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Bookkeeper/Office Manager
As the bookkeeper/office manager, you and your team need a solution you can rely on to help you do your job better and keep the office running smoothly. It must offer comprehensive accounting functionality, be easy to use and allow you to easily create professional financial reports.
Peachtree by Sage Quantum delivers all of this, plus:
- “My Dashboard” that you can customize according to each individual user’s preference and display as much or as little information, all organized for the way you work
- More than 140 customizable reports that give you the data you need – the way you want it – to recognize opportunities and provide the owner with information to steer your business and help increase profitability
- “Internal Accounting Review” that saves you time by running up to 15 checks on your data at any time to find potential order entry mistakes
- The ability to accommodate up to 40 users with role-based security and audit trail to help make sure your team sees only the information they need
- Collaboration tools to better track all the moving parts of the order process so nothing gets missed, easily notifying the next person in the process that the status has changed so everything moves along as planned
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Business checks are not expensive to purchase
posted by Happy Business Guy @ 9:37 PM
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Some companies think that buying business supplies are expensive. Yes that is correct, but its only for certin products. Purchasing cheap business checks are not expensive. The more you buy, the more you can actually save.
Business checks don’t have an brand name on them. Its just paper, and created into a press with imprint of security features. The more security features the check has, then it can be more expensive. Overall, its what the companies give the prices onto the qty, color, and style. Overall it can be cheap to purchase. Just find a company that offers the cheap business checks at a low prices and they always have it in stock and will give you the best prices overall. If they can ship the checks out same or next business day, is really great, so it will benefit your business.
We all want to save money right? Theirs a lot of companies that offer discounts when you buy more. Costco, Sams Club and others. But you dont have to be a member to save more in the long run. Some tire companies will tell you that when you buy 3 the 4th is free. Ok that’s fine but what about other deals though.
Some check companies will allow you to save more in the long run, when you buy alot more in the long run. It doesn’t matter if its bulk blank checks, or cheap business checks. Some will show how much each page is, instead of just putting a qty and prices up there. Its hard to find a good deal, but it does pay off to look for the best.
Q: Why should I consider Peachtree Quantum?
A: Peachtree Quantum is designed for larger companies that have 5 or more users and require a high capacity, high performance, accounting application.
Q: I’m not currently using a Peachtree solution. How easy is it to migrate my data to Peachtree Quantum?
A: Converting data to Peachtree Quantum follows the same simple and flexible process used to migrate data to other Peachtree products. Specifically, Peachtree Quantum includes conversion utilities to migrate data from QuickBooks, One-Write Plus and DacEasy. In addition, customers may selectively import accounts receivable data, accounts payable data, payroll data, general ledger data, inventory data, jobs data and time/expense data from a comma separated text file field by field.
Q: Is Peachtree Quantum guaranteed?
Not all business owners have the luxury of hiring a full-time staff member just to take care of accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory, payroll and other essential bookkeeping functions. In fact, when a business is just getting off the ground, it’s sometimes up to the founder herself to cover the accounting end of operations whenever she gets a free moment. Needless to say, simplicity and ease of use take top priority.
Peachtree quantum presents all of this complicated information in a user interface that’s easy to navigate. The importance of user-friendly software design cannot be overstated, especially when a “non-numbers person” is taking the helm. Those who are already familiar with Quickbooks will find that Peachtree is even more intuitive.
Keeping business growing easily helps with inventory control
posted by Mr. Peachtree user @ 11:22 PM
Thursday, September 24, 2009
A good thing to keeping your business to grow easily is making your customers happy. Keeping a 100% inventory is the best thing. Keep on re-investing into your business by having more in your inventory. That way, when you receive an order, you can get it out the same day. Customers really love that kind of service.
Keeping your customer service level really up to par is one of the most important tool to use. Same day shipping and exceeding your customers expectations is another thing. Making sure you do follow up if the order is large, and the order is correct each and every time, will help your customers to come back. When your customers are happy, they will spread the word, and you’ll gain more customers. Having a good accounting program to keep your inventory in control is the best thing. Peachtree quantum by sage is a great choice to use.
What is the most populare business checks, and color?
posted by Odd Ball @ 9:20 PM
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
What is the most popular business checks type, and what color? The most popular is the checks on top, for Quickbooks. You can find cheap business checks
online, with alot of quality. Theirs companies that will be small, but offer low prices and quality wk, vs. a larger company that has crappy work with higher prices.
The most popular color is the Marble Blue. Its very professional looking, and easy to read. The blue is used the most vs. green, burgundy or tan color. Theirs is other styles you can use as well. Besides using the marble, their is wave or lattice style and still available in the blue color.
