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.

Below features are included on the App:

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 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 selected table for a selected date and can be analyzed per user or per record.

3. G/L Access Permissions: It introduces an option to restrict specific users from viewing the G/L Accounts and the General Ledger Entries.

4. Payment Tolerance Restriction: Provides 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 the features below.

• Sales Tax Enhancements: This includes Sales Tax for Service Documents and Extended Taxability.

• Sales Tax Full-Tax Document: This allows sales tax amount updates by posting a document which is full tax and is reflected in sales tax reporting.
• Sales Tax Reporting: This is designed to help with Sales Tax Reporting. Sales Tax Report is extracted in a format that can be used to file taxes.

6. Alternate Ship-to Address: It 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: Tracks 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: It extends standard Business Central Global Dimensions to allow advanced tracking and reporting capabilities based on the additional dimensions.

9. Bank Reconciliation for NA: 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. It is useful in an environment with many 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: It provides inventory control by assigning specific reason codes to adjustments, enhancing traceability and analysis.

13. Write-off Return Inventory: This 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 provides 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 based.

15. DocuSign Approval Process: The DocuSign Approval Process refers to the steps and workflow used to obtain, track, and manage approvals for documents using DocuSign, a digital signature platform. This process allows users to electronically send documents, such as sales orders and sales quotes, to customers for signature via DocuSign.

16. Mass Image Import/ Export: Mass Image Import and Export: Allows users to run a batch process to import multiple item images either from a local directory or an Azure Blob Storage container. Images are matched with items using either the item code or barcode.