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Si Business Central for Mobile Sales and Point of Sale Transactions

Si Business Central handles it all and unifies your business, allowing your company to decrease administration time.

Today's business climate requires you to run your company as efficiently as possible or it can quickly become another statistic. Adding staff is expensive and time consuming. The power of technology couldn't be more evident when it comes to improving your infrastructure. Further, business rules such as product pricing, special promotions, customer information are often complex and often changing.

Si Business Central is a powerful business tool that combines the benefits of an integrated office and mobile point-of-sale system with the convenience of an integrated business accounting and management system. All your administrative functions are unified in this complete business solution.

Incorporating thousands of functions and tasks, Si Business Central includes general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchasing, ordering, receiving, warehouse and mobile inventory control, route management, invoicing, mobile order entry, unified price lists, reporting and security.

Each segment of this powerful tool can perform all the functions needed to operate more efficiently, accurately and easily than you ever imagined. Just look at some of the features the system includes. The benefits will astound you.

 General Ledger

Features and benefits of the general ledger:

• Compliance to standard accounting procedures
• Password protection for any portion of the general ledger
• Postdated and repetitive entries accommodated
• Up to 999 available cost centers with reporting for each cost center
• Complete financial reporting for any current to 24-month time period
• Financial statements designed to suit specific reporting needs
• Up to 23 month-ends open at one time
• Journal entries easily prepared on screen with full context-sensitive prompting
• Month-end balances affected by backdating journal entries

Accounts Payable / Supplier Operations

The Accounts Payable keeps full control of your supplier information. Through extensive reporting and tracking, you are able to recall in-depth information by vendor or by product category.

• Detailed supplier information including names, contacts, purchase history, credit limits, amounts on order, payment due dates, and discount rates are recorded
• Suppliers can be located by name or account number
• Reports available for account balances, orders pending, credit limit, and purchases by supplier
• Accounts payable is updated on receipt of product
• Pay by invoice including over and partial payments
• Sales, profit margins, and unit cost are tracked and displayed in reports
• Checks are automatically printed for supplier payments
• Discounts, interest and payments are automatically posted to accounts

 Purchasing and Receiving

This portion automates your inventory ordering function, based on minimum order quantities you input into the system. You have the advantage of being notified when inventory is low, and having it automatically tracked from the time it's received to the time it's sold.

• Purchase orders for any vendor are initiated on demand, based on minimum order quantities and open customer orders
• Inventory quantities, costs and selling prices are automatically updated on receipt
• Turnover rates, margins, and quantities on hand are automatically tracked by supplier
• New inventory items are easily added
• Automates handling of special customer orders
• Includes full backordering capabilities
• Price labels are automatically printed during receiving
• Outstanding orders are easily located
• Review open customer orders upon receipt of product

 Accounts Receivable / Customer Operations

Accurate control of your customer accounts is made simple. Integrated with sales and inventory, you receive up-to-the-minute information on customer activity and balances. Inputting discounting and pricing information assures that your customers are charged accurately every time.

• Full reporting for accounts receivable aging and orders pending
• Month-to-date, year-to-date, last year's sales, costs and gross profit, account balances, and credit limits for each customer are tracked
• Invoices and histories for any customer and time period are easily accessed
• 40 discount groups with different price levels for each product line available for each customer
• Grouping of customers is based on defined, common characteristics such as route
• Contract pricing is available along with special price lists and discounting options
• "Pay by invoice" is available for received on accounts
• Statements prepared can calculate early payment discounts or late payment charges
• Customers can be located or added by name, account number, or phone number
• Handles third-party billing
• Address labels are automatically printed for mailing

 Point-of-Sale (POS) Operations

Point-of-Sale capabilities are integrated throughout Si Business Central. As you sell your inventory, customer accounts are automatically updated and inventory amounts are reduced. By incorporating barcode scanning capabilities, you have a complete system that looks after all your point-of-sale needs.

