Searches for Inactive
Inactive lets you hide Customer or Items that you no longer use. Searches let you find them again, when you need. And adding the Inactive column lets you click to change.
Add(+) and choose Inactive to show a checkbox and include Inactives in your search. Or, use Find to search for Inactive, Is, Either for the same result (with less visibility).
Barcodes Unit Count
Barcodes Unit Count lets you set the number of items in a barcoded package. This works with Units of Measure to select the correct Units for scanned items like cases.
Chapter 207 Employee Reports
Employee Reports help you measure sales, profits, and commissions for your people.
Chapter 88 Searches
Searches help you work with your data to quickly find details or related data you need.
Searches Update
Update is a tool on Searches that allows you to change many records at once, quickly.
Barcodes Button
Barcode Button appears on Item card for easy entry of barcodes and units for lookups.
Retired Qty Group
Qty Group provided an adverse user experience, not updating line one due to line two, changing results on partial invoices and mishandling additions on partial invoices.
Super-Click List
Super-Click lets you right-click on a row in a search to use the Show menu for the row. Turn it on in MyPrefs for yourself or Company Prefs for everyone--while is still WIP.
To start, Super-Click works for items in the Items seach. Right-click an item to use its Show menu. This uses the same menu on the Item card without opening the item card.
It automatically opens a new window for Items Search if needed to keep you on task.
Unlock Bill Comments
Unlock Bill Comments lets you click on a Line Item Comment on a locked bill to view.
This is a regular feature now so you do not need to unlock transactions or some such.
BigBusiness 16 Opening Project
Opening Project is a new dialog put up by the Database as BigBusiness Server starts.
Startup is much faster, so apparently this helps.
BigBusiness 16 Fast Networking
Fast Networking helps you connect to your BigBusiness 16 Server about twice as fast.
Fast Networking optimizes for secure connections and gets connections in record time.
Retired Plugins
Retired Plugins are removed usually when their function is replaced by something new.
Apple File Promises were not kept.
Fast Networking
Fast Networking helps you connect to your BigBusiness 16 Server about twice as fast.
Fast Networking optimizes for secure connections and gets connections in record time.
Unlock Invoice Comments
Unlock Comments lets you click on a Line Item Comment on a locked invoice to view.
This is a regular feature now so you do not need to unlock transactions or some such.
Retired Postgres
Postgres was chosen for Archiving, initially, and retired due to complexity, utimately.
Archiving is now fully automated, integrates with backup, and runs with a few clicks.
Retired Instant Cost
Instant Cost was an optional company setting to update cost for built items instantly.
Super Turbo Mode was customized to update cost and offers a 60x performance gain.
Alert Help
Alert Help is the link like, Alert Help (9091) that you can click to view this solution, and in turn click Chapter to view the related entries that explain other System Alerts.
Custom Forms Update
Custom Forms received a plugin update to fix break processing and add improvements.
This caused a problem with Client connections when updating BigBusiness 15 Server.
BigBusiness 16 MyStart
MyStart is a host of changes to help simplify starting a newly installed BigBusiness.
One such change is the option to automatically install and open the Demo Data File.
BigBusiness 16 Database Update
Database Update for January 2026 is a release version of Database for BigBusiness 16.
Please update all all of your Big Business 16 Clients to BigBusiness 16.025 or higher.
Chapter 511 Format
Format defines the presentation of data, like numbers with decimals, to be presentable.
Prices, for example, are displayed using two decimal places such as 1.00 for one dollar. This can be changed in the Format Numbers tool in the Company card in Big Business.
This chapter provides a quick overview of formatting options or settings for reference.