Ostendo Update 18 January 2010 – What’s New

Item Sizes – Enhancement

We have enhanced the use of Item Size tracking, so that the size can now be used as a variable unit of measure. What we mean by this is that you are able now to treat the size value as a conversion factor, thereby allowing the tracking of dual variable unit of measure. To help explain this, imagine the following scenario:

You are stocking and selling 2.5kg Hams, and although the weight is close to 2.5 kg’s there can be reasonable variability. Now lets also assume that you’re charged by the supplier for actual weight of each ham; you would therefore like to make sure that the customer buying the ham is also charged for the actual weight. To add to the complexity, you wish to stock and to price by each ham, because that’s how the customer orders them. This new feature achieves the objective by tracking the sizes of the hams (in actual Kg’s), displaying in Inventory Availability both the quantity of hams and the total actual weight, and then calculating the Invoice unit Price based on which sizes were picked and the standard conversion factor the ham pricing was set by.

Customer Deposits entered in Sales & Job Orders

We have added the ability to enter Deposits from within the Sales and Job Order screens. This effectively creates a Customer Deposit allocating it to the specific order number. We have also added 2 extra fields to the Order table showing the total amount and un-applied amounts of all deposits linked to that order.

Catalogue Codes in Job Templates & Task Bills

We have added the ability to now add Catalogue codes when setting up Job Templates and Task Bill Codes. The facility has always been available to use catalogue codes when within Jobs; this enhances their use.

Lists – Enhancement

We have added the ability to dynamically create Lists based on previous Order History. In other words, you can now define against an Inventory List that it is created from Order History, looking back a maximum number of days or number of orders. This feature works within Sales, Jobs and Purchase Orders, not only pre-filling the List with the order lines, but displaying the order date and the order number for each line.

Add to this, the ability to link a List Code to a Customer, and this becomes a very fast way of creating orders where the customer typically orders similar products.

Jobs – Alter Mark-ups Enhancement

We have enhanced the Alter Mark-ups screen in Job Orders. You now have the ability to base the mark-up, margin and unit price calculation of either the planned or actual cost, previously only planned cost was used. This is a useful feature for companies that invoice out based on the actual costs and products used in the Job.

POS – Optionally Displaying Costs, Margins & GP

We have added the ability to display Costs, Margins and Profit within the POS screen. This feature is only available if the option held against the POS operator is turned on. The activation of this is actioned in the Employee screen.

Additional Fields Displayed in Line Grids

We are now dynamically displaying any additional fields added to Order Lines in the Lines grid within each Order screen.

New Email Scripting Function for IMAP

We have added a new function into scripting for receiving emails via IMAP (used as the protocol for MS Exchange and Windows Server 2008). There is still the existing function that uses POP3, but the new one provides the ability to link to an MS Exchange server without having to set-up POP3 connection.

Speed Improvements

You may notice some improvements in speed of operation, more likely to be noticeable in the Jobs module, particularly where large templates are used.

Various Small Fixes & Improvements

Various other smaller issues and enhancements that have been reported to us have also been fixed in this update.

What’s Coming in future Ostendo Updates:

What to expect:

(1) Progress Claim Approvals and Retentions Screen

(2) Predictive Service Maintenance and Useage Billing

(3) Additional Advanced Manufacturing Features

(4) DRP Distribution Requirements Planning

(5) Budgeting

EOS Lectures at Inaugural International Conference

Tony Harris, the technical director of EOS and “Ostendo Specialist Extrordinaire” will be conducting a number of training and information lectures at the Ostendo Partner Inaugural International Conference to be held in Tweed Heads next week.

Tony is pleased to be presenting:

Ostendo Add-on Solutions

Four Add-on Solutions to Ostendo for all end users including retail:

1. Email Field Finder

2. The first of a suite of Ostendo Partner tools

3. Time Capture with MYOB Timesheet Integration

4. EOS POSIMS (POS Marketing eg Loyalty Rewards, Club Marketing, etc)

Ostendo Update Notes from 21 October 2009 – What’s New

Ostendo Update Notes from 21 October 2009 – What’s New

User Defined Constants (New Screen: File-System Configuration-User defined Constants)

We have added a new screen that allows the creation of user defined constants; that can then be used in reports, inquiries, views and scripts. Often there are values that shouldn’t be either hard coded in a script, or prompted for the user to enter every time they run say a report or inquiry. To illustrate this, we have added 2 constants (in this update), which are referred to in one of the new Inquiries (Days of Inventory). One of the constants is used to determine the historical horizon for calculating average usage, the other for flagging whether or not the reorder level is included in the calculations.

