How's Progress on the New ManagePLUS?

Another plus, is that HTML format lends itself to being archived, so this is the first of our newsletters that will be archived on www.goflagship.com. From now on, you'll be able to go to the News tab on our Web site and look up prior newsletter issuess.

If you have comments on the new format or any problems with it, please email us at info@goflagship.com.

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Web Site News
Consultants & Info Directory Continues to Grow!
Need QuickBooks setup or accounting assistance by phone? On-site help? QuickBooks training? A label printer that works with QuickBooks? Read on...

Continued growth of our new Consultants & Information Directory (www.goflagship.com/links.htm) makes it a great place to connect with consultants and others who can meet your needs for QuickBooks information, software, and related products. Several consultants and other businesses have recently added listings to the Directory.

Here's a current count of listings in various Directory categories. Clicking on any entry in this table lets you jump to the corresponding Directory page on our Web site.

What's Up in the Discussion Forums?
If you aren't visiting our Web site's Discussion Forums, you're missing out on some good QuickBooks information. While there hasn't been an overabundance of messages posted since we installed the new (easier to use) forum software, the quality of the posts has been good.

How Can I Know When there are New Forum Messages?
Actually, it's easy. Just register as a forum member--it costs nothing. To register, you set up a forum "nickname" or "handle" to go by (so you can stay anonymous in the forums if you wish), choose a password to use, and supply your email address--which lets the forum software send you email notifications.

Software Development News
How's Progress on the New ManagePLUS?
We can hardly produce a newsletter without addressing the question that so many are asking: "When will the new ManagePLUS be ready?"

As we've said for some time now, we still expect ManagePLUS 2.0 to be released late in 2005. Our position is that software "isn't ready until it's ready": we cannot accurately predict the release date if we want to release a quality product.

Though it won't get the new ManagePLUS into your hands any sooner, might a few feature details at least give you something to anticipate as you wait for ManagePLUS 2.0? Sorry, it's the best we can do for now. Here goes...

• The old ManagePLUS could only work with one date range--one accounting period--at a time, and that period was defined by the current set of transactions you had imported from QuickBooks. This wasn't so bad if you mostly worked with the current accounting year. But what if you wanted to go back and examine a report for "last year"?
  
  Unfortunately, this meant you had to obliterate your current-year entries for Accounts and Classes--things like the amount of production (bushels, pounds, etc.) or consumption (gallons of fuel) in various enterprises--and replace them with entries that pertained to "last year" (crop yields, etc. for that accounting period). Then, when you were done looking at the "last year" report, you had to re-type the Account and Class entries for the current period.
  
  Well, you won't have to do that with ManagePLUS 2.0. It maintains a database of any number of accounting periods you may define, retaining all of the Account and Class (enterprise) entries for each period. So you can go back to any prior period and get a report, with little effort. And you can define accounting periods however you like--as months, quarters, years, etc.
  

• ManagePLUS 2.0 will also maintain a database of all transactions imported from QuickBooks. So getting a report for any accounting you've defined will be quick, because only new and changed transactions need to be imported from QuickBooks, not "all" transactions for the period.
  

• Having a "live" database of QuickBooks transactions (and reference lists such as Accounts and Classes) offers a number of benefits, plus potential for several additional ManagePLUS features.
  
  One of those features is the ability for ManagePLUS users to create their own custom report layouts, to meet reporting needs beyond the base set of reports ManagePLUS provides. If feature does not make it into ManagePLUS 2.0, it will be high on the priority list for ManagePLUS 2.1.

We appreciate everyone's patience, and we hope you'll find the new ManagePLUS was worth the wait!

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