QuickSupport Updated
QuickSupport is updated to automatically download a current version of TeamViewer.
Previously this was built in as a convenience but this posed a security risk if outdated. Now when you click QuickSupport in Help, About Big Business, it will get the latest.
Security First
Security first is a priority with Microsoft and Apple and raises all bars for compliance.
Big Business makes some changes that may remove conveniences but it is for the best. Productivy improves with new options and by avoiding complications due to security.
New versions add new Plugins, new Services, and new Security measures to meet aims. The goal is productivity, uninterrupted, and longevity for your systems, in perpetuity.
Chapter 27 Security
Security is built into BigBusiness with all connections encrypted using state of the art protocols and all of the controls you might want if you want to review security setup.
BigBusiness automatically encrypts all connections. There is nothing you need to do to secure all Clients other than assign Passwords. This chapter provides more details.
As needed, you may secure passwords, allow only known IP addresses, and so forth that strengthen your security, and you may add various security softwares or services.
Accounting Inventory
Accounting Inventory helps you manage your inventory through to your accounting. These reports are dense but should give you instant insight into errors and validation.
Transactions that change inventory also change your accounting to match your results. In short, quantity times cost tells you a value that should match purchases and profits.
If you reconcile your bank transactions for purchases and profits and count inventory, the results should give you balanced financials that meet accountant approval or audit.
Inventory Sales By Customer
Inventory Sales by Customer creates a spreadsheet with Customers as columns, Items as rows, and Qty Sold for the Date Range you specify for each customer for each item.
Do not run for more than 100 Customers or 100 Items unless you are sure that's okay. Your company may have 10,000 customers and 50,000 items making 500 million cells.
Contact support@bigbusiness.com if you need help using Tags or other filter options.
Inventory Sales by Customer by Month
Inventory Sales by Customer by Month creates a spreadsheet with Customers as columns, Month + Item as rows, and Qty Sold for each month per item per customer.
Do not run for more than 100 Customers or 100 Items unless you are sure that's okay. Your company may have 10,000 customers and 50,000 items making 500 million cells.
Contact support@bigbusiness.com if you need help using Tags or other filter options.
Sequoia 15.5
MacOS Sequoia 15.5 has smoothed out update issues in networking and permissions. This Chapter is provided as is for reference but many or most concerns are solved.
BigBusiness 15 is certified for macOS Sequoia. Earlier versions of Big Business are not supported. With Database updates you should be using BigBusiness 15.075 or higher.
Select your BigBusiness 15 Client and Get Info to see its Version. Download and install the latest if you are unsure or contact support@bigbusiness.com for any help.
MyStart Demo
MyStart Demo adds a Demo File in Mac Single-User to save in Application Support.
MyStart will help you evaluate new software, services or changes to workflow, easily. Start with a Demo File, import your Test Data, try a new Service, request any change.
Order Response
Order Reponse is a column you can add to Orders List to see Status actions or results.
Order Duplicated
Duplicated shows as an action in the Response to help you track the status of Orders. Response entries are listed in reverse order with first entry on the right of a Response.
Setup Templates
Setup Templates help guide you set up a new Data File by providing many examples.
Chapter 113 Setup Admin
Setup Admin provides an overview of Setup, the process for creating a new Data File.
The essential result is beginning values for balances or approximations easy to correct. Easiest is to import all records you have in a spreadsheet and delete unused as you go.
Customers and Vendors should include their Balances start your Accounting correctly. Items should include Costs to value your Inventory. Accounts can be imported, too.
Setup Wholesale
Setup Templates help guide you set up a new Data File by providing many examples.
Setup Include
Setup Templates help guide you set up a new Data File by providing many examples.
Setup Categories
Setup Templates help guide you set up a new Data File by providing many examples.
Unlock System Prefs
System Prefs are locked unless you are the only user logged in. This is for protection.
New, on Employee card, on Access tab, in Special Access is Unlock System Prefs. As you might expect, this unlocks System Prefs, helpful for monthly changes for sales tax.
Reports Updates
Reports Updates include minor improvements to ease of use in the Reports tool.
Reports Help is the column with clickable links to open Online Help in your browser. Reports Help is now fixed width and clickable links are Underlined to clarify their use.
Inventory by Item Type Summary
Inventory by Item Type Summary shows the total cost by Item Type for three years.
Print the report to see each year end for the three prior fiscal years plus year to date. Export the report for a breakdown by quarters for three prior years and year to date.
This report excludes non-Inventory items and only includes Inactive if added in Search.
Modern Reports
Modern Reports use optimized design to more fully utilize state of the art processors.
BigBusiness newest inventory reports return in 10 seconds for 100 pages of inventory. This adds up 1000 invoices per month plus purchases and builds across 20 years' data.
Apple, for example, has put a alot of memory inside their new chips to have available. BigBusiness loads that memory, crunches those reports, and passes back fully formed.
Item Reports
Item Reports are being updated to use modern reporting for fast processing and return.
Modern reports can run on Remote Clients and across huge data sets without penalty.
When you are looking for a Report, start with the Help column to find newest, fastest.
Inventory by Item Type
Break down your inventory by Item Type to see past valuations and know your cost.
Inventory by Item Type is a modern report for looking at past inventory breakdown. Item Types can change and these reports use current Item Type from each item card.
This report automatically excludes non-Inventory items, Obsolete items, and Inactive.
Annual Turnover
Annual Turnover or Annual Turns is standardized in BigBusiness 15 to use 365 days.
Questions in the Q&A Tool and Reports for Items calculate this for easy comparison.
These include Q&A's like Which Items Have Turnovers Greater Than... and Reports such as Inventory Sales Analysis, Customer Sales Analysis, and Inventory Turnover.
Turns are calculated by dividing Qty Sold by Ending Qty On Hand for a Date Range. Annual Turns extends Turns by the ratio of days in a year, 365, to days in the range.