Inquiry Screens (Enhanced):

Now all Inquiry screens will save column positions, column widths and any filtered conditions, subtotalling or sorting against each column by user.

Customer Financial Statistics – New Standard Inquiry Screen

This new standard inquiry displays the average actual payment days (as compared to the average planned payment days) and customer outstanding balances aged by periods (periods determined by your setting in ‘Financial Configuration-Aging Periods’). This inquiry is ideal for a ready reference to customer balances and how they have been tracking historically with paying on time. There are 2 additional detail tabs, which display the following by customer:

1)       Outstanding Invoices

2)       Un-Applied Payments

Days of Inventory – New Standard Inquiry Screen

This new standard inquiry is a must for companies managing inventory. It basically provides a snapshot of how many days of stock you currently have (based on user defined historical usage – Number of Days in the new ‘User Defined Constants’ screen), and then calculates your overstocking value by factoring in each items lead-time, and, if included (switchable in the new ‘User Defined Constants’ screen), the reorder level (minimum stock). In essence it allows the following information to be looked at:

1)       Whether there has been any usage for each item in the user defined historical period (The number of days set will be dependent on the nature of the business)

2)       The Current Inventory Value and Quantity by Item

3)       The average daily usage and value for each Item

4)       The re-order level converted in a number of days

5)       The overstocked days and value  – this assumes lead times are accurate and that the re-order level effectively provides a buffer.

Understanding the importance of accurately defining lead-times we have developed a lead-time inquiry for Items (see below).

Item Lead times – New Standard Inquiry Screen

This new standard inquiry screen provides each item’s default lead-time; the average purchased lead-time (only if Purchase Orders are used); whether an item has a Bill of Material (BOM), and if so, the lead time held against that BOM; and finally the average manufactured lead-time.

Multi-Item Information – New Standard Inquiry Screen

This new standard inquiry displays the following tabs by Item:

a.      Inventory levels

b.      Transaction History

c.      Sales Trends – This displays 7 periods of Sales Values & Quantities for Daily, Weekly and Monthly periods – showing an average for those periods and then indicating whether the last period has either Increased, Decreased or Equalled the Average

d.      Sell Prices – Displays all the Price Levels for that Item and calculates the Sell Price based on the Pricing Method

e.      Buy Prices – Displays all the Supplier specific pricing

Job Calendar Rules (New Screen: Jobs-Settings-Job Calendar Rules)

This new screen sets the following properties for the Job Calendar:

1)       Calendar Days Back – Defines the default number of days for which the Calendar displays allocations/bookings. This can be changed while in the Job Calendar

2)       Calendar Days Forward – Defines the default number of days for which the Calendar displays allocations/bookings. This can be changed while in the Job Calendar

3)       Display Allocation Inquiry – This turns on an Inquiry Panel at the bottom of the Job Calendar. The Inquiry panel displays 1 of 2 Inquiries:

a.      Allocation Inquiry – If the user clicks on an allocation/booking then the Allocation Inquiry SQL is displayed

b.      Calendar Inquiry – If the user hasn’t selected a specific allocation/booking then the Calendar Inquiry SQL is displayed

4)        Allocation Inquiry SQL – The actual SQL for the Inquiry (there is a default)

5)       Calendar Inquiry SQL – The actual SQL for the Inquiry (there is a default)

Job Calendar (Enhanced):

We have significantly enhanced the overall functionality of the Job Calendar, focussing more on resource scheduling. Following are some of the key changes:

1)       The calendar now displays allocations by resource, rather than the tasks the resources are linked too. This basically means that resources can be allocated to the task many times (previously you would have to create new tasks for each separate allocation).

