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Integrated Accounting Software in a Slumping Economy
2008-11-07 15:56:00 Why is Integrated Accounting Software Important in a Slumping Economy ? Before computers came along, a business handled it?s accounting the old fashioned way ? ledgers, receipts, and lots of sweat each tax season. Today with accounting software, the tax preparation burden is often reduced to an evening?s worth of work, and even more importantly, the ... More About: Tricks
Adding a Calculator to Cougar Mountain Software
2008-11-04 20:56:00 My name is Brian Jennings, Director of Product Management and I wanted to show you how to add a calculator to Cougar Mountain Software . Sometimes it?s the little things that make the difference, and that?s what I think of when I consider the value of the Moffsoft FreeCalc?. Accounting is largely about adding and subtracting which ... More About: Calculator , Training , Tricks
Email Statements and Invoices with PDF Blaster
2008-10-27 21:35:00 Save time and money by converting your statements and invoices into PDFs and then emailing them out to your customers or vendors using PDFBlaster . A FREE limited version of PDF Blaster is included with our new version, CMS Professional 2009. If you like it and need the full version, upgrading is easy as clicking a ... More About: Products , Email
Our Integrated eCommerce Solution
2008-10-23 17:54:00 Introducing Cougar Mountain’s eCommerce solution that will allow you to fully integrate your online sales with any of our CMS Professional 2009 accounting, POS and FUND packages. Is easy to use and maintain yourself Does not require an IT person to get you up and running Tracks and manages your inventory in real time with your online sales The ... More About: Marketing , Products , Ecommerce , Integrated , Solution
Payroll Module New Features
2008-10-14 19:51:00 Some other new features have been introduced in the Payroll module for CMS Professional 2009 that are sure to help you be more efficient: Garnishments have now become much easier to set up and use, much of it is now automated. You can now show multiple pay rates on employee check stubs. You can now apply deduction calculations based ... More About: Features , Tricks , Module
Sales Module Improvements in CMS Professional 2009
2008-10-09 17:46:00 CMS Professional 2009 has some nice new features to help you in the Sales modules (Point of Sale, and Order Entry). Already mentioned is the new ability to view credit card activity. Some of the other new features in the Sales module include: Post mulitple registers at once Include multiple Merchant IDs within the same company Process corporate ... More About: Products , Module
Credit Card Activity Log - New Feature!
2008-10-06 17:12:00 Now you can manage credit card activity by viewing a Credit Card Log to track and provide a detailed audit trail of user interaction. View authorization attempts, when your employee has accessed the CC information, or review a complete credit card number for reference purposes. This is another security feature that makes Cougar Mountain Software more safe ... More About: Marketing , Products , Training
Block Charges to Past Due Customers - New Feature!
2008-10-01 17:55:00 Another new feature in CMS Professional 2009 allows you to know immediately when customers are past due on their account, and Accounts Payable can automatically block charges for those customers. Additionally a message appears on both the Sales Entry Screen, and in Accounts Receivable. To learn more about this new feature, and all the other new features in ... More About: Marketing , Products , Customers , Feature , Past
Windows Server 2008 Certification
2008-09-25 15:39:00 CMS Professional 2009 has now been certified for use on the Windows Server ® 2008 operating system. You can read more about it on our System Recommendations page. Joe Marketing More About: Products , Windows Server 2008
Attaching Documents to Master Records - New Feature!
2008-09-22 18:36:00 You may have heard that CMS Professional 2009 has been released, but have you seen any of the new features? One great new feature; you can now easily attach documents to your master records for management and reference. A great feature for those of you frustrated with all of the paperwork you have to shuffle through and files you ... More About: Marketing , Training , Tricks , Feature , Master
CMS Professional 2009 ? Released!!
2008-09-15 23:58:00 Announcing the release of CMS Professional 2009 with new features and enhancements that will please all our current users and those looking for new acocunting software for — back office accounting, point-of-sale and nonprofit software. This latest version has largely been developed from suggestions made by our Cougar Mountain users. For those desiring to be more “green” in ... More About: Marketing , Released
Is Your Accounting Software an Asset or a Liability?
2008-09-04 19:27:00 TEN QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD ASK YOURSELF NOW Every day, you make decisions about your company and its future. Does your accounting software give you the kind of information you need to make those decisions?In today?s competitive environment, you need accounting software that supports you as you manage your business. Providing an electronic shoebox is not enough. ... More About: Software , Accounting , Asset
May is our Time to Celebrate - 26 Years & Still Going Strong!
