What is new?

What are new features in QBM 2009 Plus! Service Pack 1-5?

There are many new features, however some of these features are as follow:

Smart fields in item list makes it faster to load, because only the needed fields are loaded. To use Smart fields right click on the item list on select Smart Fields
Auto Backup allows you to schedule the backup using either the Windows task scheduler or SQL Server agent if you have SQL server workgroup and higher editions
Auto refresh in QBM refreshes the items, customers, and vendors if they are created in another clients. This feature is useful in network. To change the value of an auto refresh see Options->View
Customer Note: All sales documents, like invoices, payments, and quotes, can have customer notes better than before. There is a combo in the bottom of the documents that can have unlimited customer note. You can create a customer note by pressing F6 or edit it by pressing F2. You can design the note using the print designer
Sales documents, like invoice are smarter, for example if you type 12 in Qty and the total price is 95, it will make the unit price adjusted. All the Unit price format takes at most 5 decimal digits and all qty take at most 2 digits. If there is no digits, the qty print as no digit and unit price print as 2 digits.
Item Transfer: You can set the item transfer no to transfer item is there is not enough qty in the store. See Options->Inventory and then check or uncheck the Transfers
Bounced Cheque: Description and number of a bounced check is shown in customer statements, also there is a new journal type for a bounced cheque
Calculator in all the numeric boxes such as the unit price: The user can view the calculator by pressing F4
Access permission of the User Group changed to make it easier. For example, the Forms tab there are only 2 main groups called Data Entries and Reports. Before there was another group called Configuration, which is now under Data Entries.
3 more reports: Expenses by Job summary and Expenses by jobs details, Customer Quotes
Deferred Expense: You can enter expense with different date in the same transaction. In the expense entry, select deferred expenses from the Type combo list and the click the split button. The deferred expenses is useful if you want to create expenses in one transaction but with multiple dates. For example, you may want to pay rents for a full year by split it in 4 different quarters. You can also, not use the deferred expenses and only add different dates.
2 More barcode type: EAN-13 and UPC-12. You now print these barcode types for the items
Print barcodes in document lines. For example, you can optionally allow the print template to print barcode instead of the item number
Bulk Discount: You can define bulk discount for each item and print it in the sales document by clicking on the bulk discount button to calculate the bulk discount for the customer. Bulk discount allows you to limit the discount based on the quantity of the specified item the customer is buying.
Auto calculation of Fixed Assets in the Fixed Assets list
Load transaction data from Microsoft Excel. For example you can load an excel file into a sales quote and then save the sales quote.
Export transaction data to Microsoft Excel. For example you can export sales quote to Excel.
Convert from Purchase Invoice to Sales Invoice. This conversion allows you to add a markup percentage to the purchase prices as well.
EAN-13 code generator for items.
Matrix items allows you to define items with multiple attributes thus you can create multiple items with the same name if only one of their attributes are different. For example, a shop that is selling shoes could use this feature to create a multiple attributes, such as sizes and colors, of the same shoe and also track their stocks.
Send customer statement to Excel.