2)       You can now drag and drop on the calendar from the Jobs (not Booked-In) sitting in the grid (bottom right of calendar)

3)       You are able to set the forward and backward horizon days to determine what’s displayed on the calendar (in Job Rules)

4)       There is now a non-allocated employee defined for any job booked in but not as yet allocated to specific resources (previously displayed across all)

5)       You are able to set the Resource Status (eg: Assigned, Sent, Accepted, Declined or Finished) – remember you can link this to MS Outlook via appointments (using a custom script – an example is available)

6)       A planned Labour Code can be linked to the Allocation (and specific notes can be entered).

7)       A new Inquiry Panel appears at the bottom of the Calendar if the ‘Display Allocation Inquiry’ is set to true in the new Job Calendar Rules screen.

8)       Scripts can be linked to the Job Calendar via Order Scripts. You link a script to either the allocation (right click popup menu), or to the toolbar at the top of the calendar (ideal for say creating Timesheets from the calendar).

Job Rules (Enhanced)

There are 2 new fields defined in this screen:

a.      ‘Create PO Receipts from Job Issues’ – This allows the Job Order Issues screen to automatically create Purchase Receipts. See the new feature ‘Job Order Issues (Enhanced to Create PO Receipts from this screen)’

b.      ‘Use Line Notes for Purchase’ – This, if checked, will copy the Job Line notes across to the Line Notes of the purchase order line.

System Settings – New Email Option (Enhanced):

We have added a new email client setting in the System Settings screen. This dropdown allows the selection of either ‘Other’ or ‘Outlook’:

a.      Other – This is the default option and based on the existing logic. In other words it will work with any MAPI compliant email client (including MS Outlook).

b.      Outlook – This new option only works with MS Outlook, and allows for the users auto signature to be included with emails being sent from Ostendo. This would be the recommended method if MS Outlook is used as the default email software.

CRM Rules (Enhanced):

We have added a new field called ‘Default Job Type for Service Jobs’ which allows the selection of a Customer Asset style of Job Type. This is then used when creating Job Orders/Quotes from the Call Centre screen – when the user has selected a Customer Asset in the ‘Who is It’ panel.

Item Site Settings (New screen – Items [Related Menu] For default Warehouses and Locations):

We have added the ability to define specific Warehouses and Locations by Item, by Module and by Site. As an example, you could define a different Issue Location for Assembly Picking than for Sales Picking. If no Site settings are defined for the Item – the standard defaults are used.

Order Header Warehouse & Location Overrides (New Feature):

We have added the ability to override the Warehouse and Location at an Order Header level. By default the warehouse and locations either come from the new Item Site Settings or from the main Item settings.

Override Price Level for Customers (New Feature):

We have added a second Price Level held against the Customer called ‘Override Price Level’. This is designed for where the customer might be, say on Trade Pricing, but for a specific number of Items there are exceptions. In other words if a price is found in the Override Price Level for that Item, then it is used, otherwise the price derived from the customers standard price level is used.

Display Decimals (extra to existing Decimals in System Settings):

We have added an additional decimal precision setting for defining the number of decimals to display (you may wish to enter 4 – but when displaying only see 2).

Exclude Deposits from Aging (Enhanced):

We have now added the ability to exclude deposits from the Aging report (it actually excludes them by default). Note: For ad-hoc Customer Aging see the new ‘Customer Financial Statistics’ inquiry.

Reporting Period Definitions (with new Sales Inquires to demonstrate these):

We have been asked on a number of occasions how to run reports based on non-consecutive date periods (eg: Month To Date verses Year to Date). There is now a new screen found under the Reporting Configuration menu called ‘Reporting Periods’; this allows you to define up to 4 periods per period code and then use these definitions in reports, views and inquires. To demonstrate this there are a number of new Inquiry screens in the Sales Inquires menu:

1)       Customer MTD and YTD Sales (This is based on the Calendar Year)

2)       Customer Financial MTD and YTD Sales (This is based on the Fiscal Year – defined in the System Configuration-System Settings screen)

3)       Cust Type MTD and YTD Sales (This is based on the Calendar Year)

