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   29th of April, 2008      
 
Latest Editions

CAPITAL Professional Edition
CAPITAL Enterprise Edition
CAPITAL Corporate Edition


Versions

7.6e
7.6e
7.6e

 

Released 

7th of July, 2008

 
   
   3rd of May, 2008      
 
New Product Release: CAPITAL Connector!

CAPITAL Connector (OLE COM Server) can plug into all popular software development environments, including Visual Basic, .NET, C++, PHP and many others.

You can even access CAPITAL databases and services from within popular applications such as Microsoft Excel and Word.

If you require integration of CAPITAL Business Software with your web site, or specialist application software, then CAPITAL Connector is the ideal interfacing toolbox.

For more information on the CAPITAL Connector
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Released 

3rd of May,
 2008

 
   
   28th of March, 2008      
 
CAPITAL Series 7, Release 7.6 Available Now!

CAPITAL Office Business Software is pleased to announce that CAPITAL 7.6 (the final release for Series 7) is available for general download for users who have service cover from March 28th, 2008. After Series 7 the new CAPITAL V8 Editions will be rolled out gradually over the remainder of the year.

Highlights of CAPITAL 7.6 include:

  • CAPITAL Office now offers several choices on how tax related expenses are tracked within the system. The Fast Recording Method is equivalent to previous versions of CAPITAL with certain enhancements and short-cuts. The new Detailed Audit Method is useful when your tax recording requirements are more complex. Relevant tax reports have also been updated or added to the system.

  • Live posting of accounting journals to the general ledger (Corporate Edition).

    LivePost does not create or update general ledger system batches but posts journal balances directly to CAPITAL GL Controller, the general ledger. This feature is useful if you wish to frequently view general ledger balance and print financial statements throughout the period, since there is no longer a need (when operating in this mode) to run the End Period Wizard, or review and post automatically generated system journal batches.

  • The Cost Price Out Of Date feature provides active feedback to users on the status of cost prices during invoice, sales order and quotation entry. If a cost price is too old, users will be warned to confirm the price. The Cost Price Out Of Date warning feature automatically checks the last purchase date, considers fixed or agreed pricing where applicable, and allows operators to automatically or manually confirm that pricing has been checked even if no purchases have recently taken place.

  • Information on customer debt and payment commitments can now be placed inside a 'Debt Collection Notepad' found in the Customer's area under the View menu. Any information placed in this note pad will be transferred beneath the relevant entries on applicable reports, such the Customer Account Balances Report. Debt related notes can also be reviewed during payment entry.

  • A new transaction type has been introduced in the Corporate Edition release of CAPITAL called 'Return Authority.' These transactions manage the return of goods from your customers.

  • For cashbook and supplier transactions detailed reference information (narrations) may now be stored against any invoice or payment. Narrations may contain an unlimited amount of text notes.

  • Supplier transaction information such as date, reference, payment allocations, etc., may now be viewed in detail even if the operator does not have edit rights for the transaction (although the transaction may not be changed without sufficient security clearance).

  • The tax component of a supplier invoice can be suggested for you automatically, based on the invoice total.

  • You may now add a transaction and enter its related payment immediately. This short-cut allows you to enter an invoice and its payment in one step.

  • You may add a transaction and copy its details into subsequent transactions during data entry. This allows you to enter similar transactions for the same or different accounts very quickly.

  • Supplier transactions may now be saved as templates. A template is a copy of the basic elements of a transaction. Using them allows you to enter similar or repetitive transactions quickly. For example, if you are always entering a phone bill into the system from the same supplier, with the same expense allocations, saving the transaction as a template means that you do not have to enter the same basic details repeatedly.

  • Customer Mailing List Letters now support bulk email and fax output when the CAPITAL Electronic Document Exchange Component is installed.

  • Improved customer and suppler payment allocation windows.

  • Improved integration with web based faxing services (Requires Electronic Document Exchange Component)

  • A new category of customer price rule, called the default price rule, has been added to Customer Special Pricing. Default price rules are similar to global price rules, except they are checked last instead of first. This is useful for defining default pricing conditions for multiple customer price groupings.

  • Those CAPITAL standard reports that can be saved as data files of various types, can now also be saved as Excel spreadsheets (.XLS format). Stocktake exports can also be saved as Excel spreadsheets. (There is no longer the need to transfer the report into Excel first.)

  • You may now selectively print multiple individual invoice transactions using the Transaction Printing utility by marking them as 'special' and ticking the 'Special Only' setting before printing.

  • You may now select to sort transactions by account code, transaction number, carrier, department, date and many other criteria when printing using the Transaction Printing utility.

