UPDATES

Welcome to the FastManager update manager.
Our latest revision is 2009.10. Please remember to run this update routine on every computer that has FastManager installed on it. Every computer should run the same revision.

TIP: If you close FastManager before you run the update you will not need to restart your computer for the changes to take effect. .

IMPORTANT INFORMATION !

You need to have FastManager 2008 installed on your computer in order for this update to work.
If you still have FastManager 2007 installed, click here, to update to FastManager 2008 first.
Nov 9th 2009 - Revision 20

Undo/Redo
There is now an undo and redo button on the sales screen. You can undo any changes you made in the grid portion of the sales screen. There is no limit to the number of undos

Mailing Labels
You can now print customer mailing labels. From the 'View' menu select 'Customer List'. If you click on the 'Print' button you will see the various options on printing labels as well as a link to the help topic.

Export E-Mail Addresses
From the 'View' menu, select 'Customer List' if you now click on the 'Export' button you have the option export your customer email addresses.

Report on inactive customers
There is a new report that will show you a list of customers who have not placed and order since a specified date.

July 15th 2009 - Revision 10

Flexible Markups
Apply different markup tables to an item based on the customer’s industry. E.g. you can markup schools differently from corporations.

Don't loose the original paperwork
Scan customer faxed orders, hand drawings or anything else directly into FastManager. You can scan directly into the ‘Design Detail ‘screen as well as the ‘Sales Order Attachments’ screen.

Scan logo from business cards
You can also scan thumbnail pictures directly into the ‘Design Screen’

Better navigation
Jump directly to the item maintenance screen from the PO Wizard. Simply right click on any item and you open the selected item for editing.

Better navigation
Double click on any work order row in the PO Wizard and the work order will open up in the sales screen

Seamless ASI
You can now right click on any ASI line item and add ASI instructions as well as attach files which will automatically print on the purchase order you send. You can also access the above screen from the Job board

Better file management
There is a new ‘Locate’ button under the linked files in the design detail screen. When selecting a file you can simply click on that button and FastManager will open windows explorer highlighting that file. You can then simply drag that file onto a disk or anywhere else. This is very convenient to copy .dst file to floppy disks.

If you wear different hats.
You can now create multiple job board layouts per computer. This means you can now have a layout for printing purposes and one for viewing etc.

Felixble filter options.
Include or Exclude multiple work order statuses in the Job Board filter options

Better navigation
Print customer proofs directly from the Job board

More control
GP Percentage shows on the Job Board and is great to monitor sales reps entering new orders at a too low margin.

Fast Actions
Change the supplier on the fly from the sales screen. Right click on any line item and select ‘Change Supplier’

Stock Control
If you have the stock module activated: o You can issue stock directly after you created the work order. o You can also issue stock directly from the Job Board. o Right click on any item in the PO Wizard and adjust the stock on hand. This is very convenient when you try to order items and FastManager tells you, you have some in stock. You may know you have less in stock as a few items have been shop soiled. You can then quickly write off those item on the fly.

Commision Exclusions
You can select to exclude certain line items from sales commisions. Simply right click on any line item in the sales screen and flag it to be excluded from sales commisions. If you then run the Profit and Payment Analysis report, select the 'Commision Report' check box which will adjust the values to exclude those line items that you don't pay commision on. E.g. Shipping charges.

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