• Introduction

• Introducing the First Integrated Small Business Management Software

• Award-Winning Features

• Big Business Server NT System Requirements

Introduction:

Manage Your Entire Company with a Single Program

Big Business Server NT combines sales automation, a marketing database, contact management, inventory tracking, and full-featured accounting to run your entire company. While you concentrate on serving your customers and increasing sales, Big Business Server works behind the scenes to manage sales quotes, mailing lists, stock levels, shipments, payments, receivables, and more. Designed especially for businesses that buy or sell products, Big Business Server has 90 company templates for retail, wholesale, distribution, and more.

Perform Accounting Painlessly

With Big Business Server, you don't need to know anything about accounting to manage your company’s finances! You just create invoices and enter payments, and Big Business Server does all the accounting for you in the background. At the click of a button, Big Business Server tells you how sales programs, marketing campaigns, and inventory levels are affecting your bottom line. You know at a glance which customers are overdue, what bills you need to pay, how much cash you have on hand, and more.

Benefit From A Top-Rated Interface

The Big Business Server interface is so logical and graphical that learning the software is fast and easy. In fact, Big Business Server has received top ratings from numerous industry publications for its unprecedented ease of use.

Let Your Company Grow

Big Business Server can grow with your company, so you never outgrow your business management software. Simply add users to your Big Business Server NT as your company grows. Your users can run Big Business on any combination of Macintosh, Windows 95, or Windows NT machines. You can also implement the Big Business Web Server add-on to give local and remote users access to your data through a standard Web browser. Like Big Business Server, the Web Server gives you full control over a multi-level password system to ensure data security.

Big Business Server NT puts all the tools you need to manage your business at your fingertips. With its innovative internet catalog creation, integrated business management features, Web Server add-on, and client/server version, Big Business Server NT provides the tools for running your business, and making it big!

Introducing the First Integrated Small Business Management Software

Finally, the powerful tools used by big companies are available in a single, do-it-yourself program that grows with your business. With its intuitive interface and integrated features, Big Business Server can help your company be more productive, competitive, and successful.

Increase Sales

Big Business Server helps increase sales and overall performance. You can generate professional sales quotes easily and turn them into orders with a few keystrokes. Just type the first few letters of an entry, and Big Business automatically fills in the information for you. Follow-up reminders help convert the quotes into orders, while complete order processing gets products and invoices out the door. You can even see the profitability of every transaction at any time. Big Business Server tracks credit limits and terms, so you know who can place orders, whose payments are due, and when. Easy payment processing improves cash þow and proÞts on every sale.

Start a Successful Marketing Program that Sells

Using Big Business Server NT, you can focus your marketing efforts on the customers that count. An integrated marketing database gives you current data on when and what your customers buy, so it's easy to track results and drive your marketing message home. And to get that marketing out the door, Big Business Server prints labels and envelopes for any group of customers you select.

Control Inventory Easily

Big Business Server lets you maximize turns and minimize backorders on all your inventory items. Because Big Business Server can automatically reorder items, you spend more time selling and less time purchasing. The real-time item histories help you manage inventory levels and identify problem products before they cost you money. You can set five price levels for each item, create builds and bundles, and charge international tax rates for foreign sales.

Perform Accounting Painlessly

Big Business Server works in the background to manage your company's cash and keep your books straight. You simply use familiar forms like checks, deposit slips, and invoices on-screen and all your accounting needs, including a general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and purchasing, are managed for you. You can retrieve invoices immediately and take advantage of vendor discounts and payment terms automatically. And it's easy to create financial reports and statementsÐjust choose one of Big Business Server's pre-made, analytical reports or create your own.

Get on the Internet

At the click of a button, Big Business Server makes Web pages of items in your inventory, complete with the proper links to sub-pages. Without learning HTML, you can have on-line catalogs of the products and services you sell, reaching millions of potential customers with minimal effort or Web experience.

Grow Your Company

Big Business Server is based on a client/server architecture that grows with your company. Start with a single-user version of Big Business Server and, as your company grows, add more users to the system to increase productivity and workflow even more. You have complete control over a multi-level password system to protect important company data.

With easy-to-use screens, a customizable toolbar, and on-line help, Big Business gives you the tools to build a better business now.

Award-Winning Features

SALES

• Offers full-featured contact manager
• Prints custom sales reports
• Tracks commissions and royalties
• Memorizes common sales quotes
• Calculates profitability of sales quotes and lets you change profit margins on the fly
• Creates and places sales orders
• Handles multiple ship-to and bill-to addresses
• Tracks shipments
• Invoices customers with complete payment and accounting histories
• Creates invoices rapidly
• Lets you set reminders and keep a calendar
• Manages international sales tax
• Drills down multiple levels

MARKETING

• Stores complete customer information, including fields that you customize
• Imports and exports data at any time
• Improves company communication through built-in e-mail
• Offers complete printing options, including labels, envelopes, mail lists, etc.
• Targets customers by allowing you to add identifying tags to customer records
• Converts contacts to customers or vendors at the click of a button

INVENTORY

• Stores comprehensive vendor information and transaction histories
• Eliminates backorders
• Tracks item weight
• Provides flexibility by letting you customize vendor and inventory fields
• Lets you define up to five item price levels
• Provides vendor purchase orders with backorder tracking and receiving histories
• Stores inventory purchasing data and transaction histories
• Adjusts inventory items
• Calculates inventory turns
• Lists and manages items in product builds
• Creates bundled inventory items
• Generates purchase reports
• Allows long item descriptions of up to 32K

ACCOUNTING

• Maintains a general journal
• Reconciles accounts
• Complies with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Has over 90 industry-specific chart of accounts
• Prints financial reports that you can customize
• Tracks bank account information with reconciliation histories
• Transfers funds
• Restricts transaction modifications by calendar periods
• Generates deposit slips
• Processes and prints checks
• Connects to professional payroll programs
• Tracks vendor invoices
• Imports Quicken data
• Schedules vendor payments with easy rescheduling capability
• Provides complete category and account information with budgeting capability
• Lets you choose international currencies
• Provides a complete posting view of transactions
• Drills down from posting line item to transaction record
• Notifies you of credit holds
• Tracks accounts receivable/payable

INTERNET

• Generates Web pages of items in inventory for online catalogs
• Manages links for three-level pages
• Lets remote users access data via a Web browser using the optional Web Server add-on

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

• Single and client/server versions available to grow with your company
• Lets you create custom reports and forms
• Provides a user-customizable toolbar
• Stores employee information
• Offers comprehensive password security down to the field level
• Gives complete control over data entry
• Offers calendar view of appointments/tasks
• Appends notes to any transaction, vendor, customer, or item
• Imports tab-delimited text from any program
• Includes comprehensive on-line help
• Based on a relational data model that integrates all company data
• Provides over 190 standard reports, queries, and graphs
• Offers plain English question and answer queries

Big Business Server NT System Requirements

Server

• Pentium with 32MB RAM
• 50MB hard disk space minimum
• Windows NT 4.0
• Ethernet network
• A dedicated server machine is required

Client

• Pentium or 486/66 processor with 16MB RAM or Power Macintosh with 16 MB RAM
• 50MB hard disk space
• Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, or System 7