4)       Cust Type Financial MTD and YTD Sales (This is based on the Fiscal Year – defined in the System Configuration-System Settings screen)

5)       Category MTD and YTD Sales (This is based on the Calendar Year)

6)       Category Financial MTD and YTD Sales (This is based on the Fiscal Year – defined in the System Configuration-System Settings screen)

7)       Item MTD and YTD Sales

8)       Item Last 4 Weeks Sales

9)       Item Last 4 Months Sales

10)   Site MTD and YTD Sales

11)   Site Financial MTD and YTD Sales

12)   Item Sales Trends (In Daily, Weekly, Monthly buckets for 7 periods – Both Sales & Quantities)

Configured BOM (Enhanced):

We have enhanced the manually configured BOM screens found in Sales and Job Orders. Previously you could only adjust a markup % against the header of the BOM, now you can define mark-ups, margins and prices at a line level within the BOM Lines (see also the Configured Mark-up’s screen to define default mark-ups by analysis group). This improves the ability for companies that assemble custom products to create estimates.

Configured Markups (New screen – Assembly-Settings):

We have added a new settings screen to allow the definition of default mark-ups per analysis group – specifically for Configured BOM’s.

Job Order Issues (Enhanced to Create PO Receipts from this screen):

We have added the ability to create Purchase Receipts for Items and Descriptors directly from the Job Issues screen (this assumes the Job line is linked to a Purchase Order). To activate this option, you’ll need to set the flag called ‘Create PO receipts From Job Issues’ in the Job Rules screen.

There is also another 2 options when pre-filling lines in this screen:

1)       ‘Pre-fill for all lines with zero qty’ – This has been added for companies that wish to issue everything to the Job upfront, and then when the Job is completed return any unused materials.

2)       ‘Pre-fill planned usage for all lines including purchased lines’ – This basically pre-fills all remaining Job Lines with the remaining qty, whether they are purchased or not.

User Customised Lookup screens (Enhanced):

We have added the ability to customise the standard Ostendo lookups by user. We are often asked for the ability to display extra fields, or in some cases to hide fields, by user. Rather than hard coding this, you can now customise the lookup’s; in the same manner as the opening lists for standard screens (so long as the user has List Customising turned on in User Security). You need to be logged on as that user and then while using the Lookup screen – right click as you would for an opening list.

Recognising that companies may not wish for users to then re-customise after the appropriate fields have been either shown or hidden, you can then turn-off the list customisation and what ever has been set will stay for that user (didn’t previously work that way for standard opening lists).

System Screen Conditions (Enhanced – Now includes Lookups):

We have added the ability to enter conditions for lookup’s by user (eg: there maybe someone in the company who only looks after purchasing, and you may wish to restrict their Item/ Descriptor Lookups based on that logic – or it maybe that Ostendo is used across multiple branches and Customers/Suppliers need to be restricted for specific users).

Save Grid Filter and Disable Grid Print & Export (Enhancements – File-System Configuration-User Security & Options):

You can now set at a user level whether the Grid conditions are saved when exiting screens; and also whether that user can print or export the contents of a list.

Archive Prefix can now include merged fields (Enhanced):

You can now include merged fields in your archive prefix for reports (eg: lets say for readability when archiving invoices you wish to have the Invoice Number as part of the archive file name, then the prefix definition might be something like:

Invoice [INVOICENUMBER] – now the resultant file name would look like this: Invoice12345-###### (where the #’s are a unique sequential number that is appended to all archived files)

Supplier Catalogues – Contents Not Purchased (Enhanced):

We have added an additional checkbox held against Supplier Catalogues called ‘Contents Not Purchased’. The idea of this is for where you wish to use the catalogue, but will not be creating purchase orders for any of the contents when used in Jobs or Sales Orders.

Cost Centre Mapping (extra option for Assembly receipt Standard Cost Variance):

We have added an extra cost centre type in the Cost Mapping screen (and in the warehouse screen) for Assembly Receipts Standard Cost Variance. Previously any Assembly Receipt Standard Cost variances were posted to the same cost centre as variances from Purchase Receipts.

