Posted by Alan Perry on Wed, Jan 26, 2011
Technisoft Service Manager is an integrated software system that allows organizations operating within any kind of service industry to streamline in-house departments and improve response time to customer requests.
To illustrate how the advantages of Technisoft Service Manager can apply to your company, let’s take an example from one of the many companies that transformed the way they do business by employing Technisoft Service Manager.
MARTCO is a full-service distributor of security and surveillance systems with fourteen offices based across the States. Founded in 1961, the company has grown since that time from one employee to almost one hundred. The company built its reputation over the years based on its quality of service.
As the business expanded, this family-owned company was looking for a way to integrate its sales, service, operational and administrative procedures whilst maintaining its reputation for responsive and high quality service.
They needed a system that would allow them to efficiently manage its existing customer base whilst also giving the flexibility to manage additional clients and services as they arose.
Technisoft Service Manager provided MARTCO with exactly the kind of flexibility and customer focus that they wanted. Firstly, Service Manager was fully integrated into MARTCO’s existing management system.
With the addition of Service Manager, financial and inventory reports are generated automatically guaranteeing efficiency and fast turn-around order times.
Technisoft Service Manager system also allows customers to place orders online, track those orders, check product specifications and download user manuals. Job sheets and invoices are automatically produced which means huge savings in terms of time and cost.
The advantages of Technisoft Service Manager to MARTCO include streamlined flow of information for employees, transparent customer accounts and status, efficient distribution system and accurate profiling of performance by management.
If you would like a demo on how Service Manager can transform your business, contact AMS today or request a demo.
Posted by Alan Perry on Tue, Jan 25, 2011
Technisoft service manager is an integrated software system that allows companies in the maintenance service industry to track jobs, clients, accounts, stock and workflow to ensure that all contracts are efficiently managed and that all jobs are carried out within the specifications of official industry standards.
There are approximately 6,800 USA Standard Industrial Codes and of those, Service Manager is a solution fit for more than 3,700.
Of the many industries where Technisoft service manager is a solution fit, some include accountants & auditors, air-conditioning for commercial, industrial, residential and automotive industries, airports, architects, bathroom renovations, beauty salon equipment and/or supplies, brewery equipment & supplies, cables mechanics, campervans and motor homes, civil engineers, demolition contractors and equipment, gaming machine venues, gas appliances and equipment, medical equipment and/or repairs, real estate management, spray painting services and telecommunications systems.
The diversity of this list shows both the reliability and adaptability of the Technisoft service manager system. The companies who have integrated Service Manager into their business models have experienced huge transformations in the way they do business.
One such example is Gibson Teldata, a company that operates as a telephone interconnect organization in the State of Indiana. Gibson Teldata’s full range of system services includes telephone systems, voice mail and automated attendant, call accounting, automatic call distribution and more.
The company services more than 1200 companies in the Indiana state area. From the moment a customer calls into the company with a request, that call is logged and assigned a ticket number.
The system prompts the Technisoft service manager operator at every stage of the job, firstly to ensure a technician is dispatched in response to the call and subsequently to ensure that the technician carried out the job to the customer’s satisfaction. This close monitoring of customer calls and workflows means that no customer is ever overlooked and that the company does not loose revenue from inaccurate logging of time.
To see how Service Manager can change the efficiency of your company, contact us today for a demo of the Service Manager software.
Posted by Alan Perry on Mon, Jan 24, 2011
Don’t think your business needs Technisoft service manager? Don’t know what Service Manager is? Then, picture this scene.
Your business installs burglar alarm systems. You have just found out that there is a new leisure centre being built in a neighbouring town. You scribble a reminder to do a quotation into your diary.
Three weeks later you spend a day running round the office, totally stressed out, while your sales manager scrambles for prices and your assistant types frantically. Then you race to the leisure centre’s facilities manager to get your quotation in on time.
Despite this frantic rush, your reputation is good and your pricing meets with their budget expectations. You get the job. Now you must get in the equipment and components. You have stock coming from England, Korea and Holland.
