Chronicle of Enhancement Releases » 3.70

The following is a list of enhancements incorporated in the Level 3.70 release:

• Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) module
• Inventory Warranty Tracking
• General Usability Enhancements for Accounts Receivable
• Enhanced Check Printing
• Credit Card Features
• Enhanced ALE Search Capabilities
• General Ledger Custom Financial Enhancements
• Crystal Reports Default Printer Setting for Forms
• Work Order Cost Enhancements
• Bar Code Integration with Shipping Data Entry
• Remote Solutions Enhancements
• ABRA HR Interface
• Additional Business Alerts

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Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) module:

• RMA is a new module that allows you to enter, track, and resolve customer returns. You can receive returned items from a customer and ship replacement items to the customer through RMA.
• Other features in RMA include the ability to process vendor returns, create restocking fees, and analyze return trends.
• RMA requires the Sales Order and Inventory Management modules and can be integrated with the Purchase Order module.

Inventory Warranty Tracking:

• Warranty tracking is enabled in Inventory Management Options and allows distributors to automatically calculate warranty expiration dates based on selected setup options and customized warranty codes.
• Warranty tracking can be applied to inventory items, allowing the expiration date to automatically calculate in Shipping Data Entry or Invoice Data Entry.
• Warranty expiration dates can be printed on the Sales Order, Invoice, or Packing Slip.
• After invoices are updated, warranty information is available through Invoice History Inquiry and appears on reprinted invoices and the Invoice History Report.
• If warranty tracking is used with the new RMA module, the system warns you about items being returned past the warranty expiration date.
• Warranties can be extended on any item.

General Usability Enhancements for Accounts Receivable:

General usability enhancements for the Accounts Receivable module include the following features.

• An Aging Report and a Statement can be printed directly from Customer Maintenance or Customer Inquiry for the customer selected.
• You can exclude future transactions by date on the Aged Invoice Report so date-specific Aging Reports can be printed.
• Previously, information reported on the Monthly Cash Receipts Report was automatically purged during Period End Processing. A new check box in Accounts Receivable Options allows you to maintain this functionality or retain cash receipts for a longer period of time. You can purge cash receipts history at a later time from the Period End Processing window.
• Previously, customer high balances could only be updated when statements were printed. A new option in Period End Processing also updates the High Balance field located in Customer Maintenance during Period End Processing.

Enhanced Check Printing:

• ANSI compliant check printing is available in the Accounts Payable and Payroll modules.
• In Accounts Payable Options, you can enable the default bank code in Manual Check Entry or Check Printing to be the last bank code that was used.
• In Accounts Payable Options, you can assign a default check form code to each bank code in Accounts Payable Check Printing.
• You can select a format for posting comments entered on the Accounts Payable Manual Check Entry Lines tab to the general ledger.

Credit Card Features:

• Accounts Receivable stores multiple credit cards per customer in Customer Maintenance. Each credit card can have a different billing address so that businesses can take advantage of AVS (Address Verification Service), which protects against fraud and may reduce processing charges for merchants.
• Credit card processing has been added to Accounts Receivable Cash Receipts Entry. You can process payments via cash or credit card after invoices have been processed. You can also report credit card payment information with daily settlement reports.
• In the Accounts Payable module, you can designate vendors who represent credit card companies. This feature helps you reclassify individual expense lines to alternate vendors for purchase tracking or 1099 purposes.
• Version 5.3.6 of the PCCharge Payment Server includes an auto-settle utility which allows a workstation to schedule and initiate end-of-day settlement for terminal based processors. This new version also allows you to print PCCharge reports directly from the PCCharge client.

Enhanced ALE Search Capabilities:

• As an alternative to using commas, you may separate multiple search words in the Lookup window with a slash, exclamation point, or a plus sign.
• A Not Equal To search filter has been added to the Lookup window for greater search flexibility.
• You can search on extended record definitions from all segments of the data dictionary in MAS 200 for SQL.

General Ledger Custom Financial Enhancements:

• You can print new pages with or without headings, and print dollar signs at specified locations throughout a statement using a custom dollar sign function.
• You can suppress the printing of zero total lines, and reinstate printing at a specified point.

Crystal Reports Default Printer Setting for Forms:

• Previously, default printer settings were saved for a form globally, per company. Printer settings for Crystal Reports are now maintained by Terminal ID, user code, form code and company code so that frequently printed forms now default to the printer last used.

Work Order Cost Enhancements:

• You can backflush labor and overhead costs.
• Improvements have been made to the way costs are relieved when partial completions are processed using the Automatic, Backflush, or Manual work order issue types.

Bar Code Integration with Shipping Data Entry:

• The Bar Code module can be integrated with Shipping Data Entry so that unattended imports in MAS 90 can be uploaded into either Invoice Data Entry or Shipping Data Entry.
• You can enter a Shipper ID on a Scanco handheld unit, and allow incremental increasing of package quantity.

Remote Solutions Enhancements:

• A TimeKeeper setup option provides the ability to modify billing rates during time entry.
• During TimeKeeper data entry, you can apply multipliers for double time or overtime and override the billing rate, reducing the number of edits that need to take place later.
• Management approval can be entered during data entry or you can edit time entries in the management approval window.
• Transaction history includes billed dollar amounts in addition to time amounts, complete with drill-down to invoice history.
• A new feature to reduce synching time has been added to TimeKeeper Remote and Remote Salesperson, allowing a user to select how much information is updated between MAS 90 and the Palm OS.
• In Remote Salesperson, you can use bar code scanning for customer and inventory item entry.

Abra HR Interface:

• The MAS 90 and MAS 200 portion of the Abra HR Interface link is included on the MAS 90 and MAS 200 product CD-ROM. The Abra portion of the link continues to reside on the Abra MAS 90 Interface CD-ROM and is required for MAS 90 and MAS 200 compatibility with the current version of Abra.

Additional Business Alerts :

• Additional Business Alerts have been added for the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Purchase Order, and Job Cost modules.
• For more information, visit http://support.bestsoftwareinc.com/mas/alerts/

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