Job Orders – (Enhanced – History Notes included in Notes section of the Job Header):

You are now able to view and edit History Notes within the Job Header screen (previously only via the related menu).

New table designed for Integration with Phone systems (for creating Call Centre Calls):

We have added a new table called ‘INCOMINGCALLS’ into the Ostendo database. The idea of this table is so that incoming calls can be inserted as records, which then immediately pops-up a notification message to the appropriate user (based on the physical computer name – which indicates their physical extension). This then allows the option to automatically create a Call Ticket.

Ostendo Script Scheduler (New Application):

We have developed a new application that allows scripts to be run based on predetermined frequencies and times. This application (oss.exe) is automatically installed into the standard Ostendo directory (via the Update) and should be executed on the server. The idea of this scheduler is to regularly run scripts to do things like:

1)       Email KPI’s or Notification Alerts out based on specific rules

2)       Automatically pick up emails and create things like Timesheets and Orders

Ostendo Database Utility (New Application):

We have developed a new application that allows the Backup, Restore and Validation (and if necessary, repair), of Ostendo Databases. This application (dbutils.exe) is automatically installed into the standard Ostendo directory (via the Update) and should be executed on the server. This application has its own built-in help.

Various Small Fixes & Improvements

Various other smaller issues and enhancements that have been reported to us have also been fixed in this update.

Introducing Veechi Curtis

We are very pleased that we are now working with Veechi Curtis, one of Australia’s best known MYOB and Quickbooks consultants and authors.

Veechi Curtis is an expert specialising in business systems and accounting software, having worked both as a journalist in the Sydney Morning Herald (in the IT section) and as author of books including MYOB Software For Dummies, QuickBooks For Dummies and Small Business For Dummies.

Veechi Curtis can help you evaluate what accounting system is best suited to your needs, and help you integrate the features of Ostendo with your MYOB or QuickBooks accounting software. Veechi Curtis is based in the Blue Mountains and provides services to businesses in the Lithgow to Penrith area.

PO Box 48
Wentworth Falls NSW 2782
T: 02 4757 3546  F: 02 8212 8057
E: veechi@veechicurtis.com.au
W: http://www.veechicurtis.com.au

A new ASAT Receivables Report

This new report displays all the Customers with their aged receivables as at a certain date.

It runs from the Customer Aging menu option.  The customers are listed in alphabetic order and in the NON-DETAIL mode, the list provides a very quick listing without confusion.

Customer Aging Report

Ostendo Update Notes from 16 July 2009 – What’s New

Ostendo Update Notes from 16 July 2009 – What’s New

Multi-Currency Sales (Complementing existing Multi-Currency Purchasing)

We have added in the Sales Multi-currency functionality complementing the existing Purchase Multi-currency and landed costing functionality.

1)       As with Purchasing, the currency codes and exchange rates are defined.

2)       Additional Cost Centres are now available against Currency Codes (eg: FX Debtors, Exchange Loss/Gain)

3)       Customers now have a default Currency Code, although it can be changed at order/Invoice time

4)       Price Levels can now be linked to a Currency Code

5)       Payment Accounts (Bank Accounts) can now be linked to Currency Codes

6)       Payments and Deposits have a currency (which can be different from the currencies of the invoices the payment is applied to)

7)       Customer Statements are generated by currency

8)       The FX gain or loss is calculated automatically when the Customer Aging report is run, based on the exchange rates for the report As At Date

Please Note: You can run multi-currency within Ostendo but post as local currency transactions to the General Ledger (See ‘Local Ledger Postings for Foreign Currency Transactions’)

Local Ledger Postings for Foreign Currency Transactions

We have added the ability to post all ledger transactions as local currency transactions, but still use the multi-currency features within Ostendo (File-System Configuration-System Settings-Accounting Link). This basically means that Orders can be entered, Invoices generated and payments taken in different currencies, but a single currency General Ledger can be used.

