Archive for December, 2008
Computer Performance and Stability Tips
Happy New Year! To help you have a more successful New Year, we offer these 14 tips on improving the performance of your computer. If you are unsure about how to follow the tip, or our instructions do not match what you see on your PC, then find out more information before proceeding.
Tip1: Always leave [...]
Published by Joe on December 31st, 2008 tagged Tips & Tricks, Training | Comment now »
Printing 1099s
With tax season upon us, here is some timely information on printing your vendor 1099-MISC forms. This post assumes you already have some working knowledge of the Cougar Mountain accounting program.
The Current Year End that the 1099’s use are found in AP Module Preferences window. If it shows the wrong date, the Current Year End is changed by [...]
Published by Joe on December 29th, 2008 tagged Tips & Tricks, Training | 2 Comments »
5 Star Review for FUND Nonprofit Software
Cougar Mountain Software starts 2009 on top with ANOTHER 5 Star Review from CPA Technology Advisor. This award goes to our CMS Professional FUND software. The review highlights Not-For-Profit Accounting Software and praises CMS Professional FUND software for its ease of use, multiple features and value. Anna M Sheets writes;
“Cougar Mountain Software offers CMS [...]
Published by Joe on December 23rd, 2008 tagged Marketing | Comment now »
Backup your files. I will say it again. BACK UP YOUR FILES!!
This is drilled into every businesses head on a very constant basis, but not every business takes backups seriously. A backup will save a great deal of time and money should something go wrong with the accounting system.
What if your system crashes? Westtech Rigging works with Cougar Mountain Software’s SinglePoint server, which allows them to [...]
Published by angie on December 17th, 2008 tagged Tips & Tricks | 1 Comment »
Automatic Purchase Orders
Cougar Mountain Purchase Order module will automatically create PO’s for you, based on the amount of inventory stock you currently have on-hand. And its easy to set up!
First you need to have it set up to operate correctly. In the IN Stock window (INV > Stock > Stock Item Maintenance), there are two fields [...]
Published by Joe on December 15th, 2008 tagged Tips & Tricks, Training | Comment now »
Exporting to Excel
Cougar Mountain Software allows you to place your information into Excel, and there are two common ways to do it. The most common way is to use the Spreadsheet Export feature in GL:
Published by Kevin on December 11th, 2008 tagged Tips & Tricks, Training | Comment now »
Paying Commissions in Payroll
Our system trainer was recently asked how to set up payroll with employees who are paid both a regular pay rate, and are paid a commission. Kevin replied:
This is the #1 question asked of me in the payroll module! There are so many different ways that companies use commissions, and this is how we do [...]
Published by Kevin on December 9th, 2008 tagged Tips & Tricks, Training | Comment now »
POS Software Information
Do you use POS Software, or maybe are thinking about it? We would like to recommend to you a website that provides lots of information about retail software: www.possoftware-info.com.
POS Buyer Guides
POS Checklists
POS Directories
POS Organizations
POS Hardware
POS Blogs
The main gist of the website is to help you find a POS solution that is right for [...]
Published by Joe on December 3rd, 2008 tagged Tips & Tricks | 1 Comment »
Purge Open Items in AP
A customer asked about the process of Purging Open Items in the Accounts Payable module: “What does “purging” actually do? Does it remove zeroed items from reports only? Can you still look up these transactions in the history file?”
The Purge Open Items utility will remove all items with a $0 amount remaining. For [...]
Published by Kevin on December 2nd, 2008 tagged Tips & Tricks, Training | 2 Comments »
Year-End Closing Preparation: Create a History Company
It’s getting closer to year-end closings and Cougar Mountain Software wants to offer some tips to make closing a little bit easier.
A great idea for any business is to create a history company prior to closing out the year. As you know once the year is closed, it cannot be reopened. This can become an issue [...]