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In February, we will begin scheduling upgrades for Advantage Series 5.3. Call today to be sure to get the time that is most convenient for you.
What's in Advantage Series 5.3
ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3 is packed with exciting new features and benefits designed to help you succeed like never before! One of the most significant enhancements is the complete support that 5.3 provides
for unlimited optional fields throughout all Advantage Series applications. Optional fields allow you to customize Advantage Series and provide comprehensive reporting and analysis capabilities across your entire accounting system. As a
result, you can manage information more effectively and easily obtain necessary data for analyzing business operations and practices. The new Transaction Analysis and Optional Field Creator
application, available with 5.3, allows you to define all the information you require for each General Ledger account, customer, vendor, item, transaction and transaction detail, making it easy to record and track data from the
originating transaction through to your General Ledger. Imagine being able to trace the optional field information you define for customers and items to your Order Entry orders, Order Entry shipments, Order Entry invoices, Accounts
Receivable invoices through to your General Ledger journal entries and accounts! What’s more, you can analyze individual transactions as well as General Ledger account activities and balances.
Listed below are additional features in ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3.
Interested in seeing the new features? Schedule for an ACCPAC Webinar. Click here for
details.
So you've heard a lot of talk about CRM recently. You might be asking yourself "How would CRM benefit my organization". In an effort to answer this question we've put together a
list of the top 11 reasons why you might want to consider a CRM solution for your business:
Manage Sales and accounts - With ACCPAC CRM you can easily manage multiple accounts and opportunities, and automatically distribute leads to sales professionals around the
world. Sophisticated workflow provides automated sales processes to guide sales people through proven selling methods. Automate your business processes to automatically trigger literature fulfillment, follow-up appointments, callbacks, daily
tasks and more. By analyzing the information available, you can recruit new clients and resell to existing ones.
Perfect for sales people in the field. Today keeping mobile sales professionals connected and in the know represents your greatest challenge. With ACCPAC CRM,
your team has on-the-spot access to the resources they need to close every sale. When they’re online, the Web client provides a real-time link to their ACCPAC CRM data. Even without access to a cable or phone connection the team has access to
pertinent real-time information via a personal digital assistant (PDA), WAP device or wireless phone. If your sales staff requires offline access to ACCPAC CRM data our SOLO synchronization utility consolidates the information quickly and
easily, providing your sales people multiple options to access the same data.
Eliminate the guessing games. With a ACCPAC CRM you can create an automated workflow with projection percentages attached to each step. Track how many prospects
are at a demo stage, how many prospects have a written proposal and how many prospects are scheduled to close. This automated workflow capability will ensure that you have the most accurate sales forecasts!
Automated
Workflow allows businesses to automate pre-determined business rules across all channels, departments and employees. To help assess and design workflow ACCPAC CRM provides graphical views
of the process and its development patterns. In combination with e-mail integration, workflow ensures that actions requiring attention or escalation are automatically being routed to the correct employees or partners.
Track the success of a marketing campaign. ACCPAC CRM will allow you to assign,
schedule and track marketing activities within a campaign—and view every detail of each campaign at a glance. ACCPAC CRM also provides the tools for marketing teams to easily create new target lists from selected criteria, re-use
successful campaign lists or import mail-house lists. The integrated mail-merge function allows you to merge documents with target-customer lists. Once these lists are created, ACCPAC CRM Marketing automatically creates a record in the
customer account, attaching the marketing piece to the account and document library for telemarketers and support representatives to access.
Document Library provides a central repository for files from thank you letters to e-mail direct-marketing campaigns. Documents are contained in a central location giving
an enterprise-wide reference site to materials sent to, and received from customers. ACCPAC CRM allows you to store white-papers, FAQs’, marketing materials, technical documents, quotes, pricing—whatever it is the team needs—in the Document
Library for immediate access to support resources.
Manage your time better with an interactive calendar, which integrates with Microsoft® Outlook®, synchronizing tasks, appointments, cases and calls
for all users. Users can pre-set onscreen reminder notifications, which alert them of pending tasks. Filter and sort options allow users to manipulate onscreen data to the individual’s preferences.
Sales Management reports to help you make better decisions about your sales force. ACCPAC CRM provides point-and-click reporting and graphs that allow sales teams
access to data for on-the-spot analysis and evaluation. With ACCPAC CRM you’ll always have the real time information you need. Start by assessing new leads, quoted clients, demographics and potential deals in the pipeline, then analyze your
sales efforts and use that knowledge to refine your strategy.
Self service capability - ACCPAC CRM Web Self Service allows customers to access or request services and support over the web. Customers can receive information based
on their preferences, requests and histories, providing them a single point of contact for information about your products and company through designed customer and partner portals. Allow your channel partners access to shared workflow,
lead-tracking, inquiries, invoicing and customer information. ACCPAC CRM allows your customers 24/7 access to information they want.
