Reckon Development Partner Catalogue

Although QuickBooks accounting software is used across many industries, there may be industry-specific functionality that QuickBooks does not satisfy.  Many independent third party system developers provide solutions that provide this additional functionality to QuickBooks users.

Below is a summary of software solutions that independent system developers have developed to compliment QuickBooks - possibly offering extra solutions to help you to automate tasks and processes.

Disclaimer

The list contained in this section of this web-site is a list of independent parties who provide applications and programs that integrate with Reckon Ltd programs as at the date hereof. Reckon Ltd does not and cannot warrant the quality or suitability for purpose of the applications and programmes provided by these independent parties. It is the sole responsibility of purchasers to make the appropriate enquires and satisfy themselves as to the quality, suitability and price competitiveness of the applications and programmes and any party they may choose to assist them with the installation and use of these applications and programs.

The use by the independent parties of any Reckon logos and advertising material should not be construed as the endorsement of quality, suitability or price competitiveness of the service of the independent parties, nor the applications and programmes. There is neither a relationship of agency, partnership, joint venture nor any other association between Reckon Ltd and the independent parties. The independent parties pay annual and other fees to Reckon Ltd.

Advanced Reporting solutions from:

  1. ZULU Software

  2. My Business Manager

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Software

Description



ZULU® IES Enterprise

Intelligent business management system

ZULU® IES V2.0 is the very latest in our popular business management software products. It provides full intranet and extranet capabilities inline with the demands of today's internet and web based system access requirements.

It is a comprehensive and total business management tool that seamlessly interacts with select QuickBooks® accounting software applications and is available bundled with a choice of the latest QuickBooks® licensed software including latest released upgrades to your current version.

Who should use ZULU® IES

  • All SME's currently using QuickBooks® accounting software
  • Any sized business requiring a true intranet and extranet administration system
  • Any enterprise requiring a scalable, flexible and customizable management application
  • Any enterprise seeking to save costs in IT management, maintenance and support
  • Any enterprise requiring unlimited multiple system user access under a single license

Key Features:

  • CPANEL administration accessible via the internet - including full remote access
  • Advanced role based security permissions
  • Daily planner, calendar and Outlook CRM synchronisation
  • QuickBooks® interface via Web Connector
  • ZULU® Outlook CRM synchronization
  • ZULU® Integrated Office Suite notifies the user of updates to the ZULU® system
  • Notice board and messaging
  • Interoffice Forum Communications
  • Allows for effective time management and time sheet allocation to various functions in the business and can directly relate to specific tasks within a project. All reportable to various projects or functions within a business- interacts with QuickBooks®
  • Client Relationship Manager (CRM) - interacts with QuickBooks®
  • Project management - teams/tasks/budgeting/cost centres- interacts with QuickBooks®
  • Effective QuickBooks® Item creation in line with your accounting system and all interfaced with your accounting system.
  • Chart of accounts allocation is also an available function directly interfaced with QuickBooks®.
  • Invoicing can be done directly in conjunction with the Project Manager or invoiced separately and integrated with QuickBooks®.
  • Professionals Knowledge Base(ProKB)
  • Document Manager - great for version control
  • BizFileIt™ remote file back ups/storage/ file sharing -addressing Risk Management in your business
  • Meeting directory/software log depository
  • Reporting
  • e-Newsletter system
  • Scalable, flexible and customizable 
  • Online technical support services

For an Online demonstrations call us on 1300 766 330
Or visit ZULU Software or email info@zulusoftware.com.au

My Business Manager

My Business Manager takes information directly from Quickbooks and turns it into management information that you can use to improve your profits and to grow your business.

My Business Manager compliments Quickbooks by producing Dashboards, Management reports and graphs that monitor your financial performance, enabling business analysis and “what-if” scenarios. It includes email links to your accountant or advisor so that when problems occur, you can provide the detail that they need.

To be successful, every business should Forecast, Budget and Plan.

Using historical trading results, My Business Manager can easily create

  • Cashflow forecast
  • Forecast Profit & Loss
  • Forecast Balance Sheet
  • Forecast KPIs (and their affect on your bank account)
  • Operational Budgets
  • and includes a range of Business Plans suitable for every business need.

