Falling into Autumn

October 31, 2016 at 8:58 AMJoshua Goldberg

Hey Crunchers, hope everyone had a successful October and is ready for the Holiday season! So our readers know, our blogs until the end of the year will be more condensed, as we finish development on our newest product, Order Time.

Although we are focused on finishing & releasing Order Time, one thing we are committed too is not letting our support or development on All Orders slip. This is evident by our upcoming release of All Orders version 6.2.7. The newest release adds 15 new features & fixes some common issues (i.e. Duplicate item error when trying to reconcile QuickBooks to All Orders.) Please visit our known issues section of our support page to view the full list of Added & Fixed Features of 6.2.7.

One new feature area I would like to highlight briefly has to do with Packages. With All Orders, you can now create Packages & Boxes and can specify what items go into each Package/Box. In order to use this new feature, you need to manually turn it on by going to Preferences --> Shipping --> Company Preferences --> Package. After turning the preference on, you now have the ability to:

  • Create (either Automatically or Manually generated) & Print UCC's (Uniform Commercial Codes)
  • After inserting Items on your Ship Doc, you can click on the Package Button & Create Packages for Shipment
    • You can create Default Weight Properties for Package Types & Create Tracking Numbers
  • Once the Packages are created, you can create & view a Package Manifest that shows the breakdown of quantities
  • Integrate your shipping with FedEx & UPS

Just a quick reminder that TODAY is the final day to get discounted registration for the Numbercruncher Client Retreat! Use code NC17 to save at checkout until 11:59pm TONIGHT (10/31)! The Client Retreat will be held February 6th through 9th in Dania Beach, Florida and will cover topics on All Orders, All Orders Web, All Orders Mobile, Integration Options, Business Cycles, Inventory Primer, Reports & More! The Retreat is the perfect opportunity to learn everything you ever wanted to know about current & future Numbercruncher products, as well as, the perfect opportunity to escape the harsh winters of up north!

The end of the year is fast approaching, make sure your All Orders software is setup and working properly before the holiday rush hits! Don't hesitate in contacting us, if you have any questions or need to setup training

Warming up with changes

September 30, 2016 at 8:43 AMJoshua Goldberg

Hey Cruncher followers! Hope everyone is enjoying their start of Autumn. Autumn notoriously brings change; whether its leaves on the trees or your pumpkin designs for Halloween. Here at Numbercruncher, we're welcoming change with the development of our newest product, Order Time. More details will be announced in the coming months, but I want to start off this blog with clearing up a misconception we've been hearing. 

Order Time is going to be a cloud based solution for Inventory & Order Management needs. We will be offering a conversion from All Orders to Order Time, for those customers who are interested. We will not be forcing any customers to switch nor will Numbercruncher stop servicing or providing support for All Orders. We are developing this new product to provide our services to more clients, not limit the services of our existing customers. Follow our blog for updates leading up to launch! 

Speaking of All Orders, we are excited to bring two new features to our clients! The first feature is Complex Calculations & the other is a Bound Book.

The Complex Calculations feature is for manufacturers that need to figure out the quantity of an item that is calculated with different quantities or formulas. This feature is fully customizable without any additional cost to you!

EXAMPLE of Complex Calculations:

Typically a user would enter an item, quantity and price on a sales order. However the requirement is the quantity is determined as 

Let P = # of Pieces. 
Let F = Feet 
Let I = Inches 
Let Q = Quantity Ordered 

Q = P X (F + I/12) 

Using custom fields, we customize All Orders such that the Quantity box cannot be edited directly rather the user will have to enter P, F and I for Quantity. 

We recently did a Complex Calculation customization for DCM Computing Service's client Berry's Tin Shop.

