Subscriptions
Subscriptions help you keep up with change if you have a small company growing big.
Big Business lets you choose a perpetual license where you pay once for one version. Or, choose a subscription license where you pay monthly and have the latest version.
This lets you choose your license to keep pace with new computers and new services. And it ensures top quality, services, and updates so you receive changes as you need.
Chapter 224 Shopify Guide
Shopify Guide helps you navigate Shopify and Shopify POS Connect in Big Business.
Big Business can import customers, orders, and invoices from Shopify + Shopify POS.
Moreover it can sort them, putting Shopify POS sales in as Invoices + Payments, and Shopify Web sales in as Orders that need filling--automating accounting and inventory.
Landed Error
Landed Error was a problem on the Landed Profit tab on Invoice that double-click fails.
Double-click lets you go to the Item when you double-click a Line Item on Quote, etc..
Click the Chapter button for 304 Landed Cost for help enabling or disabling the Tab.
Gemini Billing
Gemini Billing is challenging--levied per-use of Gemini API--except when it is free-tier.
Gemini Endpoint
Gemini Endpoint lets you set the address that is needed to connect to the Gemini API.
Gemini Settings found in Company card, Connect Settings tab let you enter the details:
• Description lets you put a name to differentiate multiple entries
• Endpoint is the address of the service
• Project is an optional name Google lets you have for billing
• API Key is the required key assigned for access and billing
Image Relevance
Image relevance may be an issue if your text is relevant but not explicit about a subject.
Margarita Jilly Jellies has a zesty description that conjurs an image of drink not candy.
Image Improvisation
Image Improvisation help generate nice images from your descriptions despite brevity.
Considering this result may promote planning better description for consistent images.
Image Tool
Image tool helps you select or create a new image using an AI solution and past images.
To start this tool is a button on the Item card that works with Gemini to create images. It sends the existing image and description to use to generate the new image and shows.
This setup is for testing and uses paid services for images within Google Workspace. It appears an image from a prompt is 3.9 cents and uploading an existing image is 33.9.
Image Create
Image Create helps you make a new image using AI and a text description you provide.
BigBusiness can send a request like, Create a picture of, plus your Detail Description. In the example the words, beach blanket babylon, were used and AI created this image.
Nano Banana
Nano Banana is a codename for Gemini Flash Image--AI to help create and edit images.
BigBusiness tests Nano Banana using free connection and apparent per-image charges.
Pictured, the banana is modified with the prompt to "make old-timey" which succeeds.
Image Retouch
Image Retouch helps you gussy up your blah images using AI to add lettering or style.
BigBusiness can connect to Gemini for pay-per-image re-imaging using new Image tool. This requires setup of Gemini connection and billing and so forth, to work with a click.
Not frictionless but amazingly easy to take a product photo and add lettering or style.
Gemini Profile
Gemini Profile helps share your settings for using Google Gemini including API Keys.
Gemini Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, is a Google AI that converts text into an image. Image tool on the Item card requires setup including getting your API Keys to process.
BigBusiness 16
BigBusiness 16 is updated along with BigBusiness 15, to support new iPad Orders 16.
In BigBusiness you select the Customers and Items to have to order in iPad Orders 16. Sync and your iPad is loaded and ready to process orders with or without connections.
Once you have your orders connect from wherever you have network access and sync. New Orders are created, Customers are updated, and any new data needed is retrieved.
iPad Server
iPad Server lets you connect iPads securely to your BigBusiness to create new orders.
Setup lets you set iPad Server to run automatically on a selected Port to connect iPads.
iPad Scanner
iPad Orders lets you use bluetooth scanner for reading barcodes or labels for fast entry.
Warehouse Quantities
Warehouse Quantites lets you search stock at multiple locations just like Items Search.
If you don't see the Whse Qtys button on Items toolbar you are not using Warehouses.
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.
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.