  • In addition to the user defined field BARCODE, the Extended Transaction Searches feature will now also search the fields BARCODE0 through to BARCODE9, if they exist. When attempting to match a product code during transaction entry, the system can now search up to 14 product code cross-references per stock item simultaneously until it finds a match.

  • Various enhancements and improvements through-out the application suite.

Over 70 help topics in the help system have been updated to cover the improvements made in the new version. The full list of new features is found in the What's New Help Topic within the CAPITAL help system.

     
   26th February, 2008      
 
Release Date On CAPITAL 7.6 announced!

CAPITAL Office Business Software is pleased to announce that CAPITAL 7.6 (the final release for Series 7) will be available for general download for users who have service cover from March 28th, 2008. After Series 7 the new CAPITAL V8 Editions will be rolled out gradually over the remainder of the year.

Highlights of CAPITAL 7.6 include:

  • A new detailed GST reporting mode, new GST reports and updated BAS reporting.

  • Live posting of accounting journals to the general ledger (Corporate Edition)

  • Supplier 'template' transactions for fast entry of recurring bills.

  • Improvement supplier transaction entry input windows with many enhancements and short-cuts.

  • Improved customer and suppler payment allocation windows.

  • Improved integration with web based faxing services (Requires Electronic Document Exchange Component)

  • Various enhancements and improvements through-out the application suite.

Over 70 help topics in the help system have been updated to cover the improvements made in the new version. Please consult the product help files for more information.

     
   
   20th of August, 2007      
 
CAPITAL Series 7, Release 7.5 Available Now!

Paid members may access the CAPITAL Series 7.5 release by clicking here. 

Feature highlights include:

  • Bank Deposit Lists may now be printed by department code.
     
  • The status of a cash book may be changed from 'open' to either 'inactive' or 'closed'. Closed cash books do not appear on cash book or bank account selection lists and new transactions cannot be assigned to them.
     
  • The facility Copy Record has been added to Customer, Supplier, Card File, Service Manager, Hire Manager and Stock Control areas. This feature allows operators to quickly copy records into emails, spreadsheets, onto the clipboard for pasting into a word processor or other application, or save the record as a data file.
     
  • The Customer Accounts Statistics screen has been updated with new statistical information including:

    Sales Orders Pending
    Total Owed including Sales Orders Pending
    Credit Limit
    Account Creation Date
    Last Year Sales
    Total Sales (All Years)
    Average Days To Pay

    For more information on these statistics consult the topic Account Statistics.
     
  • The PDF internal printer drive used by the Electronic Document Exchange Component has been upgraded. New features include various technical enhancements, in addition to Windows Vista compatibility support and Microsoft version 3 driver compatibility compliance. (Version 3 printer drivers operate in 'user mode' and are designed specifically for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista operating systems.)
     
  • It is now possible to tag stock items directly found on transactions. Stock items may be tagged selectively by double-clicking on particular line items using the mouse, or by pressing the spacebar on those items, or by selecting Edit|Tag All from the transaction menu. The tag system can therefore be used to easily copy parts of a transaction, or an entire transaction, to either the same transaction or another transaction in the system. For example, the contents of an invoice can be quickly tagged and pasted into a quotation.

    For more information consult the updated topic: Stock Tagging.
     
  • The Stocktake System has been enhanced with the following new features:

    Items included in stocktakes may be limited to only those with recent sales activity.

    Items included in stocktakes may be limited to only those that the system is suggesting you reorder.

    Items included in stocktakes may be limited to only those which have pending shipments to customers.

    Items included in stocktakes may be limited to only those which have a zero on hand inventory holding level.

    Items included in stocktakes may be limited to only those which show a negative stock on hand holding level.
     
  • The Stocktake System now includes features to assist with cycle counting. Corporate Edition only.
     
  • Stocktakes may be limited to a product class or class range.
     
  • The maximum size (item count) of a stocktake may be user limited.
     
  • Stocktakes can be set to only include stock items that have not been counted in a specified period of time. E.g., stock items that have not been counted in 60 days or longer.
     
  • Items may be randomly selected for inclusion in the stocktake. For example, you may choose to randomly select 500 items from your inventory file for counting, that have not been counted in 30 days or longer.
     
  • Improved integration with the Warehouse Manager when delivering purchase orders. Required the Warehouse Manager component.
     
  • Using the Corporate Edition of CAPITAL Office it is now possible to hide customer, supplier and cash management accounts, and their transactions, from view, subject to the user's security access level. For more information on this subject consult the topic: Security Options.
     
  • The Supplier Shipment Performance Analysis Report measures supplier actual shipment rates against expected delivery targets. Corporate Edition only.
     
  • The Purchase Order Outstandings Report has been significantly enhanced with new reporting options such as overdues only, and filtering by customer category, job number, product or supplier group, location and class.
     