Learn more - click here to take a guided tour!
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Enhance your online sales history and reporting with ACCPAC Sales Analysis
Sales Analysis keeps a complete online database of your customer and item sales history.
Why You Should Use Sales Analysis:
- Look up sales information by customer number, invoice number, item number, and more
- Online storage of invoices allows reprinting at any time
- Retrieves information from Accounts Receivable and Order Entry
- Sample screen (24 KB)
Key Features:
- Respond quickly to inquiries
- View sales of items
- View sales made to customers
- Reprint invoices
- Database compatible with Seagate Crystal Reports
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Free Offers - Do they work?
Do you provide any type of sample or free offer to get new customers interested in your service? If you don’t - you should
consider it.
Here's why: The goal of marketing is to think long term. Clients who may have a minor interest today may turn into customers in two months. Offering a
free sample or service is an excellent way to build an inhouse database of future prospects. Remember, just because a client isn't in a position to buy today, doesn't mean that in 3-5 months you won't have a sale! As we say in marketing
"timing is everything!"
Here are some suggestions:
Some companies offer a free sample and charge for shipping and handling to defray the cost. This system only works “if” you are confident about your product or service.
If you offer a service you should consider writing some type of informative FREE report that educates your prospect about some aspect of your service. This report should be available to your prospects from your website. The people who want
to read the report (which is like a sample) should have to fill out a lead form before getting access to the report.
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These Live Webinars are conducted by ACCPAC experts using intranet "WebEx" technology and a voice-line for conferencing. ACCPAC understands addressing all customer questions is critical, therefore demonstrations
are generally followed by an open question and answer session.
| ACCPAC Advantage Series |
| January 20, 2005 1:00 PM ET |
| ACCPAC Project & Job Costing |
| January 25, 2005 - 4:00 PM ET |
| ACCPAC CRM - Customer Relationship Management |
| January 11, 2005 - 12:00 PM ET |
| January 20, 2005 - 2:00 PM ET |
| ACCPAC HR Series - Human Resource Solution for ACCPAC |
| January 19, 2005 - 12:00 PM ET |
| February 8, 2005 - 12:00 PM ET
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| Point of Sale |
| January 18, 2005 - 12:00 PM ET |
| ACCPAC eTransact - The ecommerce solution for ACCPAC |
| January 11, 2005 - 1:00 PM ET |
| What's new in Advantage Series 5.3 |
| January 18, 2005 - 1:00 PM ET |
| ACCPAC CFO - Financial Optimizer |
| January 10, 2005 - 2:00 PM ET |
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Start times are listed in Eastern time zone.
Click here to register for an event.
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Is there a
W2 update for 2004 tax year submissions?
Answer: An update has been made available to provide new report files that will print the 2004 W2 forms for laser printer. Note: This update does not contain
any tax table changes for the 2005 tax year. As of January 1, 2005, tax table updates for Advantage Series Payroll 4.2 will no longer be supported. This means that there will be no January
1, 2005 tax table update for Advantage Series Payroll 4.2. This also means that there will be no technical support for Advantage Series Payroll 4.2 as of January 1, 2005.
Contact us to obtain this update.
Year-End Processing in ACCPAC Advantage Series
It’s that time again. There are many year-end procedures available in Accpac Advantage Series. Surprise: Most of them are optional. Best of all, once you have finished your year-end procedures, you can continue to enter transactions
to the previous year or enter to the new year. You can run reports from both years with ease. Accpac easily keeps it all straight for you. Even payroll processing requires no special year-end preparation. You can print your W-2 and 1099 reports for
the prior year at your leisure.
Click here to review this technical tip.
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Latest ACCPAC Service Packs
New ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.2 Service Pack Available for Download
ePOS Service Pack 4
ACCPAC CRM 5.6 - Current Service Pack Download
- ACCPAC CRM 5.6m Patch
- ACCPAC CRM 5.6 Service Pack 3
If you are working with a product that does not exist on this list please contact us to inquire about the latest service packs.
Call us to arrange installation of the latest Service Packs for your system. If you wish, you can download the service packs yourself off the ACCPAC website by using your client
ID and password.
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Technical Tips on the Web Preferred Logic is committed to providing you with superior customer service. Our
dedication to your success has compelled us to post these tips monthly and to provide you with a library of tips on our website. You'll find tips related to year-end processing, using UI Profiles, understanding new features and much more. You can
also post a technical support question from that location. If you have suggestions on tips you might find useful please let us know by emailing
darlene@preferredlogic.com. Click here to visit our Technical Tip
Section.
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