With the release of Jim2 version 3.1 Business Engine (Jim2 v3.1), Happen Business introduces major enhancements to its workflow-based accounting software that automates repetitive tasks, provides business to business electronic commerce, resources scheduling, offers full stock control with serial number tracking and provides comprehensive reporting.
New updates include a full management business intelligence dashboard, which is fully customisable to display specialised content from within Jim2 v3.1.
Jim2 users can have separate dashboards for management purposes, operations, workshop and sales teams. The dashboard comes with three standard widgets – a widget is a tool that displays information – with the ability to add and customise multiple widgets as needed.
The Jim2 dashboard can display debtor and creditor balances, it has an account watch that comprises a graphical format of any account balance from general ledger, and a status watch so that users can quickly and easily see where jobs are up to i.e. jobs that have been booked or completed. Comparison charts can be created to track sales information, and creating ‘this week/month/year versus last week/month/year’ type of graphs and charts.
Happen Business has also partnered with PC-EFTPOS, Australia’s leading specialist supplier of integrated EFTPOS payment solutions in Australia, to offer integrated EFTPOS services to all Jim2 v3.1 users. Clients will be able to enjoy seamless EFTPOS services with minimal setup requirements.
The Jim2 v3.1 EFTPOS integration lets multiple machines share the same EFTPOS terminal, and eliminates the risk of double entry and typographical errors, leading to a more efficient sales process.
Other highlights include:
- Managed Print Services Edition enhancements (formerly Jim2 Photocopier Edition) – an edition of Jim2 dedicated to the Australian Managed Print Services and Copier Industry
- Managed Print Services Edition integration with FM Audit, Canon’s eMaintenance and Ricoh’s @Remote MPS meter collection tools
- vendor stock feeds from Ingram Micro, EDSYS, Ricoh, Dicker Data – Jim2 allows an electronic feed to provide stock information from suppliers and distributors directly to Jim2 customers – to provide the most accurate and up-to-date pricing available, without leaving normal business software
- retail and invoicing enhancements, which let users apply multiple payments of the same type at the same time, showing all connections with a new invoice layout. The Jim2 version 3.1 Business Engine also comes with the option to auto send batch invoicing emails
- a new “Windows 7 style” skin to encourage users to adopt Jim2 business engine by offering a feeling of familiarity with the software interface and general usage
- a debtors/creditors contra function. If a customer is also a supplier, users can offset, or 'contra', the amounts
- CardFiles for the ability to manage and reassign users when staff go on leave. Work can be reassigned in Jim2, so that if a staff member leaves employment, all unfinished and open jobs can be transferred to another employee
Paul Berger, managing director, Happen Business says, “In addition to new updates to Jim2, Happen Business offers all clients a private one-on-one, or group dashboard and EFTPOS training via remote session. Our drive for quality training and customer service ensures that all Happen Business clients receive outstanding performance from their software, while enjoying full technical support.”
Beta testing of the Jim 2 v3.1 Business Engine has met with high praise from Happen’s beta customers.
Dean Calvert, managing director, Calvert Technologies says, “With Jim2’s new business intelligence dashboard, I can instantly see how my business is tracking. I can access debtors, creditors and accounts from the general ledger and display them visually, as well as creating comparison charts for income and expense figures from current and previous periods. Most importantly for me, I can see the status of all my service jobs, with full drill down into the data by clicking on the chart. It’s extremely useful.”
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