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Microsoft Small Business Manager with ESS: Release 7.5

Accounting Functions

  • General Leger - Microsoft Great Plains award winning accounting system
  • Small Business Manager 7.5
  • Banking Module - a great add on feature for your accounting department

Purchase Order System

Part of the Microsoft Great Plains Small Business Manager accounting system - powerful and feature rich purchasing and payable management

Key Benefits

  • Complete integrated solution for all of your software needs
  • Conforms to standard accounting principles using Microsoft's award winning Great Plains Accounting solutions
  • Uses Microsoft SQL Server technology for power, flexibility and ease of integration
  • A host of automated features designed to reduce the time needed to perform your everyday office and management tasks
Auto-Documents®
Issue bids, proposals, and jobs with powerful, feature-rich
bid generation, proposal generation, and job costing automation.

Create Bids and Proposals and then track them using the ESS Proposal System®. Let Auto-Documents do the work!

Assemble Bids and Proposals quickly using Item Lists that can be pre-costed for both hours and materials.

Use Auto-Documents to quickly create bid and proposal documents for submission to existing and prospective customers.

Visualize the entire job using Tree View.

Easily create, track, and alter billing installments.

Create invoices quickly and easily and from a number of formats.

View job information with one click of the mouse—including dispatches, work progress, hours by mechanic type, and materials.

Incredible time saver!

View specific job profitability using the Job Ledger. View both full and standard costing for all hours and all employees. Quickly and easily track job profitability on a daily basis.

Export Job Costing to Microsoft Excel for further analysis.

Compare Actual vs. Budget, monitoring your jobs from beginning to end and using real time data.

Job Costing made easy!

Violations Tracking
Get a flexible and easy-to-use tool
to track violations and inspections.

Track all Violations from any agency, municipality, or government.

Create letters of compliance and agency filing documents using Auto-Documents.

View Violations by:

  • Agency
  • Proposal Required
  • Permits Required
  • Item Scheduled
  • Item Completed
  • Filed with Agency
  • Court Appearances
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    Account Collections
    A powerful tool to collect your accounts receivable that is Integrated with ESS Cash Receipts, Invoicing, Dispatching, and the Site Service Explorer®.

    Tracks your Collections Calls at any level–by Building, by Customer, or even by Management Owner (an account level no other software offers!), so you don’t call the same account twice!

    Schedule Collection Calls and Call Backs for greater efficiency.

    Reprint Open Invoices with one click of the mouse!

    Print Customer or Building statements and e-mail or fax them directly from the ESS Account Collections window.

    Enjoy our multi-level call feature, which allows you to view all open invoices aged on screen for all building sites for any Customer or Management Owner or a single building (account).

    Invoicing with Cash Receipts
    Enter invoices individually
    or let ESS Auto-Invoicing do it for you.

    Service/Repair–Automate your service invoicing via Auto-Invoicing®. "So easy, even an owner can use it!"

    Maintenance Billing–Automatically generate contract markups, to avoid manual calculations for your maintenance contracts.

    Proposal/Job Invoicing–Use the simple, powerful tool offering a number of formats.

    Enter Cash Receipts at any level–by Building, by Customer, or even by Management Owner (an account level no other software offers!) Your receivables department will thank you for choosing ESS!

    Apply each check directly to open invoices or enter checks On Account when necessary.

    Maintenance Contract and Routes Management
    Use a comprehensive set of tools for entering,
    managing, and tracking maintenance contracts and routes.

    Use Auto-Documents to create Contract Documents for presentation to existing and prospective customers.

    Monitor contract-related Invoices and Dispatches.

    Define contract coverage at the elevator car level via flexible user-defined fields.

    Be more profitable and see trouble before it is too late via Route Analysis and Route Profitability Analyzer®.

    Automatically track free months of maintenance through Contract Invoice Holds to give customers time-based discounts.

    System Manager
    Centrally manage all of your business information.

    One-click access to:

  • Management Owners
  • Customers
  • Buildings
  • Elevators
  • Employees
  • Maintenance Contracts
  • Trouble Calls
  • Dispatches
  • Invoices
  • Cash Receipts
  • Proposals & Jobs
  • Violations & Tests
  • And More
  • Consistent user interface speeds up training
  • and simplifies ease of use.
  • Site Service Explorer
    Organize your ESS environment with rapid, intuitive
    access to your data and other ESS modules and tools.

    Site Service Explorer® uses the familiar Microsoft Windows® directory and file environment.

    Site Service Explorer is feature-rich, providing the tools you need to achieve your business’s productivity and efficiency goals.

    Site Service Explorer is your easy-to-use roadmap to the ESS system.

     

    Site Service Explorer offers many automated features, including:

  • Auto-Documents for mass mailings to your customer base
  • The ability to review customer aging records and schedule Collection Calls from them
  • The ability to create proposals for tests and violations en masse
  • Quick and easy work scheduling
  • Call and Dispatch Center
    Get to the heart of the ESS Dispatch System.

    Use Quick Lists to Dispatch:

  • Maintenance Routes
  • Shut Downs
  • Follow Ups
  • Modernizations
  • Proposals
  • Test & Inspections
  • Violations
  • ESS will then track:

  • Jobs and Proposal Work
  • Mechanics
  • Repair Recommendations
  • Material Costs
  • Overtime Hours
  • Run End-of-Day and End-of-Week reports, then quickly and easily e-mail them to your managers.

    Integrated alerts:

  • Allow managers to put accounts on dispatch hold.
  • Alert dispatchers about past due accounts.
  • Alert dispatchers about over due maintenance visits.
  • Alert dispatchers regarding Excessive Calls. Use ESS Alerts® for any important situation.
  • Mechanic Log
    Use a powerful employee cross reference and time management tool.

    Display and track employee time.

    Cross reference mechanic tickets.

    Print time sheets.

    Display hours logged by mechanics within specific time frames.

    Track job addresses, job times, and type of work.

    Integrate with Auto-Invoicing to ensure that invoices are only created after work tickets are reviewed.

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