1 Reply by kidzstang

(3 replies, posted in Jobs wanted/offered, non-free offers)

apmuthu wrote:

All that is required is to manually create the taxes for each State in FA and backup the tax tables for import and use by others.

I'm sorry that it has taken me so long to get back to you. I subscribed, but I guess I missed it.  I'm not sure that I understand your answer and would like to beg some more information.  Could you elaborate a bit more on this answer?  I thank you very much for your time.

Cheers,
jack

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2 Topic by kidzstang

(3 replies, posted in Jobs wanted/offered, non-free offers)

We sell products in a few different states in the US. Some states collect sales tax on every item that is sold, other states collect taxes only on specific items. I am looking to fund an effort to allow the item to be declared taxable at a rate that would be variable depending on the customer (which in my case is a state).

I would like to fund this only if the management at Front Accounting would allow this to be part of the basic product, thereby not creating any upgrade headaches for me.

What say ye?

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3 Topic by kidzstang

(0 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)

I've done a credit against a sales invoice once but either I have de-selected something in setup or I'm just dumb (probably the latter).

On what screen should the "credit this" option be available, if I want to credit a certain line item on an invoice?

Sorry for the dumb question, but I've spent a couple of hours looking for it... even though I know that it is there.

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4 Topic by kidzstang

(1 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)

I have an item with the following information (not the real information but close to it) attributed to it in the "items" tab:

Item Code: 0277654
Name: 0277654 - Very Large Thing For Very Little Money
Description: This thing is too large to be used by a human.

The invoices that I create using "Direct Invoice" show the following information:

Printed Under "Item Code" is 0277654
Printed under "Item Description" is 0277654

I'd like either the contents of the "Name" field or the contents of the "Description" field or both fieds to to be displayed under "Item Description" on the invoice.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks in advance,
Jack

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5 Reply by kidzstang

(2 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)

Yes, that's essentially what I am doing. Thanks for verifying that I'm not missing anything.

Cheers,
Jack

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6 Topic by kidzstang

(2 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)

When you change the "payment due in X days" to 0 on the payment terms, the customer address fields are not shown on the Direct Invoice page. Is there a way to change that?  We make cash sales to different people each day and would like to be able to input a customer address before printing the invoice.

Thanks,
jack

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7 Topic by kidzstang

(1 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)

I hope that there is an easy answer for this. We do web sales on OpenCart and have offerred a discount (if the customer uses a "special super-secret savings code", that we tell everyone) on the total sales amount (after the discount which may be applied at the line item level).

Providing this "super-secret" discount at the line item level will provide a different total than the OpenCart order total, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to the best way to handle this.  I was hoping that there was an option on the setup menu which would give me another line on the direct sales order screen but I haven't found it.

Has anyone conquered this issue?

Oh, I also tried creating an item of type "discount" and then tried to place it on an invoice with negative cost, but that didn't work because evidently we can't have a negative cost on an invoice. I looked around for an option to change this but haven't found it yet - anyone know of one?

We love FA, by the way and you all have been great!
Jack

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8 Reply by kidzstang

(3 replies, posted in Items and Inventory)

I just made a new item type called "Sold Items", I'll give that a try for a bit. If that doesn't suit we'll go your way. Thanks a bunch :-)

joe wrote:

The best you can do, is to inactivate the items when you do not wantt them to show up in the dropdown boxees.

Joe

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9 Topic by kidzstang

(3 replies, posted in Items and Inventory)

Hello,

The items that we sell are essentially one-of-a-kind art items. Each piece has its own item code in FA.

Once the item is sold, it will not be received or sold again.

My question stems from wanting to limit the proliferation of item codes that show up in the drop list during "Direct Invoice Entry" but not wanting to lose any information relative to the item between the time that it is purchased and sold.

If I delete an item code, will the history (Purchase Records, Sales Records, etc.) still retain the historical movements of the item?

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10 Topic by kidzstang

(2 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)

If I void a Direct Invoice, choosing > Setup > Maintenance > Void a Transaction. Will everything that was affected by the original invoice be reversed ie. inventory, cash on hand, taxes owed, etc.?

