as at November 2024
| Feature | Version | Description |
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| Audit Trail | A security feature that is available to Supervisor users. User command selections as well as changes to the major tables are logged. The log can be displayed, queried and printed and also purged and deleted but individual entries cannot be changed by users. | |
| Guillotine Variables | Allows for variable pile size for text and board paper (normally 500 and 100), and variable cuts per hour for text and board paper (normally 60 and 30). | |
| Litho Records | WIP module: The ability to maintain litho store records and history of item movements. | |
| Time Logging | WIP module: Implements a task time logging system using a (dedicated) computer. When starting a task a key is pressed to record the time and when task is finished same is done to record the end time and automatically create the task time record. | |
| Business Forms | 6.5 Mar 2008 |
Specialized business forms calculations, including the following job types: Business Form, Sets, Brochure, Continuous, Label, Pad, Form, Security, Booklet, BookLike. Specialized calculations are used for text/cover paper as well as several finishing operations, including the Bielomatik collator. The feature also includes Workback Estimate report. |
| Quote Requests | 7.0 Nov 2010 |
Makes it easier for marketing executives to convey customer requests to estimators in a faster and more convenient manner. The marketing executives enter quote requests directly into the system and estimators see new quote requests entered by marketing executives. There is an optional conversion process from request to estimate. And after an estimate is generated, and when a quote is sent, these information show on the quote request for marketing staff to see. |
| Prepress Details | 7.0 | Makes it easier to document the prepress charge in an estimate. Previously, a lump sum was entered on the Estimate Form as litho amount. Now the different items that make up this amount can be specified and listed on the detailed estimate working sheet. |
| Corrugated Packaging | 7.1 May 2012 |
Handles the paper, ink and finishing calculations for corrugated carton packaging. Includes the Corrugated Packaging job type. |
| No Patching | 7.1 | Indicates that no plate patching or ozalid preparation operations are necessary, applicable for some modern digital presses. The two values will have zero amounts in estimates. |
| Time Rate Calculator | 7.54 Feb 2016 |
Assists estimators and accountants in setting up labor rates in the Estimating module. It incorporates several variables like resource cost or present value, the acquisition expenses, monthly running cost, life span, monthly working hours, all of which contribute to determining the hourly rate for any resource. |
| Cost Sheet Details Export | Allow exporting of cost sheet report details to two files, one for material items and one for labor items. | |
| Jobtype Editing | The ability to edit the list of job types. This may however require customized calculations in the database for newly added job types. | |
| Password Reset | 7.551 Nov 2017 |
Ability by a supervisor to reset the password of any user to the default. This is useful if a customized password has been forgotten or the user is no longer available. |
| Customer Phone Number | 7.551 | Allows access to phone number on the Customer List and Customer Form. |
| Separate Overhead Item | 7.552 Dec 2017 |
Indicates that rather than overhead cost being built into hourly rates, it should be calculated and shown separately on the estimate working sheet report. |
| Estimate Summary Estimated Hours | Display of estimated total hours on the summary estimate working sheet. | |
| Overhead Extra Item | Indicates that rather than overhead cost being built into hourly rates, it should be calculated and shown separately on the estimate working sheet report. | |
| Finishing Specification Analyzer | 7.557 Dec 2017 |
Define words and phrases used in writing finishing text, then automatically generate finishing (bindery) codes based on identified words in finishing text |
| Quote Writer | 8.0 Jul 2019 |
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| Cost Analysis Report | 8.0 | Presenting analysis data from one or more estimates, preferably for the same customer, in spreadsheet format, including material, labor and total costs, four standard addition rates and amounts with corresponding agency commission amounts, total price and unit price at no markup and then the unit prices at each of the standard additions. |
| Press Impressions Costing | 8.1 Oct 2019 |
Allow press run to be optionally costed by impressions rather than hourly. In addition to hourly rates each press machine now has up to 4 impression rates. On the detailed estimate working sheet reports, Impressions will be shown instead of Hours Run, and make-ready and changing time will not be charged separately. |
| Estimate Group | 9.0 | Allows viewing or maintaining the estimate group list, generating cumulative estimate report by estimate group. The estimate group format for cumulative report has four varieties: Standard, Estimated vs actual table, Estimated vs actual chart, Actual percentage chart. The Standard variety is detailed like the other formats of the cumulative report, while the others are summarized by estimate group, including bar charts. |
| Flexible Estimate Spreadsheet | 9.1 May 2022 |
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| Capital/Energy Estimate Summary Format | 10.0 Apr 2024 |
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| Multi-Database | 10.5 Nov 2024 |
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| Hard/Soft Summary Price Splitting | Hard/limp cover estimate summary for price calculation, with separate sharing ratios for extra charges items. |
Within the software, see Help Contents topic “Estimating Options” and Option menu section of “Estimating Menu Guide” for detailed description of most of these features.
