Sage BusinessVision 2011 (7.5)

Top New Features - Version 2011

Payroll Enhancements

• New setup module makes it easier to setup payroll departments, benefits & deductions
• Direct Deposit improvements including better control over user access (see below), and addition of data centre number for BMO and Bank of Nova Scotia
• Earnings info in Employee Details screen has been moved from a pop-up window to its own separate tab
• Significant Record of Employment (ROE) enhancements including electronic submission, hours worked for salaried employees, and more
• Ability to edit / adjust T4 information for individual employees and produce T4 Summary report

Tax Structures

While Sage BusinessVision has always handled taxes pretty well, and did a good HST transition for Ontario users in 2010, the tax setups are expected to get a full overhaul to make essentially any tax structures possible. Expected improvements include:

• Improved HST and provincial sales tax support including POS rebates used where some items attract HST at a lower rate than normal items; these changes are reflected in all related modules - sales tax setup, inventory, order entry, POS and purchase orders
• Override tax codes on Purchase Orders, including a pop-up option to adjust tax codes used based on a selected ship-to address

Point of Sale (POS)

The POS module is getting a complete overhaul with a brand-new look & feel as well as some major new features:

• New user interface that's simplified, yet more flexible. It supports touch screens, on-screen keyboard and other simplified cashier input. It will have much larger fonts that are easily readable by the cashier and across a checkout counter by the customer
• Quick buttons for common coin / bill combinations
• New Park & Hold function to allow you to put a sale on hold and process the next customer
• Ability to designate a Salesperson (in addition to Territory that existed previously) on POS sale
• Ability to select Ship-To addresses for POS sale
• A new View History option allows the user to view a previous POS sale, and if desired to reverse (credit) it
• Ability to print Gift Receipts, and more

User Setup Changes

To facilitate the other new features described above, the following changes have been made to the User Access settings for each user:

• Payroll access - can select separately whether user has access to setup payroll departments, payroll schedule / direct deposit, payroll year-end / TD1 revisions, ROE, View Amounts, and T4 / T4 Summary functions
• POS - new options to control access within POS to create layaways, display the on-screen keyboard and view history

Third-Party Software

• Data management - clean up your customer / vendor / inventory data including merge / purge / change codes using PowerTools
• Document management - eliminate mailing / document preparation costs and do easy direct marketing to your BV customer list using DocuFire
• Order / inventory management - e.g., backorder management, warehouse management including OE+, BVImport, InBridge
• E-Commerce - Add your BusinessVision data to your own web store (or multiple web stores) or website(s) using ZeckoShop