Simply Orders 1.3

Simply Orders: Open Source Edition comes with all the benefits of having your own Access database, without having to spend months starting from a blank screen. Can be fully customised and shared on a network with no additional cost per user. Links with Word, Excel and Outlook, as well as built-in facility to email invoices and reports as pdf attachments.

Start Today, Minimal Setup and Learning Curve

· Clear visual layout – easily and quickly see what orders and products you need to despatch today, this week, this month, etc

· Takes seconds to install – database is packaged with professional installation software

· Attach copies of saved emails, files or scanned documents to orders

· Displays order values in the currency set in Windows Control Panel.

Manage Your Business

· Print or email professional looking order confirmations, despatch notes, returns labels invoices / credit notes and customer statements (email requires MS Outlook)

· Track Customer Payments and Credits

· Record Full or Partial Invoice Payments

· Calculate Sales Tax / VAT

· See, at a glance, customers’ contact details, account balances and full transaction histories

· Setup customer specific standard discount rates and payment terms

· View, print, email or export to Excel – sales, % on-time delivery, order lead-times, returns / credits raised, what you’re owed (aged debtors) and how many working days on average each customer takes to pay.

Microsoft® Access Database

· Works with MS Access 2000 or later

· Can be shared on a network – no additional cost per user

· Stable and reliable MS Access back-end

· Changes can be made quickly and cost effectively – open source edition comes with the database template, which you can customize to your own business

· MS Office® integration – email orders and reports with Outlook, export order data to Excel; mail-merge with Word

Access is installed on most user’s PCs as part of the Microsoft® Office suite (but a free “run-time” version is available if not – see our FAQ on the support page)