ALERE Accounting Software by TIW Technology
ALERE has a broad range and depth of features that make it extremely appealing to a wide variety of businesses. Since day-to-day processes are important to running your company, the design of ALERE has focused on making them as easy as possible.
ALERE Accounting's modular design packs a lot of features in just a few modules. Having fewer modules than the competition means not only lower cost, but also a simpler to use interface. ALERE offers the following modules:
Manager
General Ledger
Sales
Purchases
Inventory
Configuration
The ALERE Manager module encompasses all system wide functions such as bank reconcilliation, user maintenance (security), screen and report modification tools, code maintenance, and tax codes. In the General Ledger, users can print financial statements, manage their chart of accounts, and make journal entries. With the Sales module, ALERE combines all of the sales functions into a single module. From order entry, to shipping, to invoicing, and right through to the cash receipt the sales functions are contained here in this module. Likewise with purchases, TIW has combined what other systems would commonly call Accounts Payables and Purchase Orders to one single module. The inventory module boasts an impressive array of features which include: serial, lot, and trait tracking; mass shipping; multiple locations support and warehouse transfer orders; and up to two images can be linked to each item to give users a picture or drawing, etc. of the actual item.
ALERE comes in both a LAN and CS edition. The LAN edition includes the database engine (Microsoft Visual FoxPro) whereas the CS edition is a client server product which utilizes the Microsoft SQL Database Server.
Key Features of ALERE
- Automatic Period Closing No more late evenings or wasted weekends making closing entries and releasing batch postings to the general ledger before you are ready to operate in the next period. Or, what is even worse, having to deal with a computer crash during a closing process!
- Shipping and Invoicing Can Be Independent Orders can be shipped without being invoiced and vice versa. Of course users still have the option to ship and invoice at the same time.
- Pending Orders Create all types of orders in sales and purchases without releasing them live! Queue up orders and release them as needed! Save partially completed orders and finish them later without throwing them out and starting over! Pending orders makes it easy to review orders before they are accepted!
- Single Point of Information (SPI) One company table is used for both customers and vendors. This means a customer can be both a customer and a vendor at the same time. Imagine creating payables directly from a credit memo!
- Line Types Each line on a sales order may be set as a Sale, Return or Credit. Each line on a purchase order can be set as a Purchase, Return or Credit. Eliminates all the extra work and costs of creating and processing multiple orders to achieve the same results!
- Customization The advanced table-driven architecture of ALERE allows you to make modifications easier and faster than any other package! Best of all, the changes that are made can be brought forward to new product releases! That preserves your investment!
- GL Postings The GL journal entries are handled in real time. See the actual GL journal entries that go with anything you do in ALERE right from the GL Posting Tab of each screen. Immediately verify that the transactions are correct! No more wasting time trying to track down a problem on an invoice a month later! Go right to the source!
- Graphs The Executive Advisor and Sales Graphs provide a graphical look at your companies financial position. Chart your sales progress in real time right on your screen.
System Requirements
- PC with Pentium-class processor (2GHz or higher recommended)
- 512MB RAM
- Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP/2003 Server
- 100 MBPS or higher network connection ( 1 GHz is recommended)
- Super VGA 800 X 600 or higher-resolution (1024 X 768 Recommended) monitor with High Color (16 bit) or True Color (24 bit)
- CD-ROM Drive
- HP LaserJet or compatible printer also recommended
- ALERE CS requires Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and a matching number of user licenses. See the Microsoft web site for SQL Server 2000 system requirements (Note: ALERE LAN does not require SQL Server)
