Activant Announces The Availability Of Acclaim Version 18

YARDLEY, PA, December 8, 2008 — Activant announces the availability of Acclaim version 18. The latest offering of Acclaim features non-stock item ledger tracking, suspend/resume purchase orders and material receiving, mass delete inactive items, and much more.

“What sets version 18 apart from previous incarnations of the software is the extensive input the user base had on determining what new features to include,” said Kevin Roach, executive vice president of Activant. “Acclaim is a mature product and customers’ input helped us determine our development priorities.”

Acclaim 18 New Features

Mark Grandholm, president of Johnstone Supply of Highland, an HVAC products distributor based in Hammond, IN, told said of the new version of Acclaim: “The feature we like most is the ability to batch e-mails. Our customers generally don’t like getting invoices one by one during the workday – they prefer to get them when the day is over. We can now set our system to send all the invoices in a batch at 6 p.m. That’s a big plus.”

Other key features in the newest version of Acclaim include:

Data Entry

• Item and Catalog — The ITEM and CATALOG modules now include a copy option allowing you to copy information from an existing item to a new item code, making the creation of new item records easier than ever. In addition, new menu option is available to delete a range of inactive stock items.
• Vendor — A new “Locked” field is available on the vendor maintenance screen on the Purchasing screen. When set to Y, this field disallows purchase order or requisition creation.
• User-Base — The User-Base module now includes a Copy menu option that allows you to copy a source user-ID record to a new destination record.

Order Processing

• E-Mail — You can now batch e-mail invoices and statements to your customers in much the same manner that you batch fax invoices and statements.
• Order Acknowledgements — You now have the optional to print backorder quantities on order acknowledgements.
• Order Browse — When browsing for a customer order after specifying a customer in Exp-Order or via order browses, a new re-index option, order date, will be available to sort by most recent orders for a customer.
• Order Entry — New options on the QT-ORDER and QT-ENTRY menus allow you to generate an order or quote from a list of quotes. You have the option to force users enter Yes or No for state and other tax prompts during order entry.
• Sales History — The Customer Dedicated Inventory feature provides users the ability to identify, maintain, and report usage on items you stock for one or more customers. The Sales History report has a new Sort Level of Invoice Number and Start/End Order Number parameters. When printing the Turn & Earn report by branch, a new parameter is available to control if the turns are accumulated by sales branch or ship branch.
• Ship — You can now reprint single shipping paper easily.

Inventory

• Purchase — A new inventory company option allows you to control if you are prompted to print a change PO for purchase orders and requisitions. In addition, change POs are now generated for cost edits and required date edits. Selectively created purchase orders may now be suspended for later review and acceptance.
• Material — Purchase Order line item description 3 and 4 now display at material receiving time on the selective receiving screen. Material receipts and vendor return confirmations may be suspended using the Suspend Receiving option from the material receiving summary screen.
• Item Ledger — New menu options are available for viewing, reporting, and deleting Non-stock Item Ledger.
• Item-Adjust — You can now allocate to customer orders and transfers during item adjustment.

Accounting

• Payables — Toggle payables by invoice date, starting with the most recent Payables. A new option is available that allows you to search Payables vendor invoices for a certain dollar amount within a range of parameters.
• Receivables — A new option is available that allows you to search Receivables invoices for a certain dollar amount within a range of parameters. During payment entry, you can sort the invoices by invoice number, invoice date, open balance, or description. A Powrdrill is now available at the invoice level to Invoice Recall during Payment Entry/Edit. You can now print a receipt when a customer pays by credit card.
• Customer credit — You can now view the open balance for the total of all sub-accounts of a Master account in Customer Credit Maintenance.

System Administration

• JCM — When entering or editing a JCM, the spec name and Job Stream field can be browsed via a dot scan or F3.

And much more!

For more information about Acclaim version 18, please e-mail distribution@activant.com, or call 1-800-776-7438, press 1.