There are two versions of My Business Manager;

Business – run it in-house or get your book-keeper to run it for you. If you need further help, email the dashboards or reports to your accountant or advisor so that they can focus on the issues.

Professional – designed for the Accountant or Advisor to enable them to provide a holistic service to their clients. Data is imported directly from Quickbooks, generating Dashboards and Reports tailored to each client. These are emailed (PDF) or printed and sent to the client with qualifications and comments on the results. This is a service that every business needs and provides the opportunity for the Accountant/Advisor to become a true Business Coach.

My Business Manager… the way all businesses should be managed!

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Data Connectivity solutions from

  1. Data Access Worldwide

  2. Purpose Built Software

Product

Software

Description

QODBC Driver for QuickBooks from Data Access Worldwide QODBC is a fully functional ODBC driver for reading and writing to QuickBooks accounting data files by using standard SQL queries. Many applications have ODBC support built-in and can automatically use QuickBooks data once this driver has been installed.
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QDashboard Automation System from Data Access Worldwide QDashboard automates the transfer of data to and from QuickBooks with very little user intervention, with no programming required! QDashboard eliminates the need to re-enter data manually, saving time and money and eliminating data transfer errors caused by manual re-entry.
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QTableGrabber Excel Add-In from Data Access Worldwide QTableGrabber is an Excel Add-In that gives you access to QuickBooks data tables with virtually no limitation on transaction accessibility other than certain payroll information that Quicken does not make available outside its QuickBooks product line.
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QReportGrabber Excel Add-In from Data Access Worldwide QReportGrabber allows you to create a live data link between QuickBooks report data and an Excel spreadsheet – all from within Excel. This innovative Excel add-in installs new menus directly in Excel, allowing you easy access to all available QuickBooks reports you are familiar with.
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QDataViewer Report Manager for QuickBooks from Data Access Worldwide QDataViewer is a multi-purpose reporting and data formatting tool designed specifically to use QuickBooks Accounting data. The expandable platform of QDataViewer allows the customer to add an unlimited number of report variations to the included "canned" templates based on a basic knowledge of Crystal Reports 9. QDataViewer does not require Crystal Reports to operate. Useful for accounting firms hoping to standardize reports for multiple clients.
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Last Price & Cost Grabber from Data Access Worldwide Last Price & Cost Grabber is a utility that displays a listing of both QuickBooks vendor costs and customer selling prices for a particular item – or range of items – in one central location. There's no need to run multiple reports or take extra time to select item filters.
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Price File Importer application from Purpose Built Software Pty Ltd For organisations that get regular updates to product line and pricing from suppliers in the form of a CD (or other file) Price File Importer allows import of selected products and pricing into QuickBooks. Allowed for is volume based pricing and tax variations. The volume based pricing is visible within QuickBooks Items as a custom field. A utility is included that allows create of Purchase Orders that use the volume based pricing. The Purchase Order create utility runs on the desktop and (optionally) on a PocketPC style device. The resultant Purchase Orders are synchronised to QuickBooks. The desktop and Pocket PC utilities are (optionally) barcode enabled.

For more info about ordering a purpose built application, click here.

Asset Management solutions from

  1. Lunic Software Pty Ltd

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Software

Description




AssetAccountant from Lunic Software Pty Ltd

AssetAccountant, for any sized business, manages Fixed Assets as well as Leases and Hire Purchase Agreements. It has been designed and built in Australia to comply with Australian statutory requirements. Timely upgrades ensure AssetAccountant stays up to date.

AssetAccountant:

  • Manages assets for Accounting and Tax
  • Manages Fixed, Leased and Hire Purchase assets in a single database
  • Provides supporting schedules for your Tax Return and Accounts
  • Tracks assets by Cost Centre, Location or any Other Category
  • Powerful integration features eliminate re-keying of data
  • Creates the journals for posting to QuickBooks

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Mobile solutions from:

  1. Purpose Built Software

  2. ConnectiX

  3. Profitlink

Product

Software

Description

Wasp Captra MobileSales PDA application from Purpose Built Software

Captra is a powerful PDA based front-end to QuickBooks. Captra enables users to carry out business functions in the field, including create and print of invoices, estimates, purchase orders and credit notes. Captra allows price lookup, stocktaking and makes available to the user all relevant customer and supplier detail. Included also is signature capture and taking of payments. Data changes are seamlessly uploaded into QuickBooks and downloaded to the PDA when the PDA is placed back into its cradle or alternatively wirelessly synchronised via the GSM, GPRS and CDMA networks.
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ConnectiX SMB In today's fast moving and competitive environment if your customer product and inventory information isn't immediately available to your field and/or sales staff you will be less effective. Now you have a real solution!