2008-05-23 20:26:00 HAPPY BIRTHDAY to us! Earlier in May we celebrated our 26 years in business with a barbecue. We’ve had an exciting year by expanding our Training Road Show programs to monthly visits in locations throughout the US. Offering the customization services of our product to fit your accounting needs along with providing the training, support and maintenance if you ... More About: Company , Time , Celebrate , Years , Strong
Voiding a Check in Accounts Payable
2008-05-09 17:29:00 First remember that you only want to void a transaction in a module if it was created in the module. This is because Cougar Mountain will ensure the transaction is reversed in all other modules it is integrated with. Here are detailed steps on voiding the check: Go to AP (this is where the check was originally written ... More About: Tricks , Check
Cougar Mountain Integration
2008-05-06 21:43:00 Wonderful news - Cougar Mountain Software stores its data in an ODBC compliant files! So what, you might ask? What this means is that you can connect other programs to your Cougar Mountain data files and get the information directly from the source. Actually, this is not a new development, the software has always been ODBC ... More About: Integration , Tricks
CMS User Guides Online
2008-05-05 21:27:00 Did you know that you can access all of the Cougar Mountain User Guides on the Customer Service Center website? They are in PDF format, and can be saved or printed. We get this question asked alot, even though the documentation is also linked from our main company website. In the documentation area, you can get User Guides ... More About: Marketing , Products , Training , Online
Bank Transfers When Using Different Funds
2008-05-01 15:31:00 Kevin was recently asked this FUND question, “How can I transfer money between Bank Accounts that have different FUND?s listed in the Bank Reconciliation module, so that the transaction will show up in GL correctly?”. Here is how you set up for this situation: Usually our nonprofit customers will have only one main FUND that is a General or Administration ... More About: Training , Tricks , Transfers , Funds
How to Enter Recurring Transactions
2008-04-29 16:46:00 A great time saver in Cougar Mountain is the ability to create Recurring transactions in most of the modules. A recurring transaction is one that can be used over and over, without having to reenter the information each time. Each of the modules are a little different in how they are set up, but basically it is a two step process - you first create the Recurring Template, and then you generate the actual transaction from the template. For instance; In General Ledger, you save the recurring transaction into a Recurring Batch. In Purchase Order, you can either create the Recurring PO directly as a template in the Options menu, or it can be created while entering a real transaction by clicking the “Recurring” checkbox. You can check the Help files in each module you are using to find out how to specifically create and use Recurring transactions. Also there are Frequency Codes used with the recurring transaction, which allows you to run only the transactions y... More About: Transactions , Enter
We?re Loud & We?re Proud!
2008-04-18 17:20:00 Sometimes we feel we just need to boast about ourselves. And this is just one of those occasions. Our local paper - THE IDAHO STATESMAN - came in this past week to do an article on us. Not only did they come in and speak with Cary Welsh, our Chief Operating Officer, and Brian Jennings, ... More About: Marketing , Loud , Proud
Making a Deposit with a Credit Card
2008-04-08 16:08:00 Kevin was asked how to make a Credit Card deposit on an Order Entry Work Order - here is how you do it: First, you should know that whenever you are trying out something new - like in this case, setting up work orders and learning how to take a deposit - you have available to ... More About: Training , Tricks , Credit Card
Copy Company Utility
2008-04-02 17:26:00 The Copy Company Utility , also referred to as the End of Year Company Converter, is a great little tool available with Cougar Mountain Software. It allows you to create an exact duplicate of your company in just moments, allowing you to open this newly copied company seperately from the original (the only thing it does not copy ... More About: Products , Training , Tricks
Part X ? Do You Know Where Your Vendors Are?
2008-03-07 00:23:00 And finally concluding our 10-part series of “10 Ways Inventory Management Can Make or Break You” we’d like to close with: #10: Do You Know Where Your Vendors Are? Who are your vendors? How many vendors have you purchased your inventory items from? Are they late delivering orders? If so how often? Do quoted prices differ from prices ... More About: Part
Atlantic City Road Show
2008-03-06 16:13:00 The details for the CMS Training Road show stop in Atlantic City have been released. This stop will be for June 23 - 26 at the Hilton Casino Resort, located right on the boardwalk. We hope to see you there! Joe CMS Marketing More About: Show
Daylight Savings Time
2008-03-04 18:49:00 Daylight Savings Time will occur this weekend, Sunday, March 9. Remember to set your clocks forward 1 hour. Joe CMS Marketing More About: Daylight Savings , Daylight
Stay Informed
2008-02-29 17:52:00 Have you ever wished you could be kept informed about the latest updates for Cougar Mountain Software? If so, then you should sign up for the CMS Newsletter. Not only will you be informed of updates, but you will also receive specific product information, helpful tips and links, and other resources. And for those who worry ... More About: Tricks , Stay
Road Show Training Schedule
2008-02-19 15:56:00 One of the most popular training options here at Cougar Mountain has been our CMS Road Show Training because it allows you to ask specific questions and get answers directly from an expert (Kevin or Ann). For three days, each module is tore apart and explained, best-practices are discussed, new features are shown off, and people get to ... More About: Schedule
Part IX of a series ? Can You Automate Ordering?
2008-02-14 00:04:00 At last we’re beginning to wind down on this 10-part series — 10 WAYS INVENTORY MANAGEMENT CAN MAKE OR BREAK YOU. In Part IX we’d like to pose the question, “Can you automate ordering?” Part IX: Can You Automate Ordering? If your business has a lot of inventory, then regularly ordering and purchasing those items is something ... More About: Series
Backing Up Your Company Data
2008-02-07 16:51:00 Backing up your company data is very important - everyone knows that. Problem is, everyone is too busy to do it often enough. With that in mind, here are some tips on how to protect your company data: Cougar Mountain has the ability to back up your company data each night while you are sleeping - so ... More About: Company , Tricks , Data , Tech Support , Backing
Payroll Report for a Job
2008-01-31 16:46:00 A customer recently asked if there was a way to pull a report in Payroll broken down by who worked a specific job, what rate they were paid, and how long they worked, etc. Kevin replied with the following: You can do exactly that by using Payroll Project Codes. The Employee Project Report displays that information, which ... More About: Training , Tricks
Part VIII ? Can You Identify Trends?
More articles from this author:2008-01-29 23:45:00 Continuing with our 10-part series — 10 Ways Inventory Management Can Make or Break You — is Part VIII: Can You Identify Trends ? Do you have a software that can track in detail the movement of your inventory from the time you order/input the information into purchase order, receive and record the item in inventory ... 1, 2, 3 |
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