Alphasoft
Alphasoft Application Overview - Purchase Ledger

Alphasoft
Financial and management information solutions

Advantages
Improved spending control, cash flow and purchasing analysis are critical to the success and growth of an organisation. From small companies to large groups Alphasoft purchase ledger has been selected as a flexible yet robust part of a fully integrated systems solution.

Options
Invoices may be matched to orders and receipts in the purchase order processing or key directly. Expenses may be analysed through to nominal ledger with the option of cost centre analysis. Items may be entered directly or retained in a purchase invoice register until authorised The Alphasoft job costing option allows full jobs analysis. Cash book integration is optional. Other options include automatic payments with cheques, credit transfers and remittance advises, a BACs interface and a full user definable report writer.

Main features
  • Invoice, cash, credit note and journal transaction processing
  • Full batch control with Inbuilt software 'fault tolerance'
  • Multiple expenses analysis
  • Full and flexible cash matching
  • Automatic account number facility
  • Full search and browse facilities throughout
  • Automatic account adding from transaction entry
  • Text memorandum per account
  • Purchase invoice register option
  • Flexible payment methods including automatic payments
  • Purchase analysis by multiple criteria
  • Flexible period end processing
  • Flexible aged debt analysis
  • Screen enquiry with 'zoom' to order detail or auto print
  • Archive facility with historical analysis
  • Multiple currency option

  • Alphasoft Purchase Ledger - Checklist
    General
  • Multi-company
  • Multi-currency
  • Multi-user
  • Multi-tasking option
  • Batch controlled
  • Full audit trail
  • Full security system
  • User definable report writer
  • Automatic error detection and recovery
  • Facility to add or change records 'on the fly'
  • On-line help and desktop calculator

  • Suppliers
  • Full supplier file maintenance
  • Automatic account number generation
  • Searching and browsing by number or name, with wildcards
  • Payment type and terms
  • Bank details
  • Allocation of manager, area, type or user definable criteria
  • Recording of month and year to date statistics
  • Open item or balance forward options
  • Text memorandum per account
  • Copy, close and transfer account options

  • Transactions
  • Invoice, cash, credit note and journal transaction processing
  • Contra entries, local and inter-ledger.
  • New accounts adding during transactions
  • Due date and settlement discount (over-ridable)
  • Transaction narrative
  • Multiple expenses analysis
  • Cash sales option
  • Single, multiple or unapplied cash allocation
  • Automatic payments facilities with flexible deferral or selection of items
  • Batch control, automatic batch numbering, date and narrative options
  • Full purchase day book, cash and nominal analysis reports
  • Allocation or automatic matching after posting credits
  • Nominal ledger analysis and interface
  • Periodic purging or full detail retained
  • Option to show only 'live' transactions (hide matched items)

  • Analysis and reports
  • Full posting and purging audit trail
  • Purchase ledger batch control report
  • Aged creditors analysis with user selectable period, age and size of debt
  • Cash requirements report
  • EC VAT or cash VAT accounting analysis
  • Analysis by manager, area, type or user definable criteria
  • Analysis by value, month or year to date
  • Historical analysis and statements
  • User definable report writer

  • Other features and options
  • User definable document and batch numbers maintained
  • Locked or open accounting periods
  • Nominal ledger interface in detail or summary
  • Age by days or calendar months
  • User definable analysis fields
  • User definable remittance advises, labels etc.

  • Integrated options
  • Nominal ledger
  • Purchase order processing
  • Job costing
  • Estimating
  • Cash book
  • Output to 'open' formats: ASSCI, DIF, CSV file formats
  • Integration with Microsoft ‘desktop tools’ Excel, Access, SQL
  • E-Mail output option.

  • Notice
    The processes and all the routines contained herein are proprietary properties and trade secrets. Except as provided by license agreement, this code and documentation shall not be duplicated used or disclosed for any purpose or reason, in whole or in part, without the express written consent of The Alphasoft Consultancy Limited.
    This document is copyright of The Alphasoft Consultancy Limited.
    For more information contact Alphasoft on 020 7384 4980, fax: 020 7384 4989