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11 Reply by kidzstang

(5 replies, posted in Setup)

Then I guess I don't know - If I need more help I'll find out.

Thanks again.

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12 Reply by kidzstang

(5 replies, posted in Setup)

Thanks,
I'm running Linux CentOS 5.4
Apache 2.2
Mysql 5.0.77
php 2.11.9.6
My entire FA working directory and all of its components has write access for all.

So after more punching around the site I was able to see the error of my ways.

Thanks to you,
Jack

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13 Topic by kidzstang

(5 replies, posted in Setup)

I created a new company and the sample data got put into it.  I know that I need to re-install a new chart of accounts and tell the system not to install the data to not have this data installed along with the COA (reading before a problem would be better but it just isn't my way of doing things).

I have made sure that all of the items were checked on the Access Setup screen for System Administrator.

I have also noticed that in the sample company when I select the System Administrator on the Access Setup screen the system will take me to the setup for the System Administrator but when I do this in my new company the system does nothing.  I have to type "System Administrator" in the User field and hit enter before the setup for this user is shown.

In the new company when I'm logged in as admin - the option in Setup to Install and New Chart of Account is greyed out and I cannot select it.

What can I do to get this option available to select?

And

Would I choose the COA listed as "Default American coa" to get the same COA that was put in during the new company setup?

When I tried to upload a new COA into the default company, the system told me that it "Cannot open the extension setup file ../company/1/installed_extensions.php for writing." 

I looked and saw that I had no such directory - I only have ../company/0 so I suppose that something is all flummoxed here. I could just create that directory ../company/1 and copy all of the components from ../company/0 but is that going to mess up something else further down the road?

I am also confused that the default company (the one that was created when I installed the package) would be looking for ../company/1, should that one not be ../company/0?

I think that I had done something that was probably not planned for - I named the default company "Company1" during installation.  Then renamed it to "Company2" after the install and created a new company named "Company1" - I think that that is where the fly got into the ointment.  I think that the system is confused.

So>.. I think my plan of attack will be as follows:

1) remove the installed FA files and the delete the current database
2) recreate the database - can I call this new database frontacc (the same name as the current database that will be deleted in step 1) or should I pick a new name?
3) reinstall FA

what do you think?

Thanks,
Jack

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14 Reply by kidzstang

(2 replies, posted in Installation)

I was a dummy - still am and always will be.  I took your instruction to "remove the install directory" to mean delete the entire /account directory.  Luckily I just moved it - after a cig I figured I'd put it back and rename the directory named "install"  viola! now I can log onto the ERP system.

Sorry for being such a dunce!

Cheers,
Jack

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15 Topic by kidzstang

(2 replies, posted in Installation)

I installed FA and got the page that states "FrontAccounting ERP has been successfully installed.

But:

I don't seem to see any files relative to the company on the server - I can't find a folder named /company/0

when I clicked on the "click here to start" I got /account/index.php was not found on this server.

What should I see after the instal relative to new files?

Where should the /company/0 folder be?

I'm stumped.

Thanks,
Jack

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16 Reply by kidzstang

(3 replies, posted in Setup)

This is how I had read the instructions but I just needed confirmation.  Thanks so much!

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17 Topic by kidzstang

(3 replies, posted in Setup)

I am a noob at installing this package on a Godaddy Virtual Private Server with CentOS and have a few questions.

Background:
I have made sure that all of the prerequisites in the Front Accounting Install Guide listed within the  "Important Notes" section are complete and verified.

I have copied the project archive to a directory called /account

I have extracted the files to /account/frontaccounting

I have created a database called frontacc in Mysql

Now I'm a bit stuck, here are my questions:

The install guide recommends keeping the install files in the /account directory;

Should I copy my files from the /account/frontaccounting directory to the /account directory?

The install guide says to install the package I type "your_url/account" and this will install the package.  I'm unsure as to where from and how this should be done.:

Do I type this command at the command line of my CentOS system or do I do it from a web browser?

Any help that you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
jack

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