Are you frustrated with incorrect customer data, delays and the inability to perform with accurate and timely information?

Portable computing with its limitations in battery life, cumbersome start-up and delays in synchronisation back to your office, directly impact your organisation's field service and sales performance.

ConnectiX SMB Field Service and Sales Automation software, optimised for wireless handheld computers, enables field and sales staff to focus on sales, customer relationships and servicing clients.

Wireless enabled handheld computing solutions eliminate all of these frustrations by allowing your field and sales staff to work in real-time direct communication with QuickBooks.

Wireless & Mobile
ConnectiX SMB is a wireless software package designed to work on the latest wireless enabled handheld PCs. Giving you 24 hour anywhere access to all of your QuickBooks data, such as Inventory [both in the service vehicle and in-store], product information, standard sales prices and service fees, notes and other documents.

Efficiency
The ConnectiX SMB wireless handheld applications give your Field Service and Sales Management the ability to allocate and monitor sales opportunities and service activity in the field.

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Profitlink Mobility Solutions

mobileezy Business Plus and mobileezy Enterprise are the latest cost effective, easy to use innovations from Profitlink. Designed for sole traders, tradespeople, consultants and small businesses through to large corporations who still use traditional paper dockets for quotes, orders, time billing, invoices or deliveries.

By replacing old fashioned paper based dockets with a mobileezy solution for quotes, orders, invoices, time billing and deliveries, you can:

  • Eliminate handwritten errors, lost dockets and hours wasted searching through boxes of old paperwork.
  • Save up to 70 hours (or more) in administrative work.
  • Never have to re-enter order, time billing, sales and delivery information - mobileezy automatically updates all data into QuickBooks accounting software with a click of the button (even over the telephone).
  • Speed up the quote, order, invoice and delivery transactions by up to ten times (less time writing - more time to do business).
  • Capture customer signatures for quotes, credits, orders and deliveries.
  • Create customer quotes, orders, process payments and issue invoices instantly - anywhere (invoice quicker - get paid quicker).
  • Access your product, services, inventory and pricing information with a few clicks anywhere - generate accurate quotes, orders and invoices every time.
  • Access old data in seconds - no more scouring through old dockets for days on end to access credits, proof of delivery or customer records.
  • Help your entire team present a professional image to your customers

Integrates to QuickBooks Versions: QuickBooks Pro and QuickBooks Premier, 2004 and above, including 2006/07. (Will integrate with any version of QuickBooks which supports qbXML ver 3 AU).

Sales - mobileezy Business Plus and mobileezy Enterprise enables staff to access and record sales information quotes, orders, sales, payments, credits, invoice and delivery slips. With a clip-on, bluetooth, wireless, infrared or serial port printer, staff can print quotes, orders and invoices on the spot! mobileezy Business Plus and mobileezy Enterprise has head office functionality (ability to bill head office and deliver to individual outlets), and the ability to assign default customers or default jobs to PDAs.

Time Billing - Consultants and time based businesses can use mobileezy Business Plus and mobileezy Enterprise to 'clock in' and 'clock off'. The built in stopwatch functionality helps keep accurate records of all activities including billable and non-billable hours.

Data Synchronisation - One step synchronisation means all data is quickly and easily updated with each HotSync operation - even over the telephone, the internet, wireless networks, or via bluetooth!

Record customer signatures - Signing paper dockets are now a thing of the past - staff can get your customers to sign for orders and deliveries on the mobileezy Business Plus screen and store them in the mobileezy desktop application for future reference.

Pricing functionality - Multiple pricing structures for different clients - automated pricing control managed by head office! Also the ability to review customer accounts receivables - enabling you to check their account status before supply new items!

