The following is a list of changes that have been made to the Atrex 8 package
since the 7.00 release. For your convenience, the list has been broken down
into functional areas:
General/Misc. Changes
Invoices/Orders/Quotes (common features)
Invoices
Orders
Purchase Orders
Receivables/Payables
Customers
Stock Codes
Vendors
Service Orders
Options/Customization
Banking
Security
Imports
General/Misc. Changes:
- Added the ability to display an image in the main Atrex background window.
- Added a field for the entry of the card owners name on the credit card entry window.
- Added ability to send virtually any printed report as EMail
- Added a SQL Query Designer to the SQL interface.
- Added a "Search" button to many of the transaction number entry windows to allow searching for entries without the need to enter a question mark.
Invoices/Orders/Quotes (common features)
- Added line item percentage discounts.
- Added ability to clone container items on a transaction via popup menu.
- Added transaction history lookup capabilities from inside of invoices, orders, and quotes and from the customer selection window.
- Added print preview capabilities to view transactions from the invoice/order/quote selection window.
Invoices
- Rapid invoices can now use a different format than standard invoices.
- Return invoices that result in an account credit can now immediately post the credit against the original invoice if it is still outstanding.
- Added a report to show the customer names which purchased specific items in a given period of time.
Orders
- A field has been added to the order shipping function to allow you to specify the shipping amount to be transfered to an invoice.
- Added a primary tracking number field to the order shipping window.
- Added internal notes for order creation and shipping.
- Added a loop around the order shipping function.
Purchase Orders (PO)
- Added a 'Created By' field to the standard PO creation and the batch creation windows. This field will be automatically populated with the user ID logged into Atrex.
- Added function stacking to PO Batch Creation.
- Added the ability to reprint labels from a PO receiving list.
- Added a 'Ship Via' field to standard PO creation and batch creation windows.
- Added ability to strip the Batch PO Creation reorder list down to a single vendor.
- Added a loop around the PO receiving function.
Receivables/Payables
- Added outstanding payment/credit report. The report is sorted and grouped by customer number.
- Added utility to the post unposted function to allow automatic posting of multiple payments or credits.
Customers
- Added linking capabilites from Atrex to Goldmine. Synchronization functions are included to keep both databases updated.
- Increased length of customer name field from 30 to 40
- Increased length of street fields from 20 to 26
- Increased length of city field from 26 to 40
- Added customer category maintenance utility. This utilities allow for the mass change and update of customer categories.
- Added ability to associate a description with customer categories.
- Added User ID and Password fields to customer table for support of online ordering systems.
- Added ability to choose type of report and the number of customers to be included on the Customer Ranking Report.
- Added a "Search" button to the name entry window to allow searching for entries without the need to enter a question mark.
- Added ability to print selective mailing labels for one or more customers.
Stock Codes
- Added category and sub-category maintenance utilities. These utilities allow for the mass change and update of stock code categories and sub-categories.
- Added ability to associate a description with categories and sub-categories.
- Added ability to do mass price category updates and changes.
- Added a random inventory worksheet for spot checking invntory counts.
- Added batch Rename/Merge/Delete utility to allow for processing multiple stock code functions as one batch or changes.
- Reworked inventory rename function to increase the performance of this function.
- Added a "Search" button to the stock code entry window to allow searching for entries without the need to enter a question mark.
- Added option to sort inventory reorder report by preferred vendor or by stock code.
Vendors
- Added looping around new vendor creation.
- Increased length of vendor name field from 30 to 40
- Increased length of street fields from 20 to 26
- Increased length of city field from 26 to 40
- Added a "Search" button to the vendor code entry window to allow searching for entries without the need to enter a question mark.
Service Orders (SO)
- Added job templates. These templates can then be retrieved during the creation of a service order.
- Added service history lookup capabilities from the main SO window and from the customer selection window.
- Added a report to show the customer names which purchased specific items in a given period of time.
- Added a laser/inkjet enhanced service order template.
Options/Customization
- Added an option treat a zero credit limit as 'No Credit'.
- Added ability to select a shipping cost splitting method for PO receiving functions. Shipping can now be split by cost, by quantity, or not split at all.
Banking
- Added a memo field to the banking transfer editing window.
Security
- Added ability to change data locations from the security login screen.
- Added a clone function to the user maintenance functions.
- Added a logout button to the toolbar for easier access to this function.
- Modified stock code editing secutiry option to allow users without the ability to view costs to still edit stock code information.
- Added option to allow or disallow a user to override the credit limit of a customer.
Imports
- Added option to specify import mode: Update & Import, Update Only, and Import Only.