Item ETA's
Item ETA's let you know the next estimated time of arrival based on your PO's entries.
On a Purchase Order, BigBusiness helps you estimate ETA's using Vendor ETA Days. You may also set individual PO Line Item ETA's based on feedback from your vendor.
At a glance,you know the next date a shipment is expected, and if you need more detail you can Show, Allocated to see a list of Orders by Ship Date and PO's by your ETA's.
BB tracks several ETA dates including:
• P.O. ETA - the ETA of the Purchase Order as a whole
• P.O. Line Item ETAs- the ETAs of Line Items on the Purchase Order
• Item ETA - the ETA of the Item as a whole (next expected shipment)
• S.O.. Line Item ETAs - the ETAs of Line Items on the Sales Order
1. When you create a new Purchase Order (and select the Vendor), Big Business sets the PO Date to Today (using the Date&Time on the Server for Multi-User), then sets the P.O. ETA to Today plus the number of Vendor ETA Days listed on the Vendor Card.
2. P.O. Line Item ETAs are set to the P.O. ETA automatically and can be overwritten with individual ETAs (if these vary for various Line Items).
3. If you change the P.O. ETA, you will be asked if you want to "Change the ETAs of all Line Items?".
4. When a PO is Saved, Modified, or filled by a Bill, the Item ETA is updated to the next (chronological) P.O. Line Item ETA, which has an Open Quantity (is not yet filled).
5. When an Line Item is entered on a Sales Order the S.O.. Line Item ETA is automatically set to:
- today if it's (inventoried) On Hand
- the Item ETA if it's not on hand, but on order
- Today plus Vendor ETA days if it neither on hand, nor on order, but has a Vendor listed
- today if none of the above apply
Item Labels
Item Labels let you print price labels, barcode labels, and allocation tags for each item.
Big Business designates labels in physical dimensions and references Avery(R) label numbers to help you easily select compatible labels from the many standardized sizes available.
Big Business prints Price Labels for Items using a standard 30 label per sheet layout. Price Labels can be printed from:
• Vendor Bills
• Item Cards
• Item QuickSearch
To Print Price Labels:
1. Find the Item Card or QuickSearch the Items for which you want to print Price Labels.
2. Click Print and select the Price Labels with the appropriate Price Level.
3. Click the OK button, then enter the number of labels for each Item and the position of the beginning label.
Big Business includes the ability to print on a previously used sheet of labels to assure that no labels go to waste. Always check that the labels you are using are compatible with your printer. Check your printer documentation for any warnings about printing labels or printing on partially used sheet of labels. Missing labels, high temperatures and a convoluted paper path increase the risk of a label detaching from its sheet while printing, which may cause serious damage to your printer.
Inventory Costs
Inventory Costs are tracked coming and going to keep your accounting and inventory.
Item Cost is filled in on PO's and used if an item runs out. It is the cost for new items.
Average Cost is the value of items you have in stock based on the costs of those items.
Item Comments
Item Comments help you record Serial Numbers, Lot Numbers or other item specifics. Prefs let you automatically fill in Detail Descriptions, Vendor Part Numbers and more.
On an Item Adjustment, also used for a Build, you may want to record Lot or Batch #. Then, use Item Comment in the Find Dialog in Item Adjustments Search to bring it up.
For Serial Numbers, UPC's, or other barcodes you can scan into Comments as needed. You can also scan into Item Code and have it lookup your item from the barcode scan.
Item Comments on Item Adjustments can be:
• entered by typing or scanning into the Comments column
• entered, edited, spell-checked on the Comments window
• searched in the Item Adjustment Search
• exported from the Item Adjustement by clicking Export and choosing the Include Detail
• imported using the Item Adjustment Import
Item Adjustment
Item Adjustment lets you change item quantities or build items from component items.
If you need to adjust for missing damaged or inventory shrinkage use Item Adjustment. Enter the Item and the Adjust or New Qty and use Avg Cost and Category pre-loaded.
If you need to build an item from components enter the Item in your Item Adjustment. A dialog will ask how many to build. Enter a number and it will fill in the Components.
Item Cost
Item Cost shows cost of an item, is used on PO's, and is used to calculate replacement.
When you create a new Purchase Order (PO) and add an item its Item Cost is filled in. If you sell into negative quantities, Item Cost is used to estimate the replacement cost.
When you change Cost on PO, BigBusiness will ask if you want to change Item Cost. Yes, only if this is new cost for your primary vendor. No, if it is just a one-time cost.
