FrontAccounting 2.1.0 beta 2

Major Features :

1. Sales (accounts receivable):
   • Sales
   • Unlimited number of customers
   • Customer branches
   • Sales orders (can be printed as quotes)
   • Delivery to invoice
   • Separation of customer invoice issue and goods delivery.
   • Invoicing (with optional payment link)
   • Credit notes
   • Documents can have more than one row with the same stock id.
   • Direct deliveryy.
   • Direct invoice.
   • Batch invoicing for more than one delivery.
   • Template delivery and invoicing. can be marked in sales order inquiry.
   • Most of sales documents are editable.
   • Links to print documents after entry.
   • Links to print documents in inquiries.
   • Line descriptions in sales documents can be edited and printing of documents handles multiple line of descriptions.
   • Point of sales (POS) definitions for better handling of cash sales
   • Sales groups for grouping customer branches.
   • Recurrent invoices
   • Dimensions can be selected on sales delivery and invoices.
   • Accumulating of shipping costs and legal text on invoices
   • New printed document layout
   • Deposits, single and batch, allocations.
   • Sales areas
   • Sales types
   • Salesmen
   • Salesman provisions and breakpoints for calculating provisions for salesmen. salesmen report.
   • Shipping companies
   • Purchase (accounts payable):
   • Unlimited number of suppliers
   • Purchase orders
   • Goods receival notes (GRN)
   • Supplier invoices, with received items and GL items
   • Supplier price lists
   • Various payment terms.
   • Supplier credit notes show only invoices for a period
   • Credit this link in supplier inquiry
   • Attachment of scanned documents
2. Items and inventory:
   • Unlimited number of stock and none-stock items
   • Item categories
   • Item locations
   • Price lists also in various currencies
   • Adjustments
   • Location transfers
   • Re-order levels (option: email notification when stocks available are below re-order levels).
   • Automatic calculation of average item material cost from po delivery and work order entry.
   • Automatic calculation of prices from home currency and base sales type settings.
   • Quantity decimals now use the item units if any.
   • Item kit sets for order/sales speed up
   • Oreign codes registration for barcode scanner entry.
3. Manufacturing:
   • Bills of material
   • Work centre inquiries
   • Advanced production and simple assembling
   • Work order entries
4. Dimensions:
   • Use up to 2 levels
   • Dimensions can be used as: projects, cost centres, departments, inventories (the general ledger can be selected over several years) or whatever you define them to be
   • Dimension view shows account balance
   • Dimension due date and costs follow-up.
5. Bank:
   • Several bank accounts
   • Detailed payments and deposits
   • Currencies
   • Currency rates by date (historical)
   • Bank inquiries and reports.
   • Bank accounts reconciliation
6. General ledger:
   • Unlimited number of accounts
   • Account classes
   • Account groups
   • Manual journal entry with dimensions entry
   • Budget entry even on dimensions.
   • Detailed inquiries and reports.
   • Quick entries (preset GL transactions) in bank deposit/payment, journal entry and supplier invoice/credit.
7. Reports:
   • A considerable amount of reports can easily be printed out into PDF.
   • Most general ledger reports can be filtered by dimensions
   • Period selections can be made over seleral financial years.
   • Documents with forms and logos can be batch printed out and automatically emailed customers Invoices can be selected with an electronic payment link.
   • Several reports can be supplied with Business Graphics. Options are charts with Horizontal bars, Vertical bars, Dots, Lines, Pies and Donuts.
8. Access levels and adaptation:
   • Unlimited number of companies can be created, and their databases can be placed anywhere in the world.
   • If you only have access to one database, a table-prefix can be used enabling you to have all your companies placed inside one database.
   • Unlimited number of financial (fiscal) years. Financial years can be closed against entries.
   • Multi-user access with different priviliges
   • Voiding of transactions
   • Reprinting of transactions
   • Backup and restore of companies.
   • More than one GST (VAT) levels.
   • A date picker alongside all date fields including weeknumbers.
   • A simple audit trail (stamping GL transactions with username)
   • Module addons for creating export/import to/from FrontAccounting
   • Extension addons for creating own menu tabs and applications
9. Advanced GST (VAT) handling:
   • Several GST (VAT) definitions with GST (VAT) groups
   • Definition of GST (VAT) included
   • GST (VAT) can be selected on a per customer, supplier or item level
   • Advanced GST (VAT) inquiry and report showing details and outputs/inputs.
10. Full currency support:
    • Historical currency rates
    • Multi-currency bank accounts, customers and suppliers.
11. Several languages are ready:
    • Full support for localization by the GNUs gettext package.
    • Many languages are ready.
    • Several chart of accounts are available in the download section.
    • Full support for right to left (rtl) screens and reports (arabic).
    • Support for Jalali or Islamic calendars.

Enhancements:

• Optional Replacement of Listboxes for Items, Customers and/or Suppliers with a Search Box.
• Salesman Provisions and Breakpoints for calculating Provisions for Salesmen. New Salesmen Report.
• Documents can have more than one Row with the same Stock ID.
• Separation of Customer Invoice Issue and Goods Delivery.
• Direct Delivery Entry.
• Direct Invoice Entry.
• Batch Invoicing for more than one Delivery.
• Template Delivery and Invoicing.
• Most of Sales Documents are editable.
• Links to Print Documents after entry.
• Links to Print Documents in inquiries.
• Rewrite and better Tax Routines, Tax report
• Automatic Calculation of Average Item Material Cost from PO Delivery and Work Order Entry.
• Units of Measure moved to company database.
• Numeric inputs for percent/price/exrate amounts is now related to user display formats.
• Better program structure.
• Optional Wiki Help Integration.
• A Lot of Minor Bug Fixes.
• FA is now PHP 4 and PHP 5 compatible and should run on MySQL 3.23 5.X.X Servers
• Accelerator keys in menues
• Grouping listboxes where appropriate
• Sortable database paging in inquiries with many records
• Line descriptions can be edited and printing of documents handles multiple line of descriptions.
• Point of Sales definitions for better handling of cash sales
• Sales Groups for grouping customers.
• Recurrent Invoices
• Dimensions can be selected on sales delivery and invoices.
• Accumulating of shipping costs and legal text on invoices
• New printed document layout
• Option for graphic links instead of text links in tables.
• Attachment of scanned documents
• Item Kit Sets for order/sales speed up
• Foreign Codes registration for barcode scanner entry.
• Bank accounts reconciliation
• Quick Entries (preset GL transactions) in Bank Deposit/Payment, Journal Entry and Supplier invoice/credit.

Requirements:

• MySQL 3.23 or higher
• PHP 4 or higher
• GD 2.0 or higher