Features & Benefits of Peachtree Quantum
posted by Happy Business Guy @ 10:35 PM
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Features & Benefits
Peachtree Quantum is The Ultimate, High-Performance Peachtree Accounting Solution that’s designed to meet your changing needs with flexible tools and personalized features that help improve internal communications and collaboration; provide better, faster customer service; and keep information secure.
Designed to support up to 40 named users, Peachtree Quantum offers significant performance gains when compared to other small business products. And when compared to other mid-market solutions, you don’t pay thousands of dollars more for functionality you don’t need or use. In addition to significant performance benefits, Peachtree Quantum also comes with one year of unlimited access to support, product updates and upgrades.
Peachtree Quantum is the best choice for you because it has served the needs of small business accounting for 30 years. With Peachtree Quantum, you can enhance your operations with…
- Order Process Workflow
- Notifications
- My Dashboard
- Advanced Security Features
- Customer Management Center
- Transaction History
- Multiple Contacts per Business
- Advanced Manufacturing
It keeps everyone informed in real time of all the details in your sales and purchase processes, so that anyone with the approved access can instantly know where your order is, when it’s due, who’s handling it or what’s the problem with it. Now you can customize triggers, steps and statuses that are crucial to your company.
This is a dynamic feature that lets you or another user know when a transaction has moved along in the process. You now have the ability to set this function for exactly the status changes you want, such as telling your shipping clerk that a Sales Order has moved from “In Progress” to “Accepted” or letting the Billing Manager know when a Purchase is assigned to a team member. The people who need to know will know – the moment it happens – even if they’re not working in Peachtree at the time.
This is essentially a homepage for all Peachtree information that is vital to your company. You now have the ability to customize it not only for your company, but also for each individual user. My Dashboard can have as much information as you need and as many tabs as you want, all organized for the way you work.
More users mean more security concerns. Peachtree Quantum helps ensure security of your sensitive data, and let’s you control which user have access to which data and features.
Save time by viewing the details you need all-in-one-place to better manage and service your customers without missing a beat. Quickly search for customers by any of their contact information and export data into Excel® or PDF.
Save time by easily and quickly viewing all history related to a particular customer or vendor transaction at any point in the sales or purchase process – from quote to receipt or from payment to purchase order.
Multiple Contacts per Business
Store a virtually unlimited number of contacts, and their details, per company in the new “Contacts” tab. Plus a new Notes field allows you to track unique information about each contact.
Reduce your inventory holding costs, avoid painful purchasing mistakes, and prevent costly production delays with all the functionality a manufacturing firm needs: inventory control, WIP tracking, multi-level bills of material, BOM revision control, and production work orders.
Additional modules are available to extend capabilities in Advanced Purchasing, Advanced Production, and Material Requirements Planning.
Nonprofits
Nonprofit organizations, including religious organizations, legal aid providers, educational institutions and social/civic associations, face unique challenges. From shrinking contributions to increasing financial scrutiny from donors and Boards of Directors, and volunteer staff not skilled in basic accounting functions and procedures, nonprofits need an accounting solution that is straightforward and simple to use yet powerful enough to offer the detail necessary to meet organization requirements. Peachtree by Sage — Quantum provides these organizations with a solution that makes it easy to manage payables and receivables with additional tools to meet organization’s needs for reporting, security and ease of use.
Nonprofit challenges
- Reductions in staffing
- Increasing scrutiny by Boards, donors, grantors
- Lack of accounting expertise by volunteer administration
How Peachtree Quantum can help
Peachtree Quantum helps you address these challenges by providing nonprofit organizations full core accounting functionality in an easy-to-use package with detailed reporting capabilities that illustrate how donated funds have been utilized.
Peachtree Quantum provides:
- Complete core accounting functionality
- Easy to use operation
- Detailed reports
- Four-years of budgeting and account segment definitions
- Advanced financial statement filtering
- One-year unlimited access to support, updates and upgrades
Small Business Manufacturing
Manufacturing organizations like yours, especially those in the small to mid-sized segment need to focus on the markets and business processes that are producing results while working to improve operational efficiency and enhance customer response. To do so, you require in-depth visibility and insight into the information at the heart of your manufacturing business. Peachtree by Sage – Quantum Manufacturing Edition powered by Manufacturing Information Systems, Inc. (MISys, Inc.®) delivers not only the core accounting features you need, but a rich manufacturing-based feature set that helps drive efficiency, customer satisfaction and profitability. Peachtree Quantum by sage has more accounting functions better than any other accounting program
Manufacturing industry challenges
- Increasing operational costs
- Increasing material costs
- Inconsistency in order volume from customers
- Need to maintain profitable output with fewer headcount
- Increasing global competition
- Increased competition from large suppliers moving down market
How Peachtree Quantum Manufacturing Edition can help
Peachtree Quantum Manufacturing Edition helps you address these challenges by providing core accounting functionality with advanced manufacturing features powered by MISys. Do more with less by using workflow capabilities that help you increase efficiency, while being cost effective, improve assembly processing, make inventory management more predictable, reduce delivery times and create greater customer satisfaction. Peachtree Quantum Manufacturing Edition offers tools that are right for growing job shops to large make-to-stock and make-to-order manufacturers.