The following is a review of All Orders Complex Calculations by the Owner of DCM Computing Services, Danny Morris, "At DCM Computing Services I look to help my clients meet their business needs.  When Berry's Tin Shop approached me about needing a sales system for their manufacturing business, I went to Intuit to see about systems that integrated with Quickbooks.  One of their recommendations: NumberCruncher.  Berry's Tin Shop had a unique need to track inventory of a product which they sold by the linear foot.  At the sales counter, however, they sold custom length pieces.  The complex Calculations that NumberCruncher customized for us allows the salesman to make purchase orders of specific custom products from a single inventory item.  For example, one customer can order 15 panels of 29 gauge dark red tin cut at 8'6".  The manufacturing floor will see the order and from the single roll of dark red 29 gauge tin, custom cut the pieces as needed.  The inventory system and invoice system will see an order of [number of pieces * (feet + inches)]  or in this case 15*8.5 linear feet (127.5) * the cost per linear foot.  No more need to calculate the linear feet needed by hand and no more error.  The invoice is also customizable to include these fields for the needed products.  Now the customer, salesperson, back-office, and manufacturing floor can all be on the same page, literally."

This is just one example of how the All Orders Complex Calculation feature can benefit your business. To find out more, please contact us today!

The other exciting new feature All Orders is bringing to our clients is the All Orders Bound Book. The All Orders Bound Book application allows companies buying and selling firearms to maintain a bound book database in accordance with FTA regulations. As transactions are entered into the All Orders system the separate bound book database can be synchronized and auto populated based on the inventory in and out. These transactions include: 

  • ·         Serial #s going out of inventory on shipping documents.
  • ·         Serial #s going into inventory with receiving documents.
  • ·         Serial #s going out of inventory as components on work orders.
  • ·         Serial #s going into inventory as assembled items on work orders.
  • ·         Serial #s going into and out of inventory on adjustment and transfers. 

Columns available on the bound include: 

  • ·         In Manufacturer/Importer
  • ·         In Model
  • ·         In Serial #
  • ·         In Type Of Firearm
  • ·         In Caliber/Gauge
  • ·         Date In
  • ·         In Name/Address
  • ·         Completed Manufacture Date
  • ·         Out Manufacturer/Importer
  • ·         Out Type Of Firearm
  • ·         Out Caliber/Gauge
  • ·         Date Out
  • ·         Out Name/Address
  • ·         Style #
  • ·         Item #
  • ·         All Orders Document In
  • ·         All Orders Document Out
  • ·         Notes

 Some of the features include:

  • ·         Search for any data in any column
  • ·         Hide/show columns
  • ·         Setup users with their own user name and password
  • ·         Import additional entries from Excel
  • ·         Export to CSV
  • ·         Printable Bound Book and Inventory reports
  • ·         Maintain Excise Tax/Annual Report based on bound book and All Orders data with columns including serial #, type of firearm, date out, name/address out, order #, item #.

An example of how the Bound Book looks in All Orders. To view the full Bound Book example, please click HERE then click the MORE tab

 

These are just a few of the new features All Orders introduced recently. Please contact us to find out what else our clients now have access too!

Just as a reminder, out Client Retreat is fast approaching! Register for the Retreat with promo code NC17 before November 1st, to take advantage of our presale discount! Also check out the Agenda section of our Retreat Website to view the Topics we will be discussing at the event

NumberCruncher's First Client Retreat

September 9, 2016 at 8:44 AMJoshua Goldberg

 

Here at Numbercruncher, we pride ourselves on our client relationships. We know we wouldn't be around, if it wasn't for you, our customers. So we decided after 17 years, it's time to welcome the heart and soul of NumberCruncher.com, to Sunny South Florida. We figured what better time to host the event then during the harsh Winter month of February.

That's right! Numbercruncher.com is excited to announce our first Client Retreat! Come escape the cold while relaxing under the Palm Trees & Sun in Dania Beach! 

The Retreat will be held at the Hyatt Properties (Hyatt House/Hyatt Place) February 7th & 8th, with a welcome reception the evening of Monday, February 6th. In addition, we have some exciting events planned for the evenings of the Retreat.

