There are several ways to manage your Sales cycle in Saasu including Tags, Activities and Custom Fields. We are adding more features to assist in this process and also to allow enhanced synchronisation for our CRM connectors.
There is a new field in Saasu Contacts page called Contact Manager. You can use this field to track the Sales Person or Account Manager associated with a Contact. The list is a combination of Contact and Employees in your file. Employees are labelled with an orange E.
Eventually the Contact Manager will be a new filter in reports. The idea being to allow you to use less Tags often used to represent Sales or Account Managers. It will help you manage a smaller Tag list.
This new auto selection method for Drop Downs and Pick Lists in Saasu will be used throughout Saasu including the Contact, Tag and Inventory Item selection methods. When usability testing is complete we will add it to the rest of Saasu.
We are having an issue with our database connectivity. We will post updates via this blog post as we have more information.
UTC 02:04 – Saasu went down due to what we believe was a connectivity problem with our database servers.
UTC 04:22 – It was established that instances running the database degraded due to hardware failure.
UTC 05:10 – Saasu went up after recovery of the database to new hardware.
Saasu recently released changes to facilitate provinces now using Canada’s new Harmonized Tax Rate(s). HST is a combination of Provisional Sales Tax (PST) and GST.
Saasu now provides HST 12%, HST 13%, Exempt and Zero-rated tax codes for these provinces respectively. The original GST 5% tax codes remain unchanged as they will still be required for historical data entry and provinces that haven’t moved to HST.
We have also provided new Sale/Purchase templates for use where HST is required instead of GST.
We provide the new tax codes in Settings > Tax Codes. Simply activate or deactivate the one you need. You can also create your own tax code as required.
You may also need to do the following:
Update custom built Templates and Themes using the word GST to HST where applicable.
Change automated Sales if prices and tax code need to be changed.
If you have any questions just ask the saasu service desk.
The Enterprise and Ultimate versions of Saasu are now available. We recognise that many customers require higher level functionality and services that traditionally are only available in expensive accounting software products. Item Attributes is our first major feature set for these plans. We have more features planned such as tiered pricing and procurement process and controls.
Item Attributes are variables for products and services such as size, colour, expiry, location, supplier codes and more. We add these to the Saasu infrastructure as required so feel free to suggest new attributes that we don’t yet support. They typically relate to your specific industry and workflow needs.
You can now request three additional attributes on a Enterprise plan above the inbuilt Item Attributes of Batch and Serial numbers. Location will be the third inbuilt Item Attribute made available shortly pending changes currently in development. We have received feedback from Beta testers and are adjusting our approach prior to a wider release.
The variables for Item Attributes are created on the fly inside Sales and Purchase transactions. When you buy or sell stock you get the chance to transact using the existing available Item Attribute variables associated with Inventory Items or else create new ones.
The Ultimate plan allows for up to 30 attributes. It will also have business rules management for attributes. Ultimate includes services such as Business Analyst support and Programming support for managing Themes, Templates, API connections and the like. The Ultimate version is designed to meet medium enterprise manufacturing, e-commerce and/or assembly type businesses requirements.
The key services and features related to these products can be seen on our pricing page.
Saasu’s Free Payroll updates were released Friday 18th June. New tax tables and changes to payroll reporting requirements have been included. Many Australians will be receiving reminders from old style accounting software companies that they need to buy their payroll updates. At Saasu, online accounting updates are free.
What you need to do
For the vast majority of you, nothing. The updates are automatic and free.
Where you have already issued PAYG Payment Summaries for 2009/2010
You may need issue Amended Payment Summaries which Saasu provides an option for in the wizard.
Reportable Employer Superannuation Contributions (RESC)
Mapping to this field in Saasu’s PAYG Payment Summary wizard may be required where amounts paid at the direction of the employee under a salary sacrifice or similar arrangement have occurred. While the term the ATO uses for this is similar to Superannuation Guarantee Contributions they are in fact different. Check with your Advisor or the ATO if you have RESC reporting requirements.
Scale 1 used in combination with HELP
Saasu supports Scale 7 with HELP currently. We now also support the less common Scale 1 with HELP. Employees with two or more employers and HELP debt can use this combination.
Coming soon to Saasu Payroll
Monitoring of upper and lower SGC thresholds for employees.
Our iPad’s arrived at Saasu HQ today. So here’s a quick example of Saasu’s online accounting working on an Apple iPad. I ran the dashboard and a tax report.
Noticeably it’s fast and easy to navigate. We have also got it working in an iPad keyboard dock and it is clearly usable like a PC. You find yourself using the screen instead of the mouse quite naturally. Originally I was thinking it may sit outside the netbook and laptop demographics but having tried it firsthand it will be strong in that space.
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We have released support for Journals in the