Other Assets
Other Liabilities is a new Account Type, by request, to go on the Balance Sheet, New.
If you do not use new Account Types, there is no change needed to your accounting. If you do use Other Asset or Other Liability, you do need to use Balance Sheet, New.
In the Report Prefs, you can review or edit the Labels used by Balance Sheet reports.
CSV Imports
Big Business automatically recognizes the .csv extension and imports CSV files in lieu of .txt, Tab-Text files normally recommended, because there are may sources such as Apple Numbers or downloads of transaction histories that use the CSV format.
However, prior to Big Business 13.67 and Big Business 14.24 .csv was not recognized when it was capitalized, that is .CSV. To work around this problem, change .CSV to .csv in the Get Info or Properties window, or open and re-save, or simply update.
BigCommerce Digital Products
BigCommerce has you define Products as Digital or Phyical, so if you sell electronics with optional controller software you may be tempted to call your software, Digital.
Digital actually means downloadable from your BigCommerce online store, and Physical means provided by you and therefore needing to be on Orders you receive.
In short, if you use Digital you may not receive some orders into Big Business. Orders for Digital only are set to Completed in BigCommerce, so they are not retrieved by Big Business which is looking for order status Awaiting Fulfillment or Awaiting Shipment.
Account Types
Big Business 14 adds requested Account Types for Other Assets and Other Liabilities.
Account Types are Other Asset and Other Liability and expected from other systems. If you do not need or use these there is no change needed to any accounting procedure.
To use new Account Types, you must use the Balance Sheet, New to report correctly. Auto Help will show the pictured warning if you run the old Balance Sheet with these.
Balance Sheet, New
Balance Sheet, New aims to provide a more dynamic financial report to make it easier to add new Account Types or suppress unused or Inactive accounts as you prefer.
Windows Service Error
The pictured error can occur when trying to launch Big Business Server for Windows, from its Shortcut, as an Application, when it is already running as a Windows Service.
To avoid this problem, Stop the Service before attempting to run as an Application. When this problem occurs, the fix is to Restart the computer, then Stop the Service.
Balance Sheet, Omit Zeroes, New
Balance Sheet, New aims to provide a more dynamic financial report to make it easier to add new Account Types or suppress unused or Inactive accounts as you prefer.
Auto Help
Auto Help reminds you of uses or settings that may affect your operating procedures. If you use new Account Types you want to use new financial reports that show them. Auto Help can check your data and let you know if a selected report might not work. This makes the system more flexible without needing to switch settings or keep SOPs, although you should always have standard operating procedures documented for others to use in your absence.
Auto Help is added in Big Business 13.67 and Big Business 14.24 to let you know when you have used new Account Types and need to use a newer report to show these results.