When booking your hotel, you have the choice to stay at either property. Our Expo Room will be located at Hyatt House, while our Informative Sessions will be at Hyatt Place. Both hotels are directly across the street, and takes less than 30 seconds to walk between the properties

The theme of the Retreat is Refresh, Relax & Reconnect. We want our Cruncher Clients to REFRESH their knowledge of the Numbercruncher family of products, RELAX in the South Florida sun by escaping the rough Winter of the North & RECONNECT with our Trainers and network with your fellow Crunchers

To find out more about the Retreat, please click on one of the links below:

Numbercruncher Website

Retreat Website

Registration Website

Hyatt Place Reservations

Hyatt House Reservations

As a special bonus to our Blog readers, use promo code BLOG at checkout to receive 15% off your RegistrationThis code will be good until our next blog post gets published at NOON on September 23rd

It's all a numbers game

August 12, 2016 at 8:00 AMJoshua Goldberg

Hey Crunchers, I Hope everyone's saying T.G.I.F. and is looking forward to the start of the weekend! As usual, its been a hectic and busy week here at the NumberCruncher offices. Other then our normal daily workload, we have been working on some new and exciting projects, that I know everyone here can't wait to announce! Make sure to follow our blog, our social media channels and your email inboxes for all these upcoming announcements.

As the end of the year starts to roll around, your company will start to reevaluate your software choices. Maybe in years past you just went with the software that you already knew. This year take a leap out of your comfort zone, and give All Orders by NumberCruncher a try!  To guarantee our software is a perfect fit for your company, we require all new users to have a hour-long software demo, with our CEO or CTO. We do this to make sure our customers know the ins-and-outs of our software, as well as, it allows all future clients a platform to ask any questions they may have about the software or what it does. After this demo, we supply you with a 30-day no commitment FREE trial of the software, so you can see just how beneficial All Orders by NumberCruncher really is! After that trial, you can decide to join the Cruncher family and pay a one time fee for the software, which includes your first year of support. After the first year, you just pay a yearly fee for support. All software updates are included in your yearly support plan! To help our clients know exactly how much they will be paying with us, we have created our Pricing Calculator and positioned it right on our website, so new clients can see exactly how much they will be spending.

 

 

Simply fill out the form and it will tell you what your initial cost will be and what your reoccurring yearly maintenance plan will be. 

If you are interested in scheduling a demo of All Orders, please click HERE or give us a call at 1-866-CRUNCHER, Today! 

Here at NumberCruncher.com, we truly feel we would be nothing without our loyal clients. This is the reason that we strive for the best customer service and always put our customers first! If you EVER have any questions, comments or concerns please immediately call us at 1-866-CRUNCHER (278-6243) or email us at support@numbercruncher.com. Our office hours are Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm EST. If you email/call after business hours, someone will contact you within 2 business days. If you are having issues and need help sooner, please call us back at the start of the following business day, so we can attempt to solve your issue immediately. 


RefreshRelax & Reconnect 

 

As mentioned in our last blog, Numbercruncher.com will be having our 1st annual NumberCruncher Retreat, this upcoming February in SUNNY & WARM Ft. Lauderdale, FL! Details will be announced & registration will open on September 1st, but as a loyal Cruncher blog reader, you are getting an exclusive! The Retreat will be the beginning of February 2017! Our blog post on Friday September 2nd will have a full preview of the event, but in the meantime, follow our Retreat twitter at @NCRetreat2017 for the latest news!

 

$100,000 Small Business App Showdown

at QuickBooks Connect 2016

 

Finally this week, I just wanted to remind everyone about the Intuit App Challenge. All Orders by NumberCruncher was selected as a participant for this years showdown, which is held at QuickBooks Connect in San Jose, California in October. The voting for the event is August 16th through the 31st. On Monday, I will be publishing a special blog post on how to vote for All Orders by Numbercruncher.com. We really need all our Loyal Cruncher Family to support us and vote once per day, so we can show the entire QuickBooks community that NumberCruncher is a dominate force in the Inventory Software space! Please check back on Monday and follow our Twitter, Facebook & Linkedin pages for the latest information on the event.

