Big Business combines sales automation, a marketing database, contact management, inventory tracking, and full-featured accounting to run your entire company.

While you concentrate on serving your customers and increasing sales, Big Business works behind the scenes to manage sales quotes, mailing lists, stock levels, shipments, payments, receivables, and more.

Designed especially for businesses that buy or sell products, Big Business has 90 company templates for retail, wholesale, distribution, and more.

Here are some key features of "Big Business":

Sales:
· Stores complete customer information and transaction histories.
· Stores Attachments, Notes, Tags, and twelve custom fields.
· Handles multiple ship-to and bill-to addresses.
· Prints custom sales reports.
· Tracks commissions and royalties.
· Memorizes common transactions.
· Calculates profitability and lets you change profit margins on the fly.
· Creates and places sales orders, automatically converts quotes to sales orders.
· Creates invoices rapidly, automatically convers sales orders to invoices.
· Invoices customers with complete payment and accounting histories.
· Tracks backorders and shipments.
· Lets you set reminders and keep a calendar.
· Manages complex sales taxes.
· Drills down multiple levels.

Marketing:
· Offers full-featured contact manager.
· Imports and exports data at any time.
· Improves company communication through built-in e-mail.
· Offers complete printing options, including labels, envelopes, mail lists, etc.
· Targets customers by allowing you to add identifying tags to customer records.
· Converts contacts to customers or vendors at the click of a button.

Purchasing:
· Stores comprehensive vendor information and transaction histories.
· Stores Attachments, Notes, Tags, and twelve custom fields.
· Provides vendor purchase orders with backorder tracking and receiving histories.
· Completes purchase orders automatically using needed or order at least quantities.
· Offers drag-and-drop or automatic scheduling of payments.
· Automates check runs.
· Tracks discounts and discount periods.
· 1099 and Tax ID# tracking.
· Maintains a secure audit trail and prevents overpayments.
· Uses vendor ETA Days to calculate sales ETAs.

Inventory:
· Tracks backorders.
· Tracks item weight.
· Provides flexibility by letting you customize vendor and inventory fields.
· Lets you define up to five item price levels.
· Stores inventory purchasing data and transaction histories.
· Adjusts inventory items.
· Calculates inventory turns.
· Lists and manages items in product builds.
· Creates bundled inventory items.
· Generates purchase reports.
· Allows long item descriptions of up to 32K.

Accounting:
· Maintains a general journal.
· Reconciles accounts.
· Complies with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
· Has over 90 industry-specific chart of accounts.
· Prints financial reports that you can customize.
· Tracks bank account information with reconciliation histories.
· Transfers funds.
· Restricts transaction modifications by calendar periods.
· Generates deposit slips.
· Processes and prints checks.
· Connects to professional payroll programs.
· Tracks vendor invoices.
· Schedules vendor payments with easy rescheduling capability.
· Provides complete category and account information with budgeting capability.
· Lets you choose international currencies.
· Provides a complete posting view of transactions.
· Drills down from posting line item to transaction record.
· Notifies you of credit holds.
· Tracks accounts receivable/payable.

Internet:
· Generates Web pages of items in inventory for online catalogs.
· Manages links for three-level pages.
· Lets remote users access data via a Web browser using the optional Web Server add-on.

Business Management:
· Single and client/server versions available to grow with your company.
· Lets you create custom reports and forms.
· Provides a user-customizable toolbar.
· Stores employee information.
· Offers comprehensive password security down to the field level.
· Gives complete control over data entry.
· Offers calendar view of appointments/tasks.
· Appends notes to any transaction, vendor, customer, or item.
· Imports tab-delimited text from any program.
· Includes comprehensive on-line help.
· Based on a relational data model that integrates all company data.
· Provides over 190 standard reports, queries, and graphs.
· Offers plain English question and answer queries.

Requirements:

· Macintosh Client: Macintosh G3 or better with minimum 128MB RAM.
· Macintosh Client: 100MB hard disk space.
· Macintosh Server: Macintosh G3 or better with minimum 128MB RAM.
· Macintosh Server: 100MB hard disk space.
· Macintosh Server: Ethernet network.

Limitations:

· All downloads of Big Business are full-working versions and include a Demo Data File. You can also build a new Data File that will run for 30 days or 100 in Trial Mode. When you Register, all of your work will be preserved. Trial Mode does not have any feature limitations.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Big Business 7 uses a new database engine with radical improvements:
· multi-core optimization to tap duo, quad-core, multi-cpu, etc., hardware
· native sql and schema support promise powerful access options
· client-server performance optimization for wide area networks
· Benchmarking indicates two to twelve-fold speed improvements, support for hundreds of concurrent users, billions of records, unlimited Data File size, and more.
· [Note] Icons are not displayed in the Advanced Print Options, Destination popup, or in the Tracking pop.
· [Note] The ODBC Add-On is not yet available.
· A newly Snow Leopard-certified engine update.