You have told your stock manager to raise the necessary purchase orders and to keep track of these deliveries as you are working to a tight deadline.
Before the job begins, you must sit down and plan out every step, making sure the right materials are available on the right day and that you are working to both schedule and profit.
Disaster strikes. Some of the stock has gone missing in transit and your stock manager cannot find the purchase order docket. This necessitates you getting on the phone and arguing with your supplier wasting valuable time.
By the time the job starts, you are exhausted.
This is the old way of doing business. With Technisoft's service manager innovative software product, Service Manager, you can cut out all the legwork as Service Manager takes care of every aspect of the business administrative process for you.
Service Manager streamlines jobs, quotations, invoices and credit control; it plans work schedules, tracks billing time, schedules tasks, calculates budgets and pre-orders stock.
In effect, Technisoft service manager does all of the administrative thinking for you allowing you more free time to expand and grow your business.
Don’t get bogged down in paperwork. Streamline your business with Service Manager. For a demo of how Service Manager could transform your business get in touch today
Posted by Silicon Cloud on Fri, Jan 21, 2011
Nongovernmental organizations supply grants to enable recipients to improve and assist the community. Adapted to the needs of NGOs, these grants are an additional form of grant assistance and typically include small projects, and the necessity of independence from government constitutions to expedite and ease the application process. Grants are dispensed from NGO funds for proposed applicants.
NGO funds should compliment not replace existing sources including local grants, subsidies or subsidised facilities, bank loans or export credits. Accordingly, NGO funds provide additional funding. All non-governmental organizations constituted as legal entities operating in the public interest can apply for nongovernmental organizational grants.
An intermediary to manage the NGO funds must be accessible. Qualifications for this intermediary must include an independent legal background, and a high involvement with the NGO community, also include grant-building experience. In respect of the fund, operational preferences will normally be consulted by the NGO community and monitoring arrangements for the fund will be stipulated in the grant agreement. The focal point will ensure these arrangements are implemented sufficiently and if needed, steps to strengthen them will apply.
Advance payments may be made in part as disbursements to end recipients from the NGO fund. Typically, there are limits as to the amount set for each withdrawal unit of funds. This is a responsibility of the intermediary; arrangements are put in place ensuring satisfactory cash flow to the end recipients under the NGO fund. Correct use and distribution of funds and guarantee of authenticity of proof of expenditure is another responsibility of the intermediary, also establishing separate bank accounts for the resources to be granted and management costs.
The above conditions set out for NGO accounting grants is a very small part of the procedure that must be followed when applying for and setting up an NGO grant. NGO grants requires paperwork, which requires systems. Therefore if you are looking to make the best use of time then look to a ERP system like Sage ERP Acccpac.
Posted by Alan Perry on Thu, Jan 20, 2011
NGOs are rapidly on the rise in the world market. A decade ago not many recognized the acronym NGO. Today it is universally recognized. With this newfound power, the legitimacy of NGOs is increasingly being questioned along with the influences they hold at the international level. NGO Accounting has also been in question.
NGO Accounting does take time
However, starting a nongovernmental organization can be a time consuming process. Besides dedication from concerned individuals, there must a general consensus of concern about a project or community. If implemented correctly, an NGO can be helpful and resourceful to any community.
There are several steps to setting up such an organization and the first step is determining what purpose this organization will serve. Long term goals and objectives should be stated on the Mission Statement of the organization what the NGOs vision is for the future.
Of course, as with any large establishment accounting is a critical aspect. Members should have strong legal and financial backgrounds and knowledge of how to serve the public to the best of its ability. They should elect to the board people who understand the purpose and goals of the organization with new and progressive ideas to contribute. To be able to work as a team is crucial to the environment of the conglomerate.