Custom Data Screens

We have added a new type of Script called ‘Custom Data Screens’. This allows for creation of what are typically called ‘Data Collection’ screens. In concept these scripts combine a user defined graphical front end with the power of the scripting engine. The design has also taken into account the ability to use a scanner, keyboard or touch interface simultaneously. Some samples of the types of applications this new style of script provides are:

1)       Shop Floor Data Collection (Time & Attendance)

2)       Job or Assembly Order Tracking

3)       Customised Picking Interface

4)       Touch Screen POS Interface

5)       Touch Screen Product Configuration

6)       Scanner driven Retail Product Lookup

We will be providing some samples of the above via a download link in the next few weeks. For developers we have also provided the ability to encrypt the script to protect IP (See the note about this at the end of these release notes)

Freight Descriptors

We have added the ability to define Descriptors as Freight Descriptors (in the new Freight Tab in the Descriptor Screen). Also available from the new tab is a new popup screen for defining rates for both volumes and weights. These rates are then used to calculate line prices (In Sales & Job Orders) on entry of the actual weight and/or the actual volume. See the help file for more detailed explanation.

Daily Summary Postings

We have added the ability to summarise Journal postings into daily transactions by transaction type (File-System Configuration-System Settings-Accounting Link). In other words you may wish to post only 1 journal per day for all Job Issues, rather than a journal for every job order that had issues in that day.

Audit & Notification Logging

We have added the ability to activate logging values on adding, modifying and deleting by table and field name. The logged records store the new & old values (where applicable), the user name and the date & time of the change. There are 2 purposes for logging; the first is for pure audit logging, and the second for notification logging. A simple example of what notification logging could be used for is say, automatically emailing a delivery confirmation out to the end customer on the delivery status changing from ‘Planned’ to ‘Shipped’.

Product Line Messaging

We have added the ability to define line messages against Items, Descriptors & Labour Codes for Sales (POS), Jobs, Purchase and Assembly Orders. These messages appear as an information panel while entering the order line and can include dynamic information from the code itself. In other words if say you wished to display the standard buy price while entering a specific item for a sales order, then the message definition might be something like:

The Standard Buy Price for [ITEMCODE] is [STDBUYPRICE]

Basically merged database fields are encapsulated with square brackets ‘[‘ & ‘]’ (this same syntax is used when merging fields in the email text).

Fixed Price Quantity Breaks

We have added the ability to enter quantity break prices for the calculation method ‘Fixed Price’. The only difference to quantity breaks for other calculation methods is that the fixed prices are entered as actual prices, whereas the quantity break prices for all other calculation methods are expressed as percentages.

Multi-Tiered Discount Structure

We have added the ability to enter up to 3 cumulative discounts in the Discount Matrix (Pricing-Discount Matrix), which then calculates the total discount to be applied. The idea of this is for industries where discounts are expressed as discounts on discounts (eg: If a customer is part of a buying group that receives 20% discount, but on top of that for a specific category of product they get another 10% after the first discount, then the total discount would actually be 28%).

Pack Size Enhancement

We have added the ability to display the Inventory Availability results in user selectable ‘Pack Sizes’. This is assuming that the item has been defined with pack sizes (Items-Order Dims). The idea of this is for industries that take orders from customers in different pack sizes, but stock and sell based on a standard unit of measure (eg: Used in the meat industry where pricing and stocking is in Kilograms, but the customer may very well order in a nominal carton size of say 50kgs).

Active Connections – Enhanced

We have added the ability to remove users from the Active Connections screen. This screen will now also appear on exceeding the Ostendo User count. In other words if you have say a 5 user licence, and the sixth user tries to login, the Active Connections screen will appear, displaying who is currently logged in, and if you have Administrator rights you will be able to log a user off.

Sending Invoices to a Different Customer than the Billing Customer

We have added the ability to send Invoices to a different customer than the billing customer. The set-up for this is done in the Customers screen. A typical scenario for this feature would be where there is Head Office who is paying for the Invoice, but the actual invoice needs to be sent to the branch for approval.

Job & Assembly Progress Inquiry & Analysis Views

We have added a couple of new Inquiries and Analysis views that graphically display the progress of Assembly & Job orders through departments (via the steps or tasks). These inquiries/analysis views simulate a manual planning board displaying the progress of the order and any issues (via the tracking code) colour coded.

