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Trade Simple February 2012 Product Update

February 24, 2012

Legacy Development New Filters on Schedule Reports Screen Trade simple provides an extensive set of standard and customer-specific reports which can be run on demand from the website. It also provides a facility whereby users can schedule any of these reports to be run automatically. In this change, the screen used to view and request new schedules has been revised slightly to provide a more straightforward interface. The screen is accessed via the “Messages” menu: As a result of this change, the user is now initially presented with a screen showing their own active reports only: The user can expand the filter to include reports owned by this business but which have been scheduled by other users and/or previously disabled reports. From here they can either delete or disable/enable these reports as before. The link to add a new scheduled report can now be found at the bottom of this page. (Live: 17 February 2012)

Trade Simple December 2011 Product Update

January 04, 2012

Legacy Development New Link to Approve Invoices in Document Search The “Approve Invoice” function allows users with the correct permissions (usually at Head Office in Accounts Payable) to effectively override trade simple automated Invoice Management and pass the Invoice (or Credit) to the finance system. This is sometimes required when goods–inwards data cannot be obtained from the unit or when an invoice is held up pending a credit that will not come. Previously this option was only available when looking at the Invoice in “Thread View”: Now, as long as the same conditions about user permissions and document status are met, the link will also be available when searching for the Invoice: The key benefit of this change is that it allows the user an easier way to find and deal with invoices in this state. Whichever route is used to approve the document, the result is still the same. The document is set to “Accepted” and, for invoices, an ...

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December 09, 2011

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Trade Simple November 2011 Product Update - Part 3

November 23, 2011

Infrastructure Activities Database housekeeping/management: For many months, the infrastructure team has been dealing with serious issues around the lack of space available for the trade simple databases on both the Hospitality and eparts platforms (see also Document Repository management below). The following steps were taken to address these issues: All non-critical data was identified and purged from the system. This was done out of hours to minimise possible performance issues. Ongoing housekeeping procedures ensure that this a continuous process This freed-up hundreds of Gigabytes within the database. For comparison, approximately 1GB (10 9 bytes) is required to store about 1,000 average-length novels in English or 7 minutes of HDTV! Unfortunately,however, SQL Server did not make this free space available on the disks for other databases to use — so the problems continued After much research and testing the Infrastructure Team now understand f...

Trade Simple November 2011 Product Update - Part 2

November 22, 2011

Integration of trade simple with the New Platform Existing Integration with FnB Manager Following the purchase of trade simple by Fourth Hospitality, a number of points of integration were created between FnB Manager and trade simple and there are a number of customers using this configuration today. Broadly speaking, trade simple enables FnB to communicate electronically with the suppliers — by importing products and catalogues; transmitting Purchase Orders; receiving Acknowledgements,Confirmations and Delivery Notes to update the order details; and receiving validated Invoice and Credit Notes for matching — while the users retain all of the FnB Manager functionality for order–creation, stock control and invoice matching. Existing Integration with Star Chef (and Caterwide) for TRG The Restaurant Group had been a long–standing customer of both Star Logic and ABS using Star Chef and trade simple along with Torex's Caterwid...

Trade Simple November 2011 Product Update - Part 1

November 21, 2011

Legacy Development Because of the New Platform, much has been done to resist the development of new features and functions in the front-end of trade simple . However, a small number of important enhancements have been carried out for key customers, especially where they also provide a basis for something that will ultimately enhance the New Platform. Debit Notes — A Key Enhancement to trade simple Invoice Management A key trade simple customer, that uses trade simple to manage ALL of their incoming invoices — both paper and electronic, wanted to remove — as much as possible — the concept of Credit Notes from their business and replace it with Debits. That is they wanted to tell their suppliers “thanks for your invoice, this is how much of it we won't be paying.” To this end they part–funded an exciting enhancement to trade simple to allow them to manage this process. Essentially it works like this: The unit creates a Goods Rec...

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