GP Financials sharply reduces time and effort for key accounting tasks, provides easy access and rich analysis of integrated, updated information, and connects smoothly with operations across your entire business. Rich capabilities embrace all the financial activities that move through your business — from general ledger to multi-currency management, unlimited budget tracking to electronic banking. Deep integration across your entire Great Plains solution means that whether you’re measuring expenses against revenues, processing intercompany transactions, or managing fixed assets, you can rest assured that financial information is flowing smoothly across your business.

Great Plains Financials also offer a wide range of reporting tools, deep integration with the Microsoft Office System, and online capabilities that equip everyone in your organization to work at peak efficiency and make fast, effective decisions.

Keep your focus on mission-critical issues

Minimize time spent on routine accounting tasks through automation of general ledger transactions, efficient payment adjustments, comprehensive account level security, and more. From flexible account options to inter-fund and inter-company processing, the comprehensive accounting tools in Microsoft Great Plains General Ledger will allow you to capture, process, and analyze vital financial information so you know where you’ve been and can chart where you’re going.

Improve control over payables and receivables

Manage your expenses more effectively with comprehensive vendor information, payment scheduling and tracking, and up-to-the-minute answers to your current cash flow status. Maintain tight control over receivables with capabilities that help you track invoices, process receipts, and analyze customer activity, so you can manage sales made on account more effectively while lowering overhead costs.

Count on one version of the truth at all times

Whether you’re drilling down for detail on invoices or purchase orders, evaluating revenues from your e-commerce site, managing payroll, or processing multicurrency transactions, you’ll have the power of automatic information updates and seamless integration across your Great Plains solution. A broad range of reporting and business intelligence tools provide the deep visibility into accurate, current information that’s key to effective decision making — ranging from at-a-glance views for key performance indicators to cross-company reports from Microsoft Frx.

Connect financials with operations across your business

Automate financial processes to work in concert with your entire business solution to unleash efficiency, reduce costs, and improve accuracy. Your inventory will be put to the most strategic use and replenished efficiently. Accountants know who’s paying on time and who’s in arrears. Banking tasks incorporate transactions from across all areas of your business. Project costs and materials synchronize smoothly with accounting and purchasing processes.

Improve cash flow and reduce bad debt expense

Monitor, predict and manage inflows and outflows with clear, customizable information views and forecasting capabilities. In addition, you’ll boost your bottom line with streamlined efficient collections activities, including centralized customer and collections tracking and follow-up.

Maintain precise control over banking activities

Process all of your bank-related activity through a single automated intersection, including cash, check, and credit card transactions, bank account balances, and automated reconciliation. Microsoft Great Plains also enables you to manage your electronic banking in a security-enhanced environment that includes increased protection through check comparison, easy exception handling, and automated transaction matching.

Manage not-for-profit or government operations more effectively

From commitment management to fund management, Microsoft Great Plains offers tools that enable government and not-for-profit organizations to manage grants and budgets in line with goals, successfully meet regulatory requirements, and provide the accountability that helps ensure future funding.

By managing the entire sales process — from start to finish — with pinpoint accuracy, you can serve top customers more effectively, monitor fulfillment and invoicing more precisely, and streamline processes to minimize shipping costs and labor. Delight your customers and increase retention with optimized invoicing and distribution capabilities that speed inquiries and order deliveries, reduce errors, and minimize costs.

Increase sales success

Improve service and boost revenues with customer priority ranking, and expand your customer base and close more sales by tracking and managing potential customers as prospects, separate from other clients.

Increase office productivity

Improve employee effectiveness and speed through invoice entry in a single window, with the ability to view all orders, invoices, back orders, and returns in one location.

Fully automate your invoicing

Expand your distribution capabilities and gain flexibility in reporting, order management, inventory control, and general ledger with seamless integration to other Microsoft Dynamics™ GP applications.

Take control of your business processes, build lasting vendor relationships, and minimize costs. Advanced automation reduces the time and effort to manage purchase order processes, and robust capabilities empower employees with tools to track and manage vital commitments on the fly and information to make smart business decisions.

Streamline business processes

Take control of your purchase process, improve accuracy, and increase employee productivity by automating routine purchasing tasks.

Reduce operational costs

Reduce repetitive data entry and help eliminate costly mistakes by moving your requisition process online with Requisition Management for Business Portal.

Access mission-critical information

Get instant answers to questions and maintain complete purchasing audit control with detailed information tracking and management capabilities, and track and analyze purchase activity with a comprehensive selection of reports.

Establish long-term contracts with vendors

Use blanket purchase orders to record and track extended purchases, giving you greater negotiating power with your vendors and simplifying contract purchase processes.

Monitor landed costs more effectively

Maintain tight tracking control over costs associated with inventory items, and easily assign or modify costs on a purchase order as items are received.

Integrate powerfully

Expand your business potential with smooth integration that consolidates purchasing processes and shares data with other Microsoft Dynamics™ GP modules such as Sales Order Processing, General Ledger, Project Accounting, and Crystal Reports.

Microsoft Dynamics GP field service management is a solution for organizational profitability and customer satisfaction. The combination of a complete field service solution with superior business management capabilities helps you manage all aspects of your operations.

Provide better service

GP field service management improves your ability to service your customers, schedule technicians, and better manage the cost of providing field service.

Manage complex field service operations

You can manage complex field service operations with higher levels of profitability and customer satisfaction. Four powerful modules integrate essential accounting, distribution, and service processes to increase technician productivity, reduce overhead, and open up new revenue opportunities while focusing on what's important — your customers.

