Solution-IV™ is a completely integrated business management solution for the Reprographics industry. The General Accounting modules are GAAP compliant and satisfy the demands of corporate management and the finance department. The Operations modules manage Order Processing, POS, Job Tracking, and Inventory requirements. A full range of specialized Reprographics pricing and customer discount options are supported. A Web-based Customer Service module enables customers to view their account status, invoices, existing orders, get quotes and place orders.
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Solution-IV is a complete Business Management Solution for the Reprographics Industry. Accuracy, productivity, versatility and connectivity are required to match the needs of today's reprographics enterprises.
Accuracy. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), is the foundation of the Solution-IV Business Management Solution. Solution-IV is fully optimized for the Reprographics Industry.
Productivity. Solution-IV is time tested with thousands of installations over the past decade. Time saving features enhance the productivity and efficiency of your operations and options allow you to choose which way is the most efficient for your business.
Versatility. Solution-IV can be installed "off-the-shelf" or customized to suit your requirements. Solution-IV is developed in Thoroughbred’s OPENworkshop® Object-Oriented Development System providing ease of maintenance and support, and source code is included.
Connectivity. Solution-IV completes the picture by providing integration capability with Windows based productivity tools such as spreadsheets, word processors, databases and imaging systems. Solution-IV is an enterprise wide solution providing a seamless integration and sharing of information with other databases throughout your organization.
With the wide variety of hardware and operating system platforms available today, one must look at the complete picture before making a purchasing decision. From the accounting software perspective, however, the choice is easy. Solution-IV runs on over 100 different hardware platforms and in Windows 95/98/2000, XP, Windows NT, UNIX and VMS environments. You can confidently make your application decision without regard for hardware or software platform configurations.
Solution-IV Accounting® has broken new ground in integrating your business data with Windows-based products such as spreadsheets, word processors and imaging. You can create and display graphs and charts and insert data into documents using your favorite software.
Both color and scanned document images can be attached to Solution-IV data. This means that images such as purchase orders and correspondence can be attached to invoices, vendors or customers; employee photos, resumes and applications can be attached to employee records; and pictures or schematic diagrams can be attached to inventory items and orders.
General Ledger is the foundation of the Solution-IV Accounting product line. This is where the transactions are brought together to give you a detailed picture of your financial condition. General Ledger helps you track and control your business expenses, analyze budget controls, set realistic growth goals, accurately record your financial information and print financial statements.
Accounts Payable is designed to help you manage your vendor base, make payments to vendors and control outgoing cash flow. Purchases and payments are organized into reports that illustrate where your money is going, who needs to be paid, and how much cash you need to make timely payments and to take advantage of discounts.
Accounts Receivable helps you manage your customer base and incoming cash flow. Your sales, profit information and cash receipts are organized into reports that show what you are selling, how profitable it is, who owes you money and which sales representatives are making your sales.
Order Processing is the key to fully integrating your invoicing, inventory, accounts receivable and sales analysis functions. It helps you track your open orders, generate job tickets, produce invoices, handle RMAs and process quotes. It also provides sales analysis reports which show you how your inventory is moving and who is buying your products.
Solution-IV supports many different reprographics customer/item pricing options including the following. Pricing can be established by customer by item up to 10 levels and covered by contract and project pricing.
Price breaks can be created using the following types: actual price, a discount percent, a discount amount, a markup percent, or a markup amount. They can also be based on either unit quantity or total dollar amount
Contracts are used to define a special pricing arrangement with certain customers for items. A contract runs for a specified period of time. There are various types of contracts as follows:
Contract Project pricing can be established to maintain pricing unique to each project covered under a contract.
Hi-Lo Retail pricing provides invoices at a non-discounted "Retail or List Price" level that may be offered to the customer’s customer. Actual customer invoices and statements will reflect the customers discount or contract pricing.
Inventory Control helps you manage your inventory, often the highest use of cash in a business. It helps you trace your inventory transactions and turnover, thereby helping you order more efficiently and reduce inventory carrying costs.
Purchase Order automatically creates and prints purchase orders and records item receipts with full integration to Solution-IV Inventory Control. When the invoice is received, it is posted to Accounts Payable and any cost discrepancies against the original purchase order are corrected in inventory. Orders may be tracked by item or vendor. Purchase analysis reports are also provided.