  • The Enterprise & Corporate Editions include a new Product Activity Report for tracing transaction related movements of stock.
     
  • The Grab File utility is now available for all transaction areas.
     
  • Menu Map Hot Areas for the Enterprise & Corporate Editions now support customisable actions, such as executing scripts and opening external applications.
     
  • Sales orders can be prevented from accepting inventory items when there is an insufficient stock level available to fulfill the order. For further information on this subject consult the topic Sales Order Installation Options.
     
  • Using the Corporate Edition of CAPITAL Office, customer credit card payment transactions can be exported to an external file for processing by your bank. For more information on this subject consult the topic: Export Customer Credit Card Transactions.
     
  • New stock sales analysis reports added to the reporting library include:

    Stock Sales By Promotional Code
    Stock Sales By Origin Code
    Stock Sales By Department
     
  • New stock analysis reports added to the reporting library specific to the Enterprise Edition include:

    Stock Sales By Carrier
    Stock Sales By Zone
     
  • The contents of Invoice, purchase order, sales order, requisition, stock return, transfer and quotation transactions may now be copied into Excel via OfficeLink, with the Enterprise Edition or higher of CAPITAL Office. For more information on this subject consult the topic: Export Transactions To Excel.
     
  • The Customer Price Check facility has been improved with the ability to include an extra price reference and information on the last day and sell price of the item to your customer.
     
  • The Customer Sales Report can now be used to produce 'top 10', 'top 100', etc., performing customer style reports.
     
  • The Stock Sales By Product Report can now be used to produce a 'top 10', 'top 100', etc., performing product style report, based on sales, profitability and units moved.
     
  • The Business Transaction Activity Report provides sales and profitability, quotation, payment, sales order, transfer, purchasing and stock return information with comparative and variance analysis functionality.

CAPITAL Visual Builder

  • Visual Builder Corporate Edition will now attempt to automatically optimise 'must be true' rules for direct processing by the Fortress client/server database engine. Under specific conditions certain types of data intensive reports may be boosted in speed by hundreds of times or more.
     
  • Added the function SendHTMLMail()
  • Added the function EventAdd()
  • Added the function StrZero()
  • Added the function NTrim()
  • Added the function StockPrice()
  • Added the function OpenVisualBuilder()
  • Added the function CrossTab()
  • Added the function PayMethodName()
  • Added the function TranInfo()
  • Added the function AllocatePayment()
  • Added the function FilterTable()
  • Enhanced the function Find()
 

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   13th of October, 2006      
 
CAPITAL Series 7, Release 7.41 Available Now!

Paid members may access the CAPITAL Series 7.4 release by clicking here. 

Feature highlights include:

  • The Days Stock On Hand Report can be used to assist in forecasting stock requirements. Available in the Enterprise & Corporate Editions only.
  • It is now possible to generate assembly tasks automatically from sales orders.
  • New customer account fields include Created Date, which is the date when new accounts were created, and CCV2 to assist with credit card management.
  • Sales orders and invoices can now store promotional and sale origin codes for further sales analysis processing.
  • It is now possible to search for payment transactions by credit card number.
  • Stock Family first tier product grouping is now available in the Enterprise and Corporate Editions of CAPITAL Office. Stock groups may now be organised by upper level 'product family' groupings.
  • Purchase orders that have been raised to fill the requirements of a pending sales order or back ordered invoice, may now have newly arrived stock automatically allocated in the Back Order Control Centre, when purchase orders are delivered.
  • When working with transactions you may now select 'Customise|Display Notes When Opening', to automatically display transaction note information when reopening existing transactions.
  • When entering credit and adjustment notes it is now possible to specify a restock quantity separate from the quantity credited as returned.
  • It is now possible to copy notes recorded on sales order transactions onto the invoice or invoices that are generated by the sales order.

CAPITAL Visual Builder

  • Added the function ExportASCII()
  • Added the function BufferUpdates()
  • Added the function BufferRollBack()
  • Added the function BufferCommit()
  • Added the function AddPayment()
  • Added the function StrWrap()
  • Added the function KitList()
  • Added the function GetFolder()
  • Added the function WriteTextFile()
  • The function LockRecord() has been enhanced.
  • The function ReadTextFile() has been enhanced.
  • The function StockQuantity() has been enhanced.
  • The function ReadNote() has been enhanced.

CAPITAL GL Controller

  • Smarter audit trail management now permits the End Period Wizard to be executed an unlimited number of times for the same period without increasing the size of the Transaction History Posting Report.

 

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    12th of September, 2006      
 
Roadmap Updated!

The CAPITAL Series 7 and upcoming V8 product development roadmap had been updated. To find out more about what our development team is working on now, and new products coming out soon, click here.

 


 

 

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