Also, I know i wrote in the last blog post, I would include a sneak peek of Order Time, but I promise the wait will be worth it! Keep checking back & follow our Order Time Twitter for the latest on this revolutionary new software being brought to you by Numbercruncher.com!

Keep pushing through those Friday feelings and I Hope everyone has a great weekend! 

The Summer Crunch

July 25, 2016 at 8:37 AMJoshua Goldberg

Hey Everyone! Hope you enjoyed your weekend and are ready for another busy work week! I know the NumberCruncher blog has been on a bit of a hiatus the last couple of weeks, but we're back and ready to Crunch through these long hot South Florida summer days. During these summer months our Support Team has been hard at work answering our current clients questions and helping setup All Orders by NumberCruncher on new client's networks. The grind never seems to slow down at our offices, especially during summer, when companies are reevaluating their current Inventory Management software and are deciding if its up-to-par or if their needs are not being met or satisfied. If your company is in the midst of reevaluating your software, please remember that NumberCruncher provides all prospective clients with an hour-long demo to make sure our software is a perfect fit, as well as, a 30-day no commitment FULL software trial before you decide to buy. We don't want your company buying our software, if it isn't the ideal fit for your business. To Learn more about ALL ORDERS please click HERE or give us a call at 866-278-6243 TODAY!

Recently, All Orders by NumberCruncher got featured on a number of websites. To begin the month, Financesonline.com wrote a review and named ALL ORDERS as one of their Rising Stars for 2016. Finances Online also recognized All Orders with their Great User Experience Certificate & Award. 

 

NumberCruncher.com would like to thank Financesonline.com for recognizing us and writing a review on All Orders. Finances Online is the fastest growing independent review platform for B2B, SaaS and Financial Solutions.  

Also this month, Scott Gregory of Better Bottom Line: the QuickBooks Expert, included NumberCruncher in his "Can QuickBooks Handle My Inventory?" guide. Scott is a certified QuickBooks Expert who has worked with QuickBooks software for 15+ years and knows a thing or two about QuickBooks add-on solutions. For him to feature NumberCruncher is his guide, is a big deal to us!

 

To check out the FREE Inventory guide or to learn more about QuickBooks solutions, please visit BetterBottomLine's website HERE.

 

  

Refresh, Relax & Reconnect at the 2017 NumberCruncher Retreat

The NumberCruncher team has also started planning a NumberCruncher Retreat here in Sunny South Florida, during the rough Winter months. Details are being finalized and you can expect an official announcement VERY SOON! If you are interested in attending or know someone in your company who will be interested, please send me an email at jgoldberg@numbercruncher.com with the details, so i can add you to our Pre-Announcement Blast. By being a part of our Pre-Announcement Blast, you will be the first to receive the event flyer and registration information, ALSO, you will receive a special prize during the Retreat, for being part of our Pre-Announcement Blast List.

The purpose of this Retreat is too allow our clients a refresher on the NumberCruncher family of products, an introduction to our NEWEST software and most importantly a chance for us to reconnect with our loyal customer base, in a relaxing, stress-free, Sunny and HOT environment; while the rest of the country is getting hit by Winter storms. 

Follow our Blog, Website and Social Media channels (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin Company Page, Linkedin Group) to stay up-to-date on the latest developments of the NumberCruncher Retreat. 

 

SMALL BUSINESS APP SHOWDOWN 

Finally this week, NumberCruncher has entered our All Orders software into the 2016 $100,000 Intuit Developer Small Business APP Showdown with the winner being announced at QuickBooks Connect 2016 being held in October in San Jose, California.

 

More information on how to vote, will be published in an upcoming BLOG post, an email blast & our Facebook/Twitter pages. In Order to WIN, we're going to need the help of our Loyal Cruncher Family! Please follow our Blog/Social Media pages, to find out about some perks we are offering for those clients who vote for us, in the $100,000 Intuit Developer Small Business APP Showdown

The next NumberCruncher Blog will feature a sneak peek of our newest software, that we are releasing at the beginning of next year (2017)! Make sure you check back next week for the latest on Order Time!