SME 8.0 - New features and functionality
Open Issues from Beta:
- Formatting with indented bulleting not working.
- Extra spaces in formatting or upon print
- Printing dollar signs rather than bullets for Canada
Features
All notes fields changed from RTF to HTML
All reports are also converted including custom reports.
New editor for notes to support HTML
Automatically converts fields from RTF to HTML upon upgrade
Notice on the Work Requested tab, the right click menu changed. To apply formatting to your text, you need to right click and select Edit (image below)
Hierarchical Classes. Class and subclass handling
If class and subclass are setup in QB this will sync into SME with this hierarchy
Lookup icon next to classes to see the hierarchy. Full name uses colon : to separate class and subclasses.
Drop down shows as Class:Subclass:Sub-Subclass like in the image below.
Totals Tab Shows Profit Margin
Profit Margin (Gross Margin percent) on Totals in Proposals, Service Orders, Install Orders and Invoices
Consistent totals screen in proposals, orders, invoices
Profit Margin available in all these areas (proposals, orders, invoices)
Billing hours rounding
Billing hours rounding: Able to set the billing hours increment in minutes and allow roundup or normal math rounding. This is in Setup>Company>System along with the dispatch and hours settings.
Auto- reserve non-serialized items
Auto-reserve items that are not serialized option. This will simplify inventory allocation so that non-serialized inventory items do not need to be picked or reserved.
Customer Lists tab on contracts
Customer Lists and Customer History now shows in Maintenance Contracts
Allows users to see customer lists and history including custom fields without having to jump to the customer
Time Tracking Table
Added separate table for time tracking called taskdetail that can be connected to order and ordertask (labor item)
Billing Status changes
Billing status options to charge Fixed hours, scheduled hours, or actual time tracking hours.
Billing status on labor replaces the checkbox “Equal Billable to make scheduled = billable”
Billing status can be set as default in following areas:
- Setup>Company>Customer Defaults>Rates and Charges Defaults. This will allow setting of a default billing status for any newly generated customers.
- Customer>Rates. Once set all orders created for this customer will have this default billing status
- Service or Install Orders>Details and Settings. Once billing status is set, all new labor created will use this billing status but it can be changed.
-Service or Install Orders>Order Items>Labor.
Packages
Packages are now always broken out into line items
PO receive now reversible
GL entry changes
Modifications to cost on PO items get sent to qb GL adjustments (if GL entries are being used)
Invoices deleted in SME will remove the GL entries in QB on sync
Internal Use Flag
‘Internal use’ flag on line items = print hide on orderdetails.