Bank Reconciliation pulls together all of your bank deposits from Accounts Receivable and checks from Accounts Payable and Payroll to assist you in doing your regular bank reconciliation. After entering any adjustments from the bank statement, it is a simple process to clear items; then verify that the bank statement is, in fact, in balance with General Ledger.
The Soloution-IV CreditCard Processing module is an integrated solution to processing and validating credit card and debit card payments through your accounting system. Thoroughbred has teamed up with Payment Processing, Inc (PPI) one of the leaders in credit card processing, to provide Solution-IV users a seamless transaction gateway.
FormsCreator is the solution for faxing, e-mailing or laser printing elegantly formatted forms on plain paper from Solution-IV Accounting or your own Thoroughbred-based 3GL or 4GL application. FormsCreator can quickly pay for itself with the savings of postage and resources required to print, stuff and post your invoices, statements and orders, not to mention the costs of purchasing and warehousing pre-printed forms.
The Solution-IV Reprographics Service Contract module helps manage service contract customers and equiptment information. Equipment details, service and maintenance billings and calls, dispatch and technician scheduling are supported by the Solution-IV Reprographics Service Contract Module.
Payroll is designed to take the hassle out of calculating employee checks by hand and provide the reports for federal and state agencies. Solution-IV Payroll handles multiple taxing jurisdictions as well as 401(k) plans.
Fixed Assets is designed to help you manage your assets and calculate depreciation. You may have as many depreciation calculations on an asset as required for your business. Different calculations might be used for federal tax, state tax, and book purposes.
Prospect Management is designed to assist the sales staff of a Solution-IV Accounting installation in managing their prospect database. It is integrated with Accounts Receivable, giving the sales representative the option to convert a prospect into a customer and then enter quotes or orders for the new customer.
All Solution-IV data can be accessed by any ODBC compliant Windows based application including spreadsheets, word processors and ODBC compliant database applications. Requires TS ODBC DataServer™.
Solution-IV can be integrated with document/image storage and retrieval systems enabling on-line viewing and processing of image files including pictures, contracts and drawings.
Disaster can strike in many forms including: hardware failure, Mother Nature, malfeasance, to fire, flood and accident. If you are a public company, the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) need to be addressed.
How safe is your data? If you employ a periodic tape or disk copy of your data, how do you know it is good? Have you ever tested it? Do you have a record of how your data was changed?
Thoroughbred offers several levels of back-up services:
A Web-based Customer Service module allows customers to review their accounts, invoices and statements and to enter orders, check order status and get quotes over the Internet. Additional Solution-IV information can be made available for inquiry and processing as required. The Solution-IV Internet Access capability requires Solution-IV Reprographics WebServices™ and may require other server and communications hardware and software.
Thoroughbred can provide Hosted Services for any system running Thoroughbred-based applications including Solution-IV Reprographics and ez-Repro Accounting and Business Management software solutions and AEK Leisure Industry applications. All you need is an appropriate Internet connection and workstations that support Telnet connections. Thoroughbred will set-up a VPN (that may require hardware if no VPN currently exists) so all communications are secure.
Solution-IV Accounting is marketed by Thoroughbred Software, a privately held company that designs and markets software in the Object Oriented, 4GL and 3GL communities. Thoroughbred’s North American headquarters are in Somerset, New Jersey and the Reprographics Sales Office is in Houston, Texas. The European headquarters are located in Romford, Essex, England.
Thoroughbred has over 250,000 installations in use for a variety of commercial applications including general accounting, distribution, transportation, manufacturing, hotel and restaurant management, and medical systems.
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þ Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
þ Windows tools integration
þ Multi-company, multi-user
þ On-line help
þ Hotkey inquiries
þ Built-in ad hoc query and report writer
þ Designed for reprographic enterprises
þ Training and customization services available
þ Source code included
þ ODBC access to data
þ Client/Server
þ RDBMS
þ Object-oriented, 4GL-based
þ GUI and/or character operation
þ Windows 95/98/2000, XP, Windows NT, UNIX, VMS