Built Item Cost
Item Cost for Built Items is automatically updated as sum of the costs of components.
When the Item Costs of components change, or the components in the bill of materials change, the Item Cost of built items are updated to the sum of costs of its components.
The Last Cost Update Date is set to today's date for every item changed so you know. Go to Items Search and find Last Cost Update Date is today or Add (+) it as a column.
Item Automation
Item Automation includes automatic accounting, costing, inventory tracking, and more.
Accounting is created automatically in real time so you are always in balance, trued up. When you save an invoice it is added to sales, subtracted from inventory, and balanced.
Items and their costs and quanties are also updated in real time so you can see results. When you save invoices it reduces inventory, fills order, triggers reordering, and more.
Build Import
Build Import lets you import Built Line Items to create or update Built Items' BOM's.
Bill of Materials (BOM) lists the components, including subassemblies, used to Build. Export using the Build/Bundle Line Item Report, make any changes, and then reimport.
Built Line Items Import is updated to process thousands of built items easily and is updated to use Super-Turbo Mode for computing Costs and Landed Costs of imports.
Cost Turbo
Cost Turbo is added to compute Cost and Landed Cost across hundreds of thousands of component line items keeping inventory up to the minute using Super-Turbo Mode.
Last Landed Cost Update
Last Landed Cost Update shows the date of Landed Cost changes by adding to Items.
Go to Items Search, click Add (+) and choose to show Last Landed Cost Update Date.
Use it in the Find Dialog by choosing Last Landed Cost Update Date in the pulldown.
Last Landed Cost Update Date is automatically set for any item when its costs change.
Windows Installer
Windows Installer is updated and tested for compression or other options to simplify.
Landed Profit
Landed Profit displays on a new Tab with Profit based upon Landed Cost (LC Profit). This works like the Profit tab, that you can change the Profit or Percentage (Profit %) on an item and it will change the Price for you.
Landed Built
Landed Built sets Landed Cost for Built items using the total of the Landed Costs of their components. Otherwise, Landed Percentage is used to update the Landed Cost.
To use this setting, ensure components have Landed Costs and restart the Server to load new settings. You can then use Update Cost to update landed costs.
Prorated Pricing
Prorated Pricing lets you buy a new version at a discount to keep up with subscribers.
Subscription lets you keep current, getting a new version first. Perpetual licensing lets you keep the same version indefinitely and save in software and hardware replacement.
But what if you just bought a perpetual license and a new version drops? It's free for 90 days and after half a year it is still half of upgrade price which is 70% off of new.
Fast Networking
Fast Networking is laying the groundwork for the next generation of Client connection.
Local Queue
Local Queue keeps a list of changes that follow from an entry you are making in Client.
If you are creating an invoice this may need to update inventory and accounting, asap. To keep your data perfect, this is handled as a transaction, which saves all or nothing.
If you cancel, or if you computer crashes, nothing is saved and your data is unchanged. If you save, you need to allow a minute for updates to upload to be able to quit Client.
Super-Turbo Settings
Super-Turbo Settings lets you accelerate inventory updates to your costs and margins.
Changing a price on PO will prompt the question, Would you like to update the Cost? Changing a cost for a component may then change the cost of 1000 built items, or kits.
Super-Turbo Settings in Company card, Advanced Controls let you choose the cutoff. Enter 1000 and check the box for Super-Turbo and this job will be escalated to Server.
Super-Turbo Mode
Super-Turbo boosts inventory to handle instant cost updates across thousands of kits.
Big Business uses a new purchase to update Cost, Landed Cost, and Margins for kits.
Tax Holiday
Tax Holidays help consumers by waiving sales tax on items purchased during the time.
BigBusiness lets you skip sales tax on items, if allowed, by clicking the Tax checkbox. Line items on invoices are taxed when the Tax checkbox is checked and not taxed if not.
Unchecking the Tax checkbox for items exempted during a tax holiday changes Taxable Subtotal which changes built-in Sales Taxes as well as Lookups for TaxJar or AvaTax.
Ecwid Token
Ecwid Tokens are used to authenticate requests to your web store from Big Business.
Recently, Ecwid changed the submission process to send Tokens to improve security. This means the old process silently fails and Settings, Test returns, Unable to Connect.
BigBusiness has updated to meet new requirements and you can simply update to fix. Existing tokens can be used with an update to BigBusiness, or get new if you prefer.