Big Business Solutions

Untax Shipping

Using TaxJar automatically computes Taxable Subtotal and submits Other Charges as Shipping, which TaxJar determines to be taxable or untaxable.

To allow concurrent use of TaxJar and classic tax calculations in Big Business, Other Charges marked Taxable are automatically recalculated before submission.

If you are using TaxJar exclusively, you can remove Taxable from all Other Charges and leave this to TaxJar to determine.

Tax Checkbox

The Tax Checkbox on Quote was not updating consitently. This was a regression bug fixed in 13.17.

Return Key

Big Business 13 fixes a problem typing Return in Comments, which sometimes closes the window.

Chapter 95 Apple Optimize

Window Icon

The Windows Icon no longer displays correctly and is being removed or replaced.

Chapter 95 Apple Optimize

In the test screen pictured the Window Icon is scaled from a low resolution. This lowest common denominator approach can be set aside as we lose compatibility with older operating systems that are being retired.

Disable Button

Big Business has hundreds of buttons that enable and disable themselves automatically. All have been updated for ARM.

This is only noteworthy for the small chance that the new behaviour is in any way noticably different than the old. If anything it should be more responsive.

Chapter 95 Apple Optimize

In the test screen pictured, the invoice is paid and thereby Locked. This puts its Date in red and adds a lock icon under the OK button.

Many buttons are automatically disabled including Delete and those for changing Line Items such as Warehouse (WH), Sorting, GoTo (Item Card), and so on.

Chapter 95 Apple Optimize

Big Business is getting numerous internal changes to be optimized for new Apple processors found in new Macs.

Apple now makes their own chips, called Apple Silicon, that have replaced Intel chips found in prior Macs, offering performance and energy benefits.

The same ARM architecture will likely be available for Windows soon, too.