After 4 months of hard work, we will launch our May 2012 upgrade on Sunday the 27th. This upgrade introduces breaking changes to the way Inventory Transaction documents (Goods In/Goods Out/Goods Transfer/Goods Returns) are handled. It also adds new megaventory modules and functionality to the existing ones. We explain the breaking changes below: 1. New…
Online ERP Guide for Small and Very Small Businesses
In our effort to make the life of small and very small business owners that much easier, we decided to collect all useful content that’s been posted in this blog in a handy PDF guide. The ‘Online ERP Guide’ is made up by two sections. The first part introduces the basic concepts (what is…
Transforming the Future of ERP Software for Unstoppable Manufacturing Growth
Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally published in may 2012 and has been fully updated and improved in september 2024 to be comprehensive and easily understood. ERP is a software that maps real-life business processes in the computer for analysis and reporting. We’ve also written an introductory blog post about what ERP software is….
Open or closed cloud?
As a small business owner you have the choice of running your business software either on your own server/PCs or in the cloud. Each choice has some pros and cons but overall, the scale weighs towards the cloud. When it comes to small businesses in particular the choice is pretty straightforward: there isn’t really any…
What the cloud doesn’t do doesn’t matter
Much as I can admit to learning and being inspired by reading other people’s rants on the blogosphere, it’s very easy to be disoriented and misguided by certain staff. Case in point this post by Alex Haislip in Techcrunch itself. Alex Haislip’s main premise is that cloud computing only expands and doesn’t make obsolete computing…
New feature – Spanish Language in Megaventory
We are extremely happy to announce to our Spanish speaking users that the Spanish translation of megaventory has been 100% revamped and its beta tag has been waived! Here is a screen-shot of the ‘On-hand Inventory and Alerts’ page in Spanish: On-Hand and Inventory Alerts in Spanish Major localization improvements will follow for the rest…
New feature – Sales Order APIs launched!
We are pleased to announce that three API functions have just been released for the CSV, JSV, JSON, XML, and SOAP protocols. The API functions are related to: Retrieving Sales Orders [API name: SalesOrderGet] Inserting & Updating Sales Orders [API name: SalesOrderUpdate] Cancelling Sales Orders [API name: SalesOrderCancel] With those in place, a developer can…
The long tail of business software
Following the previous post about where things seem to be going, here’s another one that offers a similar insight into the future. (credit) This Techcrunch guest post by Robert Scoble – in usual Scoble style – rants about a number of things but here’s what intrigued me: Scoble notices that, nowadays, large cloud computing companies…
7 Reasons Why Cloud Computing Will Boost Your Business
Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally published in March 2012 and has been fully updated and improved in July 2023 to be comprehensive and easily understood. During the last few years, there’s been an increase in consumerization. This means people want to use simple yet effective tools that will boost their businesses. In other…
New Tutorial Video on Purchase Orders, Sales Quotes and Sales Orders
We’ve just posted a new 5min short video explaining the basic workflow in Purchase Orders, Sales Quotes and Sales Orders. You may view it on YouTube or click to view it below: