Customer Prepayments is an option you turn on to track deposits on customer orders.
Customer Prepayments handles the accounting for money you receive before invoicing. Prepayments post to an Account you set up for keeping track of unapplied payments.
Run a Balance Sheet and A/R Aging anytime, without any clean up to close the period.
BigBusiness follows the Date Format on your computer and lets you enter and display dates in the same order, such as mm/dd/yy, which you can type with or without / or ..
BigBusiness 15.037 and 14.171 fix a few more insidious bugs and lingering annoyances.
Once again they make a chapter.
Forms tools and options help you customize printed forms and pdfs to fit your needs.
Big Business includes built-in forms for most operations, such as RMA's or Pick Lists. Custom Forms allow you to create forms from templates and add in the data you need.
This chapter provides an overview of forms, templates, and options, for a quick start.
Send Mail helps automate emailing and sending notifications to users by sending email. Send Mail is an add-on that sends email directly from BigBusiness, not via email client.
Send Mail adds options such as having Big Business email you a system notification. An example would be emailing when you have new orders received by Auto-Connect.
This chapter describes setting up Send Mail options to support emailed Notifications.
ShippingEasy gets your orders from Ebay, Amazon, Walmart, to handle the shipping.
BigBusiness gets your orders from ShippingEasy to handle accounting and fulfillment.
This chapter helps you manage orders coming from several online stores and handling accounting for each to ensure all sales and payments are easily recorded and reconciled.
Numerous setup options let you choose a workflow to make fulfillment fast and easy.
Stores help you automatically switch between walk-in or online stores to set defaults.
If you have two locations you want printouts from each to show their correct address. If you have two online stores, each may have its brand, contact, or accounting presets.
You may need accounting results by store; each with an Income Category or Sales Tax. Or, you might want Amazon, Ebay, and so on to have their own Payment Method(s).
This Chapter collects Solutions regarding macOS Sequoia, testing and developments.
To list chapter contents click the Chapter button on the right margin or at the bottom.
BigBusiness 15 will be certified for macOS Sequoia after it is released. Earlier versions of Big Business will not be certified or updated for macOS Sequoia.
Upload Items is updated for BigBusiness 15 to work across multiple Online Stores and work with Auto Pilot options to automate updates for catalogs and live inventory.
On the Items search, the Upload button may be used to create new Products in your online stores, update existing Products, or link Products for live inventory updates.
This chapter describes the settings and options that determine how upload is handled.
BigBusiness 15 will test connecting to TaxCloud, an online service for Sales Taxes.
Margin shows your profit as a percentage of sell price, measuring the result of pricing.
When you change prices, or have cost changes, margins are updated to help measure the results. Entries for Last Pricing Update and Last Cost Update are also updated.
Customer Categories provide more options for sorting customers in reports or exports.
This chapter describes how you can provide a name for a Customer Category choice, add to its dropdown list, assign to Customers and use in Searches and Exports.
Fixed Bugs brings together some fixes in Big Business 14 that don't fit another chapter.
Paid Badge automatically stamps invoices being printed with Paid Badge if paid in full.
Images Admin helps you manage any images saved in BigBusiness to meet your needs.
With the option to Drag into Thumb Image, you can add files to keep or Send in email. BigBusiness will automatically create a smaller image to show or load quickly in Items.
This chapter helps you set options to automactically convert Pictures you have saved. If you want to add images to emails, quotes, printouts, or PDFs, it will help there, too.
Middleware helps you connect your shipping systems to share data with BigBusiness.
Customer Lines helps track line item details needed in customer procurement systems.
Orders from PO's sent via EDI, cXML, etc. services may contain procurement system data such as line numbers that are replaced by your own but needed when you invoice.
Customer Lines adds Line Item, Line Units, Line Count, Line Number, Text 1, Text 2.
Connect Controls include automatic settings and custom settings for Connect Options.
Connect Options include connecting to services like your online store, to get customers and orders, or to a service which relays orders from a customer's procurement system.
The goal is a simple and reliable system that lets you work when your services do not. This may mean ignorable messages when your Internet hiccups in the night, and more.
BigCommerce Connect II lets you extends your connection to BigCommerce as needed.
BigCommerce Connect help you automate online order processing by automatically bringing in customers and orders, in real time or in batches, to fulfill in BigBusiness.
BigCommerce II extends your connection with options to upload items, update prices, update inventory levels, and any custom options you might need for B2B and beyond.
Folder Admin helps you automate the import and export of files from an online folder.
Folder Connect is an option in BigBusiness that lets you check online folders for files. We can help you set this up to use FTP or SFTP to get files that are ready to import.
This chapter describes how to manage any problem or make use of additional features. Folder Connect will run problem-free for years but someday you may need this info.
Inactive lets you hide entries that are no longer used. Big Business includes an Inactive checkbox on Accounts, Customers, Items, and more.
On-Time Delivery helps you track original ETA's and delivery dates for comparison.
BigBusiness includes customizations for additional dates, for original confirmed ETA's. This allows you to update regular ETA's if they change and keep originals for analysis.
This option requires Enterprise Edition, or Open Edition to allow more customization.