This list gives an overview of functionality changes that
have been made to Business Partner since its release
in 2000.
Members of the Attaché Customer Benefits Plan are
entitled to download unlimited free upgrades to their Business
Partner software via our Members Services website. That way
you can
always be sure you are using the latest version of the software,
updated with the newest features and to meet legislative
requirements.
| A |
A4 Document Forms - Customer Statements, Supplier
Remittances with combined cheque/remittance form
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Ability to fax and email quotations
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Ability to delete payment summary details for the
current year (Australia only)
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Addition of fourth address line (Country field) for Customers
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Addition of fourth address line (Country field) for Suppliers
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Additional form codes in Customer master file
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Additional form codes in Supplier master file
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Additional information field on Products and Services
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Accessing Attaché Contacts from maintenance
and enquiry screens
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Account descriptions in General Ledger Financial Reporter
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ANZ Diskpay file format (Pacific Islands only)
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Alternative products and services in customer transactions
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Attaché Alex: Choice of sender names for Customer
documents
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| Attaché Alex: Choice of sender names for Supplier
documents |
| Attaché Alex: Confidential document deliveries |
| Attaché Alex: Document inclusions |
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Attaché Alex: Email/Fax delivery option at
time of printing
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Attaché Alex: Enhanced fax quality
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| Attaché Alex: Find facility in
document delivery address manager |
| Attaché Alex: Individual document addressing |
| Attaché Alex: Launch address managers during customer and supplier transactions |
| Attaché Alex: Print/resend option |
| Attaché Alex: Sending documents with text layouts |
| Attaché Alex: Statements |
| Attaché Archive (back up and restore) |
| A4 stationery for laser printouts |
| ABN Customer Masterfile and Supplier Masterfile |
| ABN field now available in Company Option in preparation of GST |
| ATO Fringe Benefits Tax Reporting |
| Attaché 5 features incorporated to BP |
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Attaché Alex - lets users send documents to customers and suppliers electronically
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Australian Business Number field available in Company Option
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B
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BAS Allocation Report
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BAS Allocations Report enhanced
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BAS Allocations Report selection criteria added
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BAS Allocations - New descriptions
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BAS Annual Returns
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BAS Audit Report
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BAS Audit Report Purge program
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BAS Calculation worksheet for imports updated
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BAS file
export
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BAS Funds Allocation enhancements
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BAS Manual Update for Payroll and OtherAmounts Withheld
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BAS Update and BAS Reporting function
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BAS Update Warning Message during Customer/Supplier
EOP
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| C |
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CashRegister dockets - tax descriptions
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CashRegister
dockets show item prices according to Decimals
in Price field
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Cash Register for Windows
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Cash Register password on exceeding customer credit
limit
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Cash Required List - enhanced
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CashBook for Windows
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Cheque Layouts now available in Forms Designer
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Cheque Listing function for Suppliers & Payroll
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Credit
card payments for Suppliers
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Customer Aged Trial Balance report options enhanced
|
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Customer End of period - Default settings for End
of Period changed
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Customer enquiry transaction limit removed
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Customer discounts - prevent discounts on products
and services
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Customer EOP enhanced
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Customer invoice screens and documents - additional
fields
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Customer Orders printing fully B/Ordered lines
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Customers - Password on exceeding customer credit
limit
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Customer Returns Report
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Customer Screen Designer extra fields
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Customer
Special Maintenance - Fields Added
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Customer
statements: Contact Name field now available in header
and footer
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Customer
statements: new footer fields and new sample layout
with footer
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Customer
statements: specifying a Category range
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Customer Tax Report enhanced
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Customer Tax Report selection criteria added
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Customisable
forms on dot-matrix printers under Windows NT, 2000
and XP
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Customisation
of Statement layout
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| E |
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Electronically upload BAS to ATO website
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Employee Details report enhanced
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Employee Enquiry screen
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Enhancements to G/L Other Modules Posting menu, Customer
EOP and Product Maintenance relating to the Cash Register
Module
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Excluding service items from sales reports
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Extra fields added for printing purposes
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Extra reports added and minor changes made to other
Modules
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| F |
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File Integrity Check - Print facility enhanced
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Financial Reporter Warning messages
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Flexible remittance advice numbering (Suppliers)
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Foreign currency changes for local suppliers
