With a wide variety of modules to choose from, Samco's Power Accounting System is one of the most comprehensive suites of business management applications on the market today. A modular design allows you to start off with as many or as few components as required, and then build on your investment as your needs grow. Plus it's available for most of today's major business computing platforms; including DOS, Windows, Windows NT/2000/XP, Novell Netware, Caldera Unix / Linux, SCO Unix / Open Server / UnixWare, Red Hat Linux, IBM's AIX, HP/UX, and Sun Solaris.

What's more, a highly competitive pricing structure coupled with superb professional services help ensure both a speedy return on investment and a smooth migration to one of the best business and accounting systems available.

All sites require an Installation Kit for the operating platform they are running on. The pricing for this is dependent on the platform itself and the number of users required to concurrently access the system. If the system will be accessed over a WAN or with a VPN connection, a Remote Site License is required for each remote location. Contact us for details. Modules include:

Streamline the often cumbersome task of payables management with the Accounts Payable module from Samco's Power Accounting suite. With A/P you'll be able to control disbursements, automatically take advantage of vendor terms and discounts, improve credit positioning, project cash requirements, and have historical data available for viewing or reporting. Plus, A/P seamlessly integrates with Bank Reconciliation, Purchase Order, Purchasing Plus, General Ledger, and Job Cost.

Requires an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

Effective cash flow and client management is critical to the long term success of any business. The Accounts Receivable module gives you the tools to take and keep control of your client base. Accenting the robust reporting features, you'll also have instant access to information from any workstation and from anywhere in the Samco system; including a customer's account aging with average days to pay, customer details including user defined fields and ship-to addresses, plus invoice detail can be brought up while viewing a customer's account. What is even more impressive is that it is easy to use and manage.

Requires an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

Bank Reconciliation can help you maintain checkbooks, track deposits, and reconcile checking accounts with bank statements. You'll have instant access to important checking account information, and can avoid tedious manual reconciliation methods. Plus it seamlessly integrates with the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Canadian Payroll packages.

Requires an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

CrossRoads is a dispatch, tracking, and billing system designed specifically for the service industry. Integrating seamlessly with the Inventory Plus and Accounts Receivable modules, CrossRoads provides the power to draw upon and manage multiple parts warehouses, keep on top of service agreements, monitor customer equipment, tackle service billing, dispatch service personnel, plus a whole lot more. With an ocean of reports available, CrossRoads will turn your service department into a fine tuned and more profitable machine.

Requires an operating system dependent Installation Kit, Accounts Receivable and Inventory Plus, contact us for pricing.

Custom Labels is a simple, yet very powerful application for designing and printing labels using your Power Accounting data files. It is quick to set up and easily utilized by any Samco user.

Requires other Samco Power Accounting modules and an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

The Internet has had the single biggest impact on business in the shortest period of time versus any other technology. With e-Global you will be able to get your foot in the e-commerce door by connecting the information in your Samco Power Accounting system with your clients.

Click here to see all that e-Global can do for you... even take it for a free test drive!

Global/DX is a multi-faceted enhancement module for Samco's Power Accounting System that provides extensions for:

• EDI.... Extensive EDI enhancements for handling inbound and outbound documents with most EDI translation packages; supporting a wide range of document types. (Professional Edition only)
• Data Collecting.... Importing of data from data collection devices, portable computers, vendor pricing files, and other hid party software applications.
• Third Party Application Integration.... Exporting of data for sending to remote sales reps, customers (i.e. price lists), and third party application software.

Global/DX Lite is comprised of the data collecting and third party application integration tools only and is upgradeable to the Professional Edition with EDI features.

Requires other Samco Power Accounting moduels and an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

Now bundled with Ledger Connection for spreadsheet connectivity and enhanced balance sheet reporting. Business professionals, like yourself, look for flexibility, ease-of-use, and power from a financial collection and reporting system. Which is why thousands of users world wide look to the General Ledger module from Samco's Power Accounting suite to fulfill those needs. The result of over 15 years of refinements, the G/L module reflects the features demanded by large organizations, while still being "user friendly".

