Revelation Empire Builder

Empire Builder is our premium business package and is aimed at large sized businesses with more advanced accounting requirements of all types. This sophisticated package offers Debtors, Creditors, General and Stock Ledgers, Invoicing and Point of Sale. Empire Builder also keeps track of Purchase Orders, Sales Orders and Sales Quotes and has an unlimited capacity in all ledgers. 

Advanced features include Bill-of-Materials (manufacturing), Serial-number tracking, Recurring Charges, Foreign Currency Supplier and Customer accounts, individual price lists per customer, Report Writer directly linked to Microsoft Excel, post-dated cheque handling. Additional Add-on modules are included with Empire Builder. These include an Asset Manager, the Workshop Manager, an integrated SMS module, a Warranty Swopout module and more.  Other features include multiple Delivery Addresses per customer, full account history available on-line for up to 72 months, reprint old customer invoices from up to 72 months ago, extensive data export facilities in all ledgers, comprehensive Sales Rep Analysis, stock records can hold pictures of the actual stock items, individual Stock Price lists per customer, all records (in all ledgers) have an unlimited length “Notes” field for comments related to each record. Up to 999 separate sets of company accounts may be held.

Empire Builder is a multi-user package allowing up to 140 stations on a network and up to 19 Warehouses.

GENERAL OVERVIEW

• Powerful "drill-down" enquiry options on all accounts & stock records to display all aspects of transactions (right back to the original Invoice, GRN, Order, etc).
• Create/amend accounts/stock records & perform enquiries at any time without exiting what you are currently doing.
• Notes or narrations may be attached to accounts, stock records and transactions (even after they are posted).
• Email Invoices, Orders, Quotes and Statements at the touch of a button.
• Foreign currency imports from overseas suppliers catered for.
• A "Quick-Quote" facility for handling telephonic enquiries without exiting what you are currently doing (email or fax too).
• Pictures of stock items can be attached to their stock records and displayed on demand in Invoice or Order modules.
• A direct link to Microsoft Excel for instant advanced Nominal analysis.
• Revelation is period-based: keep last month's books open until you're ready to close.
  Post into prior periods in General ledger (current year as well as closing entries in the last financial year).
• Reprint Invoices, Grn's, Orders, Quotes at any time (up to 2 years later).
• Context-sensitive Help screens (F1).
• Post-dated cheques (all ledgers).
• Multiple Delivery addresses per Debtor.
• Stock Price List per Debtor facility.
• Up to 999 companies with unlimited capacity for a/c's & stock items in each.
• Stock: 16 character stockcodes, decimal position per stock record, serial number tracking, multiple selling prices and more.
• Automatic backups to hard disk on exit and before month-ends/year-ends.
• Improved security controls over operator access to all areas of Revelation.
• Extensive control over each operator's preferences and what functions they can access in Revelation.

Debtors (Customers)
Features include:

• Open Item & Balance Forward a/c's.
• 7 character alphanumeric a/c number allocated by Revelation or user-defined.
• Age Analysis up to 180 days.
• Email address per account with option to send statements by email.
• Multiple Delivery Addresses per a/c.
• Extensive controls on each a/c such as Excl. or Incl. Invoices, charge interest (and from what aged period), print statements, allow orders, disallow invoicing if aged amounts exceed a selected period, etc.
• Sales history and profit margins per a/c.
• Display full details of all entries posted during the current & last financial years including actual source documents and General ledger contra entries.
• Each a/c has a Notes field allowing you to attach notes to an a/c.
•  Special Debtor/Stock link allows a choice of 7 Prices per item.
• Stock Price List per Customer facility.
• Sales-Order Entry: Orders may be placed for stock items on behalf of debtors. Import Orders directly into an Invoice.
• Quotes with expiry dates may be issued to Debtors which may also be imported into invoices if accepted.
• Reprint any Invoice, Sales Order and Quote processed within the current or last financial year.
• Recurring Charges/Debit Orders: Charges (eg: Rent, Instalments, etc) may be linked to accounts which may then be processed monthly, weekly, etc. Invoices may be printed automatically.
• REP Analysis for up to 9999 Reps based on Invoiced Sales OR on Payments.
  Post-dated cheques held until due date.
• Inter-ledger journals (debtor to creditor)
• Branch Statements for clients with multiple branches who require a single statement to go to the Head Office.

Creditors (Suppliers)
Features include:

• Open Item & Balance Forward a/c's.
• Age Analysis up to 180 days.
• Foreign currency accounts catered for so you can place orders and process goods received in foreign currencies.
• Display full details of all entries posted during the current & last financial years including actual source documents and General ledger contra entries.
• Each a/c has a Notes field allowing you to attach comments to an account.
• Purchase-Order Entry: Orders may be placed on Creditors for Stock.
• Reprint any GRN and Purchase Order processed within the current or last financial year.
• Recurring Charges/Debit Orders: Charges (eg: Rent, Instalments, etc) may be placed on accounts which may then be processed automatically monthly, weekly or periodically.

Stock (Inventory) received from Suppliers

The following features are available in the Process GOODS RECEIVED module:

• If you had an Outstanding Purchase Order for the Item being received from a Creditor, it is hi-lighted and you may direct that Order to be reduced by the quantity received. You may even 'import' a selected Purchase order into a G.R.N. (Goods Received Note).
• Reprint any GRN and Purchase Order processed within the current or last financial year.
• Import Split option for foreign supplies allows splitting of GRN among multiple accounts (such as Shipping Agents, etc) with automatic cost calculation.
• Create new Creditors a/c's & stock records whilst in the GRN module.