Note: If the analysis view is linked to the Desktops views for a user, a timer can be set refreshing the view at predetermined intervals, in other words you could have monitor continuously displaying the order progress for a customer service environment.

Un-limited Order Line Scripts

We have added the ability to define unlimited order line scripts. This feature allows for additional functionality to be added to order lines specific to the site.

Script Encryption

As the power and capability of the scripting engine has continued to improve, the sophistication and value of the scripts being developed has also improved. We now have a number of partners developing scripts to do the following types of things:

1) Interfacing with Web Stores

2) Connection to CAD applications for automatic BOM & Order creation

3) Enhancing functionality in Ostendo such as POS with loyalty programs

4) Interfacing with PDA/PDT devices for Stock Counts, Receipting, Issuing, and Order Taking

5) Interfacing with other software applications

These are only a few examples but can add tremendous value to the Ostendo application. To protect the IP of the partner, and therefore facilitate the wider use of these scripts we have provided the ability to encrypt the script when sending out to others. It is a simple method of saving the script to a file (available with the Custom Script Editor) and selecting Yes to the encryption question. From there the encrypted file can then be sent to the recipient and loaded via the ‘Load from File’ option (available with the Custom Script Editor).

Ostendo Script Scheduler

We are in the final stages of testing a new scheduler that will allow scripts to be run at predetermined frequencies and times. This will be run on a server and execute scripts to do things like:

1)       Email out KPI’s or Notification Alerts based on specific rules

2)       Automatically pick up emails and create things like Timesheets and Orders

A separate email will be sent when this has been finalised.

Various Small Fixes & Improvements

Various other smaller issues and enhancements that have been reported to us have also been fixed in this update.

EOS Posims Brochure

We have updated the EOS Posims Bruchure to clearly and consisely brief all the fantastic features of EOS POSIMS Point of Sale Integrated Marketing system. Please review this brochure to see the lastest features the NEW EOS Posims has to offer. Here is a brief exerpt:

Why should I install EOS POSIMS?

• Fast, easy sales means happy customers, happy staff
• Loyalty system to encourage repeat sales
• Customer database to assist in maintaining contact with your customers to encourage repeat business
• Integration with Accounting software which will save you hours of work
• Excellent Reporting  allowing you to properly measure results and better manage your business
• Easy order management to save you time and reduce over or under ordering to assure correct stock levels

Check out the brochure here:

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EOS Portable

EOS Portable Solutions

EOS Portable Solutions for Stocktake and Stock Picking.

EOS Portable Stocktake Light

EOS Portable Stocktake Light assists retailers, wholesalers, distributors and anyone business with Inventory to perform a quick and easy stocktake using a portable barcode scanner. EOS Stocktake Light is the economy version of EOS Stocktake Manager. EOS Stocktake light and Stocktake Manager interface with Ostendo meaning that even if you don’t have a POS system you can have the speed and ease of stocktake with the EOS Stocktake range.

EOS Stocktake Light will ensure you minimise the costs involved in stocktaking, you will need less staff, less time closed (in many cases there is no need to close your store) and achieve a more accurate stocktake.

EOS Posims Introduction Video

POSIMS Point of Sale

Is your Point of Sale “Bright eyed and bushy tailed?”

Please take a moment to view our intrudction to the new EOS Posims Point of Sale Integrated marketing solution. Whether you are installing a Point of Sale to replace a cash register or upgrading your existing POSIMS system, EOS POSIMS is a great Point of Sale System for you.

Introduction Video

Quick Sale POS Video

Excellent News

Excellent News – June 2009

Through this newsletter, we will let you know what EOS is developing, what changes are happening within Ostendo^® and what is coming in the future.

Included in this newsletter:

• Point of Sale that is cheaper and has more features than MYOB RetailManager
• Custom Data Screens – Useful for many Business uses, including Time and Attendance, Job Costing, Workshop Data Entry and Inventory Management.
• Custom menu links – allowing for better integration to other windows business applications
• EOS POSIMS – Fully featured Point of Sale customisation of Ostendo, including great Integrated Marketing features
• Plus a bonus guide “How to make an Extra 71% profit in 12 months”

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