NGO Accounting is different
Accounting procedures for nongovernmental organizations differ only slightly from those of a regular business. There are certain aspects about NGOs that are not common with regular accounting. Profits for example are used for betterment of the community or project, they are not gained by administration or executive. NGOs are exempt from many taxes and must have available at any time records for presentation to donors and companies that have significant input into the project at hand. Year-end statements must be accessible to any member or donor that has contributed to the input of any particular project funded by the nongovernmental organization.
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Posted by Alan Perry on Wed, Jan 19, 2011
NGO’s need to kept up to date
It is imperative that the accounting of an NGO be kept up to date. Donations must be entered into the data base and accounts should be up-dated monthly. Reports be frequently presented together with suggestions and plans to all levels of the conglomerate
Non Governmental Organizations must keep close tabs on their accounting system and data. The operating and activity budget is of the most critical importance. This budget must include all donor proposed approved funds and plans for the funds for the fiscal year. All information must be entered into the data base of the organizations computer accounting software. From here performance reports can be generated upon request. In the pre stages of setting up the accounting system, the finance manager is responsible for pre-planning, layout and education, coordination and interpretation of all budget information and details suitable software for this purpose is plentiful online.
Duties of the NGO accountant
The duties of the NGO accountant are heavy and in compliance with donor agreement he is responsible for preparing bills to that affect and maintaining a good relationship with the donors, and funding clients, by preparing and finalizing the accounts of these clients in an appropriate manner. To assist partners and donors in assessing funds and research other NGO’s and additional companies for funding. They have to have a good understanding of computer software and accounting systems.
Preparing budgets, profit and loss statements, revenue and expenditures and monitoring reports and accounts in an accurate and expedient manner; and it all sounds complicated. To an untrained accounting brain this all sounds very complicated, however it is software to the rescue.
NGO accounting is on a different level from your every day small business bookkeeping. It isn’t just looking for more funding, but keeping close track of the funding you have and spending it on significant projects. At times this can involve a lot of money.
NGO accounting ion a different level they still require the technology of today to help them in the future. That is where Sage ERP Accpac comes in, view our demo.
Posted by Alan Perry on Tue, Jan 18, 2011
“NGOs are defined by the World Bank as private organizations that pursue activities to relieve suffering, promote the interests of the poor, protect the environment, provide basic social services, or undertake community development"
A non-government organization is a non-profit society whose duties are to contribute to social activities for the private sector. Funding comes from various sources including government or private donors.
Amongst all the trillions of software packages there are several related to NGO Accounting. These types of organizations don’t run without employees, and just as any other business software is needed to properly control different aspects of the specific organization. Non Governmental Organizations are no different in that respect. There is however, a difference in the type of software required to run such an organization.
Rarely do you find the antiquated way of accounting practices. The man leaning closely to his books, quill pen in hand about to enter the daily takings. Oh no, these days the accountant is sitting in front of a machine that does all that for him with a few clicks and key punches. For any one individual or even several in a department, the manual bookkeeping process for any NGO would be a weeklong chore if they were lucky. Accounting software has taken the thrill out of all that – NGO again, is no different.
A closer watch is usually kept on non-profit funds. As the source of these funds is often from private or company donors, they like to know where their money goes. Non-profit accounting software will give you those precise figures, along with all other accounting aspects of the organization. Tracking expenses, salaries, utilities everything related to the financial side has to be recorded and available on hand at the request of the donor. Accurate up dated records of grants, donations and fund-raising input are imperative with such an organization.
While NGO’s maybe private organizations they still require the technology of today to help them in the future. That is where Sage ERP Accpac comes in, view our demo.
Posted by Silicon Cloud on Mon, Jan 17, 2011
NGO Accounting has standards
There are set standards for Non Government Organizational accounting. One of those is that accounts are maintained to ensure funds are properly utilized for the objectives of the organization. Contrary to a business who would want to see the profits at the end of the year and decide who gets what, NGO’s ares not permitted to declare profits, or distribute profits to proprietors and non profit accounting systems apparently are complicated.