Comprehensive contract administration reports

Take advantage of in-depth Contract Administration reports, including a Contract Retainage Report, Contract Revenue Report (by Header), and Contract Revenue Report (by Line) to help you increase your bottom line.

Data accessibility

Engineers get information as they need it, sent directly to their mobile device. Planned journeys minimise wasted time. Actions for each job are recorded on the spot, eliminating paper service sheets. Managers control events in the field as they happen. Finance can issue invoices as soon as a job is completed. Parts management is improved.

Reliable, efficient, high-Performance communications

Underlying Wireless Intelligence Layer provides extremely reliable, efficient, high-performance communications. Users get real-time, two-way delivery. Always available, even when the mobile network coverage is poor or non-existent.

Maintain tight control over strategic direction, support resources effectively, and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget. Project Accounting connects project activities with company financials, provides extensive reporting capabilities, helps ensure accurate accounting and billing processes throughout project life-cycles, and streamlines time and expense management.

Increase employee productivity

Equip employees with easy access to key project information and templates that enable them to perform routine project and budget tasks quickly.

Track unlimited contracts and projects

Create contracts, budgets, and projects with as much or as little detail as you need. Easily track project status and profitability, labor, equipment, materials, and employee expenses.

Stay informed about budget changes and revenues

Track and control change orders by line item or by the original budget, and use enhanced reporting capabilities to display the exact information you need.

Manage Intrastat statistics

Enter and maintain the Intrastat information you need when working with European Union (EU) vendors and customers.

Work with flexible accounting methods

Gain complete control over your General Ledger accounts while maintaining the detail you require for project tracking and reporting.

Improve billing efficiencies

Automatically update project costs when products are returned to vendors, and tie landed costs such as freight and duties to project items to more accurately bill and assess profitability for projects.

Ensure timely, accurate billing

Automate invoicing processes to meet project-specific needs by tailoring billing options and customizing invoice formats.

Make your business processes work for you with the backbone of Microsoft Dynamics GP System Manager. Boost productivity by configuring your system to meet your business needs, sharing information across your organization, and by providing employees with an intuitive work environment, streamlined navigation, and productivity tools that speed access to information and let you take advantage of integrations with Microsoft Office System applications.

Configure your solution quickly and easily

Get started fast with your Microsoft Dynamics GP solution. Efficient set-up processes and easy-to-use navigation tools help you personalize your solution to meet your business needs quickly and with minimal effort.

Enhance usability

Provide users with a seamless working experience with a familiar Microsoft Office interface, list-based navigation, and streamlined menus.

Access information instantly

Instantly create queries against your data or access more than 100 modifiable SmartList queries to find customer, vendor, inventory, or other vital information, and export query results to Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and Microsoft Office Word 2003.

Give employees immediate access to relevant information

Customizable role-based home pages provide employees in professional services, distribution, retail, and public sector companies with a dashboard tailored to their daily tasks.

Put your information to work

Export query results to Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and Microsoft Office Word 2003 with a single click, so that you can update spreadsheets quickly or create mailing lists for sales and marketing initiatives.

Expand your ability to recall data

Easily manage and configure smart tags in your Microsoft Office System applications with user-interface icons that automatically recognize customer names and other vital references and link you to further information within Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Manage your banking transactions through a single, automated intersection. All bank-related activities for your business flow back to Bank Reconciliation from across Microsoft Great Plains, making it easy for you to maintain tight control of information and processes.

Features

• * Reconcile multiple accounts on a regular basis through intuitive tools.
  
  
• * Reduce administrative costs and improve your ROI with streamlined processes.
  
  
• * Speed up transaction entry and processing with flexible defaults & customizable views.
  
  
• * Help ensure accountability with complete transaction tracking reports.
  
  
• * Supports point-in-time checkbook balance inquiries and full audit trail.
  
  

Automate your critical banking activities and interact electronically with your bank with comprehensive tools that help reduce administrative costs, increase productivity, and improve cash management—in a security-enhanced environment.

Features

• * Automate reconciliation of transactions and adjustments with electronic account information
  
  
• * Easily manage exceptions, and interact with your bank over any communications link.
  
  
• * Transfer payments to vendors and employees or across accounts.
  
  
• * Add Positive Pay functionality with SafePay, including check export feature for comparison.
  
  
• * Process and match transactions from the lockbox file provided by your bank.
  
  
• * Reduce effort by setting up multiple lockbox profiles.
  
  

Electronic payment processing support for sales and receivables management in Microsoft Dynamics GP is available through the Dynamics ISV partners. Alba works with Nodus Technologies, the leading electronic payments provider for Dynamics GP, to provide customers with real-time credit card, electronic check and ACH processing.

Nodus e-payment products simplifies credit card processing from authorization to end-of-the-month reconciliation. They increase productivity, and reduces overhead by fast, secure and reliable payment processing and automatic data integration with Dynamics GP.

Nodus Credit Card Advantage

Nodus Credit Card Advantage (CCA) provides seamless integration with Dynamics GP account receivables. Here are some of its Features.

• * Verify & process credit card payments in real-time.
  
  
• * All sensitive data is encrypted to comply with PCI data security standards.
  
  
• * Allows address & CVV2 verification.
  
  
• * Supports Level 2 and Level 3 verification for corporate cards.
  
  
• * Allows customers to have multiple credit cards on file.
  
  
• * Supports email receipt upon payment capture.
  
  
• * Supports batch processing for quick data entry & integration.
  
  
• * Enables reconciliation of credit card transactions with payment gateway.
  
  
• * Supports card-present transactions.
  
  
• * Supports multiple payment gateways and processors.