The perfect combination of power, innovation, flexibility, rapid processing and ease-of-use makes Pastel Accounting Partner 2004 the ideal solution for the small to medium sized business. It is feature-rich and robust in a multi-user environment, with multi-currency capability and a highly intuitive interface.

Yet the real attraction is that, as your business grows and begins to demand more sophisticated features and functionality, pastel partner gives you the ability to add users and modules. Even better, if you cannot find a pastel module that meets your needs, Sage Pastel’s third party developer community can provide you with customized solutions.

Standard Features

General Ledger
• Cashbooks And Reconciliations
• Budgets

Customers
• Quotations
• Sales Orders
• Invoicing
• Recurring Invoicing

Suppliers
• Purchase Orders

Multi-Company
Multi-User
Control Centre
Ms Office Integration
Forms Designer



OPTIONAL ADD-ON MODULES
INVENTORY
BILL OF MATERIALS
POINT-OF-SALE
MULTI-STORE (Warehousing)
PAYROLL
MULTI-CURRENCY
TIME & BILLING
RECEIPTING (Cash & Bank Manager)
E-BUSINESS & E-BILLING
FIXED ASSETS
RESOLVE



GENERAL LEDGER

Create up to 9999 accounts, numbering from 0001 to 9999. Amongst other information, Pastel Partner stores the account’s number, description and period balances and gives you the ability to further divide a main account into 999 sub accounts. Pastel Partner stores the following budgets: Current Budgets, Next Year Budgets, Last Year Budgets-per General Ledger account, per period.

Multi-Period
The General Ledger stores 2 years of data. Accounting periods can, however, be “blocked”, preventing transaction processing to those [periods which have been ‘closed’. Partner gives you the flexibility of being either period or date driven.

CUSTOMERS
Pastel’s flexible account set-up allows you to configure parameters per customer-assign monthly or day-based terms, open item/balance forward, multiple delivery addresses and user-defined fields. Select whether to e-mail and /or print invoices and statements. Create as many customers as you need- Pastel’s high performance data based sill not slow you down as your customer base grow.

INVOICING
Entering invoices is logical and intuitive. The on-screen invoicing template is a mirror of the physical invoice. Save time, ensure accuracy and control back orders by linking quotations, sales orders and invoices.

SUPPLIER
Pastel’s Automatic Cheque and Remittance Printing facility makes paying your suppliers a simple task. Select a range of suppliers and payment date. Invoices that are due for payment on that date are then displayed in a table. You can edit amounts that are payable and Pastel will automatically generate the payment in the cashbook and print the remittance and cheque for each supplier. In addition, Pastel Partner will automatically calculate a settlement discount for early payment terms.


MULTI-COMPANY
Pastel allows you to set up multiple companies. It also gives you the flexibility to create your branches as separate companies and then consolidate this information down to GL level across these different entities.

MULTI-USER
Up to 20 users can work on the same company’s data simultaneously. 20 users are optimal however, Partner can support additional users. Purchase additional user licenses as per your requirements.

CONTROL CENTRE
With Pastel’s customizable Control Centre, you can enquire after, and continuously monitor, key activity in your company. For example, you could monitor sales activity with updates on an hourly basis, as well as inventory levels and bank balances in real time.

MICROSOFT OFFICE INTEGRATION
Pastel enables you to integrate your general ledger, customer and supplier data with Microsoft Office 2000. Personalize communication by utilizing the mail merge and e-mail merge capabilities. Reports can be opened in Excel and Word. Customer and supplier contact information can be exported into Outlook.

FORMS DESIGNER
Pastel partner’s powerful and flexible forms designer allows you to customize your stationery layouts, including the insertion of your company logo. You can also print various documents, including: customer and supplier documents, such as invoices, quotes, orders, and returns; cheques; customer statements and supplier remittances. Customer, supplier, and inventory labels; tax forms to submit to tax authorities; and slip printers for point-of-sale.