When an audit report is prepared the words surplus or profits are insignificant. Neither are they, after all relative to this organization. Neither are things such as income tax or donors. Funding is typically set aside for a specific project and it shows on the balance sheet as having been reserved for that purpose. In cases where certain funds donated by a donor for a specific purpose such as education, the agreement is often such that the donor selects the department of education to which the funds are donated.
NGO Accounting and Donations
Donations for the NGO come from different sources such as corporations, individuals and trust groups. Donations are the contributing force, which enable NGO to discharge the financial objectives. NGO’s can be Trusts or Societies continuing to maintain their books on cash or hybrid basis. An NGO may also claim exemption of income from property held in trust. And the income tax requires that NGO’s be audited.
NGO Accounting requires to compliant
To be successful an NGO must be, punctilious in legal compliance, genuine in its enterprise clear in dealings and veritable in reporting. In other words it has to be a near to perfection society. The pressures from institutions and donor agencies that these organizations are subjected to, contribute to the complex accounting which its financial management concentrates more on spending than making money.
It is typically recognized that accountability in non profit organizations is most significant. Hence why you need a solution to cover all the bases and one such solution is Sage ERP Accpac. View Sage ERP Accpac for yourself with our online ERP demo.
Posted by Alan Perry on Fri, Jan 14, 2011
Sage ERP Accpac international technology
When building a business located on one continent, one doesn’t think necessarily about technology linking their business around the world with one program. The uneducated thoughts seem to confine themselves to more local operation. Sage ERP Accpac is quite capable of changing those thoughts and methods.
There are many advantages to this program including several language and currency options. There is only one version of Sage ERP Accpac, then general support for all regions is added and includes monetary information, such as tax information for that particular country; giving easy access to database use in international locations using the Sage ERP Accpac program software.
The feature requests put to the product management staff depend a lot on the geographical market of the company. Instances range from more sophisticated inventory management and processing to more simplification and ease of use.
Information and requirements supplied to one company can often be of similar use and value to another company in a different region of the world. If one company has several offices located around the world, this program offers ease of access and usability no matter where the location, size of company or region they are located.
Sage ERP Accpac meeting challenges head on
There are always challenges to meet head-on, as with most things in normal life. But when you are aware of the correct methods and strategies that you need to keep you on course, Sage ERP Accpac can assist and make that road easier whether you run a web based or desktop system.
The choices are yours as far as configurations and objectives that suit your business the best are concerned, whether you run a multi location, international business or are a single standalone unit, Sage ERP Accpac products have the user interface capabilities to move your business forward. You would be making a wise decision to choose this option for the betterment of your business.
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Posted by Alan Perry on Thu, Jan 13, 2011
Sage ERP Accpac is about efficiency
To help your business grow, it is always better to have the most efficient and professional help possible. The Sage ERP Accpac software program is designed for businesses of any size. So, whether you are just starting out or have been in business for a while, it might be time to get with the program. The Sage ERP Accpac software program.
Sage ERP Accpac about amazing
Sage ERP Accpac does amazing things for your business, like less costs, your production will go up. Sage ERP Accpac supplies you with tools to help you make informed business decisions. The analysis tools allow you to keep on top of your business data and know at all times what is transpiring. With the forever-changing times in the marketplace, it is important that your business be the best it can be and for keeping up with trends, you should have the software to assure your focused position in the market.
Sage ERP Accpac about your customers
Customer service is a taken for granted requirement in the average business, and with Sage ERP Accpac you can have customer information readily available with a click, giving them the expected service they deserve. Different facets of the company can be integrated to better manage business from one major location. Therefore, no matter where your customer is located, their records and access to their purchasing history are on hand. Here is where this information system can incorporate into one place your easy access for easier management, and faster service that is more efficient.
Sage ERP Accpac for improvement
Sage ERP Accpac software gives a business access to improving and automating financial transactions. To set up schedules and process comprehensive reports; easily track cash and non-cash benefits and offers an extensive list of Report Options. All types of industry, healthcare, consumer goods and services, finance and insurance, governments, use this software and many others benefit from the use of Sage ERP Accpac software. So what are you waiting for?
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