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Designed specifically for small, growing businesses, Small
Business Manager is an affordable, easy to use financial
and business management solution that helps small
businesses work more productively, effectively integrate
with other business applications, and access the
information you need to make informed decisions about your
business. Small Business Manager includes financial,
banking, payroll, sales, and purchasing capabilities as
well as quick and easy reporting.
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Small Business Manager is designed for small, growing
businesses with up to $5 million in revenues that are
ready to move beyond a basic accounting package. Small
Business Manager helps you get up and running quickly,
scales as your business grows, and offers reliable
multi-user access and award-winning training and support
from Microsoft Great Plains.
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An unlimited number of users can be set up to use Small
Business Manager. With the multi-user version, up to 5 of
these users can access the system at the same time.
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Small Business Manager processes are based on generally
accepted accounting practices and include true
double-entry accounting to ensure that your books always
balance properly. For additional controls, you can also
offer limited access to additional users and monitor
transactions with a full audit trial, if needed.
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With Small Business Manager you can easily transition to
Microsoft Great Plains Edition without the pain of a lengthy
migration process or training employees on a new
application. Because these two applications were built on
the same platform, transferring your data is simple and
straightforward.
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Small Business Manager is only available through trained
local partners, who can provide you with support for your
business. Small Business Manager also offers two support
plans, the basic plan and the preferred plan. Both plans
provide access to our award-winning online support
resources, live support, automatic upgrades, and training.
The preferred plan provides additional support incidents
and training opportunities.
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In the current release (7.0) up to 500 employees
can be processed. This allows you
to scale as your business expands.
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The ability to track commissions is
currently available in
Version 7.0.
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Yes
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Yes, Small Business Manager has the capability to produce
W-2’s, FUTA, SUTA, 941 and other government required
reports.
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Yes
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Small Business Manager uses the Microsoft® SQL ServerTM
2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000). Any of the following
operating systems can be used: Microsoft Windows® 98,
Windows Millennium Edition (ME), Windows NT® 4.0
Workstation Edition (or later) Service Pack 6a, Windows NT
4.0 Server Edition Service Pack 6a, Windows 2000 Server
Service Pack 1 (or later), Windows 2000 Professional
Edition Service Pack 1 (or later), Windows XP (all
versions). You will also need to have Microsoft Internet
Explorer 5.5 or later installed and turn on File and
Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks.
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Yes. You can automatically import your master record data
from QuickBooks, Peachtree, Great Plains Accounting, and
Realworld to Small Business Manager during the setup
process. You can also import master record data from a
Microsoft Excel file directly into Small Business Manager.
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There are no current plans to test in this environment.
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With Small Business Manager 7.0, you can create an
unlimited number of companies.
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No. The only data limit is based on the database size.
Small Business Manager comes with Microsoft® SQL ServerTM
2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE), which has a 2-gigabyte
database limit per company. Small Business Manager also
works well with Microsoft SQL Server 2000, which has a
10-gigabyte database limit per company. These large
database sizes are appropriate for most small businesses,
which means that Small Business Manager helps you scale as
your business grows.
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Small Business Manager Offers automated back-up and
recovery features that allow you to store multiple
backups.
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You can sign up an unlimited number of users for Small
Business Manager; however, up to 5 users can log in and
use the application at the same time.
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Yes. Small Business Manager helps you easily integrate
your business data with Microsoft Word and Excel. You can
export data to perform advanced analysis or create
graphical presentations. You can also use collaborative
Excel-based budgeting tools that integrate with your
business data. You can even create custom letters to
customers, vendors, and employees using an integrated mail
merge feature.
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Yes. You can easily extend your business management
solution to the Web with integrated bCentral Web services.
You can sell products on your own Web site or from popular
internet marketplaces, manage e-mail communications to
prospective and existing customers, and allow customers to
efficiently schedule appointments online.
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Small Business Manager supports a single currency – either
US or Canadian dollars.
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Yes. In addition to the US version, there is also a
Canadian version currently available. Additional
international versions will be available in the future.
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