By
Cameron Gill
MYOB, Quickbooks and Xero are great accounting tools as in they
provide the necessary transactional processing and taxation reporting -
however they typically only address the financial requirements of a
business where on the other hand the operational requirements of a
business are often handled in separate applications such as spreadsheets
and other databases.
What businesses really want is the centralised management of business data, both financial and operational - for example, most businesses with multiple sales staff find that each sales resource has a different quoting method and they store their quotes as emails or text documents and then once a week may put these into a CRM for the sales meeting. From here a sale may not come off, however that contact or lead remains the 'property' of the sales person for following up. The issue here is that management find it very hard to forecast sales accurately and more importantly measure performance of sales staff and marketing campaigns. With Ostendo, the sales person can maintain their quoting format (and bring in into Ostendo as a reporting output) however they enter the client and quote details into the system once only and then should the sale proceed there is no double/triple handling of data as it simply flows through the sales workflow to invoice/picking and follow-up tasks created.
Ostendo is an application that bolts onto MYOB, Quickbooks and Xero that offers the following inbuilt components;
JOB COSTING (projects)
- job quotes
- job templates
- work in progress reporting
- job profitability reporting
- timesheets to jobs
- job calendar / schedule
MANUFACTURING
- kits, bill of materials
- production orders
- capacity planning
- custom products
CRM
- lead tracking
- Outlook integration
- Operations Centre for account management
- workflow
- timeline
- next action / tasks
Advanced Stock Control
- serialisation, batches
- multiple stock locations & warehouses
- consignment stock
- colour / size / style
- importing & landed cost management
- multi-currency
- pricing rules (quantity, promotional, contract, discounts)
- rentals & hirings
Call Centre & Servicing
- service jobs
- customer asset tracking
- service level agreements
- service history
- call logging, task tracking, knowledge base
Reporting & Technical Utilities
- web services for Ipad access (timesheets, quotes, lookups, meter readings... )
- script scheduling
- graphical process workflows
- inbuilt report writer
- SQL query tool
Point of Sale
- postcode tracking
- sale parking
- barcode scanning
- laybys
- vouchers
- till drawer commands, end of day...
As Ostendo is an add-on, you keep paying creditors, producing BAS statements, paying wages and managing your general ledger through your accounting system, however all else is handled within Ostendo.
About The Admin Manager: The Admin Manager is a team of Ostendo
implementers, bookkeepers and accountants that know Ostendo, MYOB,
Quickbooks & Xero inside-out and specialise in administrative
solutions for Australian small to medium sized businesses. Feel free to
call the team on 1300 1ADMIN to discuss your requirements and to see if
we can help you ease the burden of your business administration and
accounting software systems.
What businesses really want is the centralised management of business data, both financial and operational - for example, most businesses with multiple sales staff find that each sales resource has a different quoting method and they store their quotes as emails or text documents and then once a week may put these into a CRM for the sales meeting. From here a sale may not come off, however that contact or lead remains the 'property' of the sales person for following up. The issue here is that management find it very hard to forecast sales accurately and more importantly measure performance of sales staff and marketing campaigns. With Ostendo, the sales person can maintain their quoting format (and bring in into Ostendo as a reporting output) however they enter the client and quote details into the system once only and then should the sale proceed there is no double/triple handling of data as it simply flows through the sales workflow to invoice/picking and follow-up tasks created.
Ostendo is an application that bolts onto MYOB, Quickbooks and Xero that offers the following inbuilt components;
JOB COSTING (projects)
- job quotes
- job templates
- work in progress reporting
- job profitability reporting
- timesheets to jobs
- job calendar / schedule
MANUFACTURING
- kits, bill of materials
- production orders
- capacity planning
- custom products
CRM
- lead tracking
- Outlook integration
- Operations Centre for account management
- workflow
- timeline
- next action / tasks
Advanced Stock Control
- serialisation, batches
- multiple stock locations & warehouses
- consignment stock
- colour / size / style
- importing & landed cost management
- multi-currency
- pricing rules (quantity, promotional, contract, discounts)
- rentals & hirings
Call Centre & Servicing
- service jobs
- customer asset tracking
- service level agreements
- service history
- call logging, task tracking, knowledge base
Reporting & Technical Utilities
- web services for Ipad access (timesheets, quotes, lookups, meter readings... )
- script scheduling
- graphical process workflows
- inbuilt report writer
- SQL query tool
Point of Sale
- postcode tracking
- sale parking
- barcode scanning
- laybys
- vouchers
- till drawer commands, end of day...
As Ostendo is an add-on, you keep paying creditors, producing BAS statements, paying wages and managing your general ledger through your accounting system, however all else is handled within Ostendo.
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