Acctivate offers an option to include or exclude shipping charges from being calculated in an invoice discount, when the discount is a percentage on the Invoice. By default, the option “Shipping charges are ineligible for invoice discount” is disabled. This means…
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Acctivate 10 distributes Microsoft SQL Server 2014
With the release of Acctivate 10, Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Express will now be distributed in the new server installation of Acctivate. If you are installing Acctivate for the first time, this version of SQL Server will be installed during the…
Posted in Installation
Acctivate ID and Password required during installation
Starting in Acctivate 10, users will be required to enter in their Acctivate ID and Password during the installation of Acctivate, including all Updates. Your Acctivate ID and Password were provided during the initial registration of Acctivate. If you aren’t…
Posted in Installation
Authorize a credit card
Starting in Acctivate 10, users can now authorize a credit card on a Sales Order prior to invoicing the Order and charging the Credit Card. This allows users to validate the credit card and put a hold on the funds prior to…
Posted in Sales
Could not install Microsoft .NET 3.5 (Error 1)
Acctivate’s server installer distributes and installs Microsoft .NET 3.5 if this Windows component wasn’t previously installed. In a clean installation of Windows, Microsoft .NET 3.5 may not be currently installed. During the installation of Acctivate, users may receive the error, below.…
Posted in Installation
Selling into the Negative
Acctivate allows users to sell items into negative quantities based on user permissions. When a user has the ability to Override Scheduled Qty on a sales order, they have the ability to schedule an item into negative availability, as well as…
Posted in Inventory
Acctivate EDI functions have been moved into Acctivate Desktop
In Acctivate version 10 and later, users will no longer need to process EDI transactions via EDI Manager. After updating, you’ll receive a message to uninstall EDI Manager when logging into Acctivate. Click Yes to begin the uninstallation process. To get…
Posted in Configuration, EDI
Acctivate Window Guide
Acctivate 10 will be introducing several improvements to the user interface. To learn more about a specific window in Acctivate, including updated version 10.0 screenshots, click one of the links below: Customer Information window Product Information window Sales Order window Sales…
Posted in Getting Started
Crystal Reports excludes time from Date-Time fields
In the Acctivate database, date fields such as EntryDate on a Sales Order and CreatedDate on a Customer record are stored in Date-Time format (1900-01-01 00:00:00). When including this information on a report in Crystal Reports, you may see Date-Time fields represented…
Posted in Reports
Modifying an existing Microsoft Query in Excel
Microsoft Excel, when linked to an Acctivate database via ODBC, can be a useful tool to quickly return data from Acctivate. Acctivate QuickBooks Inventory Software was designed to automate, track, simplify and securely manage growing business needs all within the…
