Built-In Options
Feature Sets
you turn on.

Start simple. Grow powerful.
Select just what you need.

Tool Icons

Tool Icons along with settings for Fonts, Compact or Zoomed windows, etc, let each user choose their look and feel.
Big Business 14 adds more Tool Icons choices bringing the total to ten. Some are copies, recolorized for better viewing on Windows 11 systems or Macs using Dark Mode.

Documents

Attach files to any entry in Big Business—where they are easy to find and share.

Add notes or screen shots, of online purchases and more.

Automatically keep pdfs of emailed Quotes, Orders, Invoices.

Send attachments with emails, like
Item spec sheets and Order terms.

Contacts Tools

Add Ship-To locations
Add multiple Emails
Add Roles for A/P, Refunds, B2B
Use for Lookup Automation

Email PDF's

Email PDF's automatically
Using Apple Mail
Using Outlook for Windows

Inactive

Inactive provides a full range of tools to Show or Hide entries marked Inactive. These include Accounts, Customers, Employees, Items, and so on. For Items and components of built items, Inactive can block sales, making it safer to duplicate orders or convert quotes. Inactive settings let you set who sees and who can change inactives so you can control and change as needed.

Quantity Pricing

Qty Pricing lets you enter price breaks for items based on Qty. Turn this feature on in Item Prefs and the Qty Pricing tab appears where you enter, or import, Qty and Prices (for five price levels). Qty Group extends the feature to count like items toward the Qty total by putting them in a group.

Secure Cards

Store card details—
Encrypted and Protected
Block unneeded viewing

Connect Options
Buy in. Turn on.
Connect out.

Authorize

Run stored credit cards
with Authorize.net
with a click
with any merchant account

Cloud Server

Big Business 14 Open Edition supports the option to set up your server in the cloud.

This enables full control of access to your data and documents from multiple locations.

Folder Connect

Check online for new files
Import automatically
Notify the right person
Clean up and reply

Remote Client

Enable people with fast internet to work from home.

Shopify Connect

Updated for Shopify "Summer '23", Shopify Connect lets Big Business 14 import all the latest order data.

Setup is simplified by Automatic settings, but fully customizable, and your Shopify Orders can be brought in as Big Business Orders or Invoices, keeping the options lead among Ecommerce offerings.

TaxJar Connect

TaxJar Connect looks up Sales Tax instantly by street address and collects the results for reporting.

If new rules for economic nexus have you collecting sales tax for new states, this may be the perfect solution.

Start by running an Invoices report by State to see if you are approaching the limit for any.

Web Notify

Send Notifications—
To customers' apps
Automatically
e.g. on shipment

Dev Options
Proven concepts
you make yours

Any service with an open API
Any tool on which you rely

MRP

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) features let you customize your operations with options for planning that show you purchasing and production needs and tracking inventory through the process.

API's

Connect to any modern API
Host your own API
Use their cURL code
Build your own stack

Databases

Share your data to an external database, keeping up-to-the-minute.

MySQL
PostgreSQL
FileMaker

iPad

Get a custom app for entering Orders or Invoices remotely.

iPhone App

Get a custom app for viewing your data and updating transactions.

Square

Square Connect is a starting point for automating data exchange with Square POS, Square Charge, Square Invoices, and so on.

Square provides a variety of payment processing solutions for mobile, point of sale, and ecommerce, plus inventory.

Warehouse Automation

Barcodes
Bins
MRP