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Foreign Currency Tax Calculation
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Forms Designer documents can now be printed direct
to fax
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| Forms Designer fields for quotations |
| Forms Designer List report
now available in Company Reports |
| Forms Designers reports enhanced |
| FormsPort functionality - outsource
the printing and distribution of customer statements |
| G |
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General Ledger Trial Balance report shows larger amounts
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G/L Dissection introduced, changes and enhancements
to General Ledger menus
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G/L Financial Reporting functions changed
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G/L options changed
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G/L prompts enhanced
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General Ledger Reports updated Details fields
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Graphical cheques now print the currency setup in
Company Options
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Graphical Printing and setups with documents provided
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GST Calculation worksheet
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| GST enhancements |
| GST fields in Screens and Forms
Designer |
| GST functions and BAS Reporting |
| GST functions further enhanced |
| GST Reporting enhancements |
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| I |
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Importing multiple kits
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Improved - Copy Data Files includes all screen and
print layouts
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Improved display of suppliers' tax codes
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Improved - Forms Designer Layouts report includes
all print layouts
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Improved - Using BPAY to pay suppliers (Australia
only)
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Inactive products and services
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Inclusion of postal barcode font
|
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"Include zero value orders" field on Outstanding
Orders report
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| Independent series of remittance advice
numbers |
| Invoice/Credit Look Up search on Invoice/Credit
numbers |
| K |
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Keystroke import begins less quickly
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Kit pricing
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| Kits, pro formas, preferred
products lists and standing order |
| L |
| Links to the CBP Members and Attaché Alex
websites |
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Long printer names
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| M |
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Magnetic Media File 2001
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Minor enhancements - EOP; Company Data Paths input;
Postcodes
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| Minor enhancements to Products, Order
Entry & Purchasing, G/L, Payroll Pay Advises report,
NZ Payroll (EMS Report/File) |
| Multiple Bank Accounts for Payments |
| Multiple Customer document designs - invoices
and credit adjustment notes |
| N |
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National Superannuation Fund report
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New fields in Special Maintenance
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New labelling of document output options
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New module - Quotations
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New reports on barcodes and alternative, superseded
and inactive products and services
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New Payroll Taxscales added - SFSS
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New Zealand's payroll amendments to comply with current
EMS (Employer Monthly Schedule) requirements
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Net Unit Selling Price fields in Screen Designer
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" No print" and Sub Total lines in Customer
and Supplier documents
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NPF Report for PNG Payroll
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NPF report heading now reads "National Superannuation
Fund Limited" (Papua New Guinea only)
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| NZ and PNG Payroll updates to comply with
legislative changes |
| NZ Bank File for ASB (Fastnet Office) |
| NZ only - availability of Combined Cheque
Remittance Advice fields in Forms Designer |
| NZ Payroll as required by NZ Inland Revenue
Dept |
| NZ Payroll Taxscale updated |
| NZ Payroll updated to meet
requirements of NZ IRD for the year commencing 1st April |
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| O |
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Option to not send statements
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Option to prevent duplicate invoice numbers
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Order Entry enhancements
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" Other/EFT" field on Customer Payments
screen
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| Outstanding Orders report - summmary option |
| Override of unit cost for service items
in customer orders |
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Overriding the export tax code for GST reporting
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| P |
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Papua New Guinea Payroll updated to meet requirements
of NZ IRD for the year commencing 1st April 2000
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Papua New Guinea: National Provident Fund Report
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Password on exceeding customer credit limit
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Payment line on Customer invoices
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Payroll options - Annual Leave Warning option
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Payslip requirements in NSW
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Pay Summary Report for Payroll
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Pay Summary Overflow Report for Payroll
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Pay Summary Report enhancements
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PAYG Reconciliation Report
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Payment line on customer invoices (text invoices)
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Payment Summaries for Payroll
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Payment Summaries enhancements
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Payroll: Additional pay advice totals
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Payroll: ATO Magnetic Media version 7.4
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Payroll: Australian tax scales 2002/2003
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Payroll: Updates (NZ only)
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Payroll: Customisable pay advice forms
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Payroll: Delivering pay advices by email or fax
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Payroll: Employee other accounts (NZ only)
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Payroll: General enhancements
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Payroll: NASFund Contributors Savings and Loan (NCSL)
report (for Papua New Guinea)
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Payroll: NZ Pay History
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Payroll: New allowance and deduction types (NZ only)
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Payroll: New fields in Employee Maintenance (NZ only)
