Acctivate has the option to include quantities on POs in the available quantity. When this option is enabled, quantities of items that are on Purchase Orders, but have not been received, will be included in the warehouse’s available quantity. This allows…
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Repeat Lot/Serial attributes on receipts
Acctivate includes an inventory option which allows the attributes of Lot and/or Serial numbered items to be repeated automatically. This option can be useful when receiving in several lots/serial numbers for the same product. The attributes which can be copied automatically are…
Posted in Configuration, Inventory
3PL EDI Partner Workflow Status Options
When setting up a 3PL (Third Party Logistics) warehouse trading partner, there are some options that can be configured in relation to Acctivate sales order workflow statuses and the 940 Warehouse Shipping Order transaction. Configuring workflow status for exported orders: With the…
Posted in EDI
Receive “Posting a Landed Cost transaction is not allowed…”
Users may receive the message below when trying to post a landed cost. Could not post inventory transaction due to following errors: Posting a Landed Cost trnsaction is not allowed when the configuration optoin ‘Allow added cost transactions’ is unchecked.…
Posted in Inventory
Sending email messages from Acctivate using Google Apps for Business email
Acctivate supports outgoing email using Gmail through Google Apps for Business.The configuration and initial setup slightly different then setting up a standard Gmail account . The email account settings can be configured per user in the user section of Configuration Management or you can define…
Posted in Email
Create Users
Users can be setup and maintained in the configuration manager of Acctivate. You can create users and assign specific permissions to that user to limit their access as necessary. Users also have options related to email and startup options. To create…
Backordered Quantity Reserves Product
Acctivate includes a sales order option which determines how the quantities are scheduled on new sales orders and when using the schedule feature in the Business Alerts window and on the sales order window. To toggle this option, go to…
Posted in Configuration, Sales
Credit Hold vs. Over Limit vs. Overdue
When creating a sales order you may find that a credit status is preventing you from processing the order. A sales order can have one of the following credit statuses: Credit Hold Over Limit Overdue A notification is displayed on…
Posted in Sales
Using Count Cycles
Since performing an inventory count requires your to stop all inventory transactions for the products you are counting, it can be difficult to find time to count all of your inventory at one time. Fortunately, Acctivate allows you the ability…
Posted in Inventory
