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Stock Take / Forward – Stock Control
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Sep 24, 2025
Stock Take / Forward – Stock Control
NON-STOCK-TAKE ? Flag to identify items as being excluded from the stock take process.
DATE-COUNTED D, E Last date a stock count was done for this item.
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Namespaces
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Sep 24, 2025
Namespaces
The element names defined within a schema relate just to that schema. But someone may, for very good reason, want to vary a standard schema. BOSSFed, for instance, base their schemas on the
Auto Payments List
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Sep 24, 2025
Auto Payments List
The Auto Payments list reports employees set to receive payment direct into their bank accounts.The report lists the employees, the bank references and their net pay.
You can create
Stock Take – Stock Control
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Aug 18, 2025
Stock Take – Stock Control
The Stock Take facility allows you to record and analyse stock takes. These options would normally be used at the end of a period or year but can be run at any time.
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Employer Payment Summary (EPS)
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Aug 18, 2025
Employer Payment Summary (EPS)
The HMRC will use the values from the individual FPS files throughout the tax month / quarter to determine what payment value they are expecting from your company –
Output to Microsoft Excel 2007
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Aug 15, 2025
Output to Microsoft Excel 2007
Microsoft Excel 2003 has limits on the number of rows and columns that can be displayed within a spreadsheet which was increased for Excel 2007. By default when outputti
Did You Know – Landing Page Fast Filters
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Nov 27, 2024
Landing Page Fast Filter Options
When using the Landing Pages against larger data sets then options to bring in the last X through records added can be used against Sales Order, Purchase Order or Work
Did You Know – Stock Availability
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Nov 06, 2024
Stock Availability
When receiving customer enquiries, you may be asked to check the availability of a stock item. If, however, you have insufficient stock on hand and you are asked for when stock will
Did You Know – Landing Page Filter Options
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Oct 16, 2024
Landing Page Filter Options
There are many options to filter records on a landing page. The simplest option is to use the row filter button to the right of the item name on the column heading.Anot
Did You Know – Validating an E-Mail Address
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Oct 02, 2024
Validate E-Mail Address
If adding / updating an E-Mail address item on customer/supplier account or sales/purchase order the system can be set to apply standard validation rules to the entered address
Did You Know – Saving Selection Criteria
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Sep 18, 2024
Saving Selection Criteria
When you run a report in Datafile you will often see the prompt ‘Specify Any Selection Criteria’ – this allows you to enter criteria to restrict the information display