Multi-user - mobileezy Business Plus and mobileezy Enterprise allows multiple users (with additional licenses) to synchronise and backup their data into a single version of the mobileezy desktop application.

Plug-Ins - To meet the growing needs of business, an accounting software plug-in is available for QuickBooks.

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Online Store solutions from:

  1. Strategic Ecommerce

Product

Software

Description



StraightSELL from Strategic Ecommerce

StraightSELL is powerful web site, content management and ecommerce software that has been designed for businesses that are serious about selling their products and/or services securely online. It is Australia's leading hosted online storefront and shopping cart and integrates with QuickBooks .
StraightSELL allows you to sell to retail and / or account customers and supports e-procurement messaging to link your ecommerce solution to the procurement systems used by large corporate and government customers.

StraightSELL has the functionality to be a self service offering but Strategic Ecommerce also offer a complete range of services to partner with you to build and market your StraightSELL online store.

For further information on StraightSELL , call us on 1300 136 456 or email sales@strategicecommerce.com.au

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Job Costing solutions from

  1. Platypus Software

  2. SmartTrade

  3. Leading Hand

Product

Software

Description



Service Billing and Job Costing solution from Platypus Software EZeService, powerful Service Billing and Job Costing software that assists you in achieving maximum efficiencies in your business. EZeService is designed for any business involved in service billing and job costing. You can choose either the Premier, Professional or Standard versions to suit your specific needs.

As one customer said "….let me put it this way, without EZeService I wouldn't be in business!"

This product is available in single and multi-user versions and links directly with QuickBooks through the QuickBooks SDK.
Currently installed in over 60 different industries in over 10 countries.
  • Functionally rich and powerful software
  • Direct link with QuickBooks
  • Gross Profit displays on each job (providing user has access security rights)
  • Ability to add parts and labour costs to a job without affecting selling price
  • Different display views. eg Service Manager may use the Job Grid where accounts view by customer. Extremely powerful Customer Control Centre. All information is at your fingertips
  • So versatile it can be adapted to many industries. Can even change field meanings names
  • Integrate with palm hand held PC
  • View financial status from a job
  • Creates bank deposit and merchant summary suitable for the bank, therefore saving time and money.
  • Add customers/inventory on the fly which also adds in QuickBooks

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SmartTrade

SmartTrade is a job management system for service businesses such as plumbers, electricians, air-conditioning and heating, IT support companies etc. It handles the "front end" operations such as logging customer inquiries, costing, scheduling, dispatching, managing jobs, ordering materials, invoicing and recording employee time. SmartTrade can be used as an office only solution, or to mobilise field staff using SmartTrade Mobile® on Pocket PC mobile devices (PDAs). Field staff can create, receive, complete and return job information wirelessly from on site or out on the road. Main benefits:

  • Reduces paperwork and double entry of data
  • Keeps tradesmen on the job and out of the office
  • Improves control of jobs, time and materials
  • Provides powerful scheduling and dispatch
  • Enables quick and accurate costing
  • Imports price files from suppliers, allowing access to hundreds of thousands of products
  • Direct interface to QuickBooks
  • Is quickly implemented – days not months
  • Is affordable, even for one man businesses
  • Is scalable as the business grows
  • Is fully supported, including training

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The Leading Hand

Leading Hand workshop management computer program helps run automotive businesses efficiently and effectively.  It is easy to use and can be installed and operating in minutes.  Workshops can generate quotes, job card, invoices and statements quickly and accurately.  Receipting is simple.  Comprehensive vehicle and plant histories provide an exact record of work performed.  With the Bookings diary keep track of work to come and plan the allocation of time.  Customers can be contacted from within the program by email and SMS, and letters can be created. 

The Stock Control option keeps track of items required for service and repairs, producing reports on usage, pricing and sourcing.  Purchase orders can be created.  Stock can be allocated to particular warehouses.

By using the QuickBooks interface option, Leading Hand users can automatically post money invoiced and receipted into their accounts.  Suppliers' invoices are posted to QuickBooks when stock is booked into The Leading Hand.  Thus users get to enjoy the benefits of two great programs.

For more information, go to www.theleadinghand.com

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