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Client Resources
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EBMS Main Documentation
- Introduction
- Getting Started
- Getting Started | Initial Installation
- Getting Started | Company Setup
- Quick User Guide | Financial Staff | Accountant
- Quick User Guide | Financial Staff | Accountant | Accountants Journal
- Quick User Guide | Sales Staff
- Quick User Guide | General Staff
- Features
- Reports
- Reports | Excel Add-In
- Reports | Excel Add-In | Troubleshooting
- Security
- Server Manager
- Technical
- Technical | Data Import and Export Utility
- Technical | SQL Mirror
- Automotive
- Automotive | Parts Catalog
- Automotive | Pricing
- Automotive | Point of Sale
- Automotive | Product Application
- Automotive | Keystone Interface
- Metal Supply
- Fuel Sales
- Horticulture
- Horticulture | Farm Setup
- Horticulture | Processing Payroll
- Horticulture | Managing the Farm
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Sales
- Introduction
- Customers
- Customers | Miscellaneous Customers
- Proposals
- Proposals | Processing Proposals
- Proposals | Sets and Templates
- MyProposals
- MyOrders
- Sales Orders
- Invoices
- Materials Lists
- Sales and Use Tax
- Sales and Use Tax | TaxJar
- CRM
- CRM | Auto Send
- Recurring Billing
- Credits
- Customer Payments
- Payment Card Processing
- Payment Card Processing | Gift Cards
- Payment Card Processing | Loyalty Cards
- Payment Card Processing | Verifone Gateway
- Freight and Shipping Tools
- General Ledger Transactions
- Point of Sale
- Point of Sale | Point of Sale Hardware
- Point of Sale | Xpress POS System
- Point of Sale | Advanced Tools
- Signature Capture
- Salesperson Commissions
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Inventory
- Product Catalog
- Product Catalog | Using Product Codes for No Count Items
- Product Pricing
- Product Pricing | Special Pricing
- Tracking Counts
- Unit of Measure
- Purchasing
- Special Orders and Drop Shipped Items
- Receiving Product
- Barcodes
- MyInventory and Scanner
- Components (BOM) and Accessories
- Components (BOM) and Accessories | Component Formula Tool
- Made-to-Order Kitting
- Configure-to-Order Kitting
- Multiple Inventory Locations
- Multiple Inventory Locations | Creating Locations
- Multiple Inventory Locations | Using Multiple Locations
- Multiple Inventory Locations | Product Catalog Sync
- Multi-Vendor Catalog
- Serialized Items
- Serialized Items | Purchasing or Manufacturing an Item
- Serialized Items | Selling and/or Associating an item with a customer
- Lots
- Product Attributes
- Product Attributes | Selling and Purchasing Items with Attributes
- Product Attributes | Custom Attributes
- Mobile Scanner (Legacy)
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Labor
- Getting Started
- Workers
- Taxes and Deductions
- Work Codes
- Time and Attendance
- Time and Attendance | Time Track App
- Processing Payroll
- Closing the Payroll Year
- Processing Payroll - Advanced
- Salaried Pay
- Piecework Pay
- Direct Deposit
- 3rd Party Payroll Service
- Subcontract Workers
- Flag Pay
- Prevailing Wages
- MyDispatch
- MyTasks
- MyTime
- MyTime | Communications
- MyTime | Setup
- Tasks
- Tasks | Getting Started
- Tasks | Creating Tasks
- Tasks | Scheduling Tasks
- Tasks | Customizing Task Views
- Tasks | Managing Tasks
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Financials
- Introduction
- Fiscal Year
- Chart of Accounts
- Budget
- Financial Reporting
- Transactions and Journals
- Transactions and Journals | Journals
- Account Reconciliation
- 1099
- Departments and Profit Centers
- Fund Accounts
- Bank Accounts
- Bank Feed
- Vendors
- Vendors | Miscellaneous Vendors
- Purchase Orders
- Expense Invoices
- Vendor Payments
- AP Transactions
- Landed Cost
- Fixed Assets and Depreciation
- Fixed Assets and Depreciation | Fixed Assets
- Fixed Assets and Depreciation | Fixed Assets | Adding Assets
- Fixed Assets and Depreciation | Processing Depreciation
- Fixed Assets and Depreciation | Disposing Assets
- MyJobs
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E-commerce
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Rental
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Job Costing
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Manufacturing
Making a Vendor Inactive
A vendor should never be deleted (even when the vendor no longer exists) unless there have never been any transactions with the vendor. It is possible to delete a vendor when no new transactions have occurred within the years maintained by the system. For example, if all transactions with that vendor occurred four years ago or before and all those transaction years have been removed from the system using the purge utility, that vendor could be safely deleted. An easy way to check whether a vendor has history is to look for year tabs on their vendor account record.
Instead of deleting a vendor record entirely, these alternative actions are recommended:
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Merge the existing vendor account with another vendor account. This option is the preferred option if accounts were duplicated, or two accounts need to be merged into one. Review Merging Accounts vs. Deleting Accounts for more details.
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Change the vendor status to Inactive. Once a vendor is made inactive, the account will be removed from a number of reports. Inactive vendors remain in the same folder location but may be hidden from search lists by unselecting Show Inactive at the bottom of the list.
Take the following steps to make a vendor inactive:
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Open the vendor window by selecting Expenses > Vendors.
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Select the vendor to be made inactive.
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Enable the Inactive checkbox for the selected vendor account page. (This option can be found in the upper right-hand corner of the General tab.)
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Save the status change by clicking the OK button.
To make a vendor active again, disable the Inactive checkbox option.
NOTE: All inactive (accounts, vendors, etc.) will be grayed on the search lists when the Show Inactive option is enabled at the bottom of the list.