What’s new in Peachtree 2006?

New in Peachtree 2006

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Auto Complete Text Fields

New in Peachtree 2006, Auto Complete is a feature designed to save typing. Auto Complete saves previous entries that you’ve typed in the text fields within Peachtree windows; this includes maintenance information of all sorts such as names, addresses, descriptions, and so forth.

Whenever you type information in one of these fields, Auto Complete suggests a possible match from its list of saved entries. As you type, the field fills with the saved entry, and you can choose to accept the suggestion or continue to type over it. If what you type matches another saved entry, Auto Complete suggests that as a possible match.

Customer Management Detail

Better manage your receivables! This report will calculate the number of days it takes to pay each invoice along with the average number of days it takes to pay overall.

Customer Transaction History

See all the detail associated with a customer’s invoice, what the customer owes, and drill down to the detail from one place.  You can also include the number of days it takes your customers to pay – so you can better monitor your receivables.

Customer Address Information Enhancements

The Maintain Customers/Prospects window now permits the entry of more default addresses. You can now enter up to 20 ship-to addresses for each customer/prospect. Also, to save typing time, there is a new Copy button in the window that lets you copy billing address information to any or all of the customer ship-to addresses. Similarly, in Tasks windows such as Sales/Invoicing, Copy buttons let you quickly copy billing address information to the ship-to address fields for the current transaction.

Duplicate Reference Number Warning

Now Peachtree will warn you if an invoice number or other reference number (for quotes, credit memos, or purchase orders) has been used before.

Improved Credit Card Services

New in Peachtree 2006, you can now use a card reader to enter customer credit card purchase information into Peachtree. Also, the Credit Card Service itself has been improved, with a new gateway service provider that offers faster, more efficient processing.

Improved Peachtree Today Navigation

Peachtree Today is now easier than ever to get around in. For new businesses, the Setup Guide is immediately available as soon as you enter Peachtree Today. All options, including the ability to customize Peachtree Today, are readily available in the convenient sidebar menu.

New “Bills” Options

In Peachtree 2006, the Tasks menu now has two new “Bills” options: Enter Bills and Pay Bills. Select Enter Bills to go to the Peachtree Purchases window; select Pay Bills to go to the Payments window.

New Rapid Access Reports button in Tasks Windows

In Peachtree 2006, all Tasks windows now have a Rapid Access Reports button in the toolbar. Click this button to see a drop-down menu of reports relevant to the current window—for example, the Customer Invoice Detail report, available from the Sales/Invoicing window. The report you choose will appear onscreen in preview form.

Smart Sort for IDs

IDs on lookup lists are now sorted alphabetically (non-case sensitive) making data entry fast and easy. Numbers will still sort before letters.

Vendor Address Information Enhancements

The Maintain Vendors window now permits the entry of more default addresses. You can now enter up to 20 remit-to addresses for each customer/prospect. Also, to save typing time, there is a new Copy button in the window that lets you copy mailing address information to any or all of the vendor remit-to addresses. Similarly, in Tasks windows such as Purchases, Copy buttons let you quickly copy mailing address information to the remit-to address fields for the current transaction.

A further enhancement is the addition of a Defaults button, which opens the new Address Defaults window. Here, you can choose default addresses to use for vendors in the Shipments (Peachtree Complete and Peachtree Premium Accounting only), Purchase Orders, and Payments windows. For each vendor, you can choose either the mail-to or any of the 20 possible remit-to addresses.

Vendor Management Detail

Better manage your payables!  This report allows you to see all the activity associated with a vendor invoice. You can now see how long it takes to pay each invoice, plus the average number of days it takes you to pay your vendors overall.

Vendor Transaction History

See all the detail associated with a vendor’s invoice, what the customer owes, and drill down to the detail from one place.  You can also include the number of days it takes your customers to pay – so you can better monitor your payables.

New to Peachtree Accounting, Peachtree Complete, and Peachtree Premium Accounting

Additional Boxes for Federal Form 1099*

In Peachtree 2006, we’ve added ten additional boxes for the 1099 form. You can now print boxes for rent, other income, medical and health care payments, and more. In addition, a new 1099 report lets you drill down to transaction detail to verify the information that gets printed on your 1099 form. To see the updated list of 1099 calculations,

Enhancements to the Pay Info Tab

The Pay Info tab of the Maintain Employees window now displays totals for individual pay periods and for the year. The Total Salary field shows the total salary per pay period based on the pay frequency and salary rate. The Annual Salary field shows the total salary to be paid to the employee annually.