Peachtree Quantum Manufacturing Edition provides:
- Extensive tracking of manufacturing inventory and work in process (WIP)
- Multi-level bills of material with full explosion down to 16 levels deep
- Net-change physical inventory with cycle counting
- Batch-oriented or direct entry of all stock transfer transactions
- Full back flushing of all assembly transactions
- Choice of standard, average, LIFO, or FIFO costing methods
- Cost adjustment with roll-up through all BOM levels
- Stock check processing to identify impending shortages
- Work orders to document and track production activity
- Configurable alerts to show you critical events and status
- Additional modules to extend capabilities in Advanced Purchasing, Advanced Production, Material Requirements Planning
- Custom manufacturing reports
- One-year access to priority support, updates and upgrades
Small Business Wholesale and Distribution
posted by number generator @ 10:42 PM
Friday, September 18, 2009
Small Business Wholesale and Distribution
As a small to mid-sized distribution organization, you face a broad set of internal and external challenges around inventory management, procurement, pricing and escalating customer demands as you struggle to remain competitive and grow your business. Peachtree by Sage – Quantum empowers your organization, giving you unprecedented visibility to become more productive, make better decisions and achieve better business results. Peachtree Quantum by sage really offers alot more than Quickbook Enterprise and will give you the accurate results you need for your honest business.
Distribution industry challenges
- Increasing operational costs
- Shortage of available working capital from traditional sources
- Increasing global competitive pressure
- Reduced availability of partners
- Need to do more with less
- Increased competition from large suppliers moving down market
How Peachtree Quantum can help
Peachtree Quantum helps you address these challenges by providing distribution organizations core accounting functionality with advanced distribution features. Compare your operational costs to competitors with Business Analytics so you know where to make improvements. Do more with less by using workflow capabilities that help you increase efficiency, while being cost effective.
Peachtree Quantum provides:
- Multi-quantity unit buy/sell capability
- Serialized inventory
- Multiple costing methods
- Establish minimum stocking levels and reorder quantities
- Flexible pricing tools: volume discounts and quantity-based pricing
- Custom reporting to manage distribution operations
- One-year unlimited access to support, updates and upgrades
Small Business Construction by Peachtree
posted by Mr. Peachtree user @ 10:11 PM
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Small Business Construction
As contractors and sub-contractors, you are probably scrambling for work opportunities, as well as face increasing competition from larger firms looking at smaller opportunities to offset their own business challenges. As a result, it is critical to have more accuracy and better visibility into your business’ performance. Small and mid-sized construction organizations like yours find Peachtree by Sage – Quantum an invaluable tool that provides the right amount of accounting functionality, construction-specific features and business analytics tools to help you achieve better results at a budget-friendly price.
Construction industry challenges
- Increasing material costs
- Shrinking business opportunities
- Extreme margin pressure
- Increasing competition from large suppliers moving down market
How Peachtree Quantum can help
Peachtree Quantum helps you address these challenges by providing core accounting functionality with advanced construction features. Better manager your materials costs with strong inventory management tools. Compare your business financials to competitors with Business Analytics so you know where to make improvements. Understand your margins better by using the labor burden calculation, job costing and other fixed costs tracking tools in Quantum to meet the demands of an ever evolving environment. Peachtree Quantum by sage has all of your accounting needs to do help you have a successful business.
Peachtree Quantum facilitates:
- Progress billing
- Retainage
- Labor burden calculations
- Job work-in-progress reportings
- Payroll overhead rate tracking
- Tracking of insurance expiration dates for sub-contractors
- Bill of material tracking
- Custom construction planning reports
Accountant Check up with your business checks
posted by Happy Business Guy @ 9:05 PM
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Its great to have a business account, but when you write a check, do you know when it clears the bank? Most of the answers would be NO. See what your bank can offer for notifications. BB&T bank offers a notification that when a check clears your business bank account, so you can keep up to date on what has or hasnt cleared.
Having the notification really is great for accountants to have. More organized your business is along with your banking. The better it will be for you to have a functioning business. When your not in-control with your business, who is? Having good control with what happens is great thing to know. Ordering cheap business checks helps to keep your cost down as well.