KISS Distinctive Features
K.I.S.S - Keep It Simple Software
DISTINCTIVE FEATURES of KISS
System Wide
- A Hot key pop-up calculator may be used for miscellaneous
calculations. Can also be used to pull in a numeric on-screen
field value, manipulate it mathematically, and optionally store
the result back to the screen as the keyed value.
- 'List to the screen', search, and highlight your choice for any
master file or table in the system. This option is always
available when an entry for one of these is required such as an
account number, customer number, part number, etc.
- A reminder system alerts the user of all coming events within the
next 7 days whenever the KISS system is entered. Everything
happening today is also displayed at each application menu. Annual
events, monthly events, and appointments with times may be set up.
- A Hot key popup menu of up to 5 DOS commands may be configured.
These may be for printer selection, status display, etc.,
using DOS .com, .exe, or .bat commands.
- Data file integrity is ensured thru constant monitoring of record
delimiters and field structure of all input disk data.
General Ledger
- Quick Profit/Loss single-screen display for the last 14 months.
Also shows the current balances of the Bank account, Accounts
Receivable, and Accounts Payable. If the G/L is out of balance
(heaven forbid), that will be noted also.
- During the first month of the new year, monthly budget amounts
may be changed manually, or adjusted up or down by a percentage,
or changed to last year's actual amounts, then adjusted.
- Posting detail is retained for the last 14 months and is
accessable on screen or on detailed reports. Detail older than
that (if not intentionally purged) may be accessed using the R/W
quick report feature.
- When listing a G/L account's posting detail to the screen, any
line item may be selected to show the other accounts posted
(distribution) with the selected item.
- During the first month of a new fiscal year, journal entries may
be posted to any month of the old year. After that (next 11
months), journal entries may be be posted to the last month of
the old year, even if the old year has been closed.
- Other modules (A/P, P/R, etc.) post only to the current,
previous, or next month, according to the transaction date used.
Accounts Payable
- Each vendor master has a field for your account number with them,
such as your customer number, or your federal or state ID number.
If not blank this will print on checks.
- Each vendor master has a field for the default G/L account to
expense. It may be used or overridden when entering invoices.
- Use a due date of 999999 to hold an invoice. It will be skipped
when paying all invoices within a due date range.
- Option to print invoice paid detail on the check stub, or total
only.
- Address a label or envelope from the vendor master screen.
- Change the upper case name and address to lower case with
capitals beginning each word.
Accounts Receivable
- Up to 6 telephone numbers may be entered for each customer.
- Address a label or envelope from the customer master screen.
Print the return address if needed.
- Invoicing and payment detail for each customer may be kept
indefinitely. Purge paid invoices and payment detail based on a
keep-after date.
- Print statements using a start date for paid detail.
- Change the upper case name and address to lower case with
capitals beginning each word.
- Print various size and 1-4 across mailing labels based on
customer status and type.
- Customer aging is not an updating process. Aging reports are
based on the due dates compared to up to 4 dates you input.
- Only summarized invoices (totals) are stored for each customer.
Detailed invoicing is performed and stored in Order
Entry/Invoicing (if used).
Payroll
- Up to 15 user configured adjustments may be set up. These may be
deductions, allowances, or benefits. They can handle cafeteria
plans, 401k, labor union dues, insurance deductions, matching
employer benefits, rates per hour, percent of gross, a percentage
of another adjustment and may be taxable or non-taxable. If the
work codes are used as state disablity insurance rates, a
deduction and/or benefit may be tied to the work code used for
the employee.
- Quick snapshot backup of the P/R and G/L files just prior to
running payroll.
- Tax tables may be updated from diskette, or edited by the user.
State tax tables are programable, providing a solution for the
many different taxing formulas.
- More than one locality w/h tax per employee may be setup.
- Store each employee's ID number with expiration date. Can be used
for drivers licence, alien ID, etc.
Miniumum wage checking is performed when entering hours and
piecework.
- Handles Washington state SUTA reporting.
- Can key on a G/L account for splitting out distributions to other
G/L accounts.
- Can key on a G/L account for percentage distributions to Jobs or
Crops.
- Cut a draw check or draw receipt, and at the same time set up the
deduction amount to be paid back each pay period.
Order Entry/Invoicing
- Maintain a history file of detailed invoices as large as disk
space allows. Searching, lookup, and reports are the same as the
current file.
- Quotes may be entered and saved. Detail from quotes may be copied
into an order or another quote. New quotes may use automatic
sequential numbering.
- Open order analysis shows shipable orders based on available
inventory, prioritized by expected date. User may input a maximum
number of line items per order that may be back ordered. Results
may be used for automatic shipping and printing of packing lists.
- Sales analysis for any date range by salesman or customer shows
part numbers sold with quantities, costs, prices and profit
margin.
- Transfer sales activity from a branch site to the main site via
diskette or modem. Will update the home site Order Entry, A/R,
Inventory, and G/L.
- Use 2 series of automatic order numbering. Example: one for sales
orders, the other for service orders.
- Flag drop ship orders (direct from vendor to customer) and use
for cutting the P/O to the vendor.
Inventory
- Internal audit trail tracks all changes to the on hand quantity
or unit cost of each part. Includes either the operation or
document, old and new value, the date and time, and who did it.
Reports (on screen or printed) may be run with date range, part
number and other searching criteria.
- Each part nnumber has three extra 30 character descriptions. Each
may be designated for printing on an invoice, a P/O, or for
internal info only.
- Cross-reference multiple part numbers (ie, customers numbers,
brand name part numbers) to your own in-house part number.
- An Alternate part number and description may be used for a vendor
part number and pulled into a P/O.
- Price changes may be be performed on ranges or categories of part
numbers, using a percentage up or down, based on either the unit
cost or current price.
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