Requires an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

Inventory Plus helps you track product usage and costs, and maintain inventory at optimum levels. Having too much cash tied up in slow or non-selling items, or running out of fast-moving items can have a major impact on your financial success. With Inventory Plus you'll have complete information about the value of your inventory, quantities on hand, quantities committed, and the flow of inventory items sold by your business on a constant basis. Inventory Plus also incorporates a complete kit processing system with bill of materials processing which integrates with Point of Sale and Order Entry Plus.

Requires an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

Job Cost provides the tools you need to track costs, income, and profits related to specific jobs and sub-jobs. Reports which tabulate and examine costs, compare actual with budgeted or estimated costs, and track job billings and payments are available. Updated estimates of costs to complete a job are provided to help you manage and maintain profitability. Your ability to control job costs and bring projects in, at, or under budget is directly related to your profitability. Job Cost helps you achieve this by providing accurate and up-to-date information.

Requires an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

Now bundled at no extra charge with General Ledger. Spreadsheets were one of the first applications to impact the personal computer revolution. Although simple in design and functionality, they have done more to advance micro computing that anyone could have ever imagined. Today, systems and development technologies have spawned spreadsheet applications that are tools of immense power and sophistication. Samco's Ledger Connection offers a way for you to harness the power of a spreadsheet with the financial data produced by our General Ledger business application. Giving you the flexibility to manipulate your data for forecasting, analyzing sales, graphing and charting, and producing attractive management reports.

Requires an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

Whether you have 2 or 200 locations, the Multi-Site companion module will give you the connectivity you need. Using a distributed computing philosophy, Multi-Site allows remote locations ("Satellites") to function independently while synchronizing sales, purchasing, job cost and inventory activity with a central system (the "Hub") on a daily basis. At the satellite level, inventory status is available for all locations and sale prices are automatically kept up to date -- resulting in better customer service and pricing consistency. The real advantages to Multi-Site, however, are realized at the head office where information crucial to making positive business decisions is available. Plus, Multi-Site is fully configurable to allow head office as much or as little control, as is necessary, over such things as purchasing, inventory items, customers, receivables, jobs, and sale prices.

Requires other Samco Power Accounting modules and an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

Get creative with your data using the ODBC Toolkit for Samco's Power Accounting system. Utilizing existing 32-bit ODBC support built into Windows 9x and NT, the ODBC Toolkit makes your data files available to such applications as Crystal Reports, Microsoft Office, MS Query, and GoldMine.
Here are some ideas of just a few of the creative things you can do:

• Pull sales figures into Excel.
• Query your database with from a website for e-commerce.
• Produce elaborate, full color reports with Crystal Reports.
• Export / Import data for third-party applications.
• Create exciting, custom letters using your A/R customers and Microsoft Word.
• Import customers into GoldMine for prospecting.
• Use MS Access to create your own custom application that works with existing Samco data.

How does it work? Very simple, the components of the ODBC Toolkit are installed on the PC. A "data source" is created within the Window's Control Panel ODBC Data Sources (32-bit) function which tells the system where your Samco data files reside. Any ODBC aware application can then be used to see these files and their contents.

Requires other Samco Power Accounting modules and an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

Samco Options are add-on utilities, features and reports which allow you to customize your Samco Power Accounting system to meet your specific needs. Some of the available Options include:

• Parent/Child Customer Management (Accounts Receivable)
• Order Packing (Order Entry Plus)
• Quick Item Labels (Inventory Plus)
• Basic Multi-Currency Transaction Processing (A/R, O/E and A/P)
• Changed Line Picking Tickets (Order Entry Plus)
• Warehouse Groups (Inventory Plus)
• Domestic UPS Shipping Support (Order Entry Plus - U.S. only)
• Automatic Min/Max Calculation (Inventory Plus)
• Staged Orders (Order Entry Plus / Inventory Plus)
• Purchase Limits (Purchasing Plus)
• Alternate Selling Units on Physical Count (Inventory Plus)
• Advanced Item Cost Factoring (Inventory Plus)
• Lease Management (Professional Invoicing)

Options range in price based on complexity.

The speed and accuracy with which you handle customer orders (service your customers) is key to the success of your business. Order Entry Plus provides you with the tools needed to speed up sales and order lines. These include inventory verification when entering orders, immediate information on customers, automatic discount levels calculated or contract price selection, plus rapid and accurate billing. One of the keys to Samco's Order Entry Plus module is its flexibility. Used in a variety of business types, O/E+ can be molded to suit your specific needs.

Requires Inventory Plus, Accounts Receivable, and an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

Samco's Canadian Payroll system is the result of over 14 years of refinements. Able to meet the needs of the smallest to the largest of payrolls in a wide variety of industries. For those companies using manual punch cards or time sheet system for hourly employees, you will be able to eliminate this time consuming function by integrating Samco's Time and Attendance with Canadian Payroll. Time and Attendance is a full featured data collection system that passes time transactions through to the Canadian Payroll package -- no more worksheets, punch cards, or spreadsheets to deal with. Plus, Time and Attendance accurately tracks attendance details allowing you to pinpoint problem employees (ideal for those periodic employee evaluations).

Requires an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

Requires Accounts Receivable and an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

The retail environment is changing. It's never been more competitive or more complex. You know that. You know you must keep abreast of buying trends, market conditions, new products and tough competition. But, most importantly, you need to know what's going on in your business every minute. That means accurate, up-to-date sales, inventory, and accounting information. With Point of Sale, a member of Samco's Power Accounting System, you'll stay up-to-date. Every minute. Every day. Automatically. It's that simple. What's more, it's backed by a company who's spent over 15 years providing business with automated accounting solutions that work.

Requires Inventory Plus and an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

Purchase Order helps you order goods and services from vendors. You can identify what should be purchased, record what has been purchased, print purchase orders, expedite shipments and handle receivings. Making the best purchasing decisions possible and ensuring that goods you need arrive in a timely manner will help your business succeed.

Requires Accounts Payable and an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

With Purchasing Plus, the plus is in the hundreds of features not normally associated with a purchasing module. P/A allows you to transfer stock in and out of other locations, create A/P vouchers from received inventory, track open to buy scenarios, monitor stock rotations, and handle markdowns. By eliminating the barriers between sales and purchasing, you'll be able to make smart buying decisions based on rock solid information.

The entire Samco Power Accounting applications family is feature rich and loaded with effective reporting functionality. If you should find that you need a little bit more in the way of reporting or require a method for exporting data to or from the Samco Power Accounting system, Report Writer will fill this need. Acting as a mediator between your Samco data and you, the predefined file layouts allow you to prepare the output by telling the system what you want and where you want it. Report Writer can be used to develop complex queries from multiple files, or prepare a simple listing of customers with only the information you want -- quickly and easily. Give yourself the freedom of expression with Report Writer -- from Samco of course.

Requires Inventory Plus and an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

When accessing the Samco Power Accounting system over a WAN or via a VPN connection, each remote location is required to have a Remote Site License.

Sales Analysis is the ideal management tool for pulling out the real information from your raw data for analyzing sales, product usage and customer purchases. The reports provided will enable you to spot your best customers, best selling items and services, productive sales reps, strong sales regions, the type of customer buying certain items, and more. Analyzing your product sales and customer purchases will allow you to make informed management decisions and develop sales strategies. You will be able to better manage inventory and stock items to best meet the needs of your customers.

Requires other Samco Power Accounting modules and an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

Scheduling Plus is an effective tool for maintaining calendars for people, places, or things. Ideal in workgroup environments or for dispatching, Scheduling Plus will help you keep track of meetings, delivery vehicles, rooms, equipment, maintenance people, and much, much more.

Requires an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.

Time cards, columnar pads, and late nights reconciling payroll time transactions. If this sounds all too familiar, you're in for a real treat. Samco's Time and Attendance, a fully automated time collection system, eliminates the tremendous waste associated with manual employee time collection and processing. What would take hours, if not days, can be handled quickly and accurately in a fraction of the time with Time and Attendance.

Requires an operating system dependent Installation Kit, contact us for pricing.