Random Error
Random Errors can affect connected Big Business Clients if Big Business Server stops.
Pictured is error, Error when executing the Method MgrIPMessages at line number 80. Error code 203 (xbox). Big Business Client was Sleeping when Server was shut down.
For security reasons, Big Business Client cannot continue even if Big Business Server is restarted, so gives random errors and may need to ended by Force Quit or End Task.
Qty Prices
Qty Prices are being updated for Big Business 14 to help reliably entering price breaks.
Pictured is the Item Card with many options for MRP, Price Level, Shopify and more. Qty Pricing is a separate option for quantity price breaks including across group items.
Server Crash
Big Business Server relies on state-of-the-art security to connect Big Business Clients.
Searching online for BEX64 and APPCRASH turns up Microsoft Troubleshooting for Winsock which is the part of Windows that controls TCP/IP Networking and Services.
Pictured errors occurred on two successive days trying to connect the newest macOS Ventura to an outdated Windows Server instance for which Microsoft ended updates.
Margin %
Margin % is the percentage of selling price that is profit, and profit is price minus cost.
Big Business gives you several ways to determine Cost to give you a useful Margin %. These include Vendor Cost, Average Cost, and Landed Cost that you can pick in Prefs.
Margin % can then be used two ways to help with pricing. You can assign a Margin % using Update or Auto-Apply. In turn, Price changes update the Margin % for review.
On Hand Count
On Hand is the Qty of an Item that you own as the result of accounting and inventory.
Big Business records when you buy and sell an item including the Qty and Cost that is used to compute current inventory value and cost-of-goods-sold results when you sell.
On Hand is the Qty you own and is used to compute Avg Cost for your current stock. For MRP, you may change the Label for On Hand to something like Owned to clarify.
Allocated Count
Allocated is the Qty of an Item that you owe as the sum of Qty Open on Sales Orders.
Big Business records that a Sales Order is Placed and sets Qty Open for items ordered.
Allocated is the Qty you owe for Placed or Partial orders and is cleared when invoiced. For MRP, you might change the Label for Allocated to a name like Demand for clarity.
Available Count
Available is the quantity of an item that you own minus the Qty committed to Orders. In other words, On Hand minus Allocated. However, in MRP you may change names.
Big Business records that a Sales Order is Placed and sets Qty Open for items ordered. Qty Open is added to Allocated, which is subtracted from On Hand to find Available.
Allocated is the Qty you owe for Placed or Partial orders and is cleared when invoiced. For MRP, you might change the Label for Allocated to a name like Demand for clarity.
Sales Tax Groups
Sales Tax Groups are updated for Big Business 14, to improve hierarchical list display.
By assigning Groups to your Sales Tax entries you can have them displayed in groups. Group them by state, and the Sales Tax menu shows State, then Sales Taxes submenu.
Turn on Sales Tax Groups in the Customer Prefs and restart your Clients to display.