Nominal (General) Ledger
Features include:

• Up to 40,000 General Ledger accounts catered for with 10,000 in each section: Income, Expenditure, Assets, Liabilities
• Full Departmental control with unlimited number of named Departments.
• Sub-accounting provided by means of special Group code to link them.
• Full Departmental and Group reporting.
• Up to 999 accounts handled in a single journal entry.
• Although Revelation is a 'real-time' system, Batch processing is provided where batches are held 'in limbo' until verified.
• Post Journals into past periods (even closing entries into Last financial year).
  Full Cost-of-Sales analysis may be implemented where stock valuations are maintained in a stock control a/c.
• Unlimited number of Bank accounts may be set up each with full reconciliation facilities with Bank Statements.
• Display full details of all entries posted during the current & last financial years including actual source documents and contra entries.
• Each a/c has a Notes field allowing you to attach comments to an account.
  Report Writer: Define the layout of the Trading, Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet printouts using a simple, yet powerful Report Layout Language.
• A direct link to Microsoft Excel for instant advanced Nominal analysis.
• Display or print Bar Charts showing Income/Expense/Budget comparisons.
• Detailed VAT Reports are provided to assist in completing VAT Returns.
• Recurring Charges/Debit Orders: Charges (eg: Rent, Instalments, etc) may be placed on accounts which may then be processed automatically monthly, weekly or periodically.
• Post-dated cheques held until due date.

Stock (Inventory)
Features include:

• 16 character Stockcodes with 2 line Description fields & unit weight/volume.
• Full Cost-of-Sales analysis with auto stock valuation update is available.
• Store item’s picture in the stock record.
• Serial Number tracking with Purchase and Sales history per serialised item.
• Separate Categories & Bin locations.
• Obsolete items catered for with Supercede stockcode + cross-reference link to similar items from other suppliers.
• Two Supplier's info per item.
• Quantity and Price decimal position can be defined for each item.\
• Price List per Customer (debtor) facility.
• Up to 7 Selling Prices per item linked to a Stock Price field in Debtors accounts.
• Quantity Discounts.
• Special Promotion Price per item with a start and end date specified.
• Different item types catered for: Normal item, Odd item and Service item.
• Each record has a Notes field allowing you to attach comments to an item.
• Minimum, maximum & re-order quantities specified per item.
• Budgets and Comparatives per item.
• Full Movement analysis with option to update Re-Order + Minimum Level.
• Comprehensive Purchase & Sales History displayed with Profit Margins.
• Display full Movement history for the current & last financial years including actual source documents.
• Display Purchase & Sales Orders.
• BILL-OF-MATERIALS: Stock Items may be manufactured using a 'recipe' of other stock items with automatic stock record updates and Work-in-Progress reports.
• Extensive reports provided plus a facility to create custom Stock reports.
• Price labels may be printed for items.
• Stock Audit trail of any manual changes made (prices, on hand) may be printed.
  

INVOICING
Features include:

• If you print invoices on a Laser or Inkjet printer, Revelation can print your custom designed Company Logo on them.
• After processing an invoice, email a copy to the client at the touch of a button.
• Up to 999 lines per Invoice.
• Create/amend accounts & stock items and perform full enquiries while in the body of an invoice.
• Rep analysis by Invoice.
• Import Orders/Quotes into an Invoice.
• Display stock item’s picture (if available) to assist staff in identifying correct item.
• Reprint any Invoice processed within the current or last financial year.
• Print delivery notes/packing slips after invoices that show no prices.
• Credit limit exceeded warning.
• Print tax Exclusive or Inclusive invoices.
• Discount per line and Overall discount.
• Special Freight field on Invoices.
• Option to use stock Notes field as Description on invoices allows for descriptions of unlimited length.
• Stored message service allows common messages to be saved & re-used.
• Insert and delete lines in an invoice as you would in a word processor.
• Process/print Cash Receipts for credit of Debtors a/c's on invoice stationery.
• Option to amend item Descriptions and Prices for a specific invoice.
• Price changes, discounts, credit check, etc can be password protected.
• Search for stock items by stockcode, description, category, bin or use an advanced "pattern-matching" option that searches for items with a match anywhere in a selected field.
• Create and invoice "odd-items" not normally held in the stock file.
• Process/print Credit Notes for goods returned for credit.
• Custom Invoice layouts catered for.

POINT of SALE
The Invoicing module can also be optimised to cater for high-speed Point-of-Sale environments.

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

• Put current invoice on hold temporarily and process one or more new invoices. Then, return to original invoice that was put on hold and finish it.
• Apart from opening a Cash Drawer, a numeric readout (similar to that of a Cash Register) is also provided for to allow complete simulation of a Point of Sale environment.
• A Barcode reader connected into the keyboard cable may be used.
• A Cash Slip may be printed either on a dedicated Slip Printer or an ordinary Matrix printer. User-defined header and footer messages may be printed on the Cash Slip.
• If 2 printers are used, Cash Slip sales may be mixed with sales to Debtors where a proper Invoice is required.
• In a multi-terminal environment, each till can be allocated their own till account in the General Ledger to which sales are processed for ease of reconciliation.
• Most types of tender are catered for: cash, cheque, credit card, voucher, electronic transfer, other and mixed tender.
• A daily report is provided for full Till reconciliation.
• A PLU key facility is also available where up to 30 keys may be pre-allocated to fast-moving items for one key operation.
• Selected Terminals may be present to only operate in Point-of-Sale (Cash Till mode).