For an explanation of pay frequency and an example of how it is used to calculate salary totals,

New Find Transactions report

In Peachtree 2006, the Find Transactions window has a new Print button. Select this button to see a printed report that reproduces the list of transactions appearing in the window.

Internal Accounting Review

Review your books internally! Peachtree’s Internal Accounting Review allows you check your company data for common transaction mistakes and errors. The Review runs 15 predefined checks on your company data and allows you to investigate and fix or take an appropriate action on whatever the review finds.

To learn more about the Internal Accounting Review, click here.

New 1096 Form*

New to Peachtree 2006 is Federal Form 1096. Use the 1096 form summarize the 1099 forms that you send to the IRS for your 1099-type vendors. Form 1096 is required whenever you submit paper 1099 forms.

Support for 941 Lines 9 and 10

Peachtree 2006 can now print lines 9 and 10 on the 941 form. These lines deal with differences between calculated and withheld amounts for Social Security and Medicare.

New to Peachtree Complete and Peachtree Premium Accounting

New DacEasy Conversion

This new conversion wizard streamlines the process of converting a DacEasy company to Peachtree. A series of windows steps you through the process of setting up important features of your new company. You will be able to convert companies from the following versions of DacEasy: 11, 12, and 13. For more information about the conversion wizard, click.

To assist you with the conversion process, we have also created a DacEasy Conversion Guide. You can view or print this guide by selecting User Manuals>DacEasy Conversion Guide from the Help menu.

Editing Direct Deposit Paychecks After Transmission

In Peachtree 2006, you can now edit direct deposit paychecks after they have been transmitted for processing. This means you’ll be able to make changes to direct deposit allocations, including sick and vacation days, after transmission. Peachtree will warn you that you are about to edit a payroll check that has already been transmitted.

New Bill of Materials Report

This feature is available only in Peachtree Complete Accounting and higher.

Use the Bill of Materials report to view details on assemblies and sub-assemblies, including the estimated cost of building an assembly. Each main assembly is listed along with the assembly’s components and the quantities.

Online Banking

This feature is available only in Peachtree Complete Accounting and higher.

Starting with Peachtree 2006, you now have the ability to go to your financial institution’s Web page anytime and automatically download bank statements to Peachtree. This online banking capability means greater accuracy and hours of data entry saved.

As long as your financial institution supports online banking, setting up the feature is as simple as contacting your bank for a user ID and password that will uniquely identify your electronic transactions. After that, you’re ready to import bank statements electronically. To make the process easy and streamlined, Peachtree offers a new Import Statement wizard.

Peachtree Bill Pay Service

This feature is available only in Peachtree Complete Accounting and higher.

Introduced in Peachtree 2006, the Peachtree Bill Pay Service lets you electronically transmit payments to your vendors, regardless of whether your payees are set up to receive electronic payments. Peachtree Bill Pay automatically determines which payees can be paid electronically and which need to be paid with paper checks and then makes the payments on the business day you select as the pay date. So virtually any vendor can be paid through Peachtree Bill Pay.

Peachtree Bill Pay offers you the advantage of maximized of cash flow. With Peachtree Bill Pay, you can choose pay dates that exactly match the payment terms you have with your vendors. If a vendor gives you a customer discount for paying by a certain date, now you can exactly target that pay date.

New to Peachtree Premium Accounting

Order or Sell Using Vendor Part Numbers

This feature is available only in Peachtree Premium Accounting and higher.

We added a new field to the Maintain Inventory Items window, where you can store your vendor’s part number for items. You can use this Part Number field when printing inventory reports, purchase orders, quotes, sales orders, invoices, credit memos, receipts or payments. On the Maintain Vendor or Maintain Customer windows, you can set whether to show the vendor Part Number, the UPC/SKU Number, or your Item ID number on these forms.

Proposals

You can enter proposals made to customers for services to be performed, mark those proposals as accepted, and then bill your customers for them. Use the new Bill button to specify whether you want to bill a customer for the remaining, unbilled portion of a proposal, bill a customer for a fixed percentage of the proposal, or bill the customer different amounts for each line item on the proposals. Track proposals using the new Proposal report and Proposal Register report.

Support for Terminal Services

Peachtree will now operate on a terminal server so you can better manage your network resources and cut costs! Peachtree 2006 will support Windows Server 2000 and Server 2003.
 

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