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Payroll: Pacific Islands bank file format – Westpac
(Quickpay)
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Payroll: Summary options for payment summaries has
moved (Australia only)
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Payroll: Superannuation for casuals under 18
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Payroll: Superannuation report (NZ only)
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Payroll: Tax scales for New Zealand and Papua New
Guinea
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Payroll: Terminations process
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Payroll: Reports enhanced
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Payroll: Tax scales (Australia) added combining HECS
and SFSS scales
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Payroll: Tax scales (Australia) added - new HECS and
SFSS scales
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Payroll: Tax scales (Australia) added - CDEP (Changes
to tax calculation)
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Payroll: Tax scales (PNG) updated
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Payroll: Tax report enhancements
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Payroll: PNG Statement of earnings
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Payslips - availability to use Window envelopes for
laser printed payslips
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Permit tracking for customer sales
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PNG NASFund and NCSL report update (Papua New Guinea
only)
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Postal barcoding for Customers
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Postal barcoding for Suppliers
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| Postal barcoding on pay advices |
| Postcode field provides Find on transaction
screens |
| Postcode range added to Postcode details
report |
| Postcodes file updated |
| Pricing on Invoices |
| Printing cheque numbers on the Bank Deposit
List |
| Print Copy Now option in document entry |
| Product pricing during Supplier Invoices/Goods
Received entry screen and the automation of On Costs
function |
| Product Receipts enhanced - transactions
with or without GST |
| Products enhanced |
| Prompt payment/refund for Supplier Invoice/Credit
Notes |
| Protection against deleting General Ledger
Postings file |
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Purchase Orders - modified reprinting
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| Q |
| Quotations: Sales Rep ranges
on quotation reports |
| Quotations: Managing quotations |
| R |
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Remittance advices via Attache Alex
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Remittance advices offer Reprint option, customisation
and other improvements
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Removal of "Copy to send" limitation
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Repeating Product/Service Code in Suppliers
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Reports can include or exclude inactive, superseded
and standard products and services
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Reprinting documents requires range(s)
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Reprinting pay advices
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Retain Discount option (Customers)
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| Rebuild renamed to Compress
Database |
| Rounding on GST |
| S |
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Sales Analysis reports enhanced
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Sample/Template Screens and Forms Layout modified
to accommodate the added features in Suppliers
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Sample Forms revised - Tax Inc/Tax Exc
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Save Date Range checkbox in BAS/GST Return Update
(Australia and New Zealand only)
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Screen Designer fields for quotations
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Screen & Forms Designer layouts enhanced
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Screen and print master layouts automatically copied
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Selection of copy number at time of printing
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Selection of form code at time of printing
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Selection of remittance advice form code
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Selection of statements to be printed/sent
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Sending payment summaries by email or fax (Australia
only)
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Standard Financial Report Layouts
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Superannuation Guarantee reporting (Australia only)
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Superseded products and services
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Supplementary barcodes
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Supplier & Customer Tax Report enhanced
|
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Supplier Aged Trial Balance Report enhanced
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Suppliers: Buying groups for suppliers
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Superannuation Guarantee - record payment details
with the superannuation amounts (Australia only)
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Supplier Ageing report (date-driven)
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Supplier Ageing report – future transactions
|
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Supplier Cash Required List enhanced
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Supplier Credit Adjustment Note for payments with
Settlement Discount
|
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Supplier End of Period process enhanced
|
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Supplier End of Period process update
|
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Supplier End of period - Default settings for End
of Period changed
|
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Supplier functions enhanced
|
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Suppliers General Ledger Postings Report
|
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Supplier invoice screens and documents - additional
fields
|
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Supplier Manual Payments to cater for the New Tax
System (GST)
|
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Supplier Manual Payments update
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| Supplier Master File screen in relation
to the Withholding fields |
| Supplier Pay Selection enhanced to automatically
generate a transaction |
| Supplier Payments Withheld Report enhanced |
| Supplier Remittance Advices enhanced |
| Supplier Screen Designer extra fields |
| Supplier Special Maintenance |
| Supplier Tax Report enhanced |
| Supplier transactions changes |
| Supplier website launch from master file |
| Suppliers enhancements |
| Suppliers: Pacific Islands bank file format
- Westpac (Quickpay) |
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| U |
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Unit Discount field in customer Forms Designer
|
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Unit Cost field displays current cost
|
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Use Higher Family Threshold tick-box (Australia only)
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| W |
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Wholesales Tax (WST) to GST conversion
|
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Withholding Payment function
|
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Withholding Payments Report
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| Y |
| YearOne PowerLink |
| Year 2000 Compliance |
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Note: Version numbering for Business Partner changed with
version 1.22.000.
