licensing fees for items you sell. You can define the terms as a percentage of the sales price or as a fixed amount per item sold.
You can find out how much you owe in royalty fees by generating a Royalty Report in the Info Center. For more information about reports, see Using Reports in Chapter 8 of the Big Business Users Guide.
To define royalty terms:
1. Click the History tab in an Item Card.
2. Choose either Royalty Percentage Rate or Royalty Amount per Item from the Royalty Percentage Rate Pop-Up list.
3. Enter the royalty percentage or amount. (3087)
I want my special order Items that are drop shipped to post directly to my Cost of Sales account, but I dont want to Inventory this Item.
In some instances, Items which would normally be inventoried (e.g. physical goods of value) may not need to be tracked as inventory. Check with your C.P.A.
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Big Business provides straightforward reporting of Royalties. This Solution outlines a few of the Settings that can be used to produce desired output. Additionally, suggestions are offered for extracting data from Big Business for more complex Royalty calculations. (3215)
How do I define Royalties? Can I QuickChange Royalty Amounts or Percentages? (3230)