• Invoices, ROA's, order entry, work orders and credits are automatically created at point-of-sale
• All actions are complete and integrated at point-of-sale
• Full cash register operations
• Prices are calculated automatically, based upon customer defaults and department groupings
• Barcode scanning is available for inventory sales
• Taxable and non-taxable items can be included on the same invoice
• Receive customer payments and look up customer history at point-of-sale
• All customer accounts are updated automatically
• Inventory, costs, and selling prices are automatically updated at point-of-sale
• SKUs, labor items, service items and assemblies are all handled
• Core charges are fully supported
• Review, reprint, or reverse any transaction from any location
• Cash out workstations separately or in total
• Quickly locate customer orders for processing
• Comprehensive inventory control

 Easy, Integrated Inventory Tracking

With Si Business Central, inventory tracking begins at the moment you receive product into your warehouse. As items are sold or returned, on-hand quantities are automatically updated. Supervisors can perform inventory counts at any time for verification purposes. You can easily determine which inventory items are your top sellers and slow movers. To further manage your inventory and increase sales, you can determine at a glance where inventory is located and create stock transfers to move it to a different truck or warehouse.

• Part codes, service items and labor items all supported
• Supports FIFO or standard cost methods
• Stock transfers are done to move inventory between trucks and/or warehouses
• Inventory items are assigned to a department or product line for easier reporting
• Pricing schedule, gross margin, low gross protection, general ledger accounts, selling transactions and types for each department
• Inventory items can be sold in alternative units allowing you to stock inventory in one unit and sell in another
• Easily handles damaged or stale-dated product returns
• Inventory counts can be performed with handhelds and integrated into the system for valuation
• Reports can be generated during any period for costs, selling price and gross margin of inventory items
• History for sales, cost gross margin and quantity can be analyzed for any time period

 Security / System Operations

No business system is complete without a comprehensive security system. Si Business Central has extensive password protection over several critical areas of the system. In addition, we've built in reliable back-up systems to protect the integrity of your information.

• Fully password protected with logging of employee ID numbers
• Built in back-up system responds quickly and uses file compression
• Old information automatically purged on command
• All files automatically checked for errors at system startup
• Ability to rebuild damaged files
• Context sensitive online help function
• Help files expanded with user-added information
• System configurations for printing and reporting controlled

 Reporting

The detailed reporting capability of Si Business Central demonstrates its true power. All financial reports are prepared based on a combination of generally accepted accounting practices and the criteria you establish in the system. Additional reports, such as sales history and analysis, aged receivable and payables, customer and supplier data, and inventory tracking are equally important to the ongoing success of your business.

• Full financial statement reporting, by truck and/or warehouse and by date
• Stop analysis reports with detailed information about each route
• Reconcilable reports are available for bank statements and outside agencies
• Reporting on taxes owing and amounts paid
• Detailed reporting on sales based on time period, group, category, route
• Aged Accounts Receivable reporting by customer or group
• Aged Accounts Payable, open invoices, and lists or suppliers
• Detailed inventory reporting such valuation, price lists, and sales reports

 Route Management

Si Business Central Route Management gives you full control over mobile sales and distribution activities. Manage your route sales staff and warehouses, complete with up-to-date information on critical areas of your business such as inventory amounts, sales, and accounts receivable.

• Handhelds are loaded with selected customer lists, routing groups, pricing/discounting and inventory items
• Inventory quantities can be viewed for any warehouse or truck
• Cash outs/settlement can be completed for any route
• Mobile transactions are automatically loaded into the administration computer with location, date and time stamps for management verification
• Inventory counts and reports to verify stock for any truck or warehouse are available
• Stock transfers for any warehouse or truck are available
• Includes reports on visited and missed customers with details for each route
• Complete management controls on certain sales rep functions, such as price changes allow you to maintain control of all areas of your business
• View detailed sales information by route

If you think it's amazing we developed such a complete business tool, then wait until you become a client! At Solid Innovation, client satisfaction is number one. That means you can expect unparalleled technical support and customer service.

Purchase Si Business Central and inject the power of this business tool into your business. It'll make your colleagues proud! And your customers impressed!