Acumens Starter-Pack & Simple EDI

Acumens Starter-Pack & Simple EDI add-on for Microsoft Business Central and Dynamics Nav offers a suite of solutions and tools designed to enhance and optimize various system operations, improve compliance, and simplify financial and inventory management. The app comes with more than 10 features to handle some of the common issues faced by users.

The features included in this app are as below:

1. Secure File Transfer Protocol Integration

Provides a file transfer protocol to securely handle file exchange with your vendors and customers. File formats supported are PDF, Excel, Word and Text files.

2. Changelog Lookup and Analysis

This feature complements the standard Business Central change log feature by introducing a comprehensive analysis on changelog per record. This tool adds a view of Change Log entries from the Master Records and Transactional Documents.
It also introduces Table Locking analysis which provides an analysis of the time spent by users on a record during a change. Analysis is done for a specific table selected by user for a selected date and can be analyzed per user or per record.

3. G/L Access Permissions

This feature introduces an option to restrict specific users from viewing the G/L Accounts and the General Ledger Entries.

4. Payment Tolerance Restriction

The app introduces a feature that restricts Payment Tolerance to underpayments only. Overpayments will remain as balances in customer accounts.

5. Sales Tax Reporting

This extends the standards Sales Tax functionality by introducing below additional features.

  1. Sales Tax Enhancements:
    – Sales Tax for Service Documents – The app introduces Sales Tax on Service Contract Quotes and Service Contracts documents. Sales Tax calculated will be reflected in the print document.
    – Extended Taxability: This provides extended Resource and Item Taxability such that a resource can be taxable or non-taxable based on items being processed in the document and vice versa.
  2. Sales Tax Full-Tax Document: This feature allows sales tax amount updates by posting a document which is full tax and is reflected in sales tax reporting.
  3. Sales Tax Reporting: This Feature is designed to help with Sales Tax Reporting. The Sales Tax Report is extracted in a format that can be used to file taxes.

6. Alternate Ship-to Address

The app provides additional fields that complement Standard Customer field “Ship-to code” to show address details for that ship-to code. If there is no ship-to code, then it defaults to customer address.

7. App Tracker

This allows Tracking Business Central Extension Apps Install and Uninstall activities. This records the date, time and the user who Installed or Uninstalled an App.

8. Extended Global Dimensions

This feature extends standard Business Central Global Dimensions to allow advanced tracking and reporting capabilities based on the additional dimensions.

9. Bank Reconciliation Module for North America

The app retains the deprecated version of Bank Reconciliation module designed for the North America Version which was Deprecated by Microsoft.

10. Document Locking

This provides an option to lock documents from editing. This helps avoid errors on documents by ensuring that only one user can edit a document at a time. This is an extensible feature and has already been implemented for standard sales orders. This feature is useful in a customer services environment with a large number of users processing services orders or sales orders,

11. Check Printing

This introduces a feature where check details exceeding 10 lines are printed to a separate document as an attachment to the check document. It also introduces a check template with Micr Code.

12. Inventory Adjustment Reason Codes

This feature provides inventory control by assigning specific reason codes to adjustments, enhancing traceability and analysis.

13. Write-off Return Inventory

This feature introduces an auto-write off for inventory returns, which is setup based, hence reducing administrative effort for return inventory that cannot be reused after sale.

14. Sales Adjustments

This feature introduces an option to adjust specific fields on posted sales documents. This is an extension of the Standard Business Central Edit Document function with an update on the ledgers. This is setup controlled.