Quantify helps you capture your expenses and revenues so you can get a handle on job costing.  

“Using job costing will allow you to identify the most and least profitable areas of your business, so that you can focus on the profitable elements, and try to make the less profitable aspects of your business more efficient. It will help you to quote new jobs more accurately, and assist you in managing jobs in progress.”

This is an excerpt from a great article on job costing. You can find the entire article here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/accounting/HA101835601033.aspx

Backing up your data is simple.

Open the Data and Activation Tools. (From your Windows Start button, select All Programs, scroll to the Avontus Quantify folder & click on it to open. Then select Data and Activation Tools.)

Click on the Database Backup/Restore tab and the Backup… button.

If you’d like to change the location that the backup file is saved to, click the Browse button. Otherwise, click OK.

Remember that it’s a good practice to save a copy of your data on another computer.

Here are instructions on how to automate backups in SQL 2008 Express. You can forward to your IT department:

http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/guestbloggers/archive/2007/05/07/how-to-automate-the-backup-of-a-sql-server-2005-express-data-store.aspx

Continuing its goal of delivering the highest quality software products, Avontus today announced that Handset Designer has passed Microsoft ISV Certification. As a part of this certification, Handset Designer was sent to a testing lab independent of Microsoft. The testing lab ran multiple validations to ensure that Handset Designer runs under various conditions, such as maintaining stability during ‘fast user switching’.

“We have a strict testing and development process at Avontus that helps to ensure that bugs don’t find their way into the customers’ experience”, says Janine Lowery, lead quality manager at Avontus. “I’m not surprised at all that Handset Designer passed certification. It’s a rock solid product.”

The latest Quantify How To video shows you how the company structure works and how to see where your equipment is located. Topics covered include the organization tree, how to add, move and delete items (regions, branch offices, job sites, etc.), and how to customize the names of these items to suit your company. You'll also learn about the summary data, including rent utilization.  

You can watch the video here:

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