BCR Software News

Babylon Release Notes.pdf

Vancouver release notes

The introduction of Vancouver has not only brought in some few features but it has also restored some of BCR Software’s previous features that a large number of clients found very useful. Listed below are the features that were either added or restored to the software and are now available on the Vancouver release.

• Administration

The ability to use the ‘Enter’ key so that the software cycles through sequential fields on the ‘Vendors’ and ‘Customers’ tabs inside of the item file has been restored.

• Accounts Receivable

Statements are now able to print in company order in addition to printing in ID order.

• Order Entry

If a user attempts to close a sales order that still has backorders, the software prompts the user to make them aware of the backorders before allowing them to close the sales order.

The system now allows Invoices and Credit Notes to be asssigned identical document numbers with respect to each other.

• X-Charge

X-Charge integration has been updated in compliance with upcoming federal regulations.

• Document Imaging

BCR’s document imaging product has been enhanced to be a full file repository instead of just holding image files.

Various other minor bugs/enhancements have also been addressed in this release.

Utica Release Notes

     The introduction of the Utica release has added several new features to the software. Most of these enhancements were specific requests our clients wanted the software to be able to do for them. Every client uses the software in unique ways but some of these enhancements may also be boon in running your day-to-day operations. Below is a list of the changes made available to our clients in the Utica release.

• AD
  • Edit Customer Pricing
    • While on the pricing tab of a customer, a user can now copy in customer pricing, regardless of the id’s justification.
• AP
  • Instant Checks
    • When printing instant checks, the check number now appears on the check stub.
• AR
  • Apply Credit Notes/Payments
    • BCR Software has combined the Apply Credit Notes and Apply Payments into a single functionality.
  • Unapplied Credit Notes�
    • A switch has been added to the system defaults so that a user can create a credit note from an invoice and not have it’s balance auto-applied to the invoice when the credit note comes into AR. 
• RD
  • Remote Desktop
    • Improvements made in the speed of the software prevent the user from seeing a fade-in effect while opening modules using remote desktop.
• OE
  • Batch Invoicing
  • The functionality to process invoices in batches has been added to the software.

Tortuga Release Notes

     The Tortuga release is one of the newest available releases with a couple more features added in. Listed below are those enhancements.

• AP
  • AP Charts
    • The layout for the AP charts has been modified so that it’s more user-friendly and has better looking displays.

• GL
  • GL Reports
    • To assist with internal use, GL account numbers have been added to the Balance Sheet and Income Statement.

Sparta Release Notes

    With the release of Sparta, there have been some interesting new features added to the software that were not a part of previous releases. Below is a list of the enhancements that have been made to BCR Software since the Rome release.

• AD
  • Change/Merge G/L Account #
    • The functionality to merge gl accounts together has been added to the software.
  • Edit Vendors
    • An “On File” checkbox display has been added to the system if the 1099 checkbox has been populated on the vendor.

• OE
  • UPS Worldship
    • BCR Software is now fully compatible with UPS Worldship 9.0 & 10.0.

• AR
  • Display Account Detail
    • “Previous” and “Next” buttons have been added to the account detail portion of the software to allow the user to browse through customers based on the current system default.

1. Process all year 0 payrolls. The payroll year end process may be run after year 0+1 payrolls have been run. For example, you may run 2005 payrolls prior to the End of Year Processing for 2004.

2.  Input Imputed Income items (Payroll Module, General, Add Imputed Income

3. Print and review:
o Liability Report
o Form 941 Worksheet
o SUTA Worksheet
o Earnings Report

4. Backup data

5.  If applicable, select “Leave Time Rollover” from the Payroll Module, Year End Processing, Leave Time Rollover.

6.  Select Year End Closing from Payroll Module, Year End Processing, Year End Closing. This copies selected payroll information to files for W2 & W3 processing and removes year 0 information from the payroll files.

7. Run W2’s and W3 from Payroll Module, Year End Processing, W2/W3.

News Release – December 2, 2009:  BCR is proud to annouce the addition of two new sales managers

Steve Backus has 30 years experience selling application software based solutions to small and mid-sized distribution and manufacturing businesses nationwide.   His client focus selling style has resulted in a long history of selling clean, reference-able business.  He has had the privilege to work closely with some of the best Inventory Management & Business Process Consultants in America (Gordon Graham, Charlie Bodenstab, Fred Taylor, Dan Richmond)  Steve is a graduate of Candler School of Theology at Emory University and resides in Dover, Delaware.

Budd Cowan has over 28 years of software sales experience with companies including Eclipse (Activant) for fifteen years, Ultimate Data Systems (SHIMS) for four years. He is well known in the wholesale distribution industry and he has established long relationships with many business owners in the electrical, plumbing, HVAC and industrial markets.  Budd has a B.S. degree in Business Administration from San Diego State University and resides in Marietta, Georgia.

BCR has recently enhanced searching for existing documents in the Order Entry module, which will be available in the ‘Tortuga’ release.  Searching for documents should now be easier, faster, and give users more options for searching.

Check out this video for some tips and tricks on faster searching with the new interface.

Interested in getting the new Windows 7 when it hits shelves on October 22nd?

Curious as to how BCR Software will run on the new OS?

Well the results are in from the testing department!  BCR Software runs just as smoothly on Windows 7 as it has on all versions of Windows since Windows 98 when preemptive multitasking was introduced.

If you intend on running BCR Software on Windows 7 in the near future we would love to talk with you.  The BCR Software install is an easy process on Windows 7 that should take no longer than 15 minutes.