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Hi Joe,

Yes, setting 'Show Item Codes' solves that problem, but the focus doesn't move to the quantity field when you hit the TAB key (suggest that TAB should do that & ENTER should submit the line, as this is the behaviour users expect to see).

I can confirm that the JS code doesn't work at all in Safari, but I wouldn't consider this critical at the moment.

Here's some additional comments received from the client who is test-driving FA & comparing it with Sage - your comments would be appreciated ...

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'Hi Steve

I have been working through FrontAccounting again and have found a few more questions

In sale orders

When processing a sales order it does not tell you that an item is out of stock or that you do not have enough stock until you invoice. The delivery note is printed with the full figure that they ordered. This should be the qty we have on stock. It looks like we have to alter the qty manually when we invoice but you have to look in the inventory to see what stock you have and then go back to the invoice page to amend the qty and then select to put the remaining on back order. Can the computer not adjust this?

On sage it works where you enter a SOP then allocate the stock. It then shows as complete or part so you know there are backorders. On the delivery note sage shows qty ordered and qty sent in two separate columns so the customer knows that the products have been back ordered.

On sage we can also alter the qty that is allocated so if we want to only allocate a certain amount of product to a certain customer we can amend the amount of stock allocated. This is useful as sometimes we like to only backorder full carton qty’s for a particular customer to make it easier to process the back orders.

Is it possible to show the inventory levels in a box on the bottom left hand side for the item you are processing at that moment for instance if you are adding item 0010 when you go to description, then qty etc can it show the qty in stock and what is on order?

There does not seem to be anyway of showing that an order is incomplete when in the search sales orders.

How do you release a backorder?

Can we automatically number the backorders so that a backorder of SOP #1  is 1a and then if it is still not complete the next time a back order is release it is 1b etc. Hope you get what I mean.

Item

When you look at an item we need to know the cost price, the activity ie how many we have sold each month in total and a breakdown of the previous transactions as well as the qty on hand, qty on order, re order level.

Purchase order

When placing an order we need to know what is the shortfall ie the difference between the reorder level, amount on hand and any items backordered. Then we need to be able to create an order from the shortfall without inputting all the items.

SOP

Can we sort the data by customer # number , customer, date etc.

Backorder report

We will need to amend this - we only want the items that are being sent to the customer to appear on the report and not the entire order.

Will keep playing and let you know what I come up with.'
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FYI, I've done work with the webERP team in the past, so have a reasonable knowledge of the DB structure & logic. I expect that I will be doing quite a bit on FA in the coming months - will feed it back to you as it happens.

Kind regards,

Steve