Publishers' Assistant Desktop Software Manual

Table of Contents:

  1. Welcome to Publishers' Assistant!

    1. Introduction

    2. The Welcome Screen

    3. The Menu System

    4. Getting Around

  2. Maintaining Basic Entities

    1. Developing a Mailing List

    2. The Title Maintenance Screen

    3. Non-Inventory Items

    4. Standing Order Items

  3. Royalty, Consignment, and Commission Contracts

    1. Liability Accounting

    2. Royalty Contract Specifics

    3. Entering a Schedule of Costs for Titles

    4. Entering a Schedule of Costs for Consignment Titles

    5. Sales Representative Commission Specifics

  4. Entering Transactions

    1. Customer Orders

    2. Customer Returns

    3. Receipts (Customer Payments)

    4. Purchase Orders

    5. Payments to Suppliers, Authors, and Sales Reps

    6. Inventory Corrections

  5. Getting Reports

    1. The Report Viewer

    2. Maintaining Report Definitions

    3. Selection Screens

    4. Report Queries

    5. Visual FoxPro's Report Designer

  6. System Maintenance

    1. System-Wide Options

    2. Valid Customer and Marketing Codes

    3. Valid Courier Services

    4. Valid States and Sales Tax Rates

    5. Valid Counties and Sales Tax Rates

    6. Valid Types of Receipts

    7. Archiving Data

    8. Maintaining Database Integrity

    9. Scanning for Duplicate Contacts

  7. Automated Procedures

    1. Batched Invoice Options

    2. Processing Backorders

    3. Processing Standing Orders

    4. Daily Close

    5. Correcting Account Beginning Balances

  8. Appendix A: Context-sensitive help on particular screens

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UserManual/PubAssist (last edited